Roll Call Tribute

Carey Glenn Hawkins 

October 17, 1934 - July 24, 2026 

Carey Glenn Hawkins passed peacefully on July 24, 2026, at the age of 91 in San Antonio, Texas.

Glenn was born on October 17, 1934 in Wink, Texas to Carey Clifford and Pauline Stroder Hawkins. He grew up in the north-central Texas towns of Navarro and Corsicana, enjoying outside activities such as hunting and fishing. He was a proud graduate of Texas A&M University and would show his family the dorm he stayed in every time they visited campus.

He met the love of his life, Joetta (nee Beaird), while working at General Dynamics in Fort Worth in the late 50's/early 60's. They were married August 12, 1961, in Fort Worth, Texas. After a brief stay in Scottsdale, AZ for work, Glenn transferred his family to Richardson, TX and worked for Texas Instruments until the early 1990s. He was very proud of the work he and his team put in on a "very important" Synthetic-Aperture Radar project for the US Department of Defense for over 20 years, and continued as a consultant for the DoD on his old program until his early 80's and final retirement in the mid-2010s.

His hobbies included beekeeping (giving away free honey each year so that neighbors wouldn't blame any neighborhood stings on his bees), and woodworking (he built the family's kitchen table and a full bedroom suite for one of his daughters).

Under his neighbor (and mentor) Jim Powell's watchful eye, he worked hard to become a very competent watercolorist - his paintings hang proudly in his children's houses and several other friends and family homes as well. Finally, his grilled steaks over charcoal were widely recognized as the "best ever tasted" by all friends and family lucky enough to be treated to them.

Mom and Dad finished raising their family in Richardson and ended up retiring to Fredericksburg, TX, where he and Mom kept a herd of white-tailed deer thriving with copious amounts of corn all the time they were there, as well as thousands of black-chinned hummingbirds who regularly visited the 20+ hummingbird feeders hanging around their house just off of Center Point Road, south of Fredericksburg.

Glenn was preceded in death by his wife of 65 years, Joetta; his parents Carey Clifford and Pauline Stroder Hawkins; and his sister and brother-in-law June and Bill Terry of Fort Worth.

He is survived by his son, Eldon Glenn Hawkins and his wife Lucy; and his daughters Teresa Hawkins, Karey LeBlanc and her husband Charles, and Laurie Hawkins; grandsons Gregory LeBlanc and Bryan LeBlanc, granddaughter Olga and great grandsons David and Michael.

Burial will be graveside at Hopewell Cemetery in Corsicana, TX.