Earl Clay Trotter died in the wee hours of Sunday, November 26, 2023, at Rain Forest Landings in Knoxville, TN. He was born at home on Balfour road in Asheboro, NC in April of 1934 to Mrs. Clyde Trotter and her husband Joe.

He had a twin, Darrel Lee, who was born and died on April 21. His twin brother’s tombstone says April 21, but Earl’s birth certificate says April 23. Earl chose to celebrate his birthday on April 23 because that was Shakespeare’s birthday AND deathday. Fun fact: when Earl got a pacemaker, he named it Darrel Lee.

Earl was preceded in death by his wife and the mother of his two daughters, Alice Poulsen Trotter (May 12, 1939 – March 21, 1986), and was divorced from his second wife, Tatiana, who lives in Russia. His brothers Henry, Ed and Cecil, Sister Jo Doris and their spouses also preceded him.

He is survived by his eldest daughter Anna Christina “Christy” Trotter (a.k.a. Little Shiva) and her husband Thierry Tillier, as well as by his youngest daughter Tiffany Alene Lynch, her husband Michael Anthony Lynch, their children Michael Jacob Lynch and Alene Christina Padilla-Tiller, as well as Alene’s husband Nestor Padilla-Tiller.

Earl is also survived by members of his extended family in Russia, Belgium, Colombia and the U.S. as well as by friends around the world, nieces, nephews and “cousins by the dozens” in and around his hometown of Asheboro, North Carolina. 

Want more Earl? Check out his memorial page at littleshiva.com/earl-c-trotter

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