Ms. Amanda Nicole Holekamp

She was born April 2, 1986 in Chattanooga, Tennessee and graduated from Notre Dame High School. Amanda earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marine Science at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC. She returned home to Chattanooga, TN and was working on her Masters of Education Degree at the University of Tennessee/Chattanooga at the time of her death. In addition to attending graduate school she worked full-time at McDonald’s.

She was such a blessing to all those she came into contact with. Each of us has become better people just by being around her. She exuded such a wonderfully bright, caring energy and never let anything hold her back.

Diane and Art are proud to have been Amanda’s parents.

Survivors include her parents, sister, Morgan Holekamp, brothers, James and Robert Holekamp. She also leaves behind her very dear and devoted boyfriend, Lt. Timothy Downs, USN and his parents, Jan and Tim Rankin.

Surviving relatives include maternal grandparents, Vina and Clinton Fergueson, paternal grandmother, Phyllis Holekamp. Jay and Mary Jo Holekamp and family, Fran and Bob Boardman and family, Harry and Lynda Holekamp and family and a multitude of friends that have grown to know and love Amanda through the years.

Funeral services will be held 2:00 p.m., Sunday, September 11, 2011 in the North Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Hamilton Memorial Gardens.

The family will receive friends 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., Sunday at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers the family asks that donations be made to a Scholarship Fund in Amanda’s honor at the Chattanooga Ronald McDonald House, 200 Central Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37403

Please share your thoughts and memories online at ChattanoogaNorthChapel.com

Arrangements by Chattanooga Funeral Home, Crematory & Florist, North Chapel, 5401 Highway 153, Hixson, TN.