Deborah C Kimbrough

Debbie Kimbrough, transformed and saved by the amazing grace of Jesus Christ, went home to be with her Savior on Sunday, June 22, 2025, at around 9pm. She was surrounded by family, hymns, scripture, and love, and her transition into His arms was peaceful.

Debbie is a woman of varied and substantial talents - most visible to us in her beautiful cross-stitch and most any craft she put her mind to (and there were many over the years). She was a substantially talented (and organized!) cook both at home and at church, where she fed hundreds of people every Wednesday night for years. Debbie had a beautiful voice and loved to sing about her Lord in church and by herself. During her time at Skilled Nursing facilities in recent years, she would put her headphones on and sing, unaware she was attracting a small audience of nurses and passers-by. When the music ended she would hear strangers clapping from the hallway.

Debbie was a strong woman in body, mind, and soul - a testament to her Cornelius genes (which sometimes could be translated as stubbornness)! She often amazed us with her organization and clear thinking, even in times of distress. She also often amazed us with her physical capabilities in the face of long-term chronic pain and health conditions. "Bloom where you're planted," she would say in these recent years when she was so often not able to be at home. She made friends with everyone, even difficult people she encountered during her health journey. And she loved giving of herself and having treats for people. There was always a cup on her hospital tray with treats for nurses and caregivers and she insisted on giving presents to them all at Christmas!

Debbie deeply cares for her family and is especially ecstatic over her grandbabies and great-grandbaby. She gladly served as caregiver to family when given the opportunity. Her care extended to 4-legged family as well - adopting and caring for innumerable cats during her life - bottle-feeding abandoned kittens and nurturing even abused animals into happy, healthy lap babies.

She made a personal commitment to Jesus and was baptized at Richey Street Baptist Church in the early 1980s. We grew up seeing her pause to pray often and often reading her Bible. Like many of us, she struggled to lay down the traumas and sufferings of her life at His feet, but she spent this life clinging to Him in faith.

Now, her faith has been made sight.

Debbie was preceded in death by her husband of 48 years, Bruce Kimbrough; her parents, William and Dorothy Cornelius; her brother Bill and her sisters Connie and Joyce.

She is survived by her daughter, Kristen Brodie (Linda) and her son, Jacob Kimbrough; her grandson Micah Brodie (Autumn) and their daughter Lily; her granddaughter Emma Brodie; her sisters Marion, Ellen, and Dotsy; her brothers-in-law David (Julie) Kimbrough and Wynne (Vickie) Kimbrough and sister-in-law Angela (Scott) Sagner; and numerous cousins, nieces, nephews, friends, and cats.

We will miss her smile, her giving and cheery disposition, her snarkiness, her reminders to take care of ourselves (which she told us even when she herself was greatly suffering), and the reflection she so often was of the light of Christ. It is into His arms and into the light of His face that we entrust her, knowing that His love and His everlasting arms never fail.

Visitation will be held at Forest Park East Funeral Home, located at 21620 Gulf Freeway in, Webster, Texas, on Monday, June 30, 2025, from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. The funeral service will take place at the same venue on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, starting at 12:30 pm, followed by the committal service.

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