OBITUARIES

Polly Taylor

Polly Taylor

Nov 13, 2021

Polly Ragsdale Taylor, of Oak Ridge, Tenn., entered into eternity on Nov. 13, 2021. She was the wife of Jack Rodney Taylor, and they were affiliated with Faith Bible Fellowship of Oak Ridge. Born on May 31, 1959, Polly grew up in Atlanta, Ga., where she attended The Westminster Schools, Emory-at-Oxford, and Georgia Tech, where she met the love of...

Thomas Mashak

Thomas Mashak

Nov 10, 2021

Thomas J. Mashak passed away suddenly at his home in Clinton, TN. He was 63 years old. Thomas J. Mashak was born in Evergreen Park, Illinois to Shirley Seibert and Arnold Mashak. T.J. retired from the Chicago Transit Authority in June 2020 after 26 years as a Machinist. In his free time, T.J. is a comic book collector and a...

Betty Graham

Betty Graham

Nov 9, 2021

Betty Graham passed away on November 9, 2021, at Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge, TN. She was 79 years old. Betty Gay Graham was born to Lee Henry Barnett and Ruby Nell Barnett in Knoxville, TN, on April 24, 1942. She lived in Knoxville all her life. Betty met her husband J. Bennett Graham at the University of Tennessee....

Hahn Quach

Hahn Quach

Nov 7, 2021

Hanh "Hank" Quach, age 77, of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, passed away on November 7, 2021. He was born in Hanoi, Vietnam on May 8, 1944, the son of Dam Quach and Hung Nguyen. He served as a military historian for the Army of the Republic Vietnam. He left Vietnam in April of 1975 during the fall of Saigon. Hanh graduated...

Rosemary Steckel

Rosemary Steckel

Nov 7, 2021

Rosemary Cabbage Steckel, 92, of Oak Ridge, Tennessee passed away in the early morning hours on Sunday, November 07, 2021. She was born in Union County, Tennessee on November 29, 1928, the daughter of the late Fred Austin Cabbage and Thelma Beeler Cabbage. Rosemary graduated from the University of Tennessee with a degree in Home Economics. One of her jobs...

Geneva McClendon

Geneva McClendon

Oct 29, 2021

Geneva McClendon passed away surrounded by family at her daughter's home in Kingston. She was 98 years old. Geneva Roy McClendon was born January 5, 1923, to Sylvester Goodin Roy and Daisy Cooper in Russell County, Kentucky. Geneva moved to Oak Ridge, TN from Kentucky Dam Village, Kentucky, in February of 1945 and lived in Oak Ridge over 75 years....

Jeff Smith

Jeff Smith

Oct 26, 2021

Former Texas resident Howard M. Hall, 85, died Dec. 23, 2005, at his home in Houston, TX.

At his request, no service will be held.Mr. Hall was born May. 30, 1920, in Sacramento, Calif., to Salvatore and Elle Hall.Howard could accomplish anything he set his mind to do. At a very early age, he built a wagon to push his...

William Oliver

William Oliver

Oct 22, 2021

William James Oliver took the hand of His Lord and Savior on October 22, 2021, at Fort Sanders Regoinal Medical Center in Knoxville, TN. He was 53 years old. William James Oliver is from Oak Ridge, Tn and lived in Knoxville the past few years. He is Christian by faith. William James Oliver had a love for cars, and working...

Chiquita Perry

Chiquita Perry

Oct 18, 2021

Chiquita Jane Perry passed away peacefully at her home in Oak Ridge, Tn, on the morning of October 18th. She was 58 years old. There will be a Celebration of Life on Tuesday, October 19, 2021, at Martin Oak Ridge Funeral Home. Interment and Graveside service will be at Woodhaven Memorial Gardens in Powell, TN, 10:00 a.m. In leui of...

Enyeart Crume Jr

Enyeart Crume Jr

Oct 18, 2021

E. Charles ("Charlie") Crume, Jr., died peacefully on October 18, 2021. Charlie was born in Dayton, Ohio, on November 14, 1931, the son of Enyeart Charles ("Jack") Crume, Sr., and Evangeline Lee Snyder Crume. He attended Dayton public schools and graduated from Stivers High School (now Stivers School for the Arts) in 1949. After earning an A.B. in physics from...

