Thomas Wayne Higginbotham passed away Saturday, July 24, 2004, at his home in rural Loco, Oklahoma, at the age of forty-four. He was born January 19, 1960, at Liberal, Kansas, to Thomas Leroy and Joyce Jean Higginbotham. He was employed as a welder.

Survivors include: his father - Thomas Leroy Higgibotham, of Loco, OK; two sons - Thomas Wayne, Jr. of Houma, LA, and Paul Leroy of Houma, LA; and one sister - Cheryl Parfait of Comanche, OK.

He was preceded in death by his mother, Joyce, and one brother.