Renetta Small

At age 91, long time Bartlesville, Oklahoma resident Renetta Maxine (Randolph) Small passed away on January 13, 2015 at Jane Phillips Medical Center with a vigil of family, Diane Moore of Elder Care and Visiting Angels at her side. Services will be held at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, January 17, 2015 in the Walker-Brown Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor James Biesiadecki officiating. Private interment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. The family will be receiving friends from 6-8 p.m. Friday, January 16th at the funeral home. Arrangements are under the direction of Walker-Brown Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to: Blue Stem Foundation, Auxiliary, 3500 SE Frank Phillips Blvd., Bartlesville, OK 74006. Renetta was born on June 5, 1923 in Okemah, OK to Leonard and Lucille (Ware) Randolph. After her parents moved to Altus, OK, she attended public school where she was voted Football Queen in 1937 and played the bugle in the Drum and Bugle Corp in High School, graduating in 1941. After graduation, she worked at Altus Army Air Base where she met her future husband. Renetta was transferred to the 4th Ferrying Group in Memphis, TN during the war. Upon returning from the European Theatre, William M. Small landed his plane in Memphis and asked Renetta to marry him, which occurred on October 17, 1945 in Altus, OK. They lived briefly in married student housing at Oklahoma University in Norman while Bill obtained his engineering degree. They then moved to Bartlesville when Bill began work at Phillips Petroleum Company in Research & Development. Renetta loved to read, but her passion was gardening and taking care of her family and home. She was a member of the Good Earth Garden Club, later serving terms as second vice-president, secretary and corresponding secretary of the Bartlesville Council of Garden Clubs. She was a long time member of the First Baptist Church of Bartlesville and volunteered for over forty years at the Jane Phillips Medical Center. Renetta is survived by her brother Bobby J. Randolph and wife June of Borger, TX; sister Doris J. Thompson of Altus, OK; three sons; William M. Small, Jr. and wife Carolyn of Santa Rosa, CA, Michael R. Small of Bartlesville and R. Scott Small and wife Irina of Edmond, OK; one daughter, Jan E. and husband Mark Magers of Tulsa, OK. She was blessed with one granddaughter, Jennifer (Magers) and husband Roderick Hands of Oklahoma City, one great grandson Brylon Justin Hands, a niece Debbie and husband Steve Pollakowski of Borger, TX and grandnephew Dr. Darin Chilcote of Amarillo, TX numerous cousins and many friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, grandson, Justin W. Magers, and grandnephew Bobby Counts. Renetta will be missed by her family and loved ones.

Renetta Small

June 5, 1923 - January 13, 2015