One side of Randall that you may not know is that he was a man of prayer. We would join hands and pray together over meals in or out. We often would pray together before attending meetings that were rumored to become heated. We would ask God to send His angels to close the mouths of the lions as He did for Daniel and bring peace and resolution in Jesus' name. Then afterwards, even we would be amazed that it went so well. Sometimes the ones that were planning to cause trouble did not show up. I'll miss that, but if you need someone to pray with about anything, anytime feel free to contact me. If by email put "prayer partner" in the subject, God loves you and I love you. Debra

Story share to us by Aunt Louise:

Randy was a darling little boy and I have many wonderful memories of him. Once he stayed with me and my mother while Joan recovered from some minor surgery. He was about three years old. I took him to nursery school during the day while I went to my teaching job. I had bought him a pair of gloves- he loved having a place for each finger.  And then on the first day of nursery school he would not take them off, but wore them all day. When I came to pick him up and walk home together he let me put them in my handbag for safety. He didn’t want to lose them. It was so sweet.

                                                                                                      Aunt Lou

Randy was always so good to me that I wanted to do something special for him.  I couldn’t come up with anything so, as I often do, I was asking God to give me an idea.  Just then the phone rang.  At that time we were spending Jan & Feb in FL.  He just flew to NJ for business & was with the “kids”.   Then came the question…. Can I get a dog?  This subject had come up before.  My answer was always “no”.  We have had pets before (cats, dogs, goldfish).  My experience was even with assurances that I won’t have to do a thing it becomes my pet as well.  Randy always loved dogs and not just any dogs…big dogs.  Granted there was plenty of room for a dog to run around on a farm, but he would want to let him come inside.  It was the one issue that I was standing firm on.  No More Pets.  As I am listening to him describe how wonderful and loving and well trained this particular dog was, all I could think was, “Very funny, God… You know I don’t want dogs in the house.”  Finally, I realized… this was the answer to my prayer.  I could do this for him.  So I laughed and said, “All right, you can get the dog.”   To which he replied, “ Oh good…I already did.”