DARRIN MAURICE ODOM

DARRIN MAURICE ODOM, AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN AS "D.O." AND "MONKEY" PASSED AWAY, ON DECEMBER 19, 2022, SURROUNDED BY HIS FAMILY.  D.O. WAS BORN ON NOVEMBER 16, 1969, IN LAKELAND, FLORIDA. HE WAS THE SON OF KENNETH WILSON AND DORIS BANKS.

DARRIN ATTENDED FIRST BAPTIST INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH.

D.O ATTENEDED THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN LAKELAND. HE BECAME A STAR ATHLETE AS A POINT GUARD IN BASKETBALL AND A QUATERBACK IN FOOTBALL. D.O GRADUATED FROM LAKE GIBSON HIGH SCHOOL IN 1989. AFTER HIGH SCHOOL D.O. WENT ON TO SOUTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI JUNIOR COLLEGE TO PLAY FOOTBALL. HIS MOTHER, DORIS, SAID D.O FAVORITE FOOTBALL TEAM WAS THE TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS. SHE ALSO SAID HE LIKED EATING CHICKEN, M&M'S AND APPLE FRITTERS FROM PUBLIX.

DARRIN WAS PRECEEDED IN DEATH BY HIS FATHER, KENNETH WILSON, SR., AND HIS BROTHER, KENNETH WILSON, JR.

D.O LEAVES BEHIND, HIS MOTHER, DORIS BANKS; CHILDREN, CIERRA BLAKE, BRITTANY ODOM, DAITREONIA (REKA) ODOM, (DARRIAN (KEISHA) ODOM, DARRIN MAURICE ODOM, JR. DARRINAJAH DELORIS ODOM, AND PATRICIA LE'ANN MARSHA ODOM; SIBLINGS TODD ODOM, PREMETHIA ODOM, KEITH ODOM; PATRICIA WILSON-DAVIS, SARINA WILSON-KURNS, KENNIE CRAWFORD, TYRONE WILSON, AND JAKE CRAWFORD; GRANDMOTHER, DELORIS ODOM HAGGINS; AND A SPECIAL FRIEND, RACHEL ONER, AND A HOST OF MANY OTHER SORROWING FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

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