Timothy Jerome Corbett

Timothy Jerome Corbett, 72, passed away on February 14, 2026, at the Silverado Hermann Park Memory Care Community in Houston after years of managing Parkinson’s disease.

He was born in Sherman, Texas, on September 4, 1953, and soon moved to Lawton, Oklahoma, where he graduated from Lawton High School in 1972. He earned his associate degree in design and drafting technology from Cameron College in 1974. Upon graduation, he moved to Houston to work for the M.W. Kellogg Company and later joined Foster Wheeler.

Throughout the 1980s, he and his best friend from Lawton, Mike Wolf, ran a sports memorabilia, graphic art, and comic book business called Good Stuff Cards and Comics and enjoyed traveling to trade shows in St. Louis, San Francisco, and other cities across the country. It was Tim’s love of graphic art that led him to open an art and custom framing business in 1989 called The Fantasy Gallery. He started small in a warehouse on Bissonnet, where he taught himself the art of custom framing. He later moved to a location on Westheimer and, eventually, a shop on West Gray Street, where he worked full-time to perfect his craft as a master framer. Tim had an artist’s eye for choosing the right frame and mat and could even make an inexpensive poster look like a prized work of art. He framed everything from prints, photographs, and diplomas to sports jerseys and guitars. One of his most challenging projects was creating a shadowbox of shrunken heads for a customer who had just returned from Africa. There was nothing Tim couldn’t frame. He sold the gallery in early 2023 due to the onset of physical limitations from Parkinson’s.

Tim loved music and was a voracious reader of science fiction and legal thrillers. But his greatest passion was University of Oklahoma football. He and Mike were season ticket holders and traveled to home games in Norman for some 20 years to cheer on their beloved Sooners. During the last several years, he enjoyed the camaraderie of his coaches and friends at Rock Steady Boxing, a non-contact boxing and fitness-inspired program dedicated to empowering people fighting Parkinson’s.

He was predeceased by his mother, Claire Corbett, and his cherished grandparents, Jake and Lota Wanna Wright. Tim is survived by his partner, Debbie Maurer (a Texas Longhorn); stepdaughter Annie Holyfield; step-granddaughter Maebe Ziegler; and relatives, treasured friends, and longtime customers who became close friends.

In respect of Tim’s final wishes, no memorial service will be held.

For anyone wishing to make a gift in remembrance of Tim, and in honor and support of the remarkable caregivers, nurses, and hospice staff who respected his dignity and cared for him with kindness and grace, please make a donation to Silverado Hermann Park Memory Care Community, 5600 Chenevert St., Houston, Texas 77004, Attn: Executive Director Gigi McCorkle.