Carolyn “Caroline” Phillips of Houston, Texas passed away on May 1st, 2022. Carolyn was born on November 15th, 1935, in Danville, Virginia, to Evelyn Plummer Huffman and David Lee Huffman. She graduated from high school in Kannapolis, North Carolina where she met and married Blake Phillips on November 20th, 1955. Carolyn and Blake moved many times due to Blake’s position with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, which eventually led them to Houston, Texas where they settled permanently.
After raising her daughters, Carolyn decided to go back to work and became an optician at Greenway Optical in Houston, Texas where she worked for many years. Later she obtained her real estate license and sold real estate in the Houston area.
Carolyn loved life. She loved to dance. Carolyn was a loving, dedicated mother to all of her daughters, and later her grandchildren who knew her as “Mimi”.
Carolyn will be missed forever, her presence made a lasting impression on everyone she met.
Carolyn is preceded in death by her husband, Blake Phillips; parents, Evelyn and David Huffman; brother’s Frank Huffman, and Robert Huffman; daughter Susan Timmons; grandson Patrick Timmons, and son-in-law Chuck Johnson.
Carolyn is survived by her sister Linda Huffman of Houston, Texas; daughter Michelle Johnson of Missouri City, Texas; daughters and son-in-law’s Angie and Blake Meischen of Cypress, Texas; Holly and Phil Poncio of Waelder, Texas; and Debby and Paul Morrison of Damascus, Maryland. Grandchildren Scott and Cathy Morrison and family; Amanda and Jake Baumann and family; Lacey and Kyle Liebscher; Kelsey Perreault and Mitchell Ridd; Morgan Fontenot and family; Dalton and Emily Meischen; Kellie Fontenot; Tim and Amanda Morrison; Kristen Perreault; Hilary and James Zelenski; Brad and Sarah Timmons and family; and Jerry Timmons; Erin and Dave Pan and family.
Services will be held on Thursday, May 12th, 2022 at 11:00 am in The Hunters Creek Chapel at Earthman Funeral Directors, 8303 Katy Freeway, Houston, Texas 77024.
A Celebration of Life will be held immediately following the services at the home of Angie and Blake Meischen located at 17447 Kitzman Road, Cypress, Texas 77429.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Carolyn’s name to the Alzheimer’s Foundation Texas, 7000 No, MoPac Expressway, Suite 200, Austin, Texas, 78731, or txalz.org.
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