Randolph Moultrie; Cemetery Superintendent

Randolph Moultrie, a lifelong Santa Paula resident and retired cemetery superintendent, died Saturday at home. He was 92.

He was born May 11, 1907, in Santa Paula. His father had moved there from Tennessee a year earlier.

Moultrie lived in a Victorian farmhouse that had once been a school when the Boor family owned it. Later he graduated from Harvard Military School in Los Angeles.

During World War II, he was in the Army’s Quartermaster Corps and served in the South Pacific.

Moultrie had been a superintendent at the Santa Paula Cemetery for 25 years before his retirement.

He was master of the Santa Paula Lodge No. 291, a division of the Masons, in 1940; he also served several years as treasurer and trustee.

Moultrie was a disaster-relief worker in charge of food distribution to families who had been displaced by flooding from the San Francisquito Dam in 1928.

Many of his trophies and medals for marksmanship in shooting events are on display at the Santa Paula Oil Museum.

He was preceded in death by his wife of 51 years, Gertrude.

Moultrie is survived by a sister-in-law, Margaret Wurtenberger of Santa Paula.

At his request, no formal services will be held.

Arrangements are under the direction of Pierce Bros. Stetler Mortuary in Santa Paula.