Dr. Howell S. Randolph, 77, former Milton resident, died Mar. 23 in Palo Alto, Calif.
The famous Phoenix, Ariz., surgeon came to Milton in 1910 [at age 11] when his father, Rev. Lester Randolph, became the pastor of the Milton Seventh Day Baptist Church from 1910 to 1918. He graduated from Milton College in 1920 and then coached and taught physics and chemistry at Milton Union High School from 1920 to 1922.
Mr. Randolph earned his medical degree at John Hopkins University in Baltimore and went to Phoenix in 1928. He helped establish St. Luke's Tuberculosis Sanitarium and when it became St. Luke's Hospital, Dr. Randolph was its first medical director.
He is survived by his wife; five children; 12 grandchildren; and a sister, Doris Vincent.
