Submitted by: Dan Rich
Sept. 29, 1907 - March 6, 1994
South Bend Tribune 3/8/1994
OSCEOLA - Services for Randal Clifford Draper, 86, of St. Paul's Retirement Community, South Bend, formerly of Osceola, who died at 11:30 a.m. Sunday in the nursing home, will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Osceola United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday in the Warner Funeral Home, where Masonic services will be at 7 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the church or Osceola Masonic Temple.
Mr. Draper was the owner/operator of Randal Draper Master Woodworker and retired in 1972 from CTS Corp., Elkhart, as a group leader after 36 years of service. He was born Sept. 29, 1907, in White County, Ill., and lived in Osceola most of his life.
On Dec. 23, 1927, in Albion, Ill., he married Sophie Lorene Brothers. She survives, with two daughters, Ethel Robinson and Eleanor R. Gindelberger, both of Osceola; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. He was a 50-year member of the church, Osceola Masonic Temple 742, and Scottish Rite Valley of South Bend.
Editor: His wife Sophia Lorene died 10-28-1997 in South Bend IN.