Thank you to all for the kind comments of sympathy and love for Alberta. These are all read by Alberta, and it gives her strength and encouragement and faith. She sends her thanks to each of you.

We would like to share a few thoughts and give a little insight into the life of Harold and Alberta and what they have endured over the years. We would like to do this in honor of Harold.

On the evening of April 15 Randy gave his mom a kiss goodbye in the kitchen and then headed outside to the driveway to tell his dad goodbye. When Randy headed down the road in his mom’s car and drove out of sight, Harold did not know that Randy was driving out of their lives forever.

But as the days quickly and painfully passed, Harold and Alberta soon realized they were the ones to search for their only child.  Harold devoted his life to searching for his boy.  Every single day he searched, and he never gave up.

It made no difference what kind of lead he and Alberta received, whether a sighting of a young man in southern Kansas, or even a lead of a possible sighting in Idaho, they went to find him.

Whether it was a grave someone had seen years previous, Harold would find it, and dig. Whether it was a rumor that someone had information about blood stains in an abandoned house, he found it. Whether someone said they had information about Randy, Harold found them. He never gave up. He persisted, day in and day out, and led the search that only a heartbroken Dad could do. He never gave up searching for his only child. 

Harold was a man of integrity and strength in every sense. Harold is a man that we will honor forever.  

June 6th, 1941 – January 28th, 2021

In loving memory,

Betty