Walt Randall (Nels Winter)
1900-1966
Walt Randall was a native of the Grant Ward. At least, I had always believed this to be true. Many of us had sunk out roots so deep during childhood that as adults we never strayed far from the places where we were born. I always considered Walt to be one of those permanent fixtures of our community.
I first remember Walt as the catcher on our local baseball team. He lived with what I supposed was his brother, Ace, and assisted in the cattle drives when the Randall’s took the community herd out to pasture for the summer. As a young man he married Leone Waters. When Robert and Elly Field got too old to run their farm, Walt and Leone bought it and settled down for the rest of their lives in Grant. Elly Field was a sister to Ace and Orvil Randall, and I presumed that they just kept the farm in their family when they sold it to Walt. Walt and I were Ward Teaching Companions for a couple of years in the 1940’s. During that time he never hinted that Ace and Orvil were not his brothers.
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I first remember Walt as the catcher on our local baseball team. He lived with what I supposed was his brother, Ace, and assisted in the cattle drives when the Randall’s took the community herd out to pasture for the summer. As a young man he married Leone Waters. When Robert and Elly Field got too old to run their farm, Walt and Leone bought it and settled down for the rest of their lives in Grant. Elly Field was a sister to Ace and Orvil Randall, and I presumed that they just kept the farm in their family when they sold it to Walt. Walt and I were Ward Teaching Companions for a couple of years in the 1940’s. During that time he never hinted that Ace and Orvil were not his brothers.
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