OBITUARIES
George Hampton
Jan 8, 2018
George Louis Hampton age 84 is in the care of Martin Oak Ridge Funeral Home. George passed away January 8, 2017 at Methodist Medical Center in oak Ridge, TN. He was born March 22, 1933 in Dossett, TN. to Benjamin Fonzy Hampton and Ruby Hampton. He owned and operated Hampton Janitorial until his retirement. Cooking was his favorite interest. George...
Helen Sharpe
Jan 5, 2018
Helen Marie Gallagher Sharpe age 94 is in the care of Martin Oak Ridge Funeral Home. She passed away Friday January 5, 2018 at National Health Care in Oak Ridge Tennessee. Helen was born December 21, 1923 in Corbin, Kentucky to Thomas Gallagher and Edna Spotts Gallagher. She finished High School in Corbin, Kentucky and was a homemaker and had...
Grace Langfur
Jan 5, 2018
Grace Pearson Langfur, age 101, of Oak Ridge, and formerly of Memphis, passed away Jan. 5, 2018, at the home of her daughter, Sarah Stuart. One of eight children, Grace was born in Waynesville, MO on October 2, 1916, to Frances C. and Stella M. (Rollins) Pearson. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, Grace served her country during WWII as...
Sharon Ferguson
Jan 4, 2018
Sharon D. Ferguson, age 69, is in the care of Martin Oak Ridge Funeral Home. Sharon passed away January 4, 2018 at Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge. She was born January 2, 1949 in Denver Colorado to James Simpson and Fay Dotson Simpson. Sharon was a loving wife and mother and worked as a security officer for IBM. She...
Bessie Hudson
Jan 3, 2018
Bessie P. Hudson, age 89, is in the care of Martin Oak Ridge Funeral Home. Bessie passed away peacefully on Wednesday January 3, 2018 at Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge. She was born December 23, 1928 in Scaly Mountain, North Carolina to Henry Oden Penland and Effie Patterson Penland. Bessie was preceded in death by her parents, her husband...
Lynda Williams
Dec 28, 2017
Lynda K. Bolinsky-Williams, 70, of Oak Ridge, went home to be with her heavenly father on Thursday, December 28, 2017. Lynda was born on June 2, 1947 in East Stone Gap, VA. She graduated with the class of 1965 from Oak Ridge High School, attended Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky and received her BA Degree from Maryville College. Lynda was...
Jamison Gluyas
Dec 25, 2017
Jamison Wesley Gluyas passed away unexpectedly this past weekend in Knoxville, Tennessee at the age of 23. Jamison was born in Seattle, Washington. He also lived in South Dakota, California, Colorado, and most recently Tennessee where he graduated from Oak Ridge High School, Class of 2012. He worked as a shift manager at Taco Bell and was known locally for...
Helen McKown
Dec 15, 2017
Helen Howes McKown Obituary Charter member of the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church Helen Howes McKown of Oak Ridge, Tennessee died peacefully in her sleep at age 94 on December 15, 2017. She was born July 29, 1923 in St. Paul, Minnesota to Frank Twombly and Minnie D. Howes. After receiving her B.S. in education at the University of Minnesota,...
Marjorie Byrge
Dec 14, 2017
Marjorie Ann Baucum Byrge age 54 is in the care of Martin Oak Ridge Funeral Home. Marjorie passed away December 14, 2017 at Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She was born February 24, 1963 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee to Bob and Patricia Ann Colvard Baucum. Marjorie was a Oak Ridge Highschool Graduate and was of the Baptist Faith....
Anna Martin
Dec 6, 2017
Anna Ruth Martin age 94 of Oak Ridge, TN is in the care of Martin Oak Ridge Funeral Home. Anna passed away December 6, 2017 at Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge. She was born in Knoxville, TN on October 13, 1923 to Emma Tufflemire. She worked many years as an assembler for Business Envelope Co. in Clinton, TN where...
