David Hollyhand

Wayne Hollyhand TUSCALOOSA Wayne Hollyhand, age 56, passed away at home on Saturday, June 22, 2013. He is survived by his wife Carol; son, Will; his mother, Ellen Hollyhand, his sisters, Donna Robinson, Susan Porter and her husband LaMar; and his brother, Randy Hollyhand. Wayne is also survived by nieces and nephews, Adam, Seth and Maggie Porter, McCall Robinson, and Ashlie and Luke Hollyhand, all of Tuscaloosa; his mother-in-law, Ann Allen of Cromwell, Ala.; and brother- and sister-in-law, Lee and Diane Allen, also of Cromwell, Ala.; and nieces, Andrea Elrod (Russ); and daughters, Hensley and Aubrey, Pat Ann Basso (Greg) and children Lucy and Andrew, and Laura Combs (TJ) and daughter Callyn. Rev. Rob Cain and Rev. Stephen Hooks will conduct services at Magnolia Funeral Home South at 2 p.m. today June 25, 2013, with entombment in Magnolia Mausoleum with Magnolia Chapel Funeral Home South directing. Serving as pallbearers are nephews, Luke Hollyhand, Adam Porter and Seth Porter, Leo Allen, Gary Busby, David Grammer, Rickey Gunter, Scott Guy, Sandy Morris, and Billy Roberts. Honorary pallbearers are current and retired employees of Tuscaloosa Fire and Rescue. Wayne Hollyhand lived his entire life in Tuscaloosa and wouldn't have changed that for anything. He was a 1975 graduate of West End Christian School and a 1980 graduate of Livingston University where he majored in Business Administration, lettered in baseball, was selected to the Gulf South All Conference Team and made great lifelong friends that he cherished every day. Wayne enjoyed working 28 years with the Tuscaloosa Fire Department, retiring in 2008, and then working for another five years with UA's AMSTI program. He loved and laughed with complete abandon and treasured his entire family. He teased his mother unmercifully, mostly by calling her multiple times during Braves games to ask "what's wrong with them?"�, constantly competed with his sister-in-law and nephews to be at the top of his mother-in-law's point list and could think of no better way to spend vacations than to travel to major league games with Will and Carol. Wayne adored Carol and Will and he knew no limits in spoiling them. His great nieces called him Uncle Sweetie and they thought he was the best toy ever. Wayne treasured working at the farm in Cromwell and his wonderful days there with Lee. He enjoyed playing fast pitch softball with his uncles Mickey and Doug and was a 2000 inductee Into the West Alabama Softball Hall of Fame. But if you asked Wayne to pick out his very favorite times, he would undoubtedly tell you that those were the days, weeks and years he spent coaching Will in baseball. If you knew Wayne, you heard his amazing laugh which came from every ounce of his being and could be heard from far away. He could make any story hilarious and entertained his friends and family by telling the same tales over and over. Wayne was a good man and a good friend. And we shall love and cherish him all the days of our lives. Memorials may be made in his memory to University of West Alabama Booster Club and American Christian Academy Baseball Program.