Obituary of Marie Randolph

Funeral services for Marie Allen Randolph age 85 of Baton Rouge will be held 2pm Tuesday September 6, 2011 from the Columbia Chapel of Riser Funeral Home with the Rev. Harrell Tucker officiating. Interment will follow in the Welcome Home Cemetery at Grayson. The Randolph Family will receive visitors on Tuesday morning at the funeral home from 10am until time of service. Marie Allen Randolph was born on May 12,1926 at Clarks, LA to the union of her parents , the late Clyde "Pug" Allen and Thelma Richardson Allen and passed from this life on Saturday September 3, 2011 at Regency House In Alexandria, LA. She met and married the love of her life Henry C. Randolph II on December 29, 1947, and they spent 63 wonderful years together before his passing in 2010. She was also preceded in death by four brothers Clyde, James, Dorcy, and Leonard Allen, and by her sister Aliene Wilson. She was a legal secretary during her working career having worked for Senator Hadley LeBlanc , Camille Gravel, and a host of others all over the United States as she followed her husband in the Aero-Space Industry. She and her husband traveled the world together taking over seventy cruises. She had a fantastic sense of humor and had many friends all over the country. She was an avid follower of the Louisiana State University Tiger Sports and followed them religiously. She will be sadly missed. Those left to cherish her memory are her brothers, Jimmy Allen and wife Judy, Lester Allen and wife Jo Ann and a host of nieces and nephews and many friends. The Randolph Family would like to extend a heartfelt thanks to Regency House in Alexandria for the care which was extended to her during her time there, and a special thank you to Kathy Allen and Judy Allen for their special care. Nephews and great nephews will serve as pallbearers. In lieu of flowers any planned memorials may be made to the Alzheimers Association.