With profound sadness, we announce Steven Drew Higginbotham’s passing on Sunday, August 4, 2024. Family and friends knew him as Higgie or Swamp Rat. He was born February 15, 1965, and was a longtime resident of Mathews County. He graduated from Mathews High School in 1983. He was a former member of the Flat Iron Hunting Club, as well as a longtime member of the Tidewater Hunt Club. He was a hard-working man and had many jobs over the years including Newport News Shipyard, Southern Erectors, and Atlantic Metals, but his home away from home was his longtime job with Omega Protein. He was an avid hunter and fisherman and spent many years playing baseball which was a huge passion of his growing up. You could always find him spending time in the garage with his Hurst family and his friends cooking, watching sports, or playing cornhole.
He was preceded in death by his father, Cabell Drew Higginbotham; his paternal grandparents, Upton and Grace Higginbotham, and his maternal grandparents, William and Miriam Bodurtha.
He leaves to cherish his memory his wife, Tracy Sullivan; his four children whom he loved dearly, Brandy Hurst (Eric), Brooke Higginbotham (Carlos), Haley Sullivan, and Haden Higginbotham, who was the light of his life; his mother, Nancy Higginbotham; sister, Kelly Dutton (Eddie), and nephew, Jon Jenkins. He also leaves behind six grandsons, Chance, Maverick, Lincoln, Leighton, Parker, and Jayden; a special uncle, Upton “Punky” Higginbotham (Judy) and a host of aunts, uncles, cousins, countless friends, and his four-legged bestie “Teaka.”
The family will receive friends at Faulkner Funeral Homes, Foster-Faulkner Chapel, Mathews, on Saturday, August 10, 2024, from 5-7 p.m. A funeral service will be held at Mathews Baptist Church on Sunday, August 11, 2024, at 2 p.m. with burial to follow at H.C. Smither Memorial Cemetery in Hudgins. A reception will follow at Mathews Baptist Church.
Flowers are welcome and memorial donations may be made to the Mathews High School Athletics Department, P.O. Box 38, Mathews, Va. 23109.