Gloria Frame

(1/17/1932 – 10/28/2022)

With heavy hearts, we share that Gloria Klein Frame passed away suddenly on Friday, October 28, 2022. Gloria was born in Atlanta, Georgia to Josef and Elizabeth Rimmele (Lilly) Klein and resided there until moving to Houston at the age of eighteen. Gloria was an accomplished pianist, but pretty quickly decided she looked better in a tennis dress and became quite the competitive tennis player instead. She attended Vanderbilt University before transferring to the University of Houston to be closer to family.

Following college, Gloria married David Frame Jr. of Houston in 1959 and had two children, Hilary and David. While Gloria adored her family, she was not keen on staying at home. So, following in her father’s footsteps, she started a career in the Interior Design business which lasted 70 years. Athletic, slender, and fashionable, she embraced the health kick before it was mainstream, and somehow her children were able to survive on Tiger’s Milk and carrot juice while Gloria wore Pucci. When not attending her children’s activities at The Kinkaid School, Gloria whisked them all over the country, exposing them to grand adventures, ensuring they were proficient at snow skiing, mountain climbing, water skiing, and wing shooting.

Sometime after her divorce from David, she decided that it would be appropriate for a single, self-employed sixty-five-year-old, woman to procure two Tennessee log cabins and one Tennessee barn from the 1800’s. Acting as her own General Contractor, she transformed those cabins into a custom home on a five-acre site overlooking Lake Travis. Much joy and several thousand spirited rounds of Spoons were had at this lake house. Twenty years later, Gloria sold her home and moved to Round Top to pursue new experiences, and to be closer to a steady supply of antiques, beautiful countryside, and lovely neighbors.

Irreverent, unconventional, unorthodox, unfiltered, undeterred, but always elegant, Gloria navigated through this world making friends everywhere she went and helping generations of friends and clients transform their homes and lives to be ever more beautiful.

Gloria is predeceased by her parents Josef and Lilly as well as her brother Sig. She is survived by her children; Hilary Frame Crady and David Frame III, her son-in-law Ned Crady, her daughter-in-law Jenny Frame, and her six grandchildren; David IV, Alex, and Colin Frame and Grayson, Sloan, and Rimmele Crady. She also leaves behind generations of family and friends who were privileged to have known her joy of life, hilarious antics, and unflappable nature, even if they had to turn their head when she snuck onto someone’s property, climbed their tree, and took a fresh Magnolia blossom for the centerpiece on her table.

In lieu of flowers or donations, please do what you can to leave this world a more beautiful place; Gloria would like that. A celebration of life will be held at a later date.