Randy Nate Orgill

Randy Nate Orgill passed away unexpectedly on September 30, 2022, at his home in Clovis, California. He was 73 years old.  Randy was born in Pocatello, Idaho, on March 15, 1949, the oldest son of his parents, Nate and Johni Orgill. He attended school in Pocatello, Idaho, and graduated from Pocatello High School—where he was known as a bit of a hell-raiser—in 1967. He eventually went on to attend Idaho State University, majoring in Accounting and eventually graduating shortly after getting married. At the time of his retirement, he had been a licensed CPA for thirty-seven years.
Randy worked at a Conoco station and at other jobs in and around Pocatello to support himself while he was going to school. He met his future wife, Linda Orgill (née Long) while he was finishing his college degree. Linda and Randy married in 1973, and they enjoyed a long and happy marriage. They would have been married for fifty years this coming March. After finishing his degree at ISU, Randy got a job in the accounting department at Western Farm Service. He worked for Western Farm Service and the companies that later took it over (Crop Production Services and Agrium) until his retirement in 2012. He transferred to the Jerome branch in 1976, after his family relocated to Twin Falls, Idaho. He would then be transferred to the main branch of Western Farm Service in Fresno, California, in 1987. Randy built up a family homestead in Clovis after that, living on two and a half acres that he continually worked to improve for almost thirty years.
When he was a young man, Randy was an avid sportsman, enjoying camping at Redfish Lake, and fishing and hunting with his oldest sons, his dad and his brothers. He was also a very accomplished water-skier, having first learned to ski when he was fifteen years old at American Falls Reservoir—even skiing behind a car in a canal during his hell-raising days. Randy was meticulous about keeping up the landscaping around his house and seemed to enjoy the work involved (at least until the last few years), which he often shared with his children. He also passed on a do-it-yourself work ethic to his kids, who were frequently engaged in helping with various home-improvement projects around the house.
In retirement, he helped his wife care for his 95-year old mother-in-law. He also enjoyed his longtime hobby of woodworking and spent many, many happy hours working on various projects and improving his woodshop. Another way he passed the time was with bike-riding. He logged roughly 36,000 miles on his bike around Clovis and Fresno with his son, Jeremy, during the last decade of his life. Finally, he was a habitual blood donor since the mid-1990s, donating more than ten gallons of blood to the Central California Blood Center.
Randy was preceded in death by his parents Nate and Johni; his two fathers-in-law, Frank Long and Ed Kase; his seven dogs; and five grand-dogs. He is survived by his wife Linda; his mother-in-law, Eleanor Kase; his three brothers, Barry (Peggy), Jeff (Michelle), and Brian (Julie); his six children, Suzanne (George), Nate (Karina), Jeremy, Ryan (Danielle), Shawn, and Tasha; his eight grandchildren, Peter, Madison, Jack, Josh, Atticus, Emilie, Katie, and little Randy; his two dogs, Magpie and Blonnie; and six grand-dogs. He is loved and missed by his family.

Services for Randy will be Friday Oct. 14, 2022 at 11am at Manning-Wheatley Funeral Funeral Home (510. N. 12th Ave.)  A viewing will be at 10:30am before the services.  Interment will be in Restlawn Memorial Gardens.  In lieu of flowers, the family requests that any donations be made to the Miss Winkles Pet Adoption Center in Clovis, Children’s Hospital of Central California, or by donating a pint of blood at a local blood bank.