Flois was born on July 12, 1927, in an area of central Texas known as Davis Prairie near Groesbeck in Limestone County, the third of four children of John Avery and Hetti Williams Jarvis. She adored Groesbeck and family that still live there, but she left home at an early age falling in love and marrying Leon Broughton Jr. in 1942. Flois and Leon lived with his parents in Kirbyville, Texas working together in the family business, Broughton Brother Shows, a traveling carnival and tent-based movie theater providing entertainment to small towns throughout central and east Texas and to the troops at various army camps during the war.
They eventually left “show business” in 1951 to settle down with their two sons in Vidor, Texas so her boys could attend school and Leon could pursue his new career as a life insurance agent. Their dedicated “42” domino players and tearful friends notwithstanding, during the 1955 Thanksgiving holidays the family moved to Alvin, Texas where she was a longtime resident and active member of the Johnson Street Church of Christ.
Flois was a dedicated homemaker, parent, den mother, and sports mom. It would be rare indeed to miss any ball game of her boys, or later any activity by her grandchildren. But Flois also enjoyed working in the business world, most notably at Bonds in the Gulfgate Mall during the Christmas shopping season, as a receptionist at Alvin Medical Arts Clinic, and as co-owner of the Le Marie dress shop in Alvin. During their 27 years of marriage, Flois and Leon raised four sons: James, Donald, Paul, and Gregory.
In 1971, Flois became one of the early employees of Southwest Airlines at Houston Hobby Airport. Flois was a beautiful woman and although her job was on the ground in operations, she could have easily filled-in for one of the “hot pants” flight attendants. A few years later, through her daughter-in-law Janet and her friend, Flois met Robert Lee Carter. After a short courtship in 1976, they married, quit both their jobs, and together started Bob and Flois Carter Car Sales on a small corner lot in Pasadena, Texas. That humble beginning grew into a substantial business, which they ran together until Bob’s death in 1994.
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