Randall, Wilma J. 1923-1994

RANDALL, HANG, COWMAN, WILLSON, VERTRESS

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 6/15/2007 at 16:56:38

Wilma J. Randall

PRAIRIE CITY - Wilma Jean Willson Randall, 71, of Prairie City, a founder of the Prairie City Camp Fire Girls organization, died Sunday, March 27, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Prairie City United Methodist Church.

The Rev. Reg Merrill, pastor of the church, will conduct services. Burial will be in Waveland Cemetery in Prairie City.

Friends may call at Walters-Coburn Funeral Home in Prairie City after noon today.

Survivors are her husband, Francis; a daughter, Debra (Mrs. William) Hang of North Shrewsbury, Vt.; two grandsons; a sister, Bethine (Mrs. Warren) Cowman of Prairie city; and a brother, Keith Willson at Des Moines

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Mrs. Randall, a longtime area nurse, had been employed at Iowa Lutheran Hospital and Mercy Hospital Medical Center in Des Moines, had been director of nursing at Clearview Manor in Prairie City and had been office nurse at the Prairie City Medical Center.

She also had been a partner with her husband in the Randall Welding Shop.

Mrs. Randall, a member of the Prairie City United Methodist Church, had been a longtime leader and adviser for the Camp Fire Girls.

The daughter of Wilmer and Vivian Vertress Willson, she was born February 11, 1923 in Genesco, was a 1930 graduate of Prairie city Community High School and was graduated from the Iowa Lutheran school of nursing in Des Moines.

She was married to Francis Randall Dec. 18, 1945 in Minneapolis, Minn. ~ The Newton (IA) Daily News, March 1994