Randall L. Coy

Randall Lee Coy, 52, passed away Tuesday, February 24th, 2015 in Loveland, CO. He was born May 14, 1962 in Muskogee, OK., the second son of Dale and Geneva Coy. He attended Tulsa and Sand Springs schools and attended his senior year at Morris High School in 1980, where he was known for his talent for water coloring paintings. His art was shown in several local high school art shows. In the early 80's, he attended Tulsa Technology College to study drafting. To support a young growing family, Randall spent many years in restaurant management. In 1989, he decided on a career change and attended Tulsa Welding School to be a welder as his father was before him. Upon completion, over the next decade and a half, he worked as a fitter/welder for several companies including G.E.A. Rainey and Air-X-Changers, located at the Port of Catoosa. While working at The Port, in 2001, there was a major arsine gas leak that affected many people, including Randall, whose health was compromised for the rest of his life. As a very creative dreamer, Randall was always creating something new in a variety of ways. For years, he expressed his creativeness through his water colors...painting portraits of his young children, nature scenes for gifts for friends and family, and paintings with fantasy and science fiction themes. He used his drafting experience to create items to amuse his children, like a Spanish galleon and a working windmill made of tooth picks and Popsicle sticks. He even dabbled in architecture as he made floor plans to scale of fabulous dream homes, including a round house. Around the year 2000, Randall used his creativeness and drafting abilities to develop a new high tech, 3 sided, energy efficient heat exchanger. He received both a U.S. utility and a structural patent. By this time, he got interested in computers and not only self taught himself the basics for general use, but how to master a variety of complex computer programs. In addition to the U.S. patents, he ultimately acquired several international patents including Canada, European, Australian and China. Through his work on computer modeling, he was able to show and prove that his invention had several applications. He then formed a small company with two partners in Oklahoma in which they named Tri-X-Flo..to reflect the 3 sided heat exchanger. After trial and error with several companies to have their product manufactured, they eventually merged with another company in Colorado to form a new company...Colorado Tri-Flo and made some success of manufacturing and selling products based off of his invention. Besides his creative outlets, Randall had other hobbies. In his youth, he achieved a green belt in Tai-Kwon-Do and he continued to practice it with friends and family through adulthood. He loved video games, from the very first Nintendo up until his death with strategy war computer games. He also liked to camp until his health did not allow him to do so. The children have many fond memories of these trips at various Oklahoma lakes and how he loved to take them on nature walks through a number of trails. One of his favorite camping spots was at Cedar Lake, a remote area in a valley near the Talihina, Ok. Randall is preceded in death by his grandparents, his brother, Myron Coy and his father, Dale Coy. He is survived by his mother, Geneva Hearn and husband Jim of Cleveland, OK, his brother, Wayne Coy of Mannford, OK, daughter Andrea West and husband, Rob of Sierra Vista, AZ., daughter Natasha Coy of Kansas City, MO., daughter Kristen Carey and husband Tim of Broken Arrow, OK., son Matthew Coy of Tulsa, son Tyler Coy of Loveland, CO., and daughter Myra Coy of Tulsa. He is also survived by 6 grandchildren and several uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews and friends.

Randall L. Coy

May 14, 1962 - February 24, 2015