Brienanan Jerome

Brienanan Jerome

Oct 11, 2021

A gardener looked for his prize rose and found it taken. He was much dismayed and asked the others what happened to his special rose. He was told that The Master came along and saw the beauty of the rose and it gave him joy, so He took the rose for Himself and now it rests near his bosom. On...

Tiffany Harris

Tiffany Harris

Oct 5, 2021

Tiffany Jo Harris passed away suddenly at Park West Hospital in Knoxville, TN on October 5, 2021. She was 40 years old. Tiffany Jo Harris was born in Oak Ridge, TN. She moved to Kingston before returning to Oak Ridge. Tiffany graduated from Roane County High School with honors in 1999. She was the second person in Roane County High...

Betty Hagans

Betty Hagans

Oct 5, 2021

Betty Jo Hagans, 83, of Knoxville, Tennessee passed away October 5th, 2021 at UT Medical Center in Knoxville. She was the wife of Ronald Hagans for 53 years. Betty was born in 1937 in Anderson County the daughter of the late Joseph and Alice Rucker. She received her teaching degree at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate Tennessee which started the...

Jane Batch

Jane Batch

Oct 4, 2021

Jane Brown Batch passed away peacefully at The Groves in Oak Ridge on October 4, 2021. She was 85 years old. Jane Brown Batch was born in St. Louis, Mo. Her family moved to Oak Ridge in 1945 where she lived ever since. Jane was protestant by faith and a member of the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Oak Ridge....

Jennifer Creasman

Jennifer Creasman

Sep 27, 2021

Jennifer Denise Creasman, 49, of Harriman, TN, beloved wife of 32 years to Kirk Creasman entered into rest September 27th, 2021. Daughter of Frank Herbick and the late Margaret Herbick. Jennifer was a loving and devoted wife, mother. Grandmother, and friend. Even in her darkest hours, through her pain, she still found it in herself to offer a ray of...

Larry Ingram

Larry Ingram

Sep 22, 2021

Larry Ingram passed away on Wed 9-22-2021. He was preceded in death by his parents Ralph Glenn & Ruby May Ingram. and his brother Ralph Ingram. He leaves to cherish his memory his wife,Yvonne of 54 yrs, 2 daughters Tammy Tomasello and her husband Ken of Maryland . and Connie Rainwater and her husband Dennis of Springfield Tn.2 sons Erik...

Mary Miller

Mary Miller

Sep 15, 2021

Mary Elizabeth Miller is in the care of Martin Oak Ridge Funeral Home. Mary passed away on September 15, 2021 at Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Visitation with the family will be September 22,2021 from 2pm until 4 pm with a memorial service at 4pm

Carroll Johnson

Carroll Johnson

Sep 12, 2021

Carroll K. Johnson Carroll Kenneth Johnson, 91, passed away peacefully at home on September 12, 2021. He was born in Greeley, Colorado in 1929, the son of Elmer B. Johnson and May Dell Edwards Johnson. He was preceded in death by his wife, Carol Johnson, brother Ernest H. Johnson, sisters Edna Hoover Andrews, Lorene Owens Blandin, and June Groves Holt....

James Johnson

James Johnson

Aug 20, 2021

James Timothy Johnson, precious baby boy of Marcus and Cassandra Johnson, was born into the arms of angels on August 20, 2021 at 24 weeks. Sweet baby James was much loved and touched the lives of many. He is survived by his parents, his big sisters Kailyn and Eliza, his grandparents, and many aunts, uncles, and cousins. Graveside services will...

Craig Durbin

Craig Durbin

Aug 13, 2021

Craig L. Durbin age 68 is in the care of Martin Oak Ridge Funeral hlme. Craig was born October 27, 1952 in Winchester, Indiana to Delbert C. Durbin and Lillan Durbin. No services are planned at this time