Eleanor Gertrude Wickness Randall died February 22, 2010, in Tulsa. She was born June 3, 1915, in Steward, Illinois, and received her early schooling in Steward before graduating from Dekalb Township High School in 1933 and attending Northern Illinois Teachers College. She went to Washington, D.C., in 1940, where she worked for the special assistant to the Secretary of Navy, Dr. Joseph Barker, who was dean of engineering at Columbia University and involved in the development of the atomic bomb in Los Alamos. Later, Eleanor became a full-time homemaker and secretary for the Kent Randall Insurance Company's 50-year operation.

In 1942, Eleanor married Kent Randall in Washington, D.C. During the war years, they lived in Washington, Philadelphia and Ottumwa, Iowa. After the war, they moved to Blackwell, Oklahoma, and resided there until moving to Tulsa in 2000.

Eleanor was confirmed in the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lee, Illinois, in 1929. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Blackwell, PEO, United Methodist Women, Beta Sigma Phi and the Blackwell Hospital Auxiliary.

Eleanor and Kent celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary on January 27, 2008. They enjoyed traveling across the United States and Europe, including a family heritage tour of Norway, where Eleanor's grandparents were born. They enjoyed cruises in Alaska, Hawaii, the Caribbean and Central and South America.

Eleanor was born on the family farm with no running water or electricity but had a childhood filled with happiness. On the trip to Norway with her siblings, they were struck with the thought that their ancestors had left in poverty but they were returning to Norway with personal abundance.

Eleanor is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Judy and Hank Moore; son and daughter-in-law, Greg and Michelle Randall; granddaughter, Diane Moore Roberts and her husband, Jeff; great-granddaughters, Sydney and Jordan Roberts; granddaughter, Christina Randall Vlosich and her husband, Wade.

Eleanor was preceded in death by her husband, Kent Randall; son, Robert Alan Randall; grandson, Erick Anthony Moore; parents, Otto and Rose Wickness; brother, Raymond; sister, Lillian Krahenbuhl; and sister, Muriel Wickness, who died in infancy.

A Celebration Service for the life of Eleanor will be held February 27, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. in the Chapel of St. Anna's at St. Simeon's Episcopal Home, 3701 N. Cincinnati Avenue, Tulsa. Memorials may be made to the Eleanor Wickness Randall and Lillian Wickness Krahenbuhl Memorial Fund at Calvary Lutheran Church, 19 Perry Road, Lee IL, 60530-3009; St. Simeon's Foundation, 3701 N. Cincinnati, Tulsa OK 74106; or St. Francis Hospice, 6600 S. Yale Ste 350, Tulsa, OK 74136.