Cecil Wesley Odom submitted for temple work under incorrect death date of 1922. He died in 1992.
"Cecil Wesley Odom quit school in 4th grade and jumped on a train to see the world. He spent most of his life traveling. He played trombone and wrote songs. He played with, I believe, Duke Ellington. He also helped Hank Williams put a couple of his songs to music. Matter of fact, he lost a song he wrote to Hank Williams in a poker game...I don't remember which one it was, but it was a hit (unfortunately, when my dad wanted to tell me about his life I was not interested...I was young).He also wroge the jingle, I scream, you scream, we all scream for Ice Cream, and sold it to the ice cream man for an ice cream.
He was a ver talented man and very smart, but did not have the "drive" it takes to be successful in life. He spent most of his life as a wanderer, evern after he married my mother and had kids he still could not hold down a job and we moved from town to town, we either lived in motels or cheap one bedroom apartments. He also spent a good part of his younger year in jail for one thing or another. While in jail he read the bible several times and read several sets of encyclopedias. He was very knowledgeable about many things, what he did no know he would fake!
He had several jobs throughout his life, but mostly he was a salesman...he could con anyone into anything.
As smart and taleneted as he was he unfortunately died a poor, depressed alcoholic. He died of a prescritpion drug overdose.
He wasn't the greatest father in the world, but I know that he loved us in his own way. He taught me many things, mostly he taught me how to survive.
He married my mother on October 13, 1965 in Montgomery Alabama. Her name is Frances Yvonne Strange. She was born April 16, 1933 in Verbena Alabama.
-- Kim Allyson Odom Driggers
Birth date either 10 July or 10 January, 1925 per Kim Diggers.
"Margie...was married to Fred Fontaine when she died of Lung Cancer... She spent the last 5 years of her life performing service. She was Montgomery's first female police officer as well as the first female Lieutenant. She was also the cop that took Rosa Parks off the bus (we're not real proud of that and she grew to be sorry she did it.)
--Kim Diggers
"Ruth Odom...she died of lung cancer, though she never smoked..."
--Kim Driggers