Excerpts from obituary published in San Diego Union-Tribune in 2013:
Randall “Randy” Mitchell passed away on February 5, 2013, at the age of 92. He was born in Elizabethown, Kentucky, on July 13, 1920. His childhood was spent in Paducah, Kentucky. He has a B.S. degree from the University of Kentucky and a journalism degree from the University of Missouri. He served 21 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, retiring at Camp Pendleton in 1963 as a Major. During World War II he served overseas for 27 months with the 1st Marine Division in the South Pacific earning the Purple Heart Medal at Peleliu. He met his wife to be in Washington, D.C., and on September 6, 1952, they married in the church once attended by George Washington. They eventually moved to Oceanside in 1959. In retirement Randy was President of the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce, the North County Concert Association, tri-City Hospital Foundation and was Tri-City Hospital Foundation Executive Director for seven years. Randy and his wife were founding Presidents of the Oceanside Cultural Arts Foundation where they helped to establish the Oceanside Museum of Art. He was a Rotarian and served as President of the Oceanside Chapter, later becoming Governor of District 5340.
Submitted by CDR Roy A. Mosteller, USNR (Ret)
