Elizabeth Anne Hatch

She was the brightest of light and will be remembered for her fun loving sprit, unique and stylish pizazz, intellect, beauty, irreverence, infectious laugh but most of all the ability to love and be loved by many. Elizabeth’s light will burn on through the loving and rich memories of those who knew her and of those whose lives she touched.

Elizabeth was born on January 14,1977 in Bellevue, Washington. Her childhood was spent on the shore of Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. As a child she traveled with her parents and brother on her father’s business trips which took them over the world. From those journeys was born her wanderlust and unceasing curiosity of places, cultures, and the human spirit.

She was known as a ”lifer” at The Bush School where she attended grades one through twelve before graduating from New York University and later earning a doctorate in psychology. While in New York she worked for The Film Library at NYU, Vanity Fair Magazine and the Charlie Rose Show. She lived in Southern California for twenty years where she worked as a researcher and producer at MTV before working with autistic children, families and in the field of recovery.

Elizabeth’s extended family includes dear friends from the many chapters of her life.

Her interests and passions included skiing Baldy in Sun Valley, music, especially Leonard Cohen, the arts, travel and most of all, her beloved nephews and nieces. She had an intuitive

knack for reading people and a natural affinity for the less fortunate, children, artists and free

spirits. People from all walks of life could find a sympathetic ear in Liffy.

In 2015 she was joined in marriage to John Ortiz of Malibu, California where she lived for eight years.

Elizabeth is survived by her mother, Marsha Ingham, husband, John Ortiz, step-mother Cathi Hatch, step-Father, Kip Ingham, brothers Michael Hatch (Alicia), James Roberts (Andrea), Sean Hatch (Troy Clark), Ryan Hatch (Teresa), step brother Justin Badger (Amy), step sisters, Katie Laramore (Kevin), Heidi Stiteler, Kristi Espinasse (Jean Marc), and Kelley Ingham (Brad Jones), god-brother, Spencer Riviera, god-sister, Gloria Riviera Sciutto (Jim).

“Mourning the untimely death of the brilliant and lovable is one long encomium (praise) of a spirit that earth was not good enough to chain”. Shelley