Byrin CarrEnid, OK

Memorial Service will be held at 1:00 pm Friday, June 9, 2023 in First Missionary Baptist Church, (467 East Owen K. Garriott  Enid, Oklahoma  73701)  Viewing starts on Monday, June 5th from 9 am to 5 pm.  Then on Tuesday, June 6, 2023 from 9am to 8:00 pm.  Visitation with family from 5-8 pm.

Byrin Carr was born on June 10, 1959 to Beatrice Odell Carr and Rodric Carr Jr in Enid Oklahoma. He departed this life on May 25, 2023.

Byrin grew up in Enid where he became well known for his ready smile, wit and infectious laugh around his own pranks, jokes and needling of his siblings, closest friends and extended family. He never met a stranger.

Byrin attended the Enid school system from elementary to middle school then graduating from Enid High School. As the eldest son, Byrin often was assigned chores assisting his father with the family livestock and, family businesses made up of the lawn service Twin Pine grocery and liquor stores.

Love of community and Life

These influences shaped his entrepreneurship in eventually building his own business model, where over the years he owned and operated a successful fish business, lawn and tree trimming service. His work was driven by the passion to uplift his community to improve the lives of the people he new in it. Not even Byrin fully understood the activism in his passionate work.

Byrin was blessed with two beautiful children, daughter Briann Carr and sonTerrance Sloan-Carr, whom he loved very much.

He is preceded in death by his mother Beatrice and father Rodric, sister Bernadette Kincaid and brother Randall Carr and cousins, uncles, aunts and grandparents. All who will help usher him on his spiritual journey.

He is survived by his sister Brenda Spry of New York, who he lovingly referred to as “Big Sister” and a brother Marcus Dewayne Carr of Texas, in addition to a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, uncles, aunts and friends and associate.