Debra Ann Wacasey

Debra Ann Wacasey, known as Debbi, passed away Monday, May 13, 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 with aromas of home-made Italian food and made memories with her out-of-state family. She returned to Bryan to attend and graduate from Bryan High School. 

After high school, she stayed in the Bryan-College Station area. She would often take her nephews for lunch and to play at the park before hopping them up on sugar and returning them to her brothers. During this time, she developed many friendships and each of those friends had a special place in her heart. 

Among her friends was a married couple who played matchmaker and introduced her to a friend in common, Dane Wacasey. It was common for this group of friends to play card games, dice games, and spend weekends playing volleyball. She enjoyed these joyous times. Before long, Debbi and Dane had their first official date on St. Patrick’s Day in 1995. Their love for each other grew over the next year and a half and they were married in the summer of 1997. They made many more friends and started a beautiful family. Llanie Rhea was brought into this earth in 1996 and she was an angel to them. In 1999, Debbi had an opportunity that relocated the family of three to Austin. When Llanie was near school age, they bought their first house in Round Rock, Texas. They thought a family of three was too small to share the amount of love they had to offer. Two years later, another angel, Desmond Anthony, was born! She loved watching Llanie and Desmond grow up. She went to countless soccer, baseball, and volleyball practices and games, plays, and performances. Could they be more blessed? God answered that question in 2009 and they welcomed Wyatt Jay to this world – yet another angel! 

The family relocated to Richmond, Texas in 2013 where Dane began a new job and Debbi retired from DTI Properties and began contracting her property management services. Moving from Round Rock meant she could not share her love with her Gateway Church Sunday School youth, and she found a new church home in Thrive Church that allowed her to touch even more children’s lives through Sunday School teaching. 

Over the last 27 years, Debbi had many adventures. So many trips to the beach, the Frio River, swimming in several lakes across Texas, traveling for club volleyball, and traveling to Arkansas and Pennsylvania to spend time with her families, and more recently to Utah to visit her brother Jimmy as he underwent cancer treatment. When she wasn’t being adventurous, she enjoyed the simple life. She enjoyed simply relaxing at home next to her husband and kids watching TV shows, whatever movie was on, or Pittsburgh Steelers football, while reading or putting together digital jigsaw puzzles or coloring digital coloring books. These were some of the best of times.

She was a perfect wife and life partner to Dane; a compassionate and loving mother to Llanie, Desmond, and Wyatt; a great daughter, sister, and aunt. There are no words to express the enormous amount of Love she had for all of them and God.   

We are all blessed to have had Debbi in our lives and are so grateful for the time we were given with her. She is already dearly missed and will never be forgotten.  

She was preceded in death by her mother Lanie, her stepmother Lola, and her brother Billy.

Her loving family includes her husband, Dane; daughter and sons Llanie, Desmond, and Wyatt; Father James; brother James; brother Kenneth and his wife Tina; sister-in-law Tami; mother-in-law Dana; and many nephews and nieces.