Randy Hankins, whose broadcast and television name is Craig O’Neill, came to be so you’re able to Earnest Hankins and you can Judy Merritt Hankins about Dated Saint Vincent Hospital for the Little Stone, Arkansas, on the October 19, 1950
New Hankins’ household was a student in Warren, Arkansas where senior Hankins possessed an equipment shop. Randy perform sit in preschool and you will first level inside Warren, the following amounts through the last degree for the Little Rock, and also the 5th amounts and you will the main sixth grade in Helena. The guy accomplished the second 50 % of their sixth grade year within the Little Rock and you can remained on the Nothing Stone College Section graduating from Little Rock Main High school within the 1968.
Randy is the eldest out of four pupils. His cousin Phil Hankins functions within the broadcast for the Sensuous Springs, Arkansas. He’s a few siblings, Leslie Hankins Parker out-of Carlisle, and you can Kathy Hankins Kelly from western Little Rock.
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Once graduating from Nothing Material Main for the 1968, Randy enlisted within Arkansas State College (ASU) on Jonesboro. For the 1972 he acquired a good Bachelor off Technology training regarding ASU inside the Radio/Tv News media. If you find yourself Randy is at ASU he signed up for the fresh new Put aside Officer Education Corps (Roentgen.O.T.C.) for a couple of ages.