I believe the name came from the original donor family. The answer can be found with certainty in an abstract title book if you can find one. Many of the old bungalows passed along their title book with the sale. Interesting document if you can never find one to read. It breaks down the title history all the way back to in the United States government owned the state of Florida in whole.
I think it is named after a Tampa police officer who died in a helicopter accident searching for a boater in Tampa Bay: NORRIS B. EPPS Officer Norris Epps was killed when the McDonnell Douglas 500E police helicopter he was in crashed into Tampa Bay, near the Howard Frankland Bridge, as he and the pilot searched for a man whose boat had capsized. Officer Epps' body was recovered from the bay eight days later. His partner survived the crash with injuries to his lower extremities. Officer Epps is survived by his wife who served as a dispatcher for the Tampa Police Department.
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