Beulah King
Dec 3, 2017
Beulah B. King, age 90 of Oak Ridge, went joyfully to be with the Lord December 3, 2017 at Alexander Guest House Assisted Living. She was a member of Royce Baptist Church for 48 years. She began work as a sales associate at Knox Department Store in 1973 and went on to work at Proffitts, and then Belk where she...
Marvin Abraham
Nov 30, 2017
Marvin Meyer Abraham passed away peacefully on November 30, 2017. He was born in Harlem December 8, 1930, to Esther (Matza) and Raymond Abraham, immigrants from Greece. He grew up in the Bronx with his two older brothers, Samuel and Albert, and attended City College of New York, graduating with a B.S. in physics in 1953. In 1958, he achieved...
Robert Young Sr.
Nov 29, 2017
Mr. Robert Walker Young, Sr, son of the late James Woodrow (Woody) and Jessie Taylor Young was born May 2, 1936. He attended Oak Ridge High School in Tennessee, graduated in 1954 and later completed his higher education at the University of Tennessee. He met the love of his life Anna S. Sanford, whom he married on May 1, 1957....
Chanie Riddle
Nov 27, 2017
Chanie Robert Riddle, 84, of Oak Ridge peacefully passed away to be with our Lord and Savior on Monday, Nov. 27, 2017 at Greenfield Senior Living in Oak Ridge, TN. Mr. Riddle, the son of College Riddle and Myrtle Weaver Riddle was born in Tullahoma, TN on May 4, 1933. He served in the Army National Guard for eight years....
Barbara Elizabethite Sr
Nov 22, 2017
Barbara Elizabeth Srite, 89, passed away on November 22, 2017, at NHC HealthCare in Oak Ridge. She was born on February 22, 1928, in Morristown, Tennessee, to Samuel Dewitt and Elizabeth Srite. She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and Charleston, Tennessee. Barbara graduated from Charleston High School in Charleston, Tennessee. After high school she attended and graduated from Tennessee Technological...
Franklin Baxter
Nov 18, 2017
F. Paul Baxter died at his home in Knoxville, Tenn. on November 18, 2017. A celebration of Paul's life will be held on December 16, 2017 at 2:00 pm at the Church of the Savior, 934 N. Weisgarber Road, Knoxville, TN 37909. A reception and visitation will follow at 3:30 pm. Paul will be remembered for his passion for rocks,...
Alexander Zucker
Nov 8, 2017
Alex Zucker arrived in this country, with his father Willy, mother Berta and younger sister Eva, in the space between the Nazi invasion of Austria and the full horror of World War II. Because his father was an Austrian citizen the family was permitted to enter America. His grandparents perished in the holocaust. Alex was accepted into the Stuyvecent Science...
Vivian Beyersdorf
Nov 4, 2017
Vivian Gail Beyersdorf age 73 of Oak Ridge, Tennessee is in the care of Martin Oak Ridge Funeral Home Vivian passed away November 4, 2017 at her home in Oak Ridge. She was born August 14, 1944 in Franklin, North Carolina to Lawrence and Lora Hedden Beyersdorf. Vivian was a member of Church of Latter Day Saints in Oak Ridge,...
Barbara Hamlett
Nov 2, 2017
Barbara Sue (Rader) Hamlett, 80, of Claxton, went to be with our Lord on November 2, 2017 She was born November 20, 1936, in Knoxville, TN, to the late Ernest Rader, and the late Frances Lee. Barbara is a graduate of Oak Ridge High School and a devoted and supportive wife, mother, and grandmother. She was an active member of...
Johnnie Lanning
Oct 27, 2017
Johnnie Lou Rosenbaum Lanning age 79 passed away on October 27, 2017 at Fort Sanders Regional Hospital in Knoxville, Tennessee. She lived in Kingston, TN but most of her life in Oak Ridge, TN. Johnnie graduated from Oak Ridge High School in 1956. She worked as hotel manager at the Ridge Inn Motel where she retired. Her parents E.W. Rosenbaum...
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