Lisabeth M. Peters

Lisabeth Margaret Peters, 71 years old, passed away unexpectedly on May 10, 2023, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, shocking all who loved her by being far too early for an event for the first time in her life.
Missing her terribly are her beloved son Anthony and his wife Maureen, daughter Cara mia and husband Bradley, son Jonathan and his wife Jacque, and Button the Dog, the family's adopted child.
Lisa's granddaughters Maddy, Kate, Tara, and Ava will carry their grandmother's legacy of Intelligence, Kindness, and Being the Funniest Person in Any Room forward, and will spread those seeds into the worlds they conquer and discover.
Lisa is also mourned by her brother William, sisters Bernadette and Nina, and baby brother Gerome- whose sons and daughters have lost not only a much-loved aunt, but an advocate and cheerleader. She was proud of every one of them, and loved seeing the kind adults and parents they grew to become.
Lisa could always be found at the top of her class, from North Hills High School to Community College of Allegheny County to Duquesne University, where Tony and Cara watched her receive her Bachelor's Degree in Education, and where all three of her children proudly saw her graduate Summa Cum Laude with her Master's Degree in Special Education, and finally, literally at the top of the class, in her own classroom for 28 years in the Ambridge School District, where her bulletin boards were the best and brightest. Brilliant and curious, she could have done anything. She chose education to spend evenings and summers with her children, and she cherished cool summer mornings spent on her back porch with a book and a cup of coffee before the noise and heat of the day began. In recent years, she often spent this time talking to one or more of her kids while they drove to work or had coffee at their desk.
Lisa's marriage to Dan followed many years of friendship. Dan once told Cara that in high school, her mother was the most beautiful girl, with the most beautiful smile he'd ever seen. When she asked why he hadn't asked her out, he laughed and said that she was already in love with Cara's father, and that "life eventually takes us where we are meant to be." After decades of work and marriage, Lisa retired in 2021, with hopes of seeing some of the world with her best friend and husband, Dan, who preceded her in death by less than a year.
Lisa was 5'2 and loved strays of any species, but especially people. She was riotously funny and completely generous. Her laughter crashed through rooms, and people could be seen rushing for the chance to sit next to her at events. She died before discovering what, if anything, she could not take on in this world.
Lisa's true joys in this world were listening to all kinds of music- she loved Prokofiev as much as she loved West Coast Rap, spending time with her granddaughters- meeting for coffee, getting their nails done, hearing about their favorite dinosaurs and friends, and reading- she gave her children the love of the written word early, and her range of interest is apparent in the Amazon Prime Reading account she shared with her daughter, full of romance novels, theological texts, and the latest from Stephen King.
In lieu of sending flowers, please make a donation to the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. https://www.carnegielibrary.org/give/
No amount of time with the astonishing Lisa would have ever been enough for her family and friends, but we are grateful for every moment we had with her.
Friends and Family are welcome to join us on Sunday, May 21 at 2:30 pm for a celebration of Lisa's life at St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Allison Park.
Immediately following, we hope you will join us at 202 Hometown Tacos, in Bellevue, which our mom would want me to mention is owned by her brave and gifted niece Tamra.