Pamela Gail Holman

Pamela Gail Jeffries Redfearn Holman was born June 19, 1956 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and died October 12, 2011 in Dallas, Texas. She maintained her humor through her last breath. Though Pam was born in Oklahoma, she got to Texas as fast as she could. Pam was a 1974 graduate of Richardson High School and in 1978 earned the Bachelor of Arts from Austin College in Sherman where she majored in German. While at Austin College, Pam was named to the Alpha Chi honor society and was also in the APO service fraternity and the short-lived but colorful Roman “fratority” Phi Zappa Krappa.

Pam was a member of the St. Rita Catholic Community in Dallas, where she served as a teacher and mentor in their Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults program.

Pam’s career took her from working in the corporate headquarters of the American Red Cross, to the German engineering firm Claudius Peters in Dallas and Hamburg, Germany. She made many life-long friends while in Germany. Twenty-Six years ago Pam joined her family’s business REDLEE/SCS INC, where she served in treasury/cash management, provided humor for the corporate office, headed up company efforts to support our combat troops and provided a moral compass.

She was married for a sweet 16 years to the love of her life, Mike Holman. Pam loved nothing better than being with Mike, whether it was traveling with him to the South Pacific or Europe or the Texas Hill Country, watching baseball games in the different major league ballparks around the country, or just puttering around their house, gardening, feeding the birds and smoking ribs for dinner.

Pam was an avid genealogist, a voracious and wide-ranging reader, an Anglophile, a connoisseur of Monty Python, a collector of tacky snow globes and anything that was cobalt blue, a lover of Hill Country art, and Texan to the core. Her musical tastes ranged from Wolfgang to Willie, from Bach and Brahms to Bonnie Raitt and B.W. Stevenson. Pam's genuine personality and originality were reflected in her office; from her worldly snow globe collection to her George Straight portrait to her framed tribute to the Nolan Ryan bashing of Robin Ventura. She could see through a phony at the drop of a hat and did not suffer fools gladly. But if she was your friend, she was your friend for life.

She was preceded in death by her biological father Gene Jeffries. She is survived by her husband Mike, parents Esta and Charlie Redfearn, stepbrother Chuck Redfearn, nieces Christi Redfearn and Megan Redfearn, aunts Naomi Aaron, Shirley Gendreau, a number of extended family members, and a close circle of adoring friends. She also was enriched by the care and concern of Dr. Bruce Fine and the wonderful nursing staff of Nine North, Medical City Hospital. Her final days were made more comfortable and peaceful by the wonderful caregivers Myrna Williams and Vickie Thomason with Acappella In Home Care, for which her family will be forever grateful.

A memorial service will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to USO, Inc. PO Box 96860, Washington, DC 20077-7677 or Fisher House Foundation, Inc 111 Rockville Pike, #420 Rockville, MD 20850-5168 designated for North Texas VS 4500 S. Lancaster Road, Building 79, Dallas, TX 75216.