Pamela Jean Carrico, 68, of San Augustine, was called home by our Lord and Savior on Friday, June 20, 2025 in Shreveport, Louisiana. She was born May 3, 1957 in Panama City Florida, to parents William and Sonja Luckey. After three long years surviving extended illnesses under the amazing care of her friends at Gentiva Hospice, Pam passed suddenly at the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center, shrouded in the love of her deeply devoted husband, Randy and adoring children, Jennifer Hersey and Mary & Michael VanCleave.

Pam was many things to many people throughout her life: Adoring Wife, Unyielding Mother, Enduring Sister, Honored Veteran, Compassioned Nurse, Devout Catholic, Cherished Friend, and stranger to no person she ever encountered. She dedicated her life to service—in both her professional and personal callings. Pam lived her beliefs through action, always guided by love, humility, and a heart full of grace, turning her life’s work into a ministry of mercy and compassion for others despite her own suffering.

As a member of the United States Air Force, she served her country with honor and as a nurse, she offered care, comfort, and healing to countless patients, always with a gentle hand and a kind smile. She worked three jobs, as a young woman, to pay her own way through nursing school. She spent many years as a registered nurse in emergency rooms and intensive care units, and also spent time as a corporate auditor for a multi state, home health care system. She retired as a director of Nurses.

She led by example during her career in the medical field, as a compassionate patient advocate. Her knowledge and nursing skills were second to none and she was highly respected by all. She was also a talented craftswoman, finding peace and joy in creativity. Through her numerous venues of handmade gifts, Pam’s creations were an extension of her spirit, thoughtful, warm, and filled with heart.

She was also an outdoorsman and she loved to wet a hook. Pam spent countless hours out on the lake with her husband Randy, night fishing over tree tops, and reeling in monster crappie and catfish. She spent many hours with him in deer blinds too. She could clean fish, cut up and process deer meat and cook it up. She was known for her fish fry’s, shrimp cocktails and hush puppies. She also loved to gamble and she had a knack for beating the odds against those one armed bandits, in casinos all across the country.

Pam loved gardening and had a green thumb for sure. She was known by some as a cow whisperer. She named all the cows, and loved them like pets. They would all come to her by name.

Pam was also a published author and winner of an international poetry contest. Her greatest joys, however were her family and friends. She gave her family and friends the gift of unconditional love, wisdom, laughter, and Grace. She was a powerful prayer warrior and a blessing to everyone she ever met. She was a light in the world, who illuminated the path for others, and she will be greatly missed.

Pamela was preceded in death by her parents and grand parents along with a few other foundational family and friends that she lost along her journey.

She is survived by her children, Mary (Michael) VanCleave, Jennifer Hersey and Sara Carrico, her brothers and sisters-inlaws Clifford (Janet) Luckey and James (Tasha) Luckey, her grandchildren, Casey (Jeramy) VanCleave, Jacob VanCleave, JayCee VanCleave, Ethan (Haley) Hersey and Mariah Martin, great grandchildren, Nikolai and Kyro VanCleave, and godson, Kyle Longoria, along with several nieces, nephews, cousins, honorary family members, and a wide circle of friends and colleagues— each of whom carries a part of her legacy forward. A Celebration of Life will be held in Pam’s honor at the Starr Funeral Home, 510 Starr Street in Hemphill, Texas on Friday, September 5th, 2025, meet and greet time 11:00 am, with the service, beginning at noon. There will be a reception following the service at the Carrico residence - directions to the reception to be provided at the service.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the charity of your choice in her name.

Memories and condolences may be shared at starrfuneralhome. com 'Let all that you do be done in love.' – 1 Corinthians 16:14