Jerry Jaramillo

Jerry J. Jaramillo, Jr., Esq., who successfully trailblazed an outreach to provide personal injury legal services to the rapidly growing Hispanic community in the general Tampa area in the late 90’s and snowballed that success into pioneering services to homeowners suffering from unjust insurance claim denials, primarily in the catastrophic losses associated with sinkholes across Central Florida, has died at the age of 51 on Friday, July 9, 2021, at his home in Tampa, Florida.

Jerry was a doting father to his five children and his beloved Pitbull, Hercules. He was also a good son who supported his mother and sister, moving them to Tampa from his hometown of Miami in order to be closer to him. He was a brother, both as a big brother and a little brother to people who felt like family to him. He was a mentor, a businessman, and a loyal friend to many. He had a magnetic charisma that would bring those around him to love him, an incredible wit and humor that could entertain a stadium full of people, and an uncanny ability to connect with anyone. His secret was treating everyone that came his way with an endearing sense of respect. As much as he embodied love for his friends and family, he also embodied a full throttle approach to life, where he would learn fluent Italian and had studied Renaissance Italian history all while planning deep scuba diving trips in shark infested waters off the coast of east Florida in search for lost gold treasures from old colonial sunken Spanish ships.

Jerry is survived by his five children, his mother, and sister, whom he loved unconditionally, and they carry forward broken hearted but with the same thirst for life that Jerry acted on. Jerry also leaves behind his beloved friends, cousins, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, clients, mentors, mentees, and the countless people that came across his amazing power of love. Jerry worked hard and played harder and lived the lives of 100 men. May he rest in peace, be joined by the loving overdue embrace of his late father, Jerry Jaramillo, Sr., a Korean War Purple Heart veteran who lived for his country and his family and that he be under the warm grace of God.

In lieu of flowers, Jerry would hope that you will do an unexpected and unsolicited act of kindness for some poor unfortunate soul in his name.