Timothy Wayne Dennis

Timothy Wayne Dennis, 58, went to be with his Lord & Savior, with his family by his side. He had suffered several years with kidney failure along with other health issues.

He was born May 15, 1968, to Lupe & Josephine Trevino of Gorman. However, he was adopted and raised by EL (Jug) & Virgie Dennis of Gorman. He attended Gorman School K-12 & graduated in 1987 from Gorman. While still in high school, he completed his first EMS course. In 1988, he attended Tarleton State University where he completed his EMT course and started his long-time career in Emergency Medicine. He started in Abilene & worked for Abilene EMS. In 1989, he left that service and went to work for Patterson Ambulance in Eastland. This is where he met & married his first wife, Debra Shultz. They married in December 1989, and both worked for Patterson. He remained there until it was taken over by EMH. In 1990, they moved to Groesbeck, where they worked for Limestone Medical Center EMS. He was later hired as the EMS Director for West EMS. While in Groesbeck, he took the next level up in EMS. He completed & passed the EMT-Intermediate class. In Groesbeck, he also worked for Alpha Omega Security and was there 2-3 years. They later moved from Groesbeck to Hewitt. Whie in Hewitt, Tim attended the Heart of Texas Regional Police Academy and passed. He later went to work for Gorman PD as a reserve office. While in Hewitt, he was a member of the Hewitt VFD.

In January 1995, he took the next step in EMS & started Paramedic school at McLennan Community College in Waco. He was also an EMS Instructor and taught for MCC, Hill College, & Navarro College. He was also a certified police instructor. In 1996-1997, following a divorce, he moved back to Gorman and had been there ever since. He still worked in EMS in the Fort Worth area doing IFT and 911. In 2003, he went to work for Trans-Care Medical, which is a special event EMS provider, and had been there ever since. In 2009, he took a short break and attended mortuary school at Amarillo College. He was a Funeral Director/Embalmer for Summers Funeral Homes in Eastland & Cisco until it sold in 2010.

In 2005, he remarried Tammy Ledford, and they were married until 2018, when Tammy was found dead at work of a heart attack.

What many didn’t know was that in 2012 he completed seminary school with a Doctorate of Theology. He was a non-denominational minister and only did private services & weddings. He was not a minister of a church. He followed in the footstep of two uncles & a brother that were ministers.

A graveside service will be held at Desdemona Cemetery on Friday, November 6, 2026, at 1PM. Visitation will be at the graveside before the service. Services are under the direction of Higginbotham Funeral Home.

He is preceded in death by both sets of parents, sister, Rosa Trevino, and four brothers, Bobby Trevino, Steven Trevino, Richard Dennis, and William Clifton Dennis, and his wife, Tammy Dennis.

He is survived by his brothers, Jose Trevino of Taylor, TX, Lupe Trevino Jr. of Austin, TX, Lee Roy Trevino of Stanton, TX, and Thomas Trevino of San Marcos, TX, his sisters, Ernestina Saldana of Elgin, TX, Betty Diaz of Austin, TX, JoAnn Perez of Austin, TX, Mary Navarro of Austin, TX, and Yolanda Cotton of Elgin, TX.