Carrie Ann Galloway, 65, passed away peacefully on February 14, 2022, in Houston, Texas, after having suffered a stroke the previous week.

Born May 20, 1956 in Denver, Colorado, Carrie was the daughter of Juanita Rose Hixson Galloway and Bonnie Frank Galloway. She moved with her family to California as a baby, where she attended elementary school and middle school in Walnut Creek. Her family then moved to Beaumont, Texas, where Carrie graduated from Forest Park High School, Class of 1974. Carrie attended college at the University of Texas at Austin, obtaining a degree in Music Education.

Carrie recently retired after a long career as an executive assistant in the chemical industry. She began that work in Newark, Delaware, relocating to Houston in early 2011, where her employer, LyondellBasell, had consolidated its operations.

Carrie’s passions were music, church, family, and her vast network of friends. She studied piano from a young age and continued to advance her musical skills in college. Carrie had a lifelong devotion to sharing music with others, especially through her different church families over the years. Carrie performed many times in church services, starting as a teenager in Beaumont and continuing into her years in Delaware and thereafter in Houston. Carrie was a longtime member of Ogletown Baptist Church in Newark, Delaware and then Houston Northwest Church, where she enjoyed leading a Bible study for the senior women’s group.

In addition to music and church, Carrie loved to travel – whether exploring Russia and Scandinavia with her choir group and her brother Perry, visiting her brother Jeff in New York, visiting friends in Delaware, or hopping over to College Station, Austin, Dallas, or Winnsboro to visit friends and family.

As she lived her active life, Carrie was always mindful of living with type 1 diabetes, having been diagnosed with this life-altering condition as a young teenager. Making mental note of the sugar content for all manner of food and drink became second nature, but Carrie was determined that diabetes would not define her. Nonetheless, diabetes is a persistent foe, triggering other health issues over a lifetime – in Carrie’s case, a first heart attack in her 30s with continuing heart disease thereafter, failing eyesight in recent years, and culminating in a fatal stroke coinciding with COVID in early February.

Carrie is survived by brothers Lory Galloway of Houston, Jeff Galloway of New York City, and Perry Galloway of Aliso Viejo, California; and nieces and nephews Gabe, Josh, Ross, Grace, Kiera, and Liam.

A memorial service will be held on April 1, 11:00 am CST, at Houston Northwest Church, 19911 State Highway 249, Houston. The service will also be streamed live at hnw.org/live.

Memorial donations may be made in Carrie’s name to the American Diabetes Association, www.diabetes.org.

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