Born and raised in Beaumont, Trish graduated from the University of Texas with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology. She taught science and German at schools in Austin, Houston, New Orleans and Santa Fe, and later in life found a calling as a massage therapist and healer. Her truest love, though, was for the stage. Trish was a renowned playwright, winning the Texas Playwrights Festival for her first full-length play, Breaking Out of Sunset Place. She also took inspiration from folklore to write many plays for young audiences, including The Archer and the Princess and Aesop's Funny Fables, as well as The Night the Animals Talked, which she adapted into a book that received a Mom's Choice Award in Juvenile Fiction.
In addition to her healing and creative work, Trish found time to pay it forward to those in need. She frequently worked with Dionysus Theatre’s founding artistic director Deborah Nowinski to provide plays and production assistance to actors with disabilities who were denied access to traditional theaters. Trish co-founded the Helping Afghan Women’s Project with three Houston businesswomen to provide food, sanitation and coal for warmth in remote regions of Afghanistan. In later years, she worked with the 36th Infantry Division Association, using her writing talents to capture war memories from the Greatest Generation.
Trish took a line from the movie Auntie Mame as her credo: "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!" She made friends instantly with people from all walks of life, all across the country and all over the world. She loved to talk, and she loved to laugh. She could also find thrift store bargains like nobody's business. A devoted mother and a proud Cajun, she was never shy about speaking her mind and never hesitant in fighting for those she loved.
Trish was preceded in death by her cousin Ray Ener and her nephew Ashlon Barry. She will be missed by her son Rob Rumble, her brothers Monty, Rock, and Rick Barry, her cousins Marty (Ener) Fazand, Kathy (Ener) Gilstrap and Kaye (Ener) Bryant, Tommy Braquet, Sandra (Braquet) Snyder and Brian Braquet, her niece Amanda Barry, nephew Brandon Barry, and extended family, her former husband and best friend Steve Rumble, her many friends, and countless others whose lives she touched along the way.
A Celebration of Trish's Life will be held Saturday, April 17th, 2021 at 2:00 PM at Forest Lawn Funeral Home, located at 4955 Pine Street, Beaumont, Texas, 77705.
In lieu of flowers, her family gratefully asks that donations be made to Theatre Forward in her memory.
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