OBITUARIES
Dorothy Blank
Nov 25, 2015
Dorothy Marie Blank, age 85, went to be with the Lord on November 25, 2015. She was born in Long Prairie, Minnesota to Charles and Clara (Determan) Siegle. She attained a Medical Technologist degree in Minnesota. Dorothy was a devoted mother of five children and devoted to her husband. She has been a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in...
Charles Davis Jr.
Nov 5, 2015
On November 4, 2015, Charles Spurgeon Davis, Jr, died peacefully at home, from cancer: Charles was born in Montgomery, Alabama on November 30, 1922. He enlisted in the US Navy in1942, serving on the battleship USS New Mexico until the war's end. While stationed in Beeville, Texas he met and married the love of his life, Janet May Winder, on...
Richard LaBudde
Oct 23, 2015
Richard Graydon LaBudde passed on Friday October 23rd 2015 85 years old Husband, Father, Engineer, Friend to many. Born in 1929 on Beethoven's birthday (He was proud of that coincidence) in Rockford Illinois. To O.H. and Agnes LaBudde. He graduated from West Rockford H.S. in 1947 started college and joined the Army in 1951. Went to Camp Gordon Georgia, Ft....
George Werner
Oct 21, 2015
George Knoll Werner, 93, died October 21, 2015 at home surrounded by his family. George Knoll Werner was born on April 3, 1922 in Lincoln, Nebraska to Harvey Oscar and Elsie Ernest Werner. He grew up in Lincoln, the youngest of four childern of a college professor. Summer vacations were spent visiting agricultural stations in western Nebraska and occasionally traveling...
Fern Jackson
Oct 12, 2015
Lora Fern Renner Jackson of Oak Ridge,TN died October 12, 2015 at the age of 94. She was born September 27, 1921 in Greeneville, TN, to Herbert Alonzo Renner and Lacy Holt Renner. She lost her parents at an early age and grew up at Monroe Harding Children's Home in Nashville. There she had dozens of "brothers" and "sisters" and...
John Sullivan
Oct 10, 2015
John Joseph Sullivan, 80, of Chickasaw, Alabama died Saturday, October10, 2015 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He was born February 20, 1935 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey to John and Irene Sullivan. He was self employed as a carpenter most of his life.. John is survived by his daughter, Shirley Sullivan of St. Petersburg, Florida, three sons, John Sullivan of Largo,...
William McCarley
Oct 1, 2015
William Thomas McCarley Retired from K-25 William "Bill" Thomas McCarley, age 87 of Oak Ridge, passed away Thursday, October 01, 2015, after a brief illness. Bill was born April 25, 1928 in Athens, Alabama. As a teenager, he played saxophone and clarinet in local dance bands. He earned his Bachelor of Science and Master's degrees in chemical engineering from Auburn...
Michael Roach
Sep 20, 2015
Michael Hardy Roach, age 56, of Oak Ridge passed away Sunday September 20, 2015 at Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge. Michael was born May 1, 1959 in Knoxville, TN to the late Douglas and Frankie Rosenbaum Roach. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Oak Ridge and a 1977 graduate of Oak Ridge High School...
Horace Sullivan
Sep 9, 2015
Horace Howard Sullivan passed on September 9, 2015 in Florence, Alabama, where he had lived since 2005. "Sully" was born November 13, 1926, in Montgomery, Alabama. He attended Pike Road School and graduated high school in 1944 from Sidney Lanier in Montgomery, Alabama. He served in the USCG--Merchant Marines as a radio operator in 1945 and 1946 assisting with the...
Bernice Lawson
Sep 7, 2015
Bernice Lawson Longtime Oak Ridger. Bernice Marilyn Lawson, 92, died peacefully on September 7, 2015 at her granddaughter's home in Dallas, GA. Bernice was born in December 1922 in Bridgeport, CT, and was the daughter of Jack and Rose Kahn. Bernice attended New Haven Teachers College in New Haven, CT. Her education was temporarily interrupted during the depression when she...
