There was a lot of life in those long years: wife and partner to Eddie Specht for over 70 of them, mother to three children in the 1950s, doting on many grandchildren and a great grandchild, faithfully seeking to encounter a living God through an Episcopal path, and abiding as a "deacon of the earth" always.
Emerging from Grosse Pointe, Michigan and Wellesley College, she gave so much in that life: founding a tutoring program for San Francisco Mission District kids that grew up to be Mission Graduates and also an international aid nonprofit, El Porvenir, which works with Nicaraguans to bring clean water to rural Nicaragua. To the last, she was engaged in civic activism with her Mill Valley community.
For many years, Liz and Ed lived on a boat in Alameda, California. You might notice that water was a theme in this life.
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| Working a winch on a catamaran off Belize in 2004 |
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| Riding a pony across a Nicaraguan stream in 2018 |
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| Pensive alongside the Mill Valley Cascade in 2025 |
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| Out for a short walk at the beginning of March 2026 |
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