Hattie Parsons Randall
1845-April 28, 1930
Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Tuesday, April 29, 1930, page 4, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library
Niles News in Brief: DEATH MRS. EDSON RANDALL
Mrs. Hattie Parsons Randall, widow of Edson Randall, a former resident of Niles, died last evening at the home in Dowagiac where she had been receiving care after being released from Lee Sanitarium where she was a patient for a month. Mr. Randall was a brother of Mrs. Stanley Collins of Niles. He died eight years ago. He was twice married his first wife having been Nettie Charles of Niles. Funeral services for Mrs. Randall will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in her home in Dowagiac. The body will be brought to Niles for burial this afternoon to complete arrangements for the funeral and will attend the services there and the committal services here tomorrow. Mrs. Randall was possibly 85 years of age. She was brought to Niles directly after the death of both her parents from cholera when that disease swept Chicago in an early day. She grew to young womanhood here but for many years she as lived in Dowagiac. No relatives are known to survive. A daughter of Mr. Randall, Mrs. Edna Randall Hawks is a teacher in a normal college in Pullman, Wash.