Sara Sue Curry

She was born on the 13th of September 1934, in Little Rock, Arkansas to Clyde Hugh and Elizabeth Murphy Higginbotham. She has resided in Houston since the age of 3. Sara married the love of her life, Gene Curry who preceded her in death in 2006, just two weeks shy of their 50th wedding anniversary. Sara was a sweet, loving wife, mother, sister, aunt and friend.

She is survived by her daughters, Cathy Bauer and her husband Ken and Connie Ponder and her husband Terry; sisters, Nancy Adams and Martha Klix of Houston; brother, Clyde Higginbotham, Jr. of Lafayette, Louisiana; grandchildren, Melanie Bauer 18, Christopher Ponder 21 and Sara Ponder 18.

Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from six until eight o’clock in the evening on Wednesday, the 20th of June, in the Drawing Room of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.

The funeral service is to be conducted at one o’clock in the afternoon on Thursday, the 21st of June in the Jasek Chapel of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, where Rev. Lisa Callaway, Senior Pastor of St. Philip’s United Methodist Church, is to officiate.

The interment will follow, via an escorted cortege, at Forest Park Westheimer Cemetery in Houston.

In lieu of customary remembrances, donations may be directed to Mental Health America of Greater Houston, 2211 Norfolk St., Ste. 810, Houston, TX, 77098.