Complex sentence: Odom was the son of Carrie Combs and Walter D. Odom, received public musical education at Chicago Piano College, with private lessons under T. T. Taylor and Mrs. Estelle Bonds.
Split into simpler sentences: Odom was the son of Carrie Combs and Walter D. Odom. He received public musical education at Chicago Piano College, with private lessons under T. T. Taylor and Mrs. Estelle Bonds.