Deaths and Funeral Notices

Ike (Dwight M.) Randle June 26, 1935 to May 6, 2022

Dwight Marion "Ike" Randle was born on June 26, 1935 in Eureka, CA to Dorothy Frost Randle and Clyde Randle and spent his entire life living in Eureka. While Dwight was his given name, he always MUCH preferred to be called “Ike.” Ike’s father died unexpectedly at the age of

45 in 1942, after which his mother married Weldon Randle, Clyde’s brother and the family bought a piece of land (after “always renting” – according to Dorothy) on Pine Hill where Ike and his sister, Sidney, grew up. According to his mother, even from an early age, Ike loved to “fix things – somehow all his toys broke and needed to be

taken apart and fixed.” He would carry this love of fixing things into his career as a “body and fender repairman.”

Ike’s great-grandmother, Acascia (nee Gordon) Frost, was born near Iaqua, Humboldt County, in 1866, so he

was a descendent of Humboldt County Pioneers. He was a graduate of Eureka Junior and Senior High Schools. After graduation, he went to work full time at California Body Shop, eventually becoming a co-owner. He retired (somewhat reluctantly) in 2008.

Two years after marrying Barbara Ansak (in 1956), Ike and Barbara began building their own home on property given to them by Ike’s mother. This project would occupy both their time for over 7 years and result in an ever evolving home for themselves and their two children, Yvonne and Tony.

Over the years, Ike had many hobbies – including refurbishing a 1935 Ford Coupe, collecting coins, fishing, owning and working a mining claim in Trinity County (not much gold was found, but it was a fun place to spend time in the summers), and re-building “totaled” (cars). He

also LOVED going to Reno to play Keno and the slot machines – which he would do at least once a year – and playing the California lottery and “hot spots” (typically at Dave’s in Henderson Center). After casinos opened in Humboldt County, he became a regular – first at Cher-Ae Heights and later at Blue Lake (especially on senior days). He also began dabbling in the stock market, after his sonin-law convinced him that this would offer better returns than a slot machine. Among his other favorite things were old Western movies and TV shows, cowboy boots, country music, apple pie, vanilla milkshakes (ONLY vanilla), and a cold can of Miller Lite (the ONLY beer he drank in later years – although in the early years, it was Olympia).

Ike was predeceased in 2003 by his mother, Dorothy; his sister, Sidney (in 2021); and his uncles Jack, Leonard, and Frank Frost. He is survived by his daughter, Yvonne Randle (and Yvonne’s husband, Eric Flamholtz); his son, Tony Randle (and his wife, Johnnie); and Barbara Randle.

He is also survived by his grandchildren: Nick Randle and his wife, Macey; Heather Randle; and Kristina Randle and her husband, Adam Smith; as well as great-grandchildren: Maya and Emmett Randle, Samantha J. Randle, and Austin and Emma Smith.

There will be no services. He will be laid to rest in Arcata’s Greenwood Cemetery.