Randy Herman Waddell

Randy Herman Waddell, passed away on Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Randy lost his long battle with liver disease while waiting on a liver transplant at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences. Randy was born on March 3, 1966, to Herman and Charlotte Ruth Waddell in Batesville, Mississippi. He was their only child but was loved and adored by them both. Randy graduated from Delta Academy. He then began one of the great relationships of his life when he attended the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). After graduation, he began a career as an Independent Insurance Broker that would span the rest of his life. He met and married the love of his life Elizabeth Ann Sides Waddell and they had two children. Jackson Sides Waddell and Olivia Ann Waddell were his reason for living. He coached their basketball and baseball teams, watched every sporting event they played in and took them to all the Ole Miss games he could, or Elizabeth Ann would allow! Even making the trek to Omaha for the College World Series when Ole Miss played. Randy is preceded in death by his father Lawrence Herman Waddell of Marks, Miss.; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L.J. Waddell and Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Rodgers of Marks, Miss. and his father-in-law Elbert C. Sides of Como, Miss. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth Ann Sides Waddell of Little Rock, Ark.; two children, Jackson Sides Waddell and Olivia Ann Waddell of Little Rock, Ark.; mother, Charlotte Ruth Waddell of Marks, Miss.; two sisters-in-law, Bonnie Sides of Jackson, Miss. and Alice Sides McLeod of Como, Miss.; two nephews, Sides and George McLeod of Como, Miss.; an uncle, Jessie Waddell of Madison, Miss.; two aunts, Grace Richardson of Memphis, Tenn., Nancy Waddell Dowdey of Memphis, Tenn.; five cousins, Steve Waddell and Marty Waddell of Madison, Miss., Ricky Richardson of Memphis, Tenn., Wanda Durham of Millington, Tenn., and Tammy Powell of Batesville, Miss.; and a goddaughter, Gracie Morehead of Texarkana, Texas. Visitation will be held Saturday, August 1, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Como United Methodist Church in Como, Miss. Services will begin at 1:30 p.m. at the church. Burial will follow in Bethesda Cemetery in Senatobia, Miss. Pate-Jones Funeral Home had charge of the arrangements.