Linalice CAREY Obituary

Name: Memorial service for Linalice CAREY
Start: 2016-11-13T19:00:00.000Z
Location: Hyde Park Theater

CAREY, Linalice
Linalice Carey was born January 22, 1921 in Dallas, Texas to Winnie and Ernest Huppertz - She died October 26, 2016.
She was married to "Buster" Duane Earl Carey a World War II veteran who died serving our country. Linalice and Buster had one daughter, Linda, who died 2014. Linda had three children, Lisa Kimberly Breakey, Duane Earl Breakey and Jeffrey Dean Breakey, deceased.
Linalice was inducted into the Austin's Art Hall of fame 2012 for her contribution by Austin's Theater.
In the mid sixties, Linalice had a theater called Number One Poker Alley. It was there that she founded a group named the Bijuberti Players.
Later, she was a pioneer on 6th street with her Creek Theater. With no city funding, she did everything from Gilbert and Sullivan to Tennessee Williams. The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Austin, Texas was founded at the Creek.
She also co-founded a dinner theater in East Austin, called Theater Unlimited.
So full of energy, Linalice also took Melodrama theater performances to Wimberley at the Ole Pioneer Town in the summers for 20 years.
She was one of the founding members of The Austin Circle of Theaters begun in the late 60's. Friends of ACT met monthly at the Old Spanish Village, where the annual B. Iden Payne Awards celebration evolved.
In the late 60's, she was joined by Patricia Fiske to form the Bijuberti Puppet Players. Together, they wrote the plays, created the puppets and performed the shows for the public and for private parties until the 80's.
In 1982, Linalice found an old post office building and turned it into The Hyde Park Showplace. Linalice also pened the theater to such things as weekly jam sessions led by Gene Ramey.
Over the years, Linalice has received many honors for her work. Among them, she was named Texas Theater woman of the year in the Statesman and she was honored by the Critics Table.
We invite you to join us at a memorial service for Linalice to be held the Hyde Park Theater, at 511 W. 43rd Street, Austin, Texas, on November 13th at 1PM.

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Published by Austin American-Statesman from Nov. 10 to Nov. 11, 2016.

Memories and Condolences
for Linalice CAREY

10 Entries

Tom Swinney

February 2, 2017

You were a good friend to me, to many others, to the performing arts and to your community. Peace.
- Tom Swinney

Leon Ashbrook

January 6, 2017

To me you will always be LC. Am so thankful of the memories we shared, from when I rented the North side of your home for a few years, Melodramas we performed at Wimberley, watching the Nixon Impeachment on TV, I began your first garden in the front just over the sidewalk. And those wonderful trips to Neuvo Laredo. You were among my best friends; you taught me much. Being with you was never time wasted. We will meet again one of these days; until then my memories of you will provide me with smiles and happiness.

Rev. Dr. Frances Lorenz

November 25, 2016

Linalice was a huge influence on my life. I was part of the Bijuberti Players and a member of her ensemble that performed at the Creek Theater. I have many fond memories of traveling to Wimberley, Texas during the summer for melodramas. We maintained our friendship over the years and we talked by telephone usually about spiritual matters now that I am a minister.
My children grew up watching rehearsals with me at the Creek Theater. She was dynamic, creative and a force to be reckoned with. I will miss her extraordinary presence.
Frances Vargas Arrowsmith Lorenz now
Rev. Frances Lorenz.

Kim Breakey

November 15, 2016

Mimi was beyond influential in my life. I felt more like her daughter than her granddaughter. Anytime I felt down, she would lift me up with a prayer from God. She would tell me God surrounds and enfolds you and all will be well.

One memorable year for me was in 1968 when I live with Mimi and Granny. I went to Baker School in the 2nd grade one block from 4007. I would come home each day to a special lunch she made for me. We ordered groceries from Avenue B Grocery just down the street and they delivered the groceries hours after we placed the order.

The summer months were always so fun. I remember the evenings her friends would gather in her living room to rehearse for the melodrama's. And on Saturday's we'd take the station wagon named Big Mama with the gang to Wimberley heading to the Ole Pioneer Town where they performed the shows. Mimi started out each show with sing a longs. Like, Give me that ''ole Time Religion and Irene Good night

She loved all people and felt very strongly about equality: Once she headed a group at the Dobie Theater to allow the black people to come in and watch the movies. All her friends stood in line and would allow the black people to cut in front of them. She used to tell me the stories of Ruby Bridges who was the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school.

