BOOM! COVER PROFILE
Lisa Beers, Retired & Ready
Life is a gift and I believe gratitude is always the best attitude. This month’s cover profile is a woman who has reached that long-awaited milestone of retirement. Lisa Beers has been working for WSFA-12 since 1981, forty years! Yes, to work with a company that long says she knows a good thing when she sees it. The WSFA Team was like family, and she owes them many thanks for the memorable moments she experienced during her rewarding career with WSFA. She now begins her journey as a newly minted retiree and Lisa is ready to take it all in and enjoy the many opportunities to explore life through service, travel and of course being a wedding planner for her daughter Nicole. She has experienced much during the last few years, losing her husband Gary to Parkinson’s Disease, and suffering a heart attack in 2018. Challenges for any life to be sure. But, as she put it, Lisa is filled with joie de vivre, a joy of living, an attitude that will serve her well on life’s next journey on the road of retirement. We hope you enjoy getting to know Lisa as much as we did, and we also hope you’ll share her story with friends and family. BOOM!: Please give us a brief biography, i.e. where you’re from, education, what brought you to the Montgomery area, did you raise your family here, schools, marriage, family, etc.?
a B.A. in Communication Arts and a concentration in Broadcast Journalism.
Lisa: I was born in Montgomery at Jackson Hospital on September 16, 1954. Yes, I’ll be 67 this year. Birth Certificate reads: Lisa Marian Palmer. My father began his Orthopedic Surgery practice at the hospital after he and my mother moved to Montgomery in 1950. She was from the “Crescent City”, New Orleans, where they met, and my father was raised in the beautiful mountains of “Wild, Wonderful” West Virginia. So, I’m the result of two transplants.
Soon after, I met Gary, who loved life and convinced me right away that I would never have a dull moment as long as we were together. We brought a blue eyed, blond (I have brown hair and brown eyes) into the world who was Gary’s twin. We named her Nicole. One cannot tell which baby is which from their pictures.
Lisa Dressed as Audrey Hepburn for a WSFA 50’s Employee Appreciation party at the Capitol City Club
I’m the patient, doesn’t like to rock- the-boat, social, loyal, peoplepleasing, independent, peace-loving middle child among an older brother and sister, Daria and Chris, and a younger brother and sister, Anita, and Matt. Whew. Raised Catholic, I attended Our Lady Queen of Mercy grammar
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BOOM!: Up until a few days ago you were a Senior Account Executive at WSFA 12 News. Please share with us how you got involved with broadcasting and WSFA? What did you do as a Senior Account Executive for WSFA?
school, (no longer in existence), Late Husband Gary and me at and graduated high school from Jesse’s in Magnolia Springs Montgomery Catholic High School, now Montgomery Catholic Preparatory Lisa: Within a week after graduating School. Then, I headed straight to Spring college, I worked at WHHY/Y102 Radio Hill College in Mobile where I received as the Copywriter which was a great a Jesuit education and graduated with starting point in broadcast. On my first
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