Obituary of Harold Wayne Rebbe

February 21, 1957 - October 3, 2025

Harold Wayne Rebbe, 68, of Woodville, Tx went to be with the lord and a host of family members on October 3, 2025. Harold Wayne was born on February 21, 1957 to Harold Rebbe and Thelma Louise Hosea of Harris County. He moved to Tyler County around the age of 5 and made it his home. He was married to the love of his life, Pamela Diane Segrest, on November 19, 1976. This November would have been 49 years of marriage. In his words, Pam was not only his wife but his best friend, rock and his love that was always there for him. She was his caregiver for many years, a task that was challenging at times but also rewarding. They started talking through the CB radio as Nail-Driver and BabyDoll but had never met or saw each other. He actually got his cousin James Ogrodowicz to go to JB Best where Pam worked and check her out through the window, before he decided to ask her on a date. After talking for about 2 weeks they decided to go on a blind date on her birthday on August 27, 1976 they went bowling at Beaumont. The night before, he told her he had bought her a gift that was alive. She thought to herself, if he had bought her a puppy her Dad was gonna kill him. When she asked him what it was he told her she would have to wait til tomorrow to see. When he picked her up the next night after her birthday party he came to the door with a vase full of a dozen roses. She said she burst into tears because no one had ever given her flowers before. And Harold Wayne said well I didn’t give them to you for you to cry about! He sure did always have a sense of humor. He was a prankster and loved to have a good time and make people laugh. But, above all that was the love he had and showed to his family, kids and grandkids. They truly were his world. He loved his grandkids more than life itself and was so very proud of each of them.

He was a carpenter for many years and a jack of all trades. If you needed something built or fixed, he was the guy to do it. He would always say if you can’t fix it with duct tape, hay string, zipties, or pvc pipe you might as well throw it away cause it can’t be fixed. He also worked as a truck driver in the logging woods for many years hauling logs. Harold Wayne was just a good ole country boy that loved the outdoors and loved to hunt and trotline fish, in hopes of catching the biggest op. He loved ranching, working and raising cows, bailing hay and doing anything that had to do with tractors. He’s probably in a hay field in heaven bailing golden bails of hay. He enjoyed raising and trapping hogs and making sausage. Harold Wayne always had a passion for planting a “big” garden. Most of the time way too big. But, he loved sharing and giving vegetables to neighbors and friends. He liked things done right and organized and would definitely tell you about it when they weren’t. He was stubborn at times and set in his ways, but he loved BIG! And family was number one to him. If you truly knew Harold Wayne, then you knew he was always super proud of his two Girls and his super sons-in-law as he called them. And in his words, he loved loved loved his grandkids! He always said they were God’s most precious gifts. And if he had known that he would have just skipped kids and just had grandkids. He always wanted to make sure those he loved knew he loved them and that everyone knew God was real and that we’re not promised tomorrow. He is so very missed already.

Harold Wayne is survived by his wife, Pamela Rebbe. Daughter Kachel Teal and Husband Walt, and Daughter Nicole Dean and Husband Bart. Sister Carolyn Patrick and Husband Ricky, Step-Brother Gerald Waldrep Jr. “Big Bubba” and Wife Callie. Step-Sister Lydia DeHart and Husband Mike.

His Life’s Best Gifts as he would say was his Seven Grandkids, Brayden “Bubba” Dean, Alyssa “Sissy” Dean, Keylea “BabyGirl” Dean, Justice Teal, Liberty Teal, Kelci Tubb and Husband Baron and Tyler Dean and Wife Lexey. Four Great-Grandkids, Ryker Tubb, Ada Tubb, Noah Dean, and Braxton “Booger” Yeager. Adopted kids, Billie and Wade Read, Little Virgil Segrest, Milton Powers, Little Ed Jordan, Therese Bible, Thomas Fowler, Brianna Goodwin, William and Tiffany McGallion, Mandy Wood and Heather James.

Special People in Harold Wayne’s Life: Aunt Shelba Hosea, Rachel Broussard, Melissie Evans, Little Bubba Waldrep, Uncle Darrell Waldrep, Dale Sellers, Charles and Kathy Goodwin, Johnny Tucker, and Keith and Dallas Hatton and many others.

He was preceded in death by his parents Harold Rebbe and Thelma Louise Hosea Rebbe Waldrep. Sister, Betty Ann Rebbe Hearn and Brother, Henry Earl “PeeWee” Rebbe.

And Many Good Men “His Heroes" that went before him: John English, Tubba Broussard, Therman Levins, Eddie Jordan, Jiggs Evans, Sonny Evans, and Uncle Ed Hosea.

Visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, October 10, 2025 at Stringer & Griffin Funeral Home Chapel in Woodville.

Funeral services will be 10 a.m. on Saturday, October 11, 2025 at Stringer & Griffin Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery all in Woodville. Officiating will be Billie Read, Brother Milton Powers, and Dallas Hatton. Serving as pallbearers will be Bart Dean, Wade Read, Brayden “Bubba” Dean, Steven McCoy, Walter Teal, Heath Pope, Robert Rebbe, and William McGallion. Honorary pallbearers are John Charles Mertain, Little Virgil Segrest, Jeff Johnston, Little Ed Jordan, Brian “Bruno” Griffith, Thomas Fowler, Charles Goodwin, and Bubba Medina.

Services are under the direction of Stringer & Griffin Funeral Home in Woodville, Texas.