1969 - 2024
1969 - 2024
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2024
Tammy Kay Holsonback, 55, of Gulf Breeze, FL, died Tuesday, December 17, 2024 in Pensacola, FL.
Her funeral service will be 10:00 AM, Saturday December 21, 2024 at Mathews Funeral Home with interment to follow in Thundering Springs Cemetery. Rev. David Harper will officiate.
Born in Albany, Tammy had lived in Gulf Breeze for the past 6 years. She traveled the world extensively, demanding the attention of everyone in every room she entered, and made friends on 6 continents. She was a certified scuba instructor, personal trainer, marathoner, and spartan instructor. She loved the ocean, especially the Caribbean, sailing, cruising, making new friends, expanding the world for her nieces and nephews, and above all, she DANCED.
She was preceded in death by her father Jesse Melton and her best friend of over 40 years Lynn Haysom.
Survivors include her husband, Don Holsonback, parents, Peggy and Tommy Johnson, sisters, Amanda Eubanks (Chris), Kristin Butler (Brent), brother in law Daniel Holsonback (Kim), sister in law, Andrea Holsonback (Henry Burnett), father and mother in law, Wayne and Chris Holsonback and a host of uncles, aunts nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends 6:00 to 7:30 PM, Friday, December 20, 2024 at Mathews Funeral Home.
Those desiring please make memorials in memory on Tammy to the church or charity of their choice.
To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.
3206 Gillionville Road, Albany, GA 31721
Please consider a donation as requested by the family.

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