In Loving Memory of Thomas Whiteman Seeuws

March 22, 1946 - December 15, 2025

Thomas Whiteman Seeuws, 79, of Panama City Beach, FL passed away on Monday, December 15, 2025. He was born on March 22, 1946 to Dorothy Mae (née Whiteman) and Thomas Ford Seeuws in Johnson City, Tennessee. After contracting Polio as a child and witnessing his father’s death to the same, he began a topsy-turvy voyage through a life peppered with roguish ambition and quixotic misadventure from the streets of New Orleans to the jungles of Belize, but ultimately discovered tried and tested faith along the shores of Panama City Beach, FL. After a stint in Louisiana’s infamous State Penitentiary “The Farm” he was introduced to a newfound faith in God as relayed through the Jesus Movement in the early 1970s. While working as a handyman at the Barefoot Beach Inn in Panama City Beach he fell in love with Marqueta Lea Smith, and they were married on February 18, 1978. As a lover of books, arachnids, and carefully curated movie quotes he passed on these passions to his son Thomas Ford Seeuws II and his grandchildren Satya and Rohan who knew him as “Père.” Tom was preceded in death by his father, Thomas Ford Seeuws, his mother, Dorothy Seeuws, and sister, Lorraine Brown. He is survived by his wife Marqueta; son Ford, daughter-in-law Melissa and their children Satya and Rohan; sister Suzanne Lorenzen and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Funeral services will be held on January 4th, 2026 at 2 pm at Whitehall Methodist Church in Valley Head, Alabama. Interment with his beloved sidekick - his stuffed animal Sylvester - will follow the service at Whitehall Cemetery where he will join the pantheon of his wife’s Smith and Hoge relations and their commanding view of the sunrise over Lookout Mountain to the East.

‘Over the Mountains

Of the Moon,

Down the Valley of the Shadow,

Ride, boldly ride,’

The shade replied,—

‘If you seek for Eldorado!’