Carol A. Randle was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey on December 2, 1939 and baptized at Simpson Methodist Church on March 17, 1940. She attended Perth Amboy public schools where she excelled in many subjects, most notably music.
Naturally gifted with a beautiful voice, she rose through the ranks with practice and training. Carol blessed us all with the gift of song throughout her life. Carol was a soloist at the Second Congregational Church of Greenwich, performed theater throughout the Stamford area, including a starring role in the musical Bye Bye Birdie, and was a member of the Duck Methodist Church choir of Duck, North Carolina. When moving back to Connecticut in 2000, she soon became a proud member of The Woman’s Club of Danbury/New Fairfield where she continued to share her beautiful voice.
Carol was a registered nurse, graduating from the Charles Gregory School of Nursing in Perth Amboy. She worked at Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Stamford from the late 1960s through 1990, primarily as a proud operating room nurse and later in the recovery room.
Carol made her home the family destination for every holiday. She celebrated them fully, filling her home with hundreds of decorations, homemade baked goods (known best for her Christmas cookies, nut bread and dozens of pies), and formed a tradition of ensuring that all holidays were centered around family and filled with these treats.
Carol was an avid reader, enjoying and passing along the love of literature to her family. She spent many hours when her children and grandchildren were small reading to them and sharing stories of her own childhood and life. Some of her favorite moments were spent reading one of her “cozy” mystery series or enjoying a chat with her family while curled up by the fireplace.
Carol was known for her wit, her smile, her ability to laugh, often at herself, her love of animals, always spoiling her many cats, and her naturally gorgeous red hair which constantly led people to comment about “that Irish lass.”
Carol will most assuredly be remembered for her universal love of family, extending her compassion, humility and life lessons to her sons, and later her stepchildren and grandchildren. Her teaching never stopped.
Carol is predeceased by her parents, Lillian Agnes Manton Randle and Herbert James Randle, her loving brother, Dr. Robert F. Randle, with whom she enjoyed a tremendously close friendship.
Carol is survived by her husband, Sydney A. Rapp, Jr. of Danbury, CT, her two children, Christopher Sinatra of Stamford, CT and partner Deirdre Virvo, and Michael Sinatra and his wife Roberta of Bridgewater, CT, and four stepchildren, Jessica Breich and her husband Gabriel of Lincolnshire, IL, Jason Rapp and his wife Angela of Barnwell, SC, Zachary Rapp of Danbury, CT, and Toby Rapp and his wife Hollie of Brookfield, CT. She is also survived by the darlings of her life, her grandchildren Nicholas, Kathleen, Julia, Joseph, & Christina Sinatra, Kayla & Matthew Rapp, and Carolina & William Breich. She also leaves behind her first husband and father of her children, Frank Sinatra of Venice, FL, with whom she remained close throughout her life, and her many loving friends.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, Regional Hospice of Danbury, or PAWS of Norwalk, CT.
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