Carol Anette Reliford was born in Jasper, Texas, in 1948 to Tommie Lee and Willie Lee Reliford. Carol attended Jasper and Center Texas schools before studying nursing at Prairie View A&M University. Carol worked for many years as a registered nurse in Houston, Texas.

Carol joined Mount Olive Baptist Church under Reverend Johnson.

Carol was an active member of Bethel Institutional Missionary Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, until her health failed.

Carol was preceded in death by her parents, Tommie Lee and Willie Lee Reliford.

She is survived by her daughter, Kimberly Goodall; grandchildren, Brittany Randle, Courtany Shelby, Tiffany Crawford, and Kenddrick
Crawford; also three great-grandchildren; and two brothers, George Reliford and Bruce Reliford.