Mrs. Emma  Gertrude Stevens Randolph, who died September 17, 1957

 

MRS. RANDOLPH DIES

 

Heart Condition Claims Life at Age Of 78

 

    Mrs. Gertrude Stevens Randolph of 986 Decatur, widow of former city employee

William S. Randolph, died at 10:55 a.m. yesterday at Baptist Hospital.

    Mrs. Randolph, who was 78, had been ill with a heart condition.

    Her husband, former employee of the Public Works Department and assistant

city building inspector died in 1948.

    Born in Nashville, Tenn., Mrs. Randolph moved to Memphis as a child and had

lived here since.  She was a member of Chelsea Avenue Methodist Church for

more than 30 years and was recently honored there when she received a lifetime

membership in the Women's Society of Christian Service.

    She was also a member of the Northeast Memphis Civic Club, and had been

a member of the American War Mothers.

    Services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at National Funeral Home.  The

Rev. Homer Johns will officiate and burial will be in Forest Hill. 

    She leaves two sons, James P. Randolph of Washington and Richard G.

Randolph of Cocoa, Fla.; six daughters, Mrs. George W. Sammons, Mrs. William A.

Seymour, Mrs. Hester Hooker and Mrs. J. B. Lampley, all of Memphis,

Mrs. William F. Hunt of Dallas and Mrs. A. W. Minardi of Milwaukee; three

sisters, Mrs. R. B. Pirtle, Mrs. E. J. Bettis and Mrs. T. G. Tucker, all of Memphis,

and nine grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.