Debra Lynn Debbie

Debra Lynn “Debbie” Chavers Zackowski was born January 27, 1954, in Andalusia, Alabama. Those public records and family notices show she built a life defined by service to others. Debbie pursued a career in the medical/behavioral-health field, working as a counselor at a mental-health hospital where friends and neighbors remember her for steady, patient care and a calm presence that helped people in difficult moments.

In 1992 Debbie married Steven Tyrone Zackowski; the couple shared more than two decades together in Milton, Florida. Community and funeral-home records list their marriage (November 7, 1992) and show them as active members of their local circle. Family notices identify Debbie by the affectionate name “Debbie,” and by her roots in Andalusia and long residence in Santa Rosa County.

Public accounts confirm Debbie’s professional life focused on helping others through counseling and medical support. That commitment to care — working directly with people facing mental-health challenges — was a throughline in her life and reflected the practical compassion many who knew her recall.

Debbie’s life was cut short in July 2014. Local reporting and later court documents indicate she and her husband died in mid‑July 2014; law-enforcement and news accounts report the date of July 19, 2014. The circumstances of her death were investigated and later resulted in criminal convictions; those events are part of the public record but do not define the whole of who Debbie was. What remains central is the record of a woman who devoted her professional life to caring for others and who was cherished by family and community.

Public sources are limited in personal anecdotes and quotations from family; what is available documents Debbie’s birthplace (Andalusia, AL), birth date (Jan. 27, 1954), her role as a counselor in the mental‑health field, and her long partnership with Steven Zackowski. This remembrance honors those confirmed parts of her life: a caregiver by trade, a wife and community member by life, remembered for the kindness and steadiness she brought to others.