At age 4 years, Lisa was adopted by her cousin Iris who raised her. Lisa attended an Anglican school and would frequently get into fights to prevent other children from being harassed. She would beat up the group leaders. One of her chores was delivering laundry for her mother. On the way home Lisa would always buy and eat cherry vanilla ice cream with some of the monies she collected.
As a child Lisa would perform surgery on the birds when they got sick, then she would sew them back up. It seems that she had a calling to the health world and later became a nurse.
Mitze Delisa Lawrence
Sunrise: April 22, 1932
Sunset: July 5, 2019
Lisa was married to Oswald (Ossie) B. Lawrence. Lisa and Ossie grew up as childhood neighbors. Ossie migrated to the United States and became a machinist on the ships during the war years. One of his friends visited him in New York brought him a back a picture of Lisa as a young adult. Ossie started corresponding with Lisa through lettering writing and over a period of two years, their relationship became a love story. He proposed, she said yes and they later got married.
Lisa arrived in the US in the late 1950”s.
She worked in the clothing industry then became pregnant and gave birth to their only child, Janet. Lisa stayed home to care for her daughter as a toddler up through the 7th grade.
At this time, Lisa started studying to become a nurse: She graduated from the Brooklyn State Nursing School, passed the State Boards and worked as a registered nurse until she retired and moved to Deltona Florida, where she lived until early morning July 5, 2019.
Lisa is survived by her daughter Janet, sisters Dulcie and Meta; nieces, nephews, grand nieces and nephews and other relatives and friends.
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