“Liz”, Elizabeth Anne Samples Marchand, passed away in the early morning hours of Friday, May 25, surrounded by family and friends at her home in Blanco, Texas. Liz was born February 10, 1968, to Bill and Margaret Rose Samples in Big Spring, Texas. She spent most of her childhood years in Big Spring, Denton, El Paso, Las Cruces, and later graduated from Permian High School in Odessa, Texas in 1986.