Clarence Chip Odell III

Clarence “Chip” Odell III lived his life quietly among family and his Tucson community. Public records and contemporary news accounts identify him by the familiar name “Chip,” a sign that he was known personally to friends and relatives. Family members later identified themselves in news stories about the 1996 events that took his life, which indicates he remained connected to a network of nieces, nephews and friends in the region.

Though public documentation about Chip’s full life, work, and personal interests is limited in online sources, the surviving record shows a man who was part of everyday community life — someone who visited local businesses, kept family ties, and who mattered to relatives who spoke about him in later years. Those small details remind us that his life had meaning to people who remembered him by name.

Because published funeral notices or family-authored obituaries matching his full name and the exact death date (May 30, 1996) were not located in accessible online archives, this remembrance honors what is verifiable: Clarence “Chip” Odell III was a real person with family who cared for him, and his memory endures beyond the public record. This page is intended to acknowledge him respectfully and to provide a place where those who knew him can add memories, photographs, or corrections so his life — not only the circumstances of his death — is preserved with dignity.