Damacio "Dom" Tomas Barbosa, 59, beloved Husband, Father, Son, and Friend was called to his eternal resting place on February 14, 2021. He entered this world on July 29, 1961 in St. Joseph, MO, born to Faustino and Antonia "Toni" Barbosa.
In his hometown of St. Joseph, MO, while attending St. Patrick’s Catholic School and LeBlanc Catholic High School, he was known as “Donald”. This was a very meaningful time in his life, making lifelong friends who he stayed in contact with, even after moving to Texas.
After graduating high school, he attended Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas and studied architecture. The next summer he and a cousin visited Austin, Texas and never looked back. Dom earned a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Southwest Teas State University, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, a combination of interests, which would serve him the rest of his life. He leveraged his mathematics degree not an Information Technology career with the Internal Revenue Service and used art as a hobby and cathartic recharging of his batteries.
