Friday, March 23, 2007
CASPER -- Services for Ranald V. Hotle, 81, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, March 26, 2007, at St. Mark's Episcopal Church with Fr. John Smylie officiating. Interment will be in Oregon Trail State Veterans Cemetery with military honors accorded by the United Veterans Council and The Honor Guard.
Viewing is Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. at Newcomer Family Funeral Home.
He died March 21, 2007, at Central Wyoming Hospice Home.
He was born March 29, 1925, in Dutch Creek Township, Iowa, the son of Charles Clarence and Ethel Augustine.
After his military service in WWII, he went to American Institute of Business in Des Moines. In 1948 he was called to go to work for the FBI in Washington, D.C., where he also finished his education at Ben Franklin University majoring in accounting and business law.
He returned to Iowa in 1950 to be with his terminally ill father. He became Assistant County Assessor for Washington County, Iowa and also served as Clerk of District Court.
In 1957, he went to work for CAPP Homes and had a long successful career, moving to Casper in 1977.
He married Darlyne Wells of Clinton, Iowa and they had one daughter, Cynthia and two sons, Dana and Shane. They were divorced in 1974.
He then married the love of his life, Jackie Steffen Jackson of Eddy, Texas on Nov. 23, 1974, and also became a father figure for her two sons, Randel Keith and Steven.
After CAPP Homes went out of business in 1982, he opened a Snelling and Snelling Employment Agency and operated it until he retired in 1987.
His hobby was woodworking and carpentering and after he retired, he would buy fixer-upper houses and restore them.
He served on the advisory board of Casper Area Transportation Committee and served St. Mark's Episcopal Church in many capacities.
He and his wife, Jackie, loved to dance and were longtime members of Viva la Joie.
Survivors include his wife of 32 years, three children, Cynthia Steadman, Dana Hotle, and Shane Hotle, all of Denver; two stepsons, Randel Keith Hotle and his wife of Cheyenne and Steven Jackson and his wife of Durango, Colo.; seven grandchildren, seven step-grandchildren, one great-grandchild, one step-great- grandchild and two brothers, Charles