From the beginning of her life to the end, Liz Price was a feisty, independent, determined soul who always wanted to make sense of the world around her. She was smart and curious and believed she could succeed at almost anything she attempted, and usually did. Integrity, honor and loyalty were important virtues to Liz and she tried to live by these standards in all she did.

Liz was the youngest of the three children of Floyd and Gloria Price, who were raised in the family business of real estate development and sales in Kerrville, TX. Liz was naturally athletic and competitive as a child, and along with brother Andy and sister Edie, was groomed to participate at a high level in sanctioned tennis tournaments throughout Texas during her entire school career.

Liz graduated from Tivy High School in 1972 and then attended Texas Christian University in Fort Worth on a tennis scholarship, graduating with a degree in Criminal Justice. At this time, Liz explored various career paths with her degree that would use her passion for fairness and equal treatment under the law. Among them was working undercover for a detective agency to discover fraud in a manufacturing business.

Life presents many crossroads of decision and in 1978, due to her father's health emergency, Liz returned to Kerrville to help in his real estate business. Growing up in her beloved Hill Country, Liz was intimately acquainted with most of the rural property areas in Kerr and surrounding counties. She could look at a photo of a rural gate and a dirt road and identify exactly where that property was located! She understood the topography of the hills, what contributed value or took away from it. She knew the histories of the ranches and the families that owned them.

Liz loved the land and returning home to it put her in a unique position to make real estate and real estate appraisal her professional career for the rest of her life. In addition to getting her Broker's license, Liz also took courses to become a certified real estate appraiser, ultimately achieving esteemed Senior level accreditation with the American Society of Appraisers. Her ethics and valuations were highly respected as they withstood scrutiny and proof in many courts of law and mortgage institutions.

In the last chapter of her professional life, Liz was the real estate investment advisor for Jim Raymond and oversaw the development and management of many of his holdings. Chief among these and of which she was most proud, was her skillful restoration and rebranding of Lazy Hills Retreat & Conference Center outside of Ingram, TX. For 15 years, she and her staff transformed and managed the 725 acre property as a premier destination ranch resort for families, corporations and events of all kinds.

Throughout her life, Liz was especially generous in mentoring many others in their life and business pursuits, investing time and resources into helping them develop their own talents and dreams. Liz believed in the value of hard work and taught others her slow and steady ''inchy-inchy'' approach to building wealth. Liz was especially happy to see others succeed. She was the encouraging ''wind beneath the wings'' of a long list of people whose lives were enhanced for having known her.

No profile of Liz Price would be complete without the mention of her love for animals, particularly horses and dogs. Liz's horsewoman skills began early in childhood as she was allowed to ride her donkey, Jenny Lynn, to Starkey Elementary back when the edge of town was Harper Rd.! Liz and her brother and sister had many horseback adventures encouraged primarily by their mother who thought nothing of loading up a horse in the back of a pickup and heading off to a weekend parade or rodeo.

Over the years Liz had many horses, mostly rescues or those with a sad story. They were all loved. But when Liz discovered the athletic sport of Polocrosse, in the 1990's, played mostly on the fields at the summer camps near Hunt, TX, it was apparent that some speed upgrades were necessary in her stable. Two favorites were mares, Remedy, a big gray registered quarter horse and Chance, a white thoroughbred-Arabian cross, both fast and not afraid of the push and shove of the sport. These were very happy times. Later, at Lazy Hills, Liz would invest in her last and ''perfect'' horse, Whiskey, a tall, beautifully trained thoroughbred paint that brought her a lot of joy.

Liz's homes always contained at least two dogs and sometimes four or five. Most had been abandoned. To love Liz was to love dogs, they were a package deal. They were purebreds and mutts, they were big and little, they were rowdy and calm, they were elegant and clumsy, they came in all colors and they lived a very long time under Liz's care and love. They had names like Sadie, Phoenix, Onyx, Isis, Diesel, Buddy, Stranger, Highway, Baxter, Sammy and now, Cowboy and Beauregard and a lone cat, Lucifer.

Liz Price could be described as a ''force of nature'' by those who knew her as family, friend or business associate. She exuded confidence and a ''can do'' spirit that inspired others to get up and get on with it.
Lazy or complaining wasn't in Liz's manual for life. For those of us who loved her, it is hard to imagine life without her in it. Yet, she was with us in a powerful way and gave us her very best self and we are better for knowing her. We are comforted to know that as her light flickered out in this life, it ignited into brightness when her soul met Jesus.

Those who remember and cherish her life are many and they include her brother Preston (Andy) Price and his wife, Sue, of Covington LA, and their family; her sister Edie Price Barton of Ft. Collins, CO and her family; and her beloved friend, Nora Allen, of Kerrville, TX.

We are especially grateful for the tender, compassionate care that Liz received from everyone at Peterson Hospital in the ER and on wing 3West during the last week of her life. There will be no formal service at this time. A celebration of her life will be held in the future. Should anyone wish to honor Liz, a memorial contribution to an animal rescue organization would have made her happy.

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