Gisele Marie Warlick

Gisele Marie Warlick passed away peacefully on October 28, 2021, in Austin, Texas at the age of 100. She was born on March 12, 1921, in Saida, Algeria, a French colony at the time, to Elie and Anna Sabbah. In those 100 years she lived a life full of adventures, challenges, some hard times and many new experiences.

She completed her education and was a teacher of elementary age children in Algeria. During WWII she joined the French Army, working in communications and was stationed in Marrakesh, Morocco. It was there that she met a charming and flirtatious American pilot, J D “Jay” Warlick. She married him a year later in Casablanca, Morocco on October 21, 1944. Soon after, they were transferred to the US where Gisele started her life as a military wife, learning English and becoming a naturalized United States citizen. She managed the logistics of the many moves of a military family. She taught French to other military wives and learned to play Bridge, becoming an avid player. Sometime after Jay’s retirement from the Air Force, she started a career, that she loved, selling fine jewelry for Scarborough.

She was an amazing cook and loved to create gourmet meals for guests. She was a skilled seamstress, sewing everything from clothing for herself and her daughters to all the drapes for her new home. She loved to knit, crochet, do artistic crafts and decorate her home. In recent years, she loved spending time with her great granddaughters reading to them or brushing their hair.

She is survived by her 2 daughters, Betty Learned and Monette Toungate and husband Tom; 3 grandchildren, Daniel Powers and wife Christelle, Josh Powers and wife Melissa, Ryan Ritchie and wife Judith; 6 great grandchildren; 3 great great grandchildren, as well as a large French family that includes nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband of 72 years, J D “Jay” Warlick, her parents, her sister, Estelle, brother Robert, nephew Andre and grandson Bryan Guy Learned.

Visitation will be at Weed-Corley-Fish, 3125 N. Lamar Blvd. on November 15 from 4:30-6:30 pm. The funeral service will start at 6:30 pm at the same location following visitation. Graveside services will be on December 2 at 1:00 pm at Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, Texas.

If desired, a memorial contribution may be made in Gisele’s name to a charity of your choice.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.wcfishnorth.com for the Warlick family.