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- Clarence Randolph Is Called in Death Friday
Clarence M. Randolph, former Mayor and Councilman of the City of Benkelman passed away at St. Luke's Hospital in Denver on Friday. He had been rushed to Denver the previous Tuesday for specialist attention to a serious liver condition which developed to a critical point on Monday night. He was 53 years of age.
Mr. Randolph was the owner of the Quality market and the Dundy County Processors, two important business enterprises in the city. In addition to these operations he dealt in livestock, an activity which commanded his attention almost completely for the past decade.
During his service to the city as councilman in 1945 he was among the men of vision who purchased the property which is not the site of the City Municipal Building. After serving two terms as councilman, Mr. Randolph, was elected mayor in 1948. The records of the city administration at that time shows many important problems were met with courage and judgment and it can well be said that Mr. Randolph did his share to keep Benkelman a progressive city.
Funeral services were conducted at the Methodist church Tuesday afternoon by Rev. Otto Michel. A male quartet composed of Harry Ough, John Baer, Ray Balderson, and Wilbur Case, with Mrs. Dale Bauer at the organ, provided special music. Interment was in the Benkelman cemetery, with the Masons in charge. Laughlins were in charge of arrangements.
Clarence Milton Randolph was born to Tom and Emma Brewer Randolph at Holbrook, Nebraska, November 1, 1907. In 1918 the family moved to Edison where his mother passed away. He grew to manhood in that vicinity. In early life he joined the Christian Church.
In 1931 he was united in marriage to Mabel McCollam at Arapahoe. To this union three children were born, Norma Yvonne Phifer of Benkelman/ Arlyce Jean Reed of Mildenhall, England, where her husband is in the Air Force, and Roger Clarence of Benkelman.
Mr. and Mrs. Randolph moved to the Benkelman community about 1939. About two years later he and Mr. Chandler purchased the Quality Market, where he engage in the grocery and meat business.
During the late forties he served as Mayor of Benkelman for a few years. Soon after that his health began to fail. On May 9th he was taken to St. Luke’s hospital in Denver where he passed away just after noon on May 12, at the age of 53 years, 6 months and 11 days.
He is survived by his wife and children, four grandchildren, his father, and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Randolph of Arapahoe; three brothers, Virgil of San Diego, California; Lester at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Denver, and Oris of Bend, Oregon; two sister, Mrs. Mabel Oberg and Mrs. Maude Marts of Klamath Falls, Oregon; other relatives and friends.
The Benkelman Post and News-Chronicle, Benkelman, Nebraska. Thursday, 18 May 1961.
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