[AGL] RIP Phyllis Cartwright

[Frances Morey]

Gerry,
   I remember meeting Phyllis those 30 years ago. The night of their wedding they "honeymooned" at a RR2222 restaurant/saloon on an inlet off Lake Austin where the County Line now is. I didn't know it was the evening of their wedding and went over and made some kind of inane remark and Jap layed me back in his arms and french kissed me. Well! Years later some woman who had been in a weekend retreat that Gary was part of reported that he had done the same thing to her. It was written up in a Texas Monthly article, no less. On the night of their (unbeknownst-to-me then) wedding I was with a Fort Worth friend of mine and she found it was uproariously funny. I wasn't as offended as the new-age-retreat-woman reported she was, but it was certainly an unforgettable experience. Phyllis laughed out loud about it, too. Their love was so basically strong that she found such antics amusing.
  Frances

Gerry <mesmo at gilanet.com> wrote:
          No, Frances, the grim reaper never stops. Hate to be the one who brings this news to you.
   
  I liked Phyllis a lot. Imagine, 30 years with Jap. She was a classy lady with a great smile. We tipped a few together in the 80's. Now I am reminded of the Hemingway quote: "The saddest thing is to have had a good woman and outlived her." Poor Jap. Last time I saw them was at the Chili Parlor one night when I was in town looking for a party. I believe that was the night when I realized that the party was over for aging hippies like myself and stopped coming to Austin.
  G
   
   
    ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Frances Morey 
  To: Austin List 
  Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:50 PM
  Subject: [AGL] Rip Phyllis Cartwright
  

  MY, my, will the grim reaper never stop, or even slow down..  Frances     Austin's 'Realtor to the stars' dies  Phyllis McCallie Cartwright, 65, was known for her style and organizational skills.  By Joshunda Sanders
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Monday, June 26, 2006
  Phyllis McCallie Cartwright, an Austin real estate agent known affectionately as "Realtor to the stars," died Sunday morning at Christopher House after a long battle with cancer, said her husband, Texas Monthly writer and book author Gary Cartwright. She was 65. 
  Phyllis Cartwright helped found AvenueOne Properties, an Austin-based real estate company, and had been a real estate broker for more than 20 years. 
        Cartwright witnessed great changes in Austin's real estate market. In the 1970s, early in her career, a 4,000-square-foot home was considered enormous and $300,000 was considered a high-end home. By the 1990s, Austin had many homes selling at $1 million and more. 

  A 2001 Austin American- Statesman article described Cartwright maneuvering "her shiny black Jaguar up the curving roads of West Lake Hills, from Mount Larson to the shores of Lake Austin, pointing out one luxurious property after another — the Tuscan villas, the palaces of limestone and glass and the mansions secluded behind formidable gates." 
  Meanwhile, she shared a modest home with her husband near downtown. 
  Many of her clients worked in the arts; one of her more recent celebrity clients was actor Dennis Hopper. 
  Cartwright was born in Holdenville, Okla., and raised in the Texas Panhandle. She majored in art at the University of North Texas and became an animator and production coordinator for motion pictures. 
  For years, she and Gary Cartwright traveled in the same writing and film circles. They met through a mutual friend when he was a newspaper reporter in the Dallas area, before he became one of Texas Monthly's first writers. 
  In 1976, when they were both divorced, they met again at a Willie Nelson Picnic press party, and their official courtship began. They married later that year at the Texas Chili Parlor. The marriage lasted almost 30 years. 
  "It seems like we fell in love more and more each year," Gary Cartwright said. 
  He described his wife as a vivacious, generous woman with a great sense of humor. 
  "She was a compulsive organizer," he said. "She'd walk into someone's house, and I'd have to restrain her from organizing other people's furniture." 
  Her mother, Lucy McCallie, 88, said: "She wasn't a sitter. Even in the last 10 days, she was getting her files organized for Gary." 
  Phyllis Cartwright was a former board member of the Austin Library Foundation and was active in neighborhood associations. She and Gary owned two Airedale terriers. 
  She is survived by a son, Michael Sickles, from a previous marriage. 
  A memorial service is being planned for Friday afternoon at University Presbyterian Church. The time has not been set. 
  joshundasanders at statesman.com; 445-3630 
    
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