Carolyn Denise Bingham

Carolyn Bingham, 67, of Rowlett, Texas, passed away peacefully at home on July 13, 2025, surrounded by her loving family and cats. Following a battle with lung cancer that went nine rounds, the Almighty himself called the fight a draw before it descended into unbridled fisticuffs. We all know she had the upper hand.

Carolyn was born on March 7, 1958 in Anaheim, California, the eldest of six siblings in a Navy family that spent her childhood on the move. After graduating from Thomas Stone High School in Waldorf, Maryland, and a brief stint working in Washington, DC, she made her way to Austin, Texas. For the next thirty-three years, she lived in the Austin area, and for the rest of her life would call the city home.

In Austin, while working for that quintessentially romantic government agency, the Internal Revenue Service, she met the love of her life, Robert Bingham. They were married in February 1981, and raised two daughters together - Bonnie Rose, born in 1983, and Kristal Diane, born in 1986.

Carolyn’s interests and passions were many and varied. She was an accomplished seamstress who created wardrobes for entire theatrical productions at her dining room table and an avid book collector. While raised in the Catholic tradition, she was an open-minded student of religion and comparative theology who filled her shelves with a variety of biblical translations, a slew of Kabbalah and metaphysical texts, and an array of studies of indigenous cultures and practices. Her overflowing library bears witness to her vast intellectual curiosity and drive for education.

For much of her life, Carolyn devoted her time to her daughters and her home, but after years of study, she was licensed as a massage therapist. She was also devoted to the arts, volunteering hundreds of hours to various ballet organizations throughout Austin, taking belly dancing lessons, and participating in a Toltec wisdom organization in the area. Her move away from the city in 2012 made Austin just a little less delightfully weird.

Her friends and family will always fondly remember her dry sense of humor and her unconventional hobbies - Carolyn never met a scented candle, an essential oil, or a healing crystal that she could bear to leave behind. No evening could go by without an episode of Wheel of Fortune on television; she trounced the entire family spectacularly at every puzzle all the way to the end of her life.

Carolyn is preceded in death by her parents, Theodore and Genevieve Warwick, as well as her beloved nephews Christopher Warwick and Stephen Morse.

She is survived by her husband of forty-four years and her daughters, her daughters’ husbands Ben Merideth and Rob LeMaistre, her five younger siblings - Steven Warwick, Cynthia Rodriguez, Joyce Morse, Michael Warwick, and Janice McNutt - their spouses, numerous nieces and nephews, and her cherished twin cats, Luna and Minerva.

The family would like to thank the doctors, nurses, and staff of the following medical facilities for their tireless and compassionate care throughout her journey: Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park, Kansas; Texas Oncology at the Charles Sammons Cancer Center in Dallas, Texas; and Concho Hearts Hospice in Rowlett, Texas.

Friends and Family are invited to join a celebration of Carolyn's life on Sunday, July 20th at Cook Walden Capital Parks Funeral Home (14501 N. IH 35, Pflugerville, TX 78660.) A visitation period will begin at 4 PM, followed by a service beginning at 6 PM.

Carolyn had a great love for the color purple in all of its shades; the family requests that attendees to the visitation and the funeral wear purple in memory of the vibrant influence she brought into our lives every day.