Mary Jenkins
Sep 3, 2015
Mary Sue Sharp Jenkins, age 72, of Oak Ridge passed away Thursday September 3, 2015at Methodist Medical Center. Mary was born November 29, 1942 in Lake City to the late Dester and Mossie Cox Sharp. She was of the Baptist faith and a graduate of Oak Ridge High School. Mary loved spending time with her family and friends picnicking in...
Rose Watts
Sep 2, 2015
Dateline- Rockwood TN Rose Ann Faulkner Watts age79 of Rockwood TN, passed away Wednesday September 02, 2015 at her residence. She had been a factory worker in automotive parts in the state of Michigan. Rose was preceded in death by her husband Jerry Watts. She is survived by her children Steve Hickman and wife Phyllis of Michigan, Billy Hickman of...
Henry McKown
Aug 29, 2015
Henry (Hank) Story McKown Worked at ORNL, was a Charter Member of Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church Henry Story McKown (Hank) of Oak Ridge at the age 94 died Saturday, August 29, 2015. Hank McKown was born April 12, 1921 in Rochester, NY,son of Samuel Campbell McKown and Louise Story McKown. As a teenager, he spent many years helping his...
Taylor Burke Jr.
Aug 28, 2015
Taylor George Burke, age 92, passed away peacefully on August 28, 2015, in his home at Greenfield Senior Living of Oak Ridge. George was born on December 21, 1922 in Norfolk, Virginia to the late George Sr. and Gladys Burke. He grew up in Chattanooga, where his father worked as an engineer with the TVA. George attended Auburn University for...
Willie Pate
Aug 27, 2015
Willie V. Pate, 95, of Oak Ridge passed away Thursday August 27, 2015 at Briarcliff Nursing Home. Willie was born May 8, 1920 in Vonor, Tennessee. She was a lifelong homemaker who enjoyed gardening, cooking, and quilt sewing with her friends. Willie was a wonderful wife, mother, and grandmother. She will be greatly missed by all who knew her. Preceded...
Joseph Morin
Aug 21, 2015
Joseph R. Morin age 73 of Harriman died Friday August 21,2015 Born in Jackmann Maine on August 11,1942 Joe left to join the army and served in the Viet Nam War from 1966-1967 He retired from TVA fossil fuel plant in Kingston Tennessee and previously worked for Rust Engineering at the plants in Oak Ridge, TN as an Electrician. He...
Ray Givens
Aug 15, 2015
Ray Alexander Givens savored telling a fine story: now you are invited to share a moment of his own story. Having a father born in 1856, five years before the US Civil War began, was among the more unusual details of Ray's life. It does not end there. An adventurer at heart, Ray reluctantly retired his snow skis at 80...
Mary Thompson
Aug 2, 2015
Mary Lou Thompson age 76, of Oak Ridge, died Sunday, August 2, 2015. She was born May 5, 1939, in Knoxville, Tn., the daughter of Brice Edward Lee . and Love Katherine Lee. Her husband Geroge R. Thompson, parents, two brothers Paul and Joe Lee, preceded her in death. She is survived by her daughter, Robin Thompson of Oak Ridge...
Rena Swany
Jul 26, 2015
Rena Martin Swany, born July 12, 1921, passed away peacefully at Diversicare Health Care Facility on July 26, 2015, after a brief illness. She moved to Oak Ridge in 1957 to work for Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies as a Secretary at the Museum of Atomic Energy. Later O.R.I.N.S. became part of Oak Ridge Associated Universities and she became...
Blanche Hubbard
Jul 16, 2015
Blanche Hubbard age 86 of Knoxville went to be with the Lord on July 16, 2015. She and her loving husband of 56 years, Edison, are strolling hand-in-hand down the streets of heavenly gold. Blanche was preceded in death by her parents Jonas and Sarah Mullins, brothers: Ted, lester,Johnny, Keith,and Vester; Sisters: Versa, Delsey, and Arizona all of Kentucky. Left...
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