SAVANNAH, Ga. () — Ahead of our 2025 Healing Heroes, a tribute to Breast Cancer Survivors Fashion Show, wanted to introduce you to one of the models that will be hitting the runway Saturday.

Drive down Tata Lane in Brooklet and you’ll find a breast cancer survivor who has been giving back to support others on similar journeys. 

Every stitch is a reminder of August 2024, and the strength Patsy Williams carries. 

Doctors found out that then 71-year-old Patsy Williams had breast cancer in August 2024.

“I would never have known if it had not been for the mammogram,” Williams told . 

Williams was already familiar with breast cancer prior to receiving her diagnosis. 

“My mother had had breast cancer, and so mine was discovered on August 22 of last year.  So happy birthday to me,” Williams said. “I was scared. I didn’t know what I was gonna be facing. Mostly, I was scared of what kind of cancer it was going to be and whether it had already spread to other parts of my body because my sister-in-law had died the previous year from breast cancer and hers had spread.”

Faith and her mother’s word lifted Williams to win her toughest battle. 

“She was definitely a fine example of strength,” she said. “She just went through it so well so easily. She always told me on those days  that were a struggle for me. Be thankful for the problems you have because you could have someone else’s. That little saying would often get me through.”

Williams survived two surgeries during her battle, including a double mastectomy. She said her husband supported her through it all. 

“My husband was so good,” she told . “He was so supportive, and he would say it doesn’t look as bad as you think it was.  That emotional support was very important.”

A friend of Williams loaned her to pillow to use, which she later showed to her quilting friends due to the comfort. Now, Williams and her TaTa Sisters sew support for other breast cancer patients.  

“When you have a mastectomy they take your lymph nodes,” Bonnie Gossett, another TaTa Sister said. “So, there’s a little uncomfortable under the arms, so you just take it put it across you.  You have to go to the doctor’s appointments sitting in the car and you have that seatbelt coming across you, it just kind of gives you that extra comfort.”  

A labor of love and hope, these TaTa Sisters deliver their pillows to St. Joseph’s/Candler. 

“It makes me feel really good to know that I can do something that matters,” Williams said. “And I think the ladies that do this with me, that’s how they feel also. They want to serve others.  

Williams has spent a little over a year as a breast cancer survivor. She told that all is will with her soul. 

“I had from the beginning thought that as Jeremiah 29:11 says that God has a plan for me, and no matter how that plan turns out it’s his plan for me,” she said. “And how ever it turned out I was gonna be ok.”