Lisa was born in Nurnberg, Germany and fled to Strasbourg, France, and landed in Washington Heights in 1939. She was Valedictorian of her Dental Hygiene class at Columbia University, got married to Henry Landman and had 2 sons, Rick and Bobby. She told Rick at CBST in 1973 and sent him to shul. Lisa lived by herself in her house until she was almost 99 years old.