Elizabeth Ramos Mann, who passed away on Sunday, September 27th, lead an extremely diversified business and family life. By turns, Elizabeth (aka "Liz" or "Libby") was a valued administrator, successful entrepreneur, experienced care giver, and a young family matriarch. These seperate roles often overlapped. Liz was born in the Manila suburb of Quezon City in 1954. Her mother, Dr. Evelyn Lacson Ramos, was recruited by the US Army as a radiologist. Dr. Ramos brought the family to Boston in 1965 where Libby attended Cathedral High School. She then attended Regis College in Weston. and graduated with a BA degree. She began her business career with EMC Corporation when it was a tiny startup in Newton Lower Falls. It was there that Dick Egan, founder of EMC, introduced her to her future husband, Bob Mann. Liz and Bob worked together over several decades for many high tech companies. They were married in 1996 with the ceremony performed by Captan Ed Burns on the SS Spirit of Boston. The couple lived in Framingham until a home in Berlin captured their imaginations. There they could base their individual businesses in a serene country setting. Liz had established a thriving "rent-a-bookkeeper" firm, Peach Hill Partners. She supplied financial record keeping services for many small companies who could not afford or did not need a full-time bookkeeper. Typically she would work for them one day per week. Over five years ago Liz began support for Emerson Hospital in several capacities such as bookkeeping for the Gift Shop and managing the weekend volunteer program. Liz wanted to have a family. The couple went through the extensive qualifying process for adopting a child from the Philippines. Suprisingly, they discovered 8-year old twin boys living in an orphanage on Samar, a remote island that is located in that country's "hurricane alley." In January, 2006 they gathered the twins from Samar and brought them to the States. They are now US Citizens and attend Concord Carlisle High School. For many years Liz was the primary in-home care provider for her parents. Her father, Pol Ramos, was a survivor of the Bataan Death March of WWII. He died in Concord in 2005 at the age of 88. Her mother, by then a Lt. Colonel in the US Army, requred extensive home care. Dr. Ramos prevailed on Libby and the family to move to Concord. She provided Evelyn's care until her death in 2014. Liz enjoyed flower and vegetable gardening; designing her own configuration of container garden boxes, of course, made from Philippine mahogany. As it turns out, she preferred painting the flower and vegetable plants more than growing them. She spent the past several years enjoying and enhancing her watercolor skills in her home studio in Concord. Over four years ago Liz was diagnosed with lung cancer. Although she never smoked, she is a casualty of a genetic mutation that can affect women of Asian descent. She participated in several clinical trials at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. The advanced drugs DFCI provided extended her life by four years. She has hoped that her clinical responses can provide valuable research information to be used in developing new therapies for helping future lung cancer victims. She leaves her husband, Bob, and her two children, Trisha and Nikki. The family resides in Concord. Also she is survived by her sister, Dr. Leni Ramos and her partner Ruthann Armstrong of Pacifica, California. Funeral service will be held on Saturday, October 3rd at 10 am in the Farrar Chapel of the Dee Funeral Home, 27 Bedford Street, Concord Center. Officiating will be the Rev. David MacAdam, Pastor of the New Life Community Church in Concord. Burial will follow at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord. Visiting hours are Friday, October 2nd from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 pm in the Dee Funeral Home. Contributions in her memory may be made to Dana Farber Cancer Institute, www.dana-farber.org/gift. Arrangements are under the care of the Dee Funeral Home of Concord.