I loved hearing the endless stories of her Daddy too. She loved him so much and he simply adored her. They would always end each day saying I love you harder than a mule can kick, and the other would say I love you harder than two mules can kick and so on......

I remember your beautiful singing voice and hearing you play just about any instrument known to man. You were proficient in Spanish. And loved driving to Laredo bringing back Mexican dishes. Each year on my birthday you'd call and sing Happy Birthday to me in Spanish. This was so special and I looked forward to it every year.

You loved gardening and cooking. And we spent a lot of time together in the kitchen. We had a compost pile and nothing was ever thrown away. It was all recycled. From coffee grinds, to egg shells, potato peals etc. And it was all placed on a big ole Mexican dish in the kitchen waiting to be taken to the compost pile. One day I decided to carry it out like a waitress. I was walking to the compost pile when the entire tray tipped over and feel all over me. I ran back inside almost in tears, with coffee grinds and egg shells all in my hair and you laughed. You cleaned me up, we scooped up the mess and placed it back in the compose pile.

We had all kinds of animals from birds, to dogs, cats, chickens and ducks. I am sure that is where I got my love for animals to this day.

This is a poem called Feelings

No more your face to look upon
Or beautiful smile to see
Though deep inside my heart I know
You still reside with me.

When the sun casts down its golden rays
That's when I see your smile
Then rain drops fall just like my tears
And my heart aches for a while

A rainbow in the sky appears
With a beauty of its own
And on the breeze I hear your voice
It whispers you're not alone.

As we celebrate your life today with loving thoughts and memories, you will forever live in my heart.

Mimi, I love you harder than a mule can kick.

It's not good bye Mimi, it's Bye For now! I'll see you on the other side!

Love is too small a word for what we had.

Alex Kinney

November 14, 2016

One of the great women of the American theater! My favorite joke with her was that if they dropped her out of an airplane over a desert with nothing but some string and a few safety pins, she'd have a theater up and running in a matter of weeks. Although we actually did plays together only one year, we remained closest friends for more than another 40. What great times, what wonderful cast parties she gave...We traveled together, she visited me in New York--I got her to go everywhere but the subway! We yacked incessantly on the phone, some of the sweetest convos during her final years. Our birthdays were close together, and only at the very end did the cards stop. Still, she'd sing me the Mexican birthday song over the phone. I thought I would cry like a baby when this moment came, but I'm not. I am just so damn proud and lucky to have known her and have been her intimate.
Alex "Heddy" Kinney

Timothy Abbott

November 13, 2016

What a pleasure to visit and remember Lin at her stomping grounds, Hyde Park Showplace. She directed me in one of several plays I acted in there. It's unfair to try to pack a 95 year old icon's life onto a few paragraphs. Lin was one of the people who saw the ugliness of civil rights wars up close in the 1960's, and led protests at the Dobie Theater to force them to let black people in as ticker buyers. This is but one of many such stories that defined her. She was religious, a civil rights activist, a family woman with a passion for theater and music, especially jazz. Bless her heart for her tireless work on behalf of all playwrights, directors, actors, actresses, musicians and so many others I am leaving out. She was one of a very rare kind.

Maggie Swinney

November 11, 2016

I will forever treasure the memories you shared with us. Even the stifling summer, dressed in a black turtleneck behind the stage becoming The Purple Necked, Black Bearded Blatch....
My Deepest sympathy to Linalice's family and friend's -

November 11, 2016

To the family, Linalice was a dear friend to our family for over 60 years. Truly fun to be around and an indefatigable troupe organizer. Driven by her love of theater, she always showed she had the "right stuff" on opening night. Now the last act has played and the final curtain has dropped.
But, "I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, write, Blessed are the dead who died in the Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the spirit that they rest from their labors; and their works do follow them."

Kit(son of Joan) and Joan Pearsall (dear friend)

November 10, 2016

My wife, Mary Lynn Richardson ( nee) Clinger and Linalice are close cousins. My wife died 21 Feb 2013. Our blessings to the family of Linalice for their lose. I have considerable genealogy data on the Richardson line and would appreciate meeting with any family member to enhance the Richardson line. Linalice's mother is named Mary Winning Richardson ( nee) Huppertz.

I live in Austin, TX.