H.L. ‘Tom’ Randall
85, Sumrall
SUMRALL — Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. on Friday, July 7, 2017, at Hathorn Funeral Home for H.L. “Tom” Randall, 85, of Sumrall, who died on Tuesday, July 4. Interment followed in the Randall Family Cemetery. Bro. Darrin Web and Bro. Joseph Bains officiated at the services. Visitation was held from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Friday, July 7, at Hathorn Funeral Home.
Heaven gained another amazing angel. H.L. “Tom” Randall left this earthly home on July 4, 2017. He was the youngest of five children born to sharecroppers, Mark Randall and Maggie Haddox Randall. He began helping the family work at the age of 12 while attending school at Sumrall and Bunker Hill.
After graduation, he served two years in the army in Canada and Virginia where he later met the love of his life of 50 years, Shirley Acree Randall. After the army, they returned to Mississippi to make their home. They had one child, Gena R. Miles.
H.L. “Tom” Randall worked as a dispatcher at Orleans furniture, owned his own trucking business, drove a truck for Morris Oil, and was foreman for Marion County Beat 2 before retirement. He is a member of New Union Missionary Baptist Church. He was a kind and loving friend to all who always met you with a smile.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Mark and Maggie Randall; two brothers, Claude and J.R. “Mud”; two sisters, Maxie Prine and Edna Prine; and his wife, Shirley Acree Randall.
Survivors include his daughter, Gena Miles of Sumrall; three loving grandchildren, Randall Robbins of Columbia, LeAnne McNeese (Shane) and Macayla Robbins; and two great-grandsons, Charlie McNeese and Keegan Stampley; brother-in-law, John Acree of Gaston, N.C.; sister-in-law, Darnell Randall of Gaston, N.C.; a host of nieces, nephews, special Car Quest family and a host of others that called him “papaw.”
Pallbearers were Terry Randall, Stevie Robbins, Robbie Randall, Brian Randall, Alan Randall and Ralph Prine.
Our family would like to express our loving gratitude to our, once again, special nurse Marilyn Laird. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for loving him and caring for him in such a special way. We love you! Thanks to our family for always being there in good times and in bad.
Hathorn Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
