Carse Lucas Debnam was born April 3, 1976 at Albert Einstein Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. He grew up on Old York Road in the Logan section of the city and attended Timothy Academy Christian School. After he successfully completed the 8th grade, he went on to graduate from Christopher Dock Mennonite High School located in Landsdale, PA in 1994. Two years before graduation, Carse took the initiative to take on a part time job where his incredibly strong work ethic awarded him a Full-time position before his 18th birthday. He chose for his first job to work with his neighborhood friend, Kevin, who Carse looked to as more of a big brother. Kevin helped Carse to get hired at the same place he worked, AMC Orleans 8 in Northeast Philadelphia near Cottman and Bustleton. Since he was a HUGE movie buff, this was the perfect job for him. While growing up, one of Carse’s favorite pastimes was to play video games. Fun fact about him: he owned every gaming system starting with Nintendo, Super NES, Gameboy and PlayStation 1 thru 5: True Story. He played video games until the very end. Back when he was younger, while he worked endlessly at one job, he was always planning for bigger things, so he decided to take on another job at Wawa where his part-time hours quickly became full time once again. Do you believe that he even found the time to take some business courses at CCP? He was trying his hand in learning how to become an accountant. After attending for a few semesters, he decided against it and continued working tirelessly from shift to shift on TWO JOBS for a few years with a work/sleep/repeat pattern until 1998. That year, he entered the United States Army as an E1 Private and completed basic training at Fort Knox in Kentucky. There he trained to become an Army Tanker. He served for 6 full years of service and was part of the Stop Loss draft in 2002 when he was originally supposed to be released from duty. He served at Fort Hood, Korea and completed two deployments in Iraq for OIF/OEF. He received various awards and made the rank of E5 Sergeant. He served his country proudly and loved driving and maintaining his tank nicknamed “Dead Broke”. For years after he received his Honorable Discharge, he regretted leaving the Service being just shy of E6 rank and seriously considered reentering the Army but opted to use his Montgomery GI bill to pay for Trucking School to become a CDL (licensed) Truck driver. In 2008, debt free, he began a job at Delaware Valley Shippers which was later acquired by Combined Express(CXI). He worked tirelessly for 15 years until 2022 when he answered the call of a childhood friend in need. Carse packed up his life in Philadelphia, PA and moved to Hawaii to marry his childhood sweetheart and became the head of their blended family. He quickly landed a job at Honolulu Freight Company/Xpress Trucking and continued his strong work ethic up until the last day of his life. On March 22, 2024, Carse Lucas Debnam passed away as a result of hypertensive cardiovascular disease of natural causes. He was 47 years old. Carse was four months shy of meeting his first born daughter, Carma-Mae and his niece, Arrow who were due weeks apart. Carse is survived by his mother Darlena Mae, his Grandfather, Carse for whom he is named, his Grandmother, Addie Mae, his sister Adeana Mae, his brother LeVie, his wife, Amber Faye, his daughter, stepsons, nieces, nephews, a host of Cousins, Aunts, Uncles, coworkers, battle buddies and friends.
