Randall Lee "Randy" Dailey

Randall Lee Dailey, age 49, of Greenbrier, passed away Friday, February 24, 2012 at Golden Living Center in Springfield. Funeral services will be held Sunday, February 26, 2012 in the chapel of the Austin & Bell Funeral Home in Springfield at 2pm with Reverend Jodi McCullah and Reverend Roger Grimsley officiating. Burial will follow in the Elmwood Cemetery with Scott McEwing, Jerry Baggett, Wayne King, Wayne Clouse, Arlo Hall, Mike Hodge and Steve Holman serving as pallbearers. Visitation with the family will be held Saturday, February 25, 2012 from 4-8pm and again Sunday from Noon until the time of service. Randy was born August 10, 1962 in Springfield to Roy C. Dailey and the late Betty Duncan Dailey. He worked as a clerk in several grocery stores and was a 1980 graduate of Springfield High School. In 1977 Randy was the first person from Tennessee to receive a heart transplant and the youngest patient at age 14 to receive a heart transplant at Stanford University Hospital in Stanford, California. At the time Randy’s story was covered by Frances Meeker for the Tennessean, who went with the family to California. His first transplanted heart was healthy until 1992 when he received a second heart transplant at Stanford University that lasted until his death. The Dailey family has been plagued with heart problems, beginning with his mother, Betty, who passed in January of 2004. His older brother, Michael Duncan Dailey, passed away in November of 1974 due to the same heart condition, familial cardiomyopathy. His younger brother, Bruce Allen Dailey, received a heart transplant in 1979 at age 13 but passed away at 39 years old in December of 2005. In addition to his mother and brothers, Randy is preceded in death by his grandparents, Ernest Orndorff and Lucy Jean Thompson Duncan, grandmother, Dorothy E. Dailey, great-grandfather, Joseph S. Dailey, and uncles, Daniel Duncan and Sam Duncan. In addition to his father, Randy is survived by his cousins, Jerry and Dixie Dixon of Greenbrier and several other cousins living out of state; and by his special friends, Scott (Donna) McEwing of Springfield, Jerry (Barbara) Baggett of Springfield and Reverend Jodi McCullah of Pleasant View. The family requests memorial contributions be made to the Gorham-MacBane Library which may be sent in c/o Austin & Bell. Austin & Bell Funeral Home in Springfield is in charge of these arrangements. AUSTIN & BELL FUNERAL HOME- 509 WALNUT STREET, SPRINGFIELD, TN (615) 384-1000

Randall Lee "Randy" Dailey

August 10, 1962 - February 24, 2012