Betty Jane Randel

Mrs. Randel died Thursday, Oct. 14, 2004, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

She was born Aug. 26, 1928, in Berhimer, Mo., the daughter of Clydie Oscar and Zola D. Smith Collins. She grew up in Bryant, Mo., where she attended school. She graduated from Baldwin High School.

Mrs. Randel was a homemaker. She worked at Sunflower Ordnance Depot at De Soto. She and her husband owned and operated a Dairy Queen in Lawrence and a laundromat in Baldwin. She also worked as a custodian at Baker University. She was a member of New Life Assembly of God in Baldwin.

She married Orville Randel on Nov. 28, 1950, in Nevada, Mo. He survives, of the home.

Other survivors include two sons, John Rockhold, Lawrence, and Greg Randel, Baldwin; a daughter, Judy Randel-Phillips, Topeka; four sisters, Joy Stafford, Walla Walla, Wash., Mildred Schomer, Lawrence, Dorothy Spring, Williamsburg, and Sue Von Bargen, Baldwin; two brothers, Bill Collins, Centropolis, and Bob Collins, Mountain Grove, Mo.; 11 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

A son, Roger Dale Randel Sr., died earlier.

The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home in Baldwin.

The family suggests memorials to the church, sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 64, Baldwin 66006.