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Birth Date: 3/25/1959
Death Date: 4/2/2002
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| Lis Daily, a veteran Indianapolis broadcaster with WTHR (Channel 13) and WISH (Channel 8) known for her commitment to community service, died Tuesday after a battle with lung cancer. She was 43. She was diagnosed in December and was off the air during her treatment. Channel 13, where she had been community affairs director since March 1995, announced her illness in January. 'We all have a sense of loss and emptiness with the passing of our friend, our colleague, our role model and our conscience,' said Rich Pegram, Channel 13's senior vice president and general manager. 'She was a special person. She loved what she was doing, she loved the community and she loved her family. All of them are better for having been involved with her. The station was a better station for having Lis Daily here.' At WTHR, Daily was the host of daily community calendar segments. She launched the '13 Listens' outreach program, attended dozens of community meetings and coordinated several '13 Listens' bus tours. She helped coordinate the Children's Miracle Network Telethon to benefit Riley Hospital for Children and recently had begun working with the United Negro College Fund telethon. Lisbeth Daily Crawford, a Detroit native, graduated from the University of Michigan in 1980 with a bachelor degree in radio, television and film. She worked at WJRT in Flint, Michigan, as a reporter, anchor and producer before moving to Indianapolis in 1986 to join the staff of WISH as a reporter and anchor. In 1993, she became press secretary to Indiana Attorney General Pam Carter. Lee Giles, longtime news director at Channel 8, remembered the day Daily resigned. He told her she'd miss the news business and, as he recalled, she said, 'No, I want to be the first African-American female attorney general in the United States.' 'She gave up a very promising career here to do that,' he said. 'I think she felt a commitment to do more than just sit back and be an anchor. I always admired her courage in that regard. Lis was a person who was the epitome of class and character, and all of us who worked with her or knew her feel an immeasurable loss. She was a consummate professional in her career, but more than that, a special person of substance and values. We are terribly saddened by losing Lis.' She is survived by her husband, George Crawford and daughters Janis Nicole, 14; Christina Marie, 12; Elise Danielle, 10; and Laura Anne, 8. Other survivors include sisters Janis Daily Johnson and Linda Allan Tolbert. Washington Park Mortuary is handling arrangements. Among her many local memberships. Daily served on the boards of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Washington Township Swim Club. Daily's husband of 18 years spoke about her to a reporter a few days before her death, while she was in Community Hospital North's intensive care unit. She told him in November, not long before she was diagnosed with lung cancer, that she wondered if she was doing enough community work. 'Lis is a perfectionist,' he said. 'She didn't think she was doing a good job at community service. In November, she drove to work and prayed, 'Lord, I'm OK as a wife and mother, but I don't think I'm doing enough for the community. Show me a sign.' Crawford said they believe the sign came after her illness became public, when she was over whelmed by an outpouring of letters and concern. He called his wife his role model, and he said he will remember 'her dignified approach to almost everything in life. I'm hearing story after story of how working with Lis taught them about pride, poise, dignity, Christianity. It all came through.' |
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