Mrs. Virginia "Ginny" 'Miss P" "Coach" Lou Wyman Pisano

Virginia Lou (Wyman) Pisano, 85, passed away on May 28, 2010 at the home of her daughter, Patty, in Cave Creek. She was born in Chicago on March 4, 1925 to Harry Thomas Wyman and Luella Elizabeth Redmond. After graduating from high school in 1944, she went to work for Motorola, sang with the Galvin Choraleers Choir (1949) and played women's league softball. She married Reynaldo (Ray) Miranda Pisano in Chicago on September 2, 1950 and the couple settled in Phoenix where she raised eight children. She was very active in sports, especially tennis, softball and later, as a soccer coach. As a soccer coach, she had one of the four original girl's soccer teams in Arizona (Metro Soccer Club, Desert Rats). She is preceded in death by both parents, sisters Doris (Rodney) Hoppe and Eileen Redmond (Appler), and two brothers, George and James. She is survived by her remaining brother, Harry, her eight children, Greg, Mark, Carmella (Torrance), Carlos, Patty (Harting), Christine (Thomas), Teresa (Meisenbach), and Richard as well as seven nieces and nephews, 15 grandchildren, and 5 great-grandchildren, Jesse, Jordyn, Aidan, Avia and Nathan. Outside of her immediate family, she was known as Mom, Coach P, or simply "P" and was much beloved by everyone who knew her. Virginia loved to fish and camp and would go anywhere at any time with her family for any reason. In memory of this, her ashes will be given to the winds in the White Mountains of eastern Arizona.

Arrangements under the direction of Shadow Mountain Mortuary, Phoenix, AZ.