Elizabeth Anne Oliva

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Christina Oliva

Elizabeth Anne Oliva

1 mai 1993 - 26 septembre 2020

1 mai 1993 - 26 septembre 2020

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Elizabeth Anne Oliva passed away on September 26, 2020 at the age of 26. Elizabeth was cherished by her parents, Lynne DeLisi and Vincent Oliva, and was the youngest daughter in her family of four children. She was tenacious yet humble, generous of spirit, wittingly smart, kind and her heart was full of compassion. Elizabeth was deeply loved by her siblings Victoria (Oliva) Parris & Joshua Parris, Christina Oliva, and Joe Oliva. She was delighted and enamored by her new nieces, Leila Madison Oliva and Jacquelyn Donna Parris. Elizabeth built a lifetime of memories with her many cousins, aunts, uncles, extended family and devoted friends. Elizabeth made the most of her 26 years. Raised in Ridgewood, Elizabeth attended Somerville School, Benjamin Franklin Middle School and was a 2012 graduate of Ridgewood High School where she was a spirited member of New Players, Mock Trial, and the RHS Crew Team. Elizabeth moved onto the University of Michigan where she committed herself to making a difference in the world, most specifically with combating injustice. Elizabeth proudly graduated, with honors, from the Ford School of Public Policy (Class of 2016) where she specialized in health policy. "Hail to the Victors." As an undergraduate, Elizabeth worked at the Primo Levi Center in Paris where, applying her fluency in French, she worked with refugees fleeing torture and political violence. She saw firsthand the plight of women refugees and took to heart their cause. Through a fellowship with the United States-Indonesia Partnership Program, Elizabeth spent time in Indonesia where she explored democracy and religious pluralism in Indonesia. She was fluent in Bahasa, Indonesia. Elizabeth also was honored as a James B Angell Scholar and received the achievement award in Asian studies. She joined the University's Global Brigades and traveled to Honduras to help build health care centers and schools. Elizabeth was also a member of Sigma Kappa sorority. After graduation, Elizabeth worked at Deloitte Consulting in Manhattan. She moved out west for a new opportunity in Arizona where she became the Business Development and Marketing Manager of CXNS Health Solutions, a physician-founded entity focused on serving people in crisis. In March of this year, she became the Director of Business Development at St. Luke's Behavioral Health Center, a Steward Family hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, the largest, private physician-led health care network in the United States. Elizabeth's last Instagram post aptly ended with the word "ubuntu" which is defined by Oxford Languages as "a quality that includes the essential human virtues; compassion and humanity" which was the hallmark of her heart. Elizabeth will be remembered in countless ways by countless people. Some will remember her passion for her days at Michigan, her love of stand-up comedy, theatre, and dancing. Others will recall how she loved the beach and her days in Bay Head. Two things were constant: a highly refined sense of injustice, being an ally and a great sense of humor: She could carry the weight of the world, but always find a way to laugh. C.S. Lewis said that "joy is the serious business of heaven." Heaven's business is in good hands with Elizabeth. Wherever you go, Go Blue. If you are wondering how to help, please share some memories on Elizabeth's page at GatheringUs.com. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to a charity that makes you think of her and share your choice on the GatheringUs page. Our shared memories are the best tribute to Elizabeth's beautiful life and her pursuit of the serious business of joy.

Événements

ÉVÉNEMENT PASSÉ

Service

3 oct. 2020

12:00 - 13:00

(GMT-4:00) Heure de l’Est (États-Unis et Canada)

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church, Passaic Street, Ridgewood, NJ, USA

1 Passaic St, Ridgewood, NJ 07450, USA

ÉVÉNEMENT PASSÉ

Visitation

2 oct. 2020

16:00 - 20:00

(GMT-4:00) Heure de l’Est (États-Unis et Canada)

Feeney Funeral Home, Franklin Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ, USA

232 Franklin Ave, Ridgewood, NJ 07450, USA

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Fionn Downhill

Dearest Liz, it has taken me some time to write this because there are still times I cant believe its true. You came into my life and the whirlwind of knowing you started. The first time we met you were so sad, then 5 minutes later we were laughing out loud and we shared so much laughter from there on. My favorite memory of you is your Lockdown birthday in a deserted parking. You were my friend and I miss you. Rest in peace sweet Liz and rest gently in the palm of his hand.

