They have their memories — and a furry reminder of her faith.
Bullet, the service dog that helped Oregon massacre victim Sarena Moore get around Umpqua Community College, was turned over by police to her fiancé and her children, her heartbroken family told the Daily News Tuesday.
“I got a piece of her with the dog,” said Travis Dow, 46, Moore’s fiancé. “Plus I got a lot of her in here,” he said, motioning to his heart.
At 44, Moore was one of the older students slain by mass murderer Chris Harper-Mercer, who fatally shot nine people at the Roseburg college on Thursday before killing himself.
Witnesses said the killer ordered her to get down on the floor then changed his mind and told her to get back into the chair.
Then he shot the devout Seventh Day Adventist.
“She was completely helpless, she could hurt nobody,” Dow said. “She was the love of my life and there’s nothing in the world she could have done wrong.”
Moore, who grew up in Reno, Nev., and lived in Myrtle Creek, Ore., suffered from sciatica in her back.
Her condition left her wheelchair-bound in recent years, and in great pain, her family said.
To ease her suffering, Dow said, Moore relied on her faith, and on Bullet.
The mother of three grown boys was going back to school to get a business degree, Dow said.
“She was going for a business degree, her dream, her one dream is to open a ranch and train kids who are handicapped to ride horses,” Dow said.
The couple was set to be married in January.
“The last words out of her mouth were ‘Baby, I love you.’ Those words are going to haunt me the rest of my life,” Dow said.
Police also dropped off Moore’s wheelchair.
“It was an emotional moment,” said Pastor Christian Martin of the Grants Pass Seventh Day Adventist church. “Her son Kenny, he was really shaken by it, the moment he saw the wheelchair. He said, ‘I don’t see any bullet holes on the chair.'”
Martin and others from the church recalled Moore as a driven, faithful woman who struggled to overcome her pain.
“I was just heartbroken, especially because I knew the sacrifice she took to actually get that far,” said Martin. “She was in her mid-40s, divorced. You know it wasn’t easy for her to get back to school. Knowing the sacrifice to get her there is really devastating.”
Parishioners called Moore a “prayer warrior.”
“She’d had some health problems and I think she was trying to get her life going in a different way, that’s why she was going back to school,” said church member Joan Peterson, 74. “She was trying to improve her condition; she needed a lot of help from our churches.”
Another parishioner, Walter MacPhee, said they held a brief memorial for Moore before their Saturday service.
“It was done very nice,” said MacPhee, 60. “It was very touching. The youth were up there singing and they had the picture up there.”
President Obama will visit Roseburg, Ore., on Friday to meet privately with the families of the students and single teacher who were killed during the rampage.
It was not clear if Obama will meet with Moore’s kin.
In the aftermath of the shooting, an emotional Obama lashed out at Republican lawmakers standing in the way of stronger gun control laws.
Investigators searching for a motive said the gunman ranted in a manifesto about not having a girlfriend. He also complained that others around him thought he was crazy.
The News reported on Sunday that Harper-Mercer’s 64-year-old mother, Laurel Harper, was a gun nut.
She supplied her troubled son with weapons and even took him to shooting ranges — even though she told pals he had “mental problems” and suffered from Asperger’s Syndrome.
