Elizabeth Walsh Hallett

Lisa Hallett passed away at Emory Midtown Hospital in Atlanta on August 25, 2025, after a 6-year siege with breast cancer. She was 55.

Lisa was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on October 15, 1969 and named Elizabeth Ann, the first child of Carole Blaty Walsh and William G. Walsh Jr., both public school teachers. She herself attended Ft Lauderdale public schools, where she excelled in art and gymnastics as a child. Entering the University of Florida, she joined Delta Gamma sorority and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1991.

Interested in current trends and fashion, she first worked with the Jacoby, O’Connor and Mathews Advertising Agency in Ft. Lauderdale. While living in Boston, she joined Country Road, the Australia-based upscale apparel and home décor company. After moving to Washington, D.C., she won a promotion to manage Country Road’s chic boutique on Wisconsin Avenue in the Georgetown section of the nation’s capital.

In 1999 she married Christopher F. Hallett, a rising executive in high-tech medical technology companies. The couple settled in Arlington, Virginia, where she became pregnant with their first child and was almost simultaneously diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. She bravely held the cancer at bay until July 2000, when she delivered a healthy son, Nicholas, and then made a full recovery from the lymphoma over the next year. After waiting out the aftermath of chemotherapy, and moving to Winter Park, FL, she delivered her first daughter, Hope, in 2005, then Sophia in 2007.

Upon Nick’s arrival, Lisa left her retail career behind to become a full-time mom, a vocation she followed with energy and admirable skill, raising three happy and successful children. Winter Park proved to be a beautiful place to raise the kids, where they thrived among many life-long loving friends. Moving to Atlanta in 2016, Lisa enjoyed following the children through more years of swimming, gymnastics, soccer, and high school. For two decades Lisa pursued life as a consummate mother and passionate homemaker, devoted to Chris and the children while engaging with a multitude of friends. She nonetheless found time for live music, for yoga, and for working with the Lymphoma and Leukemia Society, both in fundraising and in counseling patients coping with the disease she had so successfully survived.

In the Spring of 2019, she received the news of a new malignancy: triple negative breast cancer. Lisa bravely underwent multiple rounds of treatment, including three Phase I Clinical Trials at Emory Winship Cancer Center. Some treatments were more successful than others and she enjoyed a couple of years in quiet comfort. She shared with loved ones that she was determined not to leave her daughters before they “launched”. Indeed, she was able to attend all 3 HS graduations and watched as Hope enrolled at Georgia Tech, and Sophie moved into her dorm and University of Georgia. Meanwhile, she was extremely proud of Nick, who earned his bachelor’s degree at Georgetown University, and is currently working in advertising as a manager for a firm based in New York.

Besides her husband and children, Lisa is survived by her mother, Carole Walsh of Fort Lauderdale; her father William G Walsh, Jr.; her brother, Billy Walsh of Jupiter, FL; and a large extended and beloved family and many caring friends across the country.

Events in Lisa’s Honor and Remembrance:

A Memorial will be held at the Bobby Jones Golf Course Clubhouse in Atlanta, GA on October 11 th .

A Memorial Mass will be held in Fort Lauderdale, FL at St Anthony’s Catholic Church on November 24 th .

A Celebration of Life will be held in Islamorada, FL on November 29 th .

In lieu of flowers, friends are encouraged to make donations in memory of Lisa Walsh
Hallett to the Winship Clinical Trials Center at Emory University.

Link: https://together.emory.edu/give/to/patient-care-and-community-health/winship-
cancer-institute?q=clinical+trials