Tammy Lea Dinkins

Graveside services for Tammy Dinkins, 53, of San Augustine, are scheduled for 2:00 p.m. on Monday, November 10, 2025, at St. John of Damascus Orthodox Cemetery, with Father Joshua Trant officiating.
Ms. Dinkins passed away on November 2, 2025, in Houston.
Tammy Lea (Wilson) Dinkins was born on March 3, 1972, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to Kirby Russell Krick and Patrice LaRae (Freeland) McCasland. She attended Pine Tree High School and earned her associate's degree from Kilgore College in the late 1990s. Tammy worked as a paralegal in Marshall for five years. In her free time, she enjoyed fishing, NASCAR, jewelry, scrapbooking, music, and playing games such as Rock Band, Farkle, dice, and dominoes. She also loved line dancing in her younger years, playing pool, and singing. Tammy will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved her.
She was preceded in death by her mother and by two brothers, Jayson Wilson and Phillip Krick.
Survivors include her father, Kirby Krick; her children, Rana Racine and husband Eric, Jake Lilley and wife Dawn, Summer Richards and husband Jon, and Justin Ridgeway; her siblings, James McGilvray and wife Priscilla, Wendy Harold, and Eric Pittman; and her grandchildren, Chance Racine, Jackson Lilley, Mason Lilley, Elizabeth Richards, Alexander Richards, Catherine Richards, Anastasia Richards, Theodora Richards, Nathaniel Richards, and Konstantine Richards.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to St. John of Damascus Orthodox Church, 12989 CR 1113, Tyler, Texas 75709.
Funeral arrangements were entrusted to the Chandler Memorial Funeral Home family.