Publié 30 novembre 2020
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Madeleine Chone

My beautiful Liz Hole - Picking one moment or story you feels impossible because choosing just one feels like de-valuing the others. I can't count the tear-streaming-down-my-face-gasping-for-breath laughs you gave me. After some inner debates, I've landed on at least one superpower: you truly could not keep your true self from coming out. The idea of putting up a wall or tip-toeing around a truth never seemed to cross your mind. You gave us more of yourself than anyone I have ever met. And you never demanded the same in return. Your gift was just inviting us to do the same - asking through your own easy authenticity why we wouldn't cry or laugh as transparently as you were - making unavoidably obvious how stupid the facades we all put up are. One of the only quotes I've ever reliably remembered is from Maya Angelou: "At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel." Talking to others blessed by you and trying to make sense of all this, there was an obvious and resounding commonality. Yes, you were brilliant, hilarious, disarming, and electrically witty. You burned so brightly, and that was obvious. But more rare, was that your energy didn't take up space but actively made space for others. Your openness and relentless authenticity made me feel, probably for the first time ever, that my real self, not the face constructed for the rest of the world, could be enough. I'll continue to remember so many things you said and did (for their ridiculousness, how could I not??), but most vivid will be how rare it is for someone to consistently, no matter what you said or did, foster and nourish a feeling of self-worth in others. Making you laugh was the best feeling and you let us do it a lot. Even in astounding sadness, I have a smile thinking about the way your eyes always lit up deviously the seconds before you burst out laughing - like someone just pulled a prank (you probably did). I'm so lucky I got to experience your joy and learn from you. Thank you, Liz Hole. - Forever your Mad Hole To Liz's beautiful family, nothing was more obvious than the love and joy she found in being your family. She beamed with pride - and took every opportunity to tell you about - her luck in having equally hilarious, empathetic, and outrageous counterparts at home. She quite literally gushed with admiration for the grace and power of her female relatives - you were an obvious touchstone of strength from her. Some of you I've never met, but I still know your accomplishments. She would rush with equal vigor to play me Vince's voicemail impressions, show me a ridiculous snapchat from Joe, an embarrassing childhood photo from Christina or Victoria, or a random text from a cousin. If I didn't get the joke, I still laughed because she was laughing that hard. My heart is with you always because, though you were so blessed to have her in your family, so was she.

Publié 16 octobre 2020
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Grace Migliorelli

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Liz, One thing I can always count on is for you to make me laugh. Even as I sat down to write this I could not stop laughing at the absurd antics we got ourselves into over the 20 years we knew each other. I'm thankful that during the past few years you lived in Arizona we kept in regular touch. We were just laughing about how in 5th grade we brought the house down with a self proclaimed iconic performance of Be a Lion from The Wiz with me singing and you on the double bass. On TWO separate occasions in the last year I texted you to guess who I bumped into on the streets of NYC and you got it right on the first try both times. I've read those texts over and over and they never fail to make me laugh. I've always admired your discipline and dedication. I remember you expressing frustration in me while we were studying together one day in high school, saying that if I wasn't putting forward my best effort I wouldn't reach my full potential. You recognized so early on that anything was possible if you put enough time and effort into it, and I'll always appreciate your attempt to share that we with me and giving me the friendly push I needed to aim for more. My list of memories with Liz could go on forever but some prime examples of what absolute fools we were together include: taking a joyride without licenses and putting on sunglasses so "no one would know how old we were", coming in dead last for every single crew race and blaming it on "the curse of Bobby Stowe" and not that we were messing around and singing when we were supposed to be training, starting a "pray for Kipper" campaign on Facebook when nothing was wrong with him, a lifetime of making up dances, you "feeling sick" and going home from every sleepover we had for basically 10 years, walking over and letting ourselves into each others houses without even checking if the other person was home, endless Broadway shows and just hours and hours of laughing until we cried. I've said it before- I'll never forget the sound of your laugh. Thank you for everything.

