This Ocala man, who tragically lost two sons, discovered a son and grandchildren he didn’t know he had through DNA testing.
DC Carson and his wife, D Michaels, pose with a photo of Carson’s newly found extended family at their Indigo East home at On Top of the World in Ocala on July 8, 2025. Carson lost his older son, Troy, 50 to a rare form of cancer in 2018. In 2021, his younger son, Cody, 40, died in a jet ski accident at Lake Weir. Then, in 2024, he received a phone call and learned that a 23andMe genetic test was a direct match to his sister. One phone call later, he became a father and a grandfather. He has met them all recently. [Bruce Ackerman/Ocala Gazette] 2025.
Posted July 15, 2025 | By Margo Wilson, Correspondent
Cancer claimed his son, Troy, at age 50 in 2018. Then a jet ski accident took the life of his remaining child and son, Cory, at age 39 in 2020. To say DC Carson, 75, of Ocala, was depressed is an extreme understatement. But one day Carson’s phone rang and his nephew, Ron Curry, was […]
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