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Florence Elizabeth <I>Meyette</I> Randall

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Florence Elizabeth Meyette Randall

Birth
Chatfield, Fillmore County, Minnesota, USA
Death
28 Oct 1989 (aged 76)
Big Lake, Sherburne County, Minnesota, USA
Burial
Sherburne County, Minnesota, USA GPS-Latitude: 45.3376537, Longitude: -93.7415588
Plot
42
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Daughter of William Edgar and Flossie Mae Meyette. Born Dec. 13, 1912 in Chatfield, MN. She grew up in Albert Lea, MN with 2 younger sisters. She married Claude Russell Randall on Aug. 20, 1936 in Clinton, Iowa. They had 5 children. Claude and Florence lived in Garden City, MN and Vernon Center, MN. They moved to Big Lake, MN in March 1948.

She was a music teacher and taught piano and organ for over 50 years. She was a child prodigy beginning piano lessons when she was 8 yrs. old. By the time she was 11 yrs. old she had her first piano pupil. When she was in her early teens she had private tutoring with 2 different college professors and they taught her as far as they knew. She attended the Albert Lea School of Music in her later teens. She taught many many people, young and old, how to play the piano and organ and also accordion. She could teach anyone to play anything. Although she was offered jobs to teach in colleges, she preferred to teach in her own home. She also played for church, weddings and funerals, and school functions. She reluctantly retired in 1976 due to illness. She passed away in her home Oct. 28, 1989 of cancer.
Daughter of William Edgar and Flossie Mae Meyette. Born Dec. 13, 1912 in Chatfield, MN. She grew up in Albert Lea, MN with 2 younger sisters. She married Claude Russell Randall on Aug. 20, 1936 in Clinton, Iowa. They had 5 children. Claude and Florence lived in Garden City, MN and Vernon Center, MN. They moved to Big Lake, MN in March 1948.

She was a music teacher and taught piano and organ for over 50 years. She was a child prodigy beginning piano lessons when she was 8 yrs. old. By the time she was 11 yrs. old she had her first piano pupil. When she was in her early teens she had private tutoring with 2 different college professors and they taught her as far as they knew. She attended the Albert Lea School of Music in her later teens. She taught many many people, young and old, how to play the piano and organ and also accordion. She could teach anyone to play anything. Although she was offered jobs to teach in colleges, she preferred to teach in her own home. She also played for church, weddings and funerals, and school functions. She reluctantly retired in 1976 due to illness. She passed away in her home Oct. 28, 1989 of cancer.


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