Garvin Ensworth O'Connor

Garvin was born on September 5, 1970, in Saint Andrew Parish, Cross Roads District, Jamaica to Reginald E. O’Connor and Vivia E. O’Connor, after many months of prayer and hopes to start a family. Garvin grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida and graduated from Twin Lakes High School. He served in the Army from 1993-1999 and later earned his certification from ITT. Shortly after, he began his career at Schlumberger/SLB in 2002 as an electrical technician for manufacturing and later as a development technician in the failure analysis lab. Garvin was a beloved husband, father, son, brother, uncle, friend, co-worker, and employee known for his outgoing personality and his indelible spirit.

An avid athlete growing up, Garvin had a great appreciation for professional athletes and thoroughly enjoyed watching the Houston Texans, as well as the Houston Astros and was a loyal fan. If you knew him any amount of time, he likely talked about working out or playing sports, flying RC planes, photography, salsa dancing, riding motorcycles, country music, and sharpening his punster skills.

Whether you knew him well or not, you likely heard the countless number of puns and could likely imagine him telling one now. And no matter what you were talking about, he likely had a story that somehow related.

As many of you know, Garvin never met a stranger, and if they were new to him, they quickly became friends. Whether in his neighborhood, at work, in the store or the hospital, there was just something about Garvin that drew people in. From his infectious smile and laughter to his dad jokes and straight-out assuredness, he made people feel safe, welcome and glad they showed up.

He enjoyed traveling and adventures with family and friends to places like Mexico, Colorado, California, New York and of course, Florida. He took other memorable trips such as to New Orleans, where he and Cheryl decided to go steady back in 2013 , to New York and Colorado where he, Cheryl and the kids went skiing and most recently to Tennessee to escort his daughter, Madeline, down the aisle on her wedding day.

Being an adventurous soul, he also had fun skydiving, hitting up the gun range, and of course, one of his longest and most expensive adventures, his mustang. IYKYK

Preceded in death by his mother, Vivia E. O’Connor; Garvin is survived by his wife, Cheryl O’Connor; children, Lexi, Jacob, Madeline (Garrett) and Destiny; his unborn granddaughter due in November, whose name he guarded as a tightly-held secret; father, Reginald O’Connor (Cynthia); siblings, Garnet O’Connor (Raquel), Beth Zylstra (Ken) and Steve O’Connor, as well as numerous other family and friends.

A celebration of life will be held at 2pm on Friday, July 24, 2026 at Settegast-Kopf Funeral Home in Sugar Land, TX. In honor of Garvin, we invite you to wear something to represent the Texans, Astros, Marvel or a Hawaiian shirt. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to help those with PTSD through the Wounded Warrior Project (https://www.woundedwarriorproject.org).