Publié 14 octobre 2020
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Mercedes Perez Whitman

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Liiiiiiz! It's taken me some time to process the weight of your passing, as the world I grew close to you in differs so much from where I'm at today. Memories of that world have flooded my mind since you've been gone and I'm reminded that you played such a huge role in helping me get to where I am now. I believe we first met at a birthday party in fifth grade and we were instant enemies. I don't remember what changed exactly but it didn't take long for us to become friends. We were always so different yet bonded by things like laughter, mutual weirdness and dedication to school. You were always such an impressive student; I remember briefing you on the five books you didn't read over the summer for AP English and you somehow getting a higher score than me on the exam. We spent so much time studying (and laughing) together at your house - many thanks to your family for letting me hang around and feeding me on many occasions. It was you who urged me to go to college in Colorado, knowing it'd do me well to leave the east coast, and you encouraged my passion for music (even if you made fun of my taste sometimes). I miss singing "Let Down" as loud as we could. Your honesty and vulnerability were so powerful - during a winter break in college I came over and you told me how you'd been going through some things, which gave me the courage to tell you how I'd been struggling myself. You helped me realize I wasn't weak and that it's more than okay to get help. Thank you for providing a space I felt I could be myself in and for the countless laughs. I love you so much Liza, Mech

Publié 14 novembre 2020
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Jaclyn Mullen Lieberman

These words are so hard to type, this news has rocked myself and my friend Alice today. We communicated with Liz frequently in a text group between the 3 of us sharing hope, jokes, prayers, gratitude. We were worried since she hadn't replied and wanted to reach out to Liz's family when our online search in doing so lead us to this page. To Liz's family, she loved you so so much. She told us often about visits with her Aunt in San Diego, the symbolism and special meaning of sunflowers, her love for being an Aunt, and that she recently thought actively about moving back to the East coast. Throughout the pandemic and this summer, Liz was a positive force in my life and I just sit here with such a heavy heart that she left us so young. I am grateful to have known her and send the deepest condolences to everyone sharing here.

Publié 15 octobre 2020
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Amy McBrayer

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Dearest Liz, Lizhole, Lizard, Bess (yes, I know you'd be mad about this one.) One of my oldest and first friends. It's hard to know where to begin. When my parents moved out of Ridgewood this summer, we found the beanie babies you and I had colored all over with markers in preschool. It's one of my earliest memories of you and our friendship. During one of our last conversations, we reminisced on all the memories we had in that house, and the countless times we climbed over that chain-link fence into our adjacent backyards. I am so lucky to have had a friend like you to share a lifetime of memories with. Running around like maniacs after eating too much Wasabi, choreographing our pitiful rendition of "Hips Don't Lie" for 6th grade field day, chasing Jack around the neighborhood when he escaped that one afternoon. It came as no surprise to me when Dr. Schaefer cast us as sisters in "Crimes of The Heart" in high school. You were such a prevalent part of the most formative years of my life and I will always feel inextricably linked to you through nearly two decades of adventures. The things I'll remember most: your goofiness and your unmistakable laugh. You were fiery and passionate. Thoughtful and intelligent. You fought hard for what you believed in and used your powerful voice to better the world. It's hard to comprehend a world where you're not with us, but you will always be a part of me and a part of those who knew and loved you. To Lynne, Vince, Victoria, Christina and Joe: I can't even begin to imagine the pain you are going through. Although I know it'll never be enough, please know I'm sending you all an enormous amount of love and healing.

Publié 12 octobre 2020
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