Carolyn Elizabeth Garland Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Carolyn Elizabeth Garland of Channelview, Texas passed away on April the 5th of 2019 at the age of 85. She was born Carolyn Elizabeth Rowland to parents, Berry Cleveland Rowland and Virgie Josephine Earnhardt on July 5, 1933 in Concord, North Carolina. She married Bobby Theodore Garland on July 8, 1952 and moved to Texas in 1953. Carolyn lost her Mother at a very young age and her Father was not to be in her life. She and her younger sister Joyce came to live with the people who would become her family at or around 7 to 8 years of age. These were Uncle Harrison L. Myers and Aunt Ida Jane Scott Myers, their daughter Katie Bolick and most notably their other daughter Miss Bertha Myers who she considered her Mother. They have all since passed on. She is also preceded in death by her husband of 57 years, Bobby Theodore Garland and her sister Joyce Elaine McDaris. Survivors include her sons, Bobby Scott Garland, Burney Dale Garland and wife Cheryl, Barry Alan Garland and daughter Rona Lynn Horton, and beloved family members Lyn Garland, Joseph Horton and also Sheila Eitson who is deceased. Also surviving are grandson Jeremy Alan Garland who she raised as her own son, Grandaughters Lauren Michelle Garland and Taylor Minh Garland and grandsons Cole So'n Garland and Kris Horton and great grandson Tyler Horton. Barry Garland also has a stepson Keith Watson, his wife Brandy and their children Ruby and Kaspar. The last years of her life she also had a very special friend Andy Vines and girlfriend Faith Massie. Andy will feel her loss just as a son would. Carolyn had many friends and family and touched many lives during her time on earth. She always helped anyone she could and never turned any person or animal away. She always remembered what it felt like to be that small child that needed her own place to call home and always held her door open to anyone that needed that same thing. Carolyn was a generous, caring, strong and strong willed, hard working woman who endured many hardships during her life. She was a good mother, a good wife, a good friend and the backbone of our now grieving family. She will be missed greatly. It is difficult to describe someones life and just how important they were into a few short paragraphs, but I hope this does her justice. We loved her. She loved us. That's all that really matters anyway, isn't it? There will be a memorial service at a later date to be announced.

Carolyn Elizabeth Garland

July 5, 1933 - April 5, 2019