Graveside services will be held at 9:30am, Thursday, July 22, 2010, in Masonic Cemetery, Seymour, with Rev. Sammie Ellis officiating. Services are under the direction of Archer Funeral Home, Seymour, Texas.

Willie Rose Randal was born April 25, 1922, in Valley View, Texas, to William and Jessie Overall Rose. She resided in Valley View through high school. She attended business school and worked in Dallas until her marriage to Charles Morriss Randal, Jr. on March 7, 1942. The couple moved to Seymour after he left the Army Air Corp in 1947. She had been a resident of Seymour until moving to Rolling Meadows and the Gables in Wichita Falls for the latter part of her life. She was a longtime member of the First United Methodist Church in Seymour. Willie Rose was a mother, wife and homemaker.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Morriss Randal in 1997; and a son, Charles Morriss Randal, III.

Survivors include four children, Karen Badgwell and husband, Don, and Rose Partridge and husband, Dick, all of Wichita Falls, Charlie Randal and wife, Chrysanne, and Robin Smajstrla, and husband, Richard, all of Seymour; five grandchildren, Randal and Carlyn Badgwell of Wylie, Brian and Wendy Badgwell of Little Rock, Arkansas, Richard and Kathie Partridge of Wichita Falls, Charlie and Amanda Partridge of Denver, Colorado, and Staci Smajstrla of Wichita Falls; and eight great-grandchildren.

The family will be at Archer Funeral Home from 5 until 6 p.m. Wednesday for visitation.

The family suggests memorials to Hospice of Wichita Falls, P.O. Box 4804, Wichita Falls, Texas, 76308.

If you see one of these volunteers, please tell them, “THANK YOU!”

Tonja Denson & Kayla Vaughn decorating a Hallway in the Undercroft!

Mendie Brauner & Pam Featherston making a measurement for hall decorations on the 2nd Floor!

Kim English preparing paper to go on the wall of the 2nd floor hallway!

Kayla Vaughn & Hannah Pellikan really got into their work of painting with flourescent paint. They got it all over themselves!

The team members included Shari Schultz, Susan Tate, Amber Schacter, Emily Hays, and Teresa Rose.

Thank you for your service in our community and CONGRATULATIONS!

• Visitation is Tuesday, June 29, 6:00-8:00pm at White Family Funeral Home in Bowie.
• The funeral service is Wednesday, June 30, at 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church of Bowie, 1515 Jefferson Street.
• Burial will follow in Elmwood Cemetery. Arrangements are entrusted to the White Family Funeral Home.

She was born April 15, 1957, in Beaumont, Texas, to Dr. Jefferson Holland Campbell and Shelia Ann Trapp Campbell. She graduated in 1975 from Wichita Falls High School. She earned a BA in history from Midwestern State University in 1978. She was named Outstanding Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Woman and was Lady Midwestern her senior year. She was a student academic advisor, was elected to the honor societies Sigma Tau Delta, Alpha Chi, Cap and Gown, and Phi Alpha Theta, and was a Floyd Ewing Fellowship recipient. She was president of the Midwestern Chapter of the Chi Omega Sorority and maintained her Chi Omega friendships throughout her life, serving as a mentor to younger sorority members. She pursued graduate studies in historic preservation at Middle Tennessee State University before beginning her career in downtown and community development in Americus, Georgia, in 1981.

Susan returned to her home state to work in the Texas Main Street Program. She was the second Main Street Director hired and served in McKinney before joining the Texas Main Street Program’s state office in Austin. Afterward, she worked at Downtown Fort Worth, Inc. from 1988 to 1998 in several positions, including vice president and marketing communications director.

Susan met a soul-mate with the same last name, and she married James E. Campbell in 1992. In 1998, the couple moved to Bowie, where Susan became Main Street manager and economic development coordinator. Susan was very active as both employee and volunteer, serving on numerous boards and volunteering in many causes. Some volunteer projects involved her talents for singing and performing, such as being in an “Andrews Sisters” trio for Iwo Jima Survivors Reunions, playing Sister Robert Anne in “Nunsense,” and “starring” as Marlene Dietrich at a USO-style fundraiser. She was named MSU Outstanding Alumna, Division of Humanities, in 1994. She received Bowie’s Citizen of the Year Award for 2001.

Susan was a member of First United Methodist Church of Bowie, where she sang in the choir and volunteered countless hours in youth ministry, including organizing mission trips and performing local mission work. She participated regularly in Walk to Emmaus.

In 2007, Susan received The Texas Historical Commission’s Anice B. Read Award of Excellence in Community Heritage Development for her exemplary work in downtown revitalization, preservation planning and heritage tourism. She was a longtime member of the Texas Downtown Association, was TDA president in 2009, and will receive TDA’s 2010 Downtowner of the Year Award posthumously. She served on the board of Workforce Solutions North Texas for several years and was Vice President of the NCTC Montague County Foundation Board.

