Obituary: Randall A. Tucker,  Umatilla Co., Oregon

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Newspaper; The Milton Eagle
Milton-Freewater, Umatilla County, Oregon	
 

Tucker, Randall
The Milton Eagle
Weekly, January,1985

Randall Tucker

Randall A. Tucker, 72 of East Appleton Road, Milton-Freewater, died Saturday, 
Jan. 26, 1985 at the Good Shepherd Hospital in Hermiston, Ore.

Memorial services were Tuesday, Jan. 29 in the Munselle-Rhodes Funeral Home 
Chapel, Milton-Freewater. The Rev. Edward Morrison of the Ingle Chapel 
Congregational Church officiated. 

Mr. Tucker was born March 14, 1912, in Weyburn, Sascatchewan, Canada, to Claude 
and Margaret Sindt Tucker. He moved to the United States in a covered wagon with
his family when he was 2 years old. He attended schools in Montana. and 
Minnesota. For the next 38 years Mr. Tucker worked for the Great Northern 
Railroad. 

He married Viola Warnock in Umapine on March 16, 1968. The couple lived in 
Hermiston from 1968 to 1972 where Mr. Tucker worked as a custodian at the Good 
Shepherd Hospital. In 1972 they moved to Waitsburg where he did construction 
work.

They then moved to Lakeview, Ore., where he was supervisor of maintenance for 
the school district there. The Tuckers came to Milton-Freewater in 1975. 

Mr. Tucker is survived by his wife at the home, a son Thomas Tucker of 
Frenchtown, Mont.; a daughter, Marcene Tucker; his mother, Margaret Surring of 
Detriot Lakes, Minn.; a sister Beatrice Sharp of Detroit Lakes; three brothers, 
Vernon Tucker of Minneapolis, Minn., Louis Tucker of Woodward Okla., and Melvin 
Tucker of Jefferson, Wis., and four grandchildren.