March 26,1968-May 13, 2024 Debra Ann Wacasey, known as Debbi, passed away Monday, May l3) 2024, at Baylor St. Lukes Medical Center Hospital after a lengthy and incredible fight with heart failure.Memorial services are set for 2 p.
m. Saturday, May 25 at Christ Church in College Station. Debbi was born March 26, 1968, to James and Lanie Feola in Louisville, Kentucky.
James had orders from the Army to serve in Vietnam and moved the family to Pennsylvania while he was abroad. When she was four years old, they moved to Florida while her dad was stationed in Korea. Upon his return, the family moved to Georgia where she spent the next seven years with her mother, her sister Cathy, and her brother James.
When she was 12, her father returned from assignment in Germany and she moved to Fort Hood to live with him, her stepmother Lola Feola, and her brothers James, Kenneth, and Billy. One year later, at thirteen years old, her parents noticed she was unusually tired after getting home from school. Testing confirmed Hodgkins' lymphoma, so every week, her father took her to Brooks Army Medical for chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
These treatments were exhausting, but Debbi proved to have unbelievable strength. In time the cancer went into remission, and she began her high school career in Bryan, Texas. During her high school years, she spent a portion of her sophomore year with her aunt and uncle in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
It was there that she enjoyed coming home to a house filled w.
