It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Timothy “Tuffy” Alan Holland, age 60, of Fayetteville, TN. Born on September 2, 1964, in Chattanooga, TN, Tim was the son of the late Timothy Alan Fuss and Linda Faye Combs. He passed away on November 9, 2024, at HH Lincoln Health in Fayetteville, TN.
Tim was a passionate sports fan, proudly supporting the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Tennessee Titans. He found joy in collecting Hot Wheels and RC cars, as well as football and baseball memorabilia—each item is a reflection of his love for life’s simple pleasures. Tim cherished the many trips he took with his dear friend Mitzi, making lasting memories along the way. Above all, he was a devoted “PawPaw,” fully enjoying every moment with his grandchildren. His playful spirit and youthful heart will always be remembered by those who had the privilege of knowing him.
Tim is survived by his daughter, Jaclyn (Matt) Headrick of Athens, AL; his cherished grandchildren, James, Timothy, Callie, and Blakely Headrick; his brothers, David Michael Combs (Kim Cox) of Maryville, TN, and Tony Lee (Kim) Gaddis of Lakeland, FL; close family friend, Mitzi Burnum; nephews, Ryan (Nikki) Seale and Caleb Alexander Combs; and niece, Lindsey Watkins.
A celebration of Tim’s life will be held at 1pm on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Ennis Hyman officiating. Visitation with the family will be from 12pm until time of the service.
Higgins Funeral Home is honored to serve the family of Timothy Alan Holland.
Tim aka “Tuff” around the Overby/Foshee homes. Way to many memories for this page but I have to write a few.
I considered Tuff to be my brother as my mom and dad, Bert and Jewell considered him their son. During our dad’s illness in 2021 he was so good to come see him in his last days and dad knew him right up to the end just like his kids. Tuff served as a paulbearer at his funeral and I’m thankful he was there for that. Dad trained him from a young teenager to be the awesome sheetrock man that he was. In fact, he was the only one left in our family still in the trade, he was our sheetrock man even tho my husband could do it we still called Tuff! We are sure gonna missed him.
When I knew that I wanted to be a hairdresser dad bought me a salon chair to put on the backporch where the sheetrock crew met every morning and Tuff and the rest of the crew was always my guinea pigs. He’d let me practice on him when he needed a haircut. He didn’t care lol
Any given Friday when the crew pulled in if I had some crazy project going and needed someone tall (Christmas lights high in the trees or around the top of the house) Tuff would always come see if he could help me. Of course I needed his help lol. O the stories I could tell!!!
This still doesn’t seem real. He would sit for hours with our family talking about the sheetrock days, we are going to miss that so bad! His laugh….when he got really tickled…..O ME….was the best!!
We love you Tuff
Rest easy
Praying for his family . He was a cherished dad and grandpa I know .
So sorry for your loss .
I met Tim in Utah 2013, where we both attended Cr. England truck driving.
We help each other with passing our pre trip test and from there we became the best of friends 🧡.
Over the years we had Thanksgiving together. I met Mitzi through him and was grateful they had each other. We had a hell of a good time my friend! I love you and will miss you , but will see you again.
We started doing drywall together at a very young age working for a long time family friend. Timmy was well known in all of northeast Alabama and Eastern Tennessee as one of the best drywall finishers in the area and had at one time traveled finishing drywall for a company that built motel 6 & motel 8’s all along the Eastern coast. He had his pictures in the New York Times from a reporter who was writing a story about one of the new hotels in the area and was impressed on just how he was on running one of the drywall tools ahead of 4 other workers trying to keep up the pace with him. He became well known in his profession and as a finisher you couldn’t find anyone more knowledgeable other than the one who trained him.
He was still working as a finisher in Huntsville and had tried other jobs but drywall finishing was in his blood and he always seemed to come back to what he loved.
He always made work fun and at times could be dangerously fun LoL. He used to set off fireworks in the work van while going down the road. Still don’t know how we didn’t get pulled over more often.
He will always be my big brother.and I’ll truly miss him.
Going to miss you brother