Service Details
Funeral services will be held on Friday, August 19, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. at the Draeger-Langendorf funeral home. Interment will follow in St. George Cemetery. A visitation will take place on Friday at the funeral home from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m.
Lisa Baietto, age 58, of Racine, passed away unexpectedly on August 7, 2022.
Lisa was a woman with a very big laugh. She was often hilarious, and no one appreciated a clever retort more than she did. Her laugh was highly infectious, and in the early years of her life, to be in her presence meant something fun was always happening. Often it was the little things that made her stand out; for example, to have seen her reapply her lipstick after a dinner out is to remember the virtuosity of that small gesture forever. Everyone who knew her in her youth will remember her as one of the brightest lights to walk among us.
She will be remembered by her coworkers in healthcare as a hard worker who knew her job, who was fiercely protective of the patients, and who was the first to bring food for celebrations and special treats and gifts on special occasions. She kept in touch with people and remembered the details of their lives. She was always there to cheer people on, celebrate their happiness, and share in their grief.
The second half of Lisa’s life was much harder than the first. The loss of her mother in 2003 was something from which she never fully recovered. She also had many health challenges in her later years. The untimely deaths of several beloved friends, and more recently a beloved aunt and uncle, were very hard for her to bear. Her faith in Jesus helped her through the latter part of her life, and there is little doubt that it was a great comfort to her in her final hours.
She was extremely grateful to have her father’s support. His generosity was something about which he was silent, but Lisa was not. The people who knew her best were well aware of his generous help and her unfailing gratitude.
If she loved you, she was likely the most generous person you knew. Her greatest lament in life was that she didn’t have more to give. Her friends and family meant the world to her, and while it was a cardiac episode that ended her life, it may have been the solitude of the pandemic that did her in. During this period, marked by even more losses of loved ones, she became unable to leave the house, which meant that some of her health concerns went unaddressed.
Lisa leaves behind her father, John Baietto, her brother, Jason Baietto, and her sister-in-law, Patty Baietto. She was preceded in death by her mother Karen Baietto.
The web of people who knew and loved Lisa Baietto over the years is immense. She was known, she was appreciated, and she was loved. To those who knew her best, she is irreplaceable.
Funeral services will be held on Friday, August 19, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. at the Draeger-Langendorf funeral home. Interment will follow in St. George Cemetery. A visitation will take place on Friday at the funeral home from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m.
Lynn Dillon says
Lisa and I haven’t spoken since the 1980’s. We were grade school and high school friends. I spent my first covid winter cleaning out old cards and letters. Many, many, many were from Lisa. I spent hours in my basement laughing until I cried. She provided me much joy even without being there. I had decided to look her up but never quite got to it……my great loss. I am comforted by knowing she found comfort in her faith. To her Dad and Jason my deepest sympathy. Rest in Peace my friend….you are uniquely one of a kind.
Doug Terry says
You will be missed. The Wall of COVID Isolation didn’t keep you from our thoughts.
Michael Hansen says
Dear Jason,
It saddened me to hear of Lisa’s death. I remember both you and her from our days at St. Lucy’s Grade School. The memory that I treasure the most of Lisa, is when she met up with a group of St. Lucy Alumni (Michael, Kathy, and Tom Hansen; Lynn & Wendy Dillion; Mary Wenzel; and Kathy Braun), at John Gouris’ Taylor Ave Bar back in the late 1980’s. Your sister played “Here I Go Again,” by Whitesnake, on the jukebox. She proceeded to do a solo lip-synch performance of the song, which she played on her air guitar, and pretended to have big long hair that she tossed around like a 1980’s hair rocker musician. Prior to the last refrain, Lisa was on the floor crawling towards us in her blue jeans and Chuck Taylor Converse. She had us all crying from laughter. Lisa was the life of the party. I’m sharing this with you because my sister Kathy and I had just heard the song playing on the radio, I had made mention of that memory, and we got a text message five minutes later from Kathy Braun, informing us that your sister had passed away. I’m sure she’s in heaven entertaining all the angels and saints. We were blessed to have had her in our lives. May she rest in peace!