Funeral Services for Gail Randolph Kelly, will be 2:00 p.m., Monday, October 15, 2012, at the Cedar Springs Nazarene Church. Viewing will be Sunday, October 14, 2012 from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. with the family greeting friends from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. . Arrangements are by Fairview Funeral Home, Inc.

Gail is survived by his wife Nina of the home, two sons; Galen Kelly and Phillip Kelly and three daughters; Kimberly Bock, Kathryn Smith, Angela Cole and families, brother Earnest "Buddy" Kelly and 14 grandchildren.

Gail Randolph Kelly made his entrance into the world on January 27th, 1941. He was the firstborn child of Opal and Earnest L. Kelly of Oklahoma City, OK. He attended several schools in the Shawnee and Oklahoma City areas, graduating from Shawnee Senior High School.

From a young age Gail had a love for animals and country life. He and his younger brother Earnest, whom he named "Buddy", cared for many animals during their growing up years. When he was 11, he and his brother started throwing newspapers with the help of their dad. After losing his father at the young age of 13, he took on the responsibility of earning a wage to help fill his dad's shoes. He continued throwing newspapers and went on to work as a soda jerk, a shoe salesman, flour mill worker and delivery man, railway express messenger, truck farm gardening, oil rig rough necking, raising cattle, wheat and rye farming and making cabinet doors. Gail was the jack-of-all-trades and the master of most.

Gail met his future sweetheart and the love of his life, Nina Mae Classen when he was 14 while working as a soda jerk in Oklahoma City. Nina and a small group of young people stopped at the Duncan Drugstore to say hello on the way back from the Dover, OK camp meeting. Gail bought everyone in the group a .35 cent banana split. A few years later, they began dating, fell in love and were married on May 29th, 1959 only three days after his graduation. They made their home in Shawnee, OK.

In 1971, while working at Western Electric in Oklahoma City, Gail received a call from his father-in-law Alferd Classen to move to the family farm west of Fairview to work. The next 41 years were full of "living TOUGH, working HARD and loving LIFE".

As a young adult, Gail gave his heart to the Lord. From this personal experience, he and his wife Nina raised their five children, teaching them to love and serve God. They also instilled in them a strong work ethic. Gail was an example of what he taught, working behind the scenes for the Lord, quietly performing the duties of trustee by serving on the local, state and national boards of the Church of God.

On October 11th 2012, at the age of 71, Gail peacefully passed away at home after a short illness. He was called home by his Savior early Thursday morning at his normal waking hour of 5 AM.

He was preceded in death by his parents. Earnest L. and Opal Kelly, and his mother and father-in-law, Martha and Alferd Classen.

He is survived by his wife Nina, son Galen and wife Lisa of Ponca City, OK, daughter Kimberly and husband Dwight of Tulsa, OK, daughter Kathryn and husband Rod of Monroe, LA, son Phillip and wife Gwendolyn of Fairview, OK, daughter Angela and husband Brent of Neosho, MO, and fourteen grandchildren and two spouses. One brother Earnest "Buddy" E. Kelly and wife Jeanie of Idabel, OK, Brother-in-law Leroy Classen, Sister-in-law Erona and husband George Cope, Sister-in-law Bula Ann Smith, Sister-in-law Irene and husband Dewayne Cravens, and many nieces and nephews.