Denise Michelle Bonner Liss, 72, beloved mother, sister and wife, died at the Capital Caring Health Halquist Center, in Arlington, Virginia, on November 6, 2020.
She was born in the suburbs of Philadelphia and grew up in Brookhaven, PA, the second oldest of eight girls by Eleanor Strootman Bonner and Bernard H. Bonner. She graduated in 1966 from Notre Dame High School in Moyland, PA, married David G. Liss of Folsom, PA on August 22, 1970, and then settled in Ridley Park, where they began raising the first four of their children. Her husband’s career relocated them in 1979 to the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., where she had her fifth child and lived the remainder of her life.