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Date: Saturday, December 5, 2026
Time: 1:30 - 4pm CST
Attire: Dressy
Seating: Limited Seating
Parking: Valet is available at covered entrance on Routh Street.
$15 per vehicle on Saturdays
Paid non-covered parking is located on Routh Street directly across from restaurant entrance
- 0-2 hours $10
- 2-3 hours $15
- 3+ hours $20
Tammy Dozier, Guest Speaker
Ordained Pastor | Certified Grief and Loss Educator | Author |
National Public Speaker
Tammy Dozier, originally from Kansas City, Missouri, has called Texas home since 1996. She retired in 2014 from the Irving Police Department, where she served as a civilian employee. An ordained pastor, Tammy graduated with honors from Foster College (formerly Southern Bible Institute) in Dallas in 2016. In 2022, she earned her Grief and Loss Educator certification through David Kessler’s Grief.com program.
Known to colleagues and those she serves as “The Grief Educator,” Tammy brings together professional training, pastoral care, and lived experience to help people better understand grief and loss. From 2018 to 2020, she served as Bereavement Pastor at Koinonia Christian Church in Arlington, Texas. She has hosted grief-awareness events throughout the Dallas–Fort Worth area and is a nationally sought-after grief educator, public speaker, panelist, and podcast guest. In 2022, she delivered a keynote address at the National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association Convention in Atlanta, Georgia.
Tammy is the author of *The Misconceptions of Grief: What Nobody Told Me*, a book that challenges common misunderstandings about grief and broadens the conversation beyond the death of a loved one to include the many forms of loss people experience. Through individual sessions, corporate forums, community groups, churches, and ministries, she creates supportive spaces where people can speak honestly about grief without being silenced by stigma or the expectation to “be strong.”
Drawing on both her professional knowledge and personal journey—including the deaths of her mother and older sister,
as well as grief connected to childhood trauma and life transitions—Tammy helps people find practical tools for navigating their “new normal.” Her guiding message is, “Feel how you feel in order to heal.” She teaches that healing does not mean forgetting or leaving grief behind; it means learning to live forward with greater understanding, support, and hope.
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