Melissa (Lis) Rock passed away on June 17, 2025, surrounded by love. After bravely overcoming numerous health challenges through the years, her heart eventually grew too tired to carry on.

Lis was an adventurous person and a world traveler. As a child she lived around the world in several locations with her parents, including Congo, Vienna, Saudi Arabia and England, before settling in Hudson, MA at 10 years old. She attended MICA in Baltimore, where she obtained her BFA. She lived for 13 years in her beloved Chicago before returning to Hudson in 2009.

She was an artist at heart and excelled at professional photography. Lis was brilliant — not just in mind, but in spirit. She had a fierce, unwavering loyalty that made you feel safe, seen, and loved without condition. She showed up, always — for the hard days, for the laughter, for the everything-in-between.

She found joy in the earthy and the wild — traveling around the globe, in her garden, where she poured love into every plant, in the kitchen where she cooked with soul, in the rhythms of the Ramones blasting as she moved through a space that became hers simply by being in it.

She loved her family, friends and cats with a devotion that said everything about her heart: fiercely loyal, bold, whimsical, funny, warm, and endlessly giving. And she saw the world through a lens few others did — capturing moments in her photography that others might have missed, always with an eye for adventure, always chasing beauty wherever it dared to hide.

Lis didn't just live — she felt her way through life, curiously, courageously, and unapologetically. Melissa was predeceased by her mother Joan MacPherson Rock. She leaves behind her father Anthony Rock, her cats Iggy, Jonesey and Ramona, many beloved cousins including Heather Rockwell, Anne Sullivan-Soyden, Martha Rimkus, Matt Rimkus, Dan Sullivan, and close friends Marianne Cunha Simmons, Elita Gould, Lysa Miller, Doreen Moscillo, Chris and Bridget Guy, Rick Busse, Jen Erb, Aaron Smith, Sherri Faaborg, Joseph Deschenes, Alysa Rowlands and numerous friends and loved ones in Chicago, Baltimore and beyond to carry on her legacy of living life with the volume turned all the way up.

Visitation will be held Thursday June 26 from 6-7 PM in the Collins Funeral Home, 378 Lincoln Street, Marlborough.  A celebration of Life will follow at 7 PM in the funeral home.  All are invited to sign her online guestbook at collinsfuneral.com.  In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to honor her legacy to The Marfan Foundation or CarMAH. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Collins Funeral Home, 378 Lincoln Street, Marlborough.