Today we Mourn!

adamjets · 08-04-2004, 01:44 PM

Good afternoon from Miami. A message of sympathy, for for someone that we all knew and dealt with on many occasions has passed away in a tragic accident.

Mr. James E. Odom Pilot for SWA, a fellow die-cast collector, and entreprenuer. Has died this monring in Orlando, Florida after suffering massive head injuries from a motorcycle accident. Our hearts are filled with sorrow this day. To his family, specially his mother, his wife and those three little girls we say;

When trouble comes, we often say,"Why did this have to be?" But blessings come in many ways that sometimes we can't see. Everything that happens is part of God's eternal plan.Today what seems a mystery in time we'll understand? Remember our prayers are with you to give you strength today. And we call on those of us that have known and love you to share with you along the way.

RIP

AA757 · 08-04-2004, 06:07 PM

Well Said.....God Bless his family and friends.

Captain Wahoo · 08-04-2004, 08:27 PM

HIGH FLIGHT

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth

Of sun-split clouds, - and done a hundred things

You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung

High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,

I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung

My eager craft through footless halls of air ....

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue

I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace

Where never lark, or even eagle flew -

And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod

The high untrespassed sanctity of space,

Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

- Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr., RCAF

Shawn · 08-05-2004, 07:42 AM

James Edward "Ed" Odom

ODOM, JAMES EDWARD "ED", 36, died Wednesday, August 4th in Orlando of injuries sustained in a vehicular accident. Ed was employed as a pilot with Southwest Airlines and was formerly a Captain with Carnival Airlines. His wife of four years, Maria, their three daughters, Stephanie 2 1/2 and their twin daughters, Nicole and Natasha, age 1, survive him. Ed is also survived by his mother Joan Odom and grandmother Thelma Hughes who presently reside in Miami, FL. His father Ed Odom Sr., who passed away in 1999, preceded him in death. The Funeral Services will be held 9AM Thursday August 5th, at the First Baptist Church, 300 Main Street, Windermere, FL. Burial services will be conducted in Pansey, Alabama at the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church at 6PM on Thursday, August 5th. Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home Winter Garden Chapel, 428 E. Plant Street, Winter Garden, FL 34787 407- 656-2233.