Falicia Elizabeth Cartwright

Falicia Ferrell Cartwright went home to be with the Lord on Friday, April 1, 2019. She passed peacefully surrounded by her loving family. Her home-going celebration of life service will be Saturday, April 20th at 1:00 pm at the Lucas Family Funeral Home, 700 Wall Street, Grapevine, Texas. Memorials: The family has set up a donation page in lieu of flowers. You may donate at:

https://team.kidney.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.personalCampaign&participantID=3881

Falicia was born in Beaumont and eventually made her way back to Texas in 1981, after living up north throughout much of her childhood. The Ferrell family moved to Arlington where she attended Gunn Jr. High. She was a proud member of the first graduating class of Martin High School in 1985. Additionally, Falicia was deeply religious, and growing up, she was a member of Tate Springs Baptist church and later, a member of First Baptist Church of Grand Prairie.

She graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with a BA in Communications, where she was an active member of the UTA Speech Team. She earned many accolades over her two years competing for the team, including qualifying for the AFA National Speech Tournament two years in a row. One of her biggest competitive titles was Texas Duo State Champion, shared with her sister in 1992. In 1993, she left the team to give birth to her amazing daughter Katherine with her first husband, Peter Greiser.

In 1994, Falicia met Craig Cartwright and has spent almost 25 years with the love of her life and his two beautiful children, Nick and Lindsay. She and Craig travelled around the world and packed a lifetime of experiences in those years, from the beaches in Jamaica to the outback of Australia, from the mountains in Colorado to the Parthenon in Greece— so many adventures that she was blessed with, there are too many to count.

Over the years, Falicia worked in sales as a representative for Jerrell and American Excelsior. She was a sales manager for Dillards, Foleys, and Hallmark. However, she made the decision to be a full time mother to raise her daughter, step daughter and step son. Falicia was a supportive mother, faithfully cheering on her children in sports, band, speech, cheer, and football, to name a few. After they were grown, Falicia began to care for both of her parents, moving her father into her own home, while still caring for her mother in nursing care until they both passed in 2014.

Since then, she has been blessed to have five grandchildren, who were the light, the hope, and the joy of her life. They helped her to fight her kidney disease and to enjoy each and every moment with these special gifts, little Levi just joining her family in March of this year.

Falicia lead a life of service, helping and aiding others, sacrificing herself for the love of others: not just family, but friends and even strangers. She was feisty, funny, and had a brilliant mind. Her battles with disease started at age eleven and she turned her life into a testimony of what faith, love, and endurance can do. She was a miracle that god blessed us with and we will miss that smile, that raised eyebrow, that laugh, but most of all her spirit that will inspire us now to value each day we have here even more.

Falicia leaves behind her dear husband Craig Cartwright, sister Amberley Ferrell Tanner and her brother-in-law James Tanner, her daughter Katharine Grieser, her step-daughter Lindsay Cartwright Quisenberry and husband Nathan Quisenberry, and her step son Nicholas Cartwright. Finally, she leaves behind her precious grandchildren Charlie, Riley, Collin, Jaxxon, and the new addition, newborn Levi. She is preceded in death by her father Reginald Patten Ferrell and her mother Marianne Ferrell, her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. George Huber and Mr. And Mrs. William J. Walker.