Randall Arlee "Randy" Smith...Age 59

Randall Arlee “Randy” Smith age 59, of Osawatomie, Kansas died Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015 at his home after losing his battle with cancer.

Visitation: 2-4 Sunday, January 18, 2015
Service: 1:30 Monday, January 19, 2015 all at the Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home
Burial at Spring Grove/ Quaker Cemetery, Lane, KS.

Memorial: Randy Smith Memorial Fund

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Randall Arlee “Randy” Smith, age 59, died Tuesday, January 13, 2015, at his home after losing his battle with cancer.

Randy was born March 17, 1955 in Garnett, Kansas, the third child of four to Donald Leroy and Betty Lee (Troxel) Smith. He was a lifelong resident of the Osawatomie area. He attended schools in the Miami County area and Osawatomie School System.

In April of 1974 Randy married Marsha Nipper. They became the parents of one daughter. The marriage ended in divorce in 1975.
Randy worked as a skilled mechanic and a welder, and also in the construction industry. He worked for the Marley plant in Olathe, Kansas, as well as Miami County Lumber and Sprague Construction in Paola, Kansas. He also worked for Weaver Oil Company in Osawatomie, where he was a mechanic and factory-trained to build MasterBend custom automotive exhaust systems. At Tech-Air in Osawatomie he built “heads” for their pollution control equipment. Randy was also very handy around the house and could fix anything. You could often find him at his parents’ house, or at Julie’s parents’ house helping with repairs and maintenance.

In September of 1980 he and Julie Nanette Weaver became husband and wife. They made their home in Osawatomie, where Julie continues to reside.

One of Randy’s favorite things to do was working on cars. His dad brought him his first car, a ’49 Plymouth with the motor in the trunk and minus a piston. Randy went to Charlie Hay’s junkyard, found a piston that looked right, put it in, got the car running, and he was off!

Randy also enjoyed hunting quail, target and skeet shooting, fishing, and, of course, riding his motorcycle fast. He was an animal lover, and he and Julie had several dogs, the last being “Sable,” a Lab-Chow mix, for fourteen years. Randy was most comfortable at home with his wife watching television or movies, or at his mother’s home in rural Osawatomie.

He was a member of the Spring Grove Friends Church in Lane, Kansas, but also felt he was a part of the First Baptist Church of Osawatomie.

His father preceded Randy in death.
Survivors include his wife, Julie (whom he early-on nicknamed Jewel-Tea) of the home, his mother, Betty Smith of Osawatomie, KS, his daughter, Tara (Shane) Ravenscroft of Shawnee, KS, one grandson Logan Randall Worrell also of Shawnee, KS, as well as three brothers, Dean (Christine) Smith, Allen Smith, and Mark Smith, all of Osawatomie.