Linda Guzzardo

LINDA “Mimi” Guzzardo, born Linda Lee DEICHMANN (80) October 6, 1941 departed from this world, making that greatest of life’s transitions, passing away peacefully into the glorious hereafter in the early morning hours of Saturday, July 22, 2022 with her two children, son-in-law, sister (84) and niece and two beloved grandsons and longtime family friends nearby while in the compassionate hands of staff at Houston Hospice / MD Anderson Medical Center, Holcombe Ave, Houston, Texas.

Mimi shall be fondly remembered for her love of family, her compassionate heart, her generosity, her love of nature and a lifetime of expressing herself through her God-given gifts and talents as an accomplished artist. Mimi applied her gifts as a painter of oils, watercolors, acrylics, mixed media, while learning and mastering of a variety of creative expressions of the visual arts —painting, drawing, sculpture, mosaics, mixed media and having a great appreciation for photography and other visual arts. In recent years she travelled widely to destinations including the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, Costa Rica, various West Texas and New Mexico destinations, and the Caribbean paradise of Belize where she spent nearly every spring break over the last decade or more surrounded by family, extended family and friends.

Those closest to Mimi appreciated her sense of humor and love for humanity – she enjoyed meeting people of every age, culture and walk of life. It also can’t go unsaid –being a native Houstonian-- of Mimi’s love for her beloved local Astros baseball team and a rabid fan of the San Antonio Spurs basketball team during their heyday, when Mimi was a 30-year resident of Bulverde, near San Antonio, where she applied her vocation as a cosmetologist and a salon owner.

Mimi graduated from Charles H. Milby High School on Houston’s east side in 1959, a proud Viking where she had many friends who loved to frequent the beach at Galveston.

She was married, October 6, 1961 to Bernard “BJ/Benny” Joseph Guzzardo, Jr. in Houston, Texas. From their happy union was born their son, Joseph Fred Guzzardo (1965) and daughter, Leah Ann Guzzardo-Faucett (1966). The family remained native Texans and lived in Houston, Corpus Christi, Driftwood near Austin, San Antonio and Bulverde where Mimi became widowed in 1987 after Benny’s early passing. In 1989, Mimi met James “Jim” White while cutting his hair at the salon she owned for more than a decade in the 1990’s. They made great conversation and ultimately spent many happy years together until she lost her second love just after his 90th birthday, in January 2020 in Houston.

Mimi was predeceased by her husband, B. J. Guzzardo (d. 1987) and her parents, Fredrick “Freddy” Deichmann (1913-1972) and Marjorie Lucille Clement (1915-1960), a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

She is survived by her son, Joseph (Joe) Guzzardo of Bulverde and daughter, Leah Ann Guzzardo-Faucett and beloved son-in-law, Christopher Marion Faucett, and her two bright, handsome grandson’s, Hayden Christian Faucett (22) and Blake Joseph Faucett (19) of Houston; her sister, Marjorie Deichmann and niece, Sherrie Leigh Orton of the Denver, Colorado area, and Marc and Kelli Clampitt of Austin, Texas. She also is survived by her second love of her life, Jim White’s, numerous children, nieces and nephews, grandchildren and great grandchildren of the Wenatchee, Washington area.

The family will receive family and friends for Mimi’s CELEBRATION OF LIFE!

Saturday, August 27th, 2022 at 4:00 PM

Earthman Bellaire Funeral Home

4525 Bissonnet Street

Bellaire, Texas 77401