Carrie Ann Klimenko

Carrie was born on September 4, 1982 in Houston, TX. When she was 4 years old, our family moved to Long Island, NY where she grew up near her aunts, uncles and cousins, and grandmother, and made many neighborhood friends while attending elementary and middle school in Wantagh, NY.

Gradually the entire extended family moved back to Texas to be closer to her grandparents and more extended family, all settling near one another in Carrollton, where Carrie attended Blalack Middle School and Newman Smith High School, then Brookhaven College.

While many young people have their future mapped out in advance, Carrie always remained a free spirit searching for her purpose while making friends and enjoying life along the way. Caring for found friends and lost animals were her most important goals.

While living an untethered life can have its pitfalls, she seemed most satisfied and confident when she could be helping others in some way. She worked as a server or bartender in many restaurants, pool halls, arcades, and biker bars, and took pride in being the best she could be. In California, she became a certified addiction specialist, working her way up to a management position in NN Recovery facilities in the mountains above San Diego and in Fort Collins, CO. She continued her adventures afterward working as deckhand on lobster fishing ships while living in Maine. Everywhere she went, she made new friends.

After being diagnosed with End Stage Liver Disease in Dec. 2020, Carrie set about learning how to turn her condition around with diet and the correct medications. We would spend hours every week in grocery stores and Asian markets reading content labels, learning what foods would help or harm and researching what fruits, vegetables and herbs would be part of her new diet. She began posting the food combinations she created on her Instagram @EFFURkitchen which engaged people from around the world looking for similar diet and health solutions.

Carrie is survived by her father and mother, Robert and Debra Klimenko whom she had been living with at the time and her younger brother Chris Klimenko of Dallas, TX. Her 3 beloved cats are missing her dearly. She is also survived by her large family in Carrollton, TX: Susan and Jimmy Steckler, cousins Steven and Kevin Steckler, Carolee and Rex Ford, cousins Ashley Pugh and April Avara, Angela and Roger Beeler, cousins Kristin and Kyle Beeler and GayLynn and Keith Dwyer, cousins Nicholas and Devin Dwyer. A bit farther away but still close at heart, Carrie will be missed by her great aunt and uncle Daline and David Stott of Barnes, London UK, her aunts Ellen Klimenko of Galveston, TX and Elaine Klimenko of Plantation, FL and many more aunts, uncles and cousins scattered around Texas. She is preceded in death by her grandmother and grandfather Eddie Ray and Betty Joan Isaacs of Carrollton, TX.

A memorial service will be held to remember Carrie on Friday, March 31 at 1PM at Rhoton Funeral Home, 1511 S Interstate 35E at Crosby, Carrollton, TX. Friends and family are welcome to attend in person or virtually thru Zoom. To share a memory of Carrie or send a condolence to her family, please visit https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/11184908.