Susan viewed her life and work as a ministry to others, and many benefited from her caring, mentoring, friendship, and leadership. Generous with her time, her resources, and her mind and heart, she made the world a better place everywhere she went.

Susan is survived by her husband Jim Campbell of Bowie and their dog Scout; her sister, Cary Campbell; and brother, Charles Campbell of Wichita Falls; her nephew and niece, Christopher and Courtney Campbell of Minneapolis; her aunt and uncle, Betty Gail and Bill Chapman of Houston; and many beloved cousins. She was preceded in death by her parents and grandparents.

Memorials can be made to:

• Campbell Scholarship Fund
  North Central Texas Community College
  c/o Dean Emily Klement
  P.O. Box 1247
  Bowie, TX  76230;
• City of Bowie Auditorium Fund
  201A Walnut Street
  Bowie, TX  76230; and
• First United Methodist Church of Bowie
  1515 Jefferson Street
  Bowie, Texas  76230.

• Cooking Breakfast (Connie Rosenburg & Erica Conner)
• Painting the Riverside Cemetery Fence (Erica Conner, Rev. Pellikan, and children of Adventures in Mission (AIM-1))
• Texas Ramp Project 1 (Rev. Sims)
• Texas Ramp Project 2 (Alan Ballard & former Youth Pastor, Dana Coker)
• Texas Ramp Project 3 (Elizabeth Yeager)
• Imagine No Malaria Car Wash (Youth of FUMC)
  In fact Jeff Ginn and our youth spearheaded this event that raised over $300 to help eradicate malaria on the continent of Africa by 2015)

Check out pictures below:

Danny’s training in his Jewish faith began as a child in Hebrew School, and it continued in a seminary in Israel as a young adult. Recently, at the encouragement of the House of Jacob Synagogue, where he has been serving as the Spiritual Leader for several years, he took up his studies again through the Rabbinical Seminary International.

Having now completed his studies, Danny will be ordained a Rabbi in a ceremony on July 1, 2010 at The Actors Temple in New York City. That is a great accomplishment!

CONGRATULATIONS DANNY!

THANK YOU TO OUR YOUTH FOR MAKING A DIFFERENCE
IN OUR WORLD!

Roughly L-R:  Jeff Ginn, Bryan Press, Jerry Rouse, Ethan Rouse, Dylan Haynes, Collin Brauner, Ross Hammond, Hope Rouse, Ashley Tate, Robby Press, Millicent Paris, Emma Knight, Corbin Ginn, Diane Montano, Breanne Press, Claire Baer, Hollon Meaders, Anthony Davis, Keeley Trevino, Macy Bretschneider, Faith Cooper, Drake Davis, Haley Knight

In addition to her work with the FUMC Library, Judy is also a member of the Fidelis Sunday School Class where she teaches periodically.  She also serves as a greeter for the 10:30am Worship Service and has been a tutor for 2nd graders with the YES Committee, which she is also a member of!

Judy and her late husband, Joe, moved to Wichita Falls from Houston in 1956. She was a library science major at Murray State College, Murray, KY.

THANK YOU, JUDY, FOR YOUR HARD WORK, PAST AND PRESENT!

Leave a note below to say, “Thank you,” to Judy:

Visitation will be:

• Friday, June 4, 2010
• 7:00-8:00pm
• At Lunn’s Colonial Funeral Home

A Memorial service will be held:

• Saturday, June 5, 2010
• 10:00am
• at the First United Methodist Church (where Bill attended church) with the Rev. Paul Goodrich and Rev. John Dillard officiating.
• Arrangements are under the direction of Lunn’s Colonial Funeral Home.

Bill was born in Lubbock, Texas on April 1, 1948, to Gail L. and Nellie (Jones) Sogard.  He was a member of the US Army Reserves and had worked in the Life and Health Insurance business for 22 years.  Bill was a Certified RHU and EBS, and he was a founding member and the first president of the Texoma Association of Health Underwriters.  Bill was a loving father, son, and brother and was very active in his son’s baseball activities.  He also enjoyed umpiring and playing golf.

Bill is survived by his parents, Gail and Nellie Jo Sogard of Wichita Falls, Texas; a son Clayton Sogard of Wichita Falls, Texas; and two sisters:  Vicki Partridge of Wichita Falls, Texas and Cheri Althaus of Richardson, Texas.  Please keep these family members in your prayers.

Memorials may be sent to the First United Methodist Church School for Little People or to the Helping Hand Fund.

Leave a note below about what Bill meant to you!

On top of that, Bill has taught adult Sunday School Classes in an on-going and on a substitute basis!

Would you believe he also volunteers to help the School for Little People with its financial work?

Thank you, Bill, for being a “light” in our church family and helping in so many areas.

Leave a note below to say thanks to Bill!