Dear Ross Family ~

My deepest sorrow for you at this time and always.  I never was blessed to meet Lisette but I feel like I know her through her loving mother, Jenny.  It is obvious just by reading about Lisette's life and seeing the way she lived life through all the photos with her family and friends...she did not waste a minute of her life here on earth.  I am sorry that she had so much life yet to live and to give to everyone around her and yet it was all taken from her, way to soon.

I pray for comfort and peace for your entire family one day soon but for now I know your hearts must cry and bleed for your beautiful Lisette for a very, very long time.  This can only be done by taking one moment at a time and supporting each other when the tough moments seem to come out of nowhere.  This is a beautiful tribute for a beautiful daughter, sister, wife and mother that will live on forever in your hearts. 

Dave and family, i am so sorry for your tremendous loss. As i look through these beautiful pictures it is truly hard to comprehend that someone with such a zeal & joy for life is no longer with us. I only had the priviledge of knowing Lisette for a few years but in that time she touched my life very deeply, helped me through a very difficult time and will always have a special place in my heart. I learned so much about how to be a great mother and friend from her. She was and amazing mother and made it look so easy and effortless but didnt pretend that it was always easy and as a new mom i always appreciated that honesty. She will always be remembered for her heartfelt generosity and desire to give so much of herself to others. When i hear this song and think about Jehovah having a longing for the work of his own hands i know that she is one of his very special servants that he cannot wait to bring back to us.

I met Lisette exactly 10 years ago when my daughters husband was tragically killed in an accident.  Lisette came to see Giovanna and our new grandson Stefano to comfort them.  She spent many days trying to help my daughter and in turn helping our whole family.  I think I loved her from the moment I met her....then two years later when I was diagnosed with cancer Lisette again put forth an enormous effort to help me.  She worked with me for almost two years trying holistic treatments to help me to get better.  Although it did not work completley and I had to eventually have conventional treatments.  Lisette was a light for me in my darkest days she understood me and helped me to try to acheive my goal of no chemo and radation when no noe else appreciated what we two beleived.  With all my sufferiung and pain Jehovah helped me day by day and moment by moment as I know he will also help Dave and those two beautiful boys that she loved so very much.  I can't wait to hug you Lisette in the paradise when we all will be truly healthy and happy. Love Vita

I am so saddened about your loss.  Dave, I met Lisette many years ago and was so impressed by her commitment and love for Jehovah, and her family and friends. She was a wonderful sister.  I know your grief is unbearable at this moment as it is for so many who loved her dearly.  Draw strength in this terrible time from Jehovah and draw comfort from the hope that Jehovah has promised that we will welcome her with unparallelled joy when she is resurrected to the Paradise earth where mourning, death and tears will be no more.  
With my Sincere Sympathy and tears,
Joanna Matranga 

I have extended my deep sympathies to Dave and Jason, but to the rest of her family and friends I wish to extend my sympathies. I really cannot express how deeply I feel so please be assured that I have prayed daily that Jehovah would comfort you , that He would put his loving arms around each and everyone of you and hold you up during this most tragic of times. I pray that Jehovah will give you strong faith in the resurrection hope so that you can continue to serve him faithfully and that one day soon we will be able to hear the wonderful news. Your Lisette has been resurrected. May your faith in that be so real that you can see it and that it is as if it has already happened.

All of my love,
Lori Stroh 

No question about it, this has been a very bad week. But when I think of Dave and Lisette, there is one image that keeps popping into my brain, and it really makes me happy.

After they went to Tuscany several years ago, Dave and Lisette came over to our house and we looked at their pictures from the trip. Lisette’s eye for beauty was evident in the photos. The things she noticed and could capture in a photo told marvelous stories.

But a couple photos were unique. They were set in a huge, green lawn with beautiful evergreens of some sort in the background. There may have been some sort of Italian ruins in the background – I can’t remember. It was a sequence of photos, and it was going to be a picture of the two of them in this setting, taken on a timer.

The thing I remember is that at one point, Dave decided to chase Lisette (or maybe Lisette was chasing Dave – it’s almost irrelevant) and there is a sequence of 3 or 4 pictures showing them both, tremendously happy, laughing and chasing each other, completely in love and enjoying each other in this gorgeous setting.

I like to imagine that we have a preview of Lisette’s resurrection day in those pictures. There’s Lisette, healthy and smiling that dazzling smile, Dave with a head of luxuriant hair (J), running toward each other, knowing that “good-bye” can be ripped out of the dictionary – it will never have to be said again.

It’s good to serve a God that makes that possible!

Dear Dave, Caden and Cole,

Our hearts are heavy with grief at the loss of Lisette.  More than anything we want to be there in person to support you right now.  But we know that Jehovah’s power is greater than anything we could offer you and we will continue to pray for Him to make a way for you to go on in the face of this unimaginable pain. 

With all our love,

David, Diane, Connor, Joel, Ben and Delaney

I am having someone else write this for me. I do not have the strength to look at the webpage right now. But I want to thank all of you for your support and prayers that are going out for our family. I lost my beautiful daughter and it is more than I can bare right now. Thank you

Extending deepest sympathy for you and the family in your loss and praying that you will find comfort and peace. The world has lost a good one. It is hard for anyone who met Lissette to not love her. Her beautiful attitude and faith that she had through everything is a blessing to so many. Lissette had such a pure heart. She was so compassionate and sincere - a beautiful person inside and out. What an example to the rest of us! She will be greatly missed. Knowing her on a personal level encourages and inspires me to continue fighting cancer through what she believed in and what we all believe in.

-Sam Abukittah, Sherrin and SEC/BHC staff

To Dave, Caden and Cole I cannot put into words how sorry I am that you have lost such a warm and loving wife, mother and dear friend.  We will all miss Lisette so much.  Even though we lived so far from each other whenever we spoke or emailed I still felt so close to her.  She always made sure to take time for her friends and be there to give love, laughs and support when it was needed most. Everytime I go into Nordstroms I still think about meeting her for lunch at the cafe often on her lunch break from Pottery Barn and laughs and friendship we shared.  You are in my thoughts and prayers every day and I look forward to welcoming her back in a paradise for her to enjoy with all of her family and friends.  With my love to you all, Christin.