Shauna Latoya Danielle Holland

Shauna was born on April 17, 1977, in Tulsa Oklahoma. In 1980 her family moved to Denver, Colorado where Shauna attended school through her High School graduation. After graduation, Shauna attended college at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She graduated with a degree in music engineering. From Michigan, Shauna moved on to Los Angeles, California to pursue a career as a sound engineer. She loved southern California and hoped for success in the entertainment industry.

Like all of us, Shauna’s was met with challenges and heartbreak as well as great joys as she built a beautiful life in Los Angeles. Shauna was a deeply spiritual woman who loved God and her Savior, Jesus Christ, with all her heart. Through ups and downs, she never lost sight of the One who brought her peace and helped her to keep reaching for her dreams.

She eventually began work with CBS Entertainment where she was employed for several years in their marketing Division selling programming to international customers. During her time in California, Shauna never gave up her dreams and ambitions to work within the music and entertainment industry. She worked tirelessly in freelance positions and music venues gaining clients who quickly became friends. Everyone who knew her speaks of her joyful, friendly, kind, inspiring, and uplifting personality which prompted others to aspire to emulate her joy and kindness. One friend said about her sound mixing skills that “Shauna was brilliant and a sound mixing genius”.

Shauna loved to help people and was truly a person who “never met a stranger”. Most recently, she began the pursuit of a new passion to build non-profit organizations that would support and serve veterans in multiple ways. She was especially concerned with those veterans returning from active duty who were struggling with mental health issues. It was her dream to ease their suffering and bring joy to their lives.

Shauna was extremely talented, playing several instruments and planning to take up the base guitar soon. She was also a talented writer and was working to write scripts and screenplays for stage, screen, and television. Although none of her projects made it to production, she was very proud of the work she put into bringing her ideas to “life” on the page. For many years, Shauna utilized her talent for sound production to glorify God and serve her church by helping the sound production team for Sunday services as well as a myriad of other church events. Her goal was that everyone who spoke or sang would sound “perfect”.

Even more than Shauna loved her projects and work endeavors, she loved her family, friends and her Church family with a passion that defies description. She was said by family members to be “smart, and she had a great laugh”. Shauna was blessed to be the mother of two beautiful daughters and became a grandmother just over a year ago. She was also recently able to complete the work to establish her ancestry and become a proud, full-fledged, card-carrying member of the Cherokee Nation Tribe.

Shauna is survived by her daughters, Jordyn Holland and Imani Holland as well as her granddaughter, Ariella Holland, (Denver, Colorado). She is also survived by her parents, Sharon and Barry Underwood (Denver, Colorado), Father, Roy Benny Hardman (Tulsa, Oklahoma), stepbrother Mario Jackson (Irving, Texas) and a host of aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Mack and Mary Alice Holland and Ceola (Hardman) Patterson and Roy Hardman Sr., and great grandparents, Joseph and Nancy Hardman and Robert and Clara Cranford and Mack and Amy Holland and Clara and Robert Thompson.

Shauna’s family would like us all to remember her smile, her heart of joy and that she is always with us sending her light and love!