#2132 Jul 29, 2026
This hit us fast and hard.
Lisa is an original (2014) member of the CBCA Bocce Committee.
Lisa was there when we held our open public sign-ups.
She helped form and build the league we all love.
Lisa was our ‘eye in the sky’ who did all of our video reviews when we needed them.
No doubt Lisa brought the best lasagna to Friday night bocce as the long-time capo of the Pretty Pink Ponies.
Sometimes the committee got lasagna too.
Lisa could be counted on to ask her (pre-planned) stupid questions at capo meetings at the beginning of the season,
but at seasons’ end ‘made’ cookies for league champions, handed out awards, usually ordered the prizes,
stuffed swag bags, and checked people in for tournaments she wasn’t playing in (and if you saw her roll, you would know why) and ...
the list goes on but we think you get the point.
We each loved Lisa and she loved each of us.
She unleashed her unfiltered opinions on us no different than she did everyone else – and we had great fun at her expense.
She had countless toe-to-toe text battles with those on our committee who mercilessly never let her forget that she grew up in Antioch -
the kind of brother-sister smack talk you laugh about later ...
Our Clayton bocce community lost a founding member and someone who loved the game and what it brings to our community.
Why her and why now is not for us to understand.
But we will forever understand and cherish what Lisa meant to us.
Lisa would very much want any celebration involving her to be a party.
So dress appropriately, raise a few glasses, and talk story.
CBCA Bocce Committee
Cecilia Hartley
Ed Hartley
Keith Haydon
Jim Lawrence
Matt Medel
Dave Mills
Dennis Mitchell
Becky Overstreet
Julie Rogers
