Mr. Horace F. Lombardi, age 69 of East Dublin passed away at his home on Saturday morning, October 7, 2023.

Born in Tampa, Florida, he was the youngest of four children born to the late Dominick Anthony Lombardi and Jewell Lee Anderson Howell.  He grew up in Tampa and attended the Hillsborough County School System before enlisting and serving in the United States Marine Corps.  He worked as a Shrimper off the Gulf Coast of Florida before beginning a long career painting.  He began painting houses and heavy equipment in Hillsborough County before moving to Warner Robins in the mid 1990s and joining Civil Service at Robins Air Force Base.  Mr. Lombardi painted aircraft and cut aircraft Stencils at Robins AFB until retiring in January of 2020.

He was an avid outdoorsman; enjoying hunting, fishing and the smell of smoke in the air from this annual underbrush burning ritual. (Sometimes supervised, sometimes not.)

He had attended Boiling Springs Baptist Church.

In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by a brother in law, Jimmy Valenti.

Mr. Lombardi leaves behind his wife of thirty eight years, Kimberly Fleek Lombardi, East Dublin, GA, his son, Raymond Lombardi, East Dublin, GA, his two daughters, Kirstie Seymour (Dustin), Danville, GA, Kandace Grauman (Chris), Byron, GA, his brother, Dominick Lombardi (Linda), Warner Robins, GA, his two sisters, Barbara Sharp, Tampa, FL, SueAnn Valenti, Tampa, FL, grandchildren, Zoey Seymour, KeeLee Seymour, Arianna Seymour, Dustin James "Rip" Seymour Jr. and Jesse Grauman.

A memorial in his memory will be placed at Boiling Springs Baptist Church Cemetery.

Services will be held at the Lombardi compound.

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