Linalice CAREY

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 -

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...

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.