Irene Faye Soileau

In Warwick, on April 10, 2026, Irene Faye Soileau died at 92. She was born on October 28, 1933 in a Choctaw family that measured love in finished chores. Early on, she decided that a paycheck and a handshake should weigh the same. She washed bottles that had to look inevitable on shelves. A bottle brush hung by the sink stayed clean enough to trust. Colleagues still mention a bottle brush hung by the sink. In 1956 she married Harold. The marriage was not a speech; it was groceries, repairs, and a daughter and two sons walked to school in weather that did not care. When Harold died in 2019, she kept what still worked: the early walk, the small garden, the call on Sundays. Neighbors remember a porch light left on for anyone walking home late. She liked early mornings before the heat or the noise. She died in Warwick, among streets she never needed to explain. The tools are still hung where a hand can find them in the dark.