Kimberly Diane Seth

Kim was born to Sharon Smith in El Dorado, Arkansas and started her life in the small rural village of Jersey. After the arrival of her younger brother John, the family moved to Rockford, Illinois to be closer to Sharon’s family. The family then moved to a farm house near Minooka, Illinois where Kim spent her teenage years.

Kim attended Minooka High School where she excelled academically and was a cheerleader for the varsity basketball team. She and her lifelong best friend, Sandy, enjoyed these years working at the local pie shop where they shared an old, unreliable VW beetle to get around. It was here that she met her future husband Stephen.

After high school, Kim and Sandy attended Eastern Illinois University to study accounting. Kim later transferred to the University of Texas - Austin to be with Stephen.

Kim and Stephen moved to Lake Jackson in 1986 and officially started their life together on November 29, 1986 when they were married at the First Baptist Church of Lake Jackson.

Kim and Stephen enjoyed traveling before they had kids and made several trips to Europe along the way. The best vacations were always the summer trips to Northwest Arkansas to visit Stephen’s family and then on to Illinois to visit her family and her best friend Sandy. Kim’s favorite thing in life was family and making sure that her kids had every opportunity to spend time with their cousins, grandparents, aunts, and uncles.

Kim's primary life’s work was raising her own children which were the center of her life. Austin arrived in 1996, Nathan in 1999, and her baby girl Abigail in 2002. Kim took time off from work to start her family, but as the kids started school, Kim went back to work doing what she loved most which was nurturing and caring for young children. Kim started back to work at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church as a preschool teacher which led to her many years served at Brazosport Christian School where her children also attended. She played several roles in her time at BCS where she became a fixture in the school’s community. She loved her work because it allowed her to be able to help young kids and their families get a Christ-centered start in life. Most of Kim’s closest friends were from this BCS community.

Kim was the spiritual and emotional rock of her own family. Kim successfully helped guide her children through the many challenges of growing up into responsible and productive adults while simultaneously teaching them the importance of being kind and loving others.

The greatest challenge of Kim’s life began in November of 2020 when she was hospitalized for Covid. Scans revealed advanced metastatic breast cancer that had spread across her body and was incurable, but treatable. For almost 6 years, Kim endured countless treatments and side effects to be with her family. During this time, she saw all of her children graduate from Texas A&M University, and Abigail also go on to graduate with a BSN from UTMB Galveston. She watched all three start their journey as adults and made sure they knew every day that they were loved. Kim’s work was complete.

As her treatment options were eventually exhausted, Kim continued to fight to the end, never giving up and always maintaining her positive spirit. Her family was with her as she peacefully passed at home after years of pain and fighting. Through all of that, she never worried about herself. She spent her entire life selflessly caring for others no matter the cost.

Kim may be gone, but never forgotten.

A Celebration of Life is being planned for Saturday August 22. Please contact family for details.