OBITUARIES
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...
Josephine Steele
Jul 14, 2015
Josephine Rose Steele. Age 89 passed away Tuesday July 14, 2015. Mrs. Steele was born December 23, 1925 in Chicago, IL to the late Tony and Josephine Alessi. She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church and had worked as a sales manager at Samuel's Clothing Store until her retirement. She loved spending time with her family and friends...
Madge Newton
Jul 6, 2015
Madge Elizabeth "Sunshine" Dyer Newton 91 of Oak Ridge passed away July 06, 2015 in Knoxville, Tn. Madge was born November 11, 1923 in Powell Tn. To Isaac and Lillian Dyer Madge was a long time employee of Union Carbide Martin Marietta where she worked as a secretary for more than 30 years . Madge graduated from Karns High School...
Betty Robinson
Jul 3, 2015
Betty Olin Robinson passed away on July 3, 2015 at Greenfield Senior Living, after suffering a stroke. Betty was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother, and touched many lives with her caring and giving spirit. She was an amazing woman, and enjoyed a very full life. She was born March 21, 1918 in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, the daughter of Seymour...
Jan Welch
Jun 22, 2015
Jan Dean Welch, 69, of Oak Ridge Tn, passed away June 22, 2015 at Methodist Medical Center. He was born February 2, 1946 in Puebelo, Colorado to Floyd and Enid Welch J.D. was a Operations manager for At&T He is survived by his wife Carolyn Welch of the home . No services are scheduled at this time. Cremation arrangements by...
Robert Coin
Jun 21, 2015
Robert Eric Coin, 57, of Oak Ridge passed away on June 21, 2015. He was born October 31, 1957 in Oak Ridge to Robert Eugene Coin and Gertrude Elise Coin (Trout). He went through the Oak Ridge school system and graduated Oak Ridge High School in 1975. Throughout his life, he understood the need to give back to his community....
Abel Ford
Jun 18, 2015
Abel William Ford born June 18 , 2015 went to be with Jesus on June 18, 2015. God gave us an angel, he was loved by his father Robert Victor Ford and mother Jessica Diane Ford. Abel is also loved by his grandparents Bobby and Brenda Davis and Kenneth and Susan Godwin, family and friends. Graveside services will be noon...
William Thiessen
Jun 4, 2015
William Ernest Thiessen Oak Ridge, Tennessee William Ernest Thiessen, of Oak Ridge, went home to be with the Lord on June 4, 2015. Bill was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on September 17, 1934, to Gustav W. Thiessen and Dorothy Claire Johnson Thiessen. Bill held both a bachelor's degree and a doctoral degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He...
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