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Subject: [TNCAMPBE-L] Obits From The Knoxville News Sentinel 13 Aug 2000
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 08:51:40 EDT


>From The Knoxville News Sentinel 13 Aug 2000

BARTON, HAROLD R. - age 87, passed away Friday evening, Aug. 11, 2000, at his
home in Jellico, Tenn. During his 87 years, Harold made friends with everyone
who had the pleasure of meeting him. He was known as Uncle Harold to his
family and close friends and to people throughout several states as "Doc"
Barton. He had been called a backwoods Walt Whitman because of articles he
sent to the Knoxville News Sentinel. After being featured on the "Heartland
Series", host, Bill Landry, called him the nicest man he ever met. Harold was
a retired UMWA coal miner who worked 39 years in the deep mines. He was a
member of King Gap Baptist Church, which his father helped build at Cane
Creek, Kentucky. He was a resident of Jellico for the past 60 years. Preceded
in death by parents, George and Matilda Green Barton; a brother, Edward
Barton, and two infant brothers, Jackie and George, Jr. He is survived by
sister, Hazel Barton Hackler Jones of Jellico; brother, Olan Barton of
Williamsburg, Ky.; sister in law, Jeanette Barton (wife of the late Edward
Barton); brother, Ted Barton and wife, Flonnie; brother, Truitt Barton and
wife, Wanda all of Jellico; 19 nieces and nephews including Bill Baton,
George Hackler, Eddie Barton, Jimmy Barton, Frances Lewis and Sandee Barton;
and a host of family and friends to mourn his passing. The family will
receive friends at the Cox & Son Funeral Home, Sunday, Aug. 13, from 5-8 p.m.
with funeral services to follow at 8 p.m. with Rev. Lester Cox officiating.
Family and friends will meet at 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 14, at the Highland
Cemetery, Williamsburg, Ky. for graveside service and interment. Cox & Son
Funeral Home, Jellico in charge.

HOPKINS, COLONEL JAMES (B. B.) RET. USAR - age 69, passed away Friday, August
11, 2000 at the Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge. He was a devoted
husband and father. He moved to Oak Ridge, Tenn. in the summer of 1944,
graduated from Oak Ridge High School in 1949 and from the University of
Tennessee in 1954. B.B. received numerous athletic awards including the first
U.T. baseball player to ever receive All-American Honors. He was inducted
into the Oak Ridge Sports Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Knoxville Sports
Hall of Fame in 1991. He received several professional awards and served on
numerous civic committees in Oak Ridge. He was a dedicated employee at the
Y-12 Plant from 1956 until his retirement in 1994. Preceded in death by
father, Charles Buford Hopkins, 1985; mother, Nell Jenkins Hopkins, 1959;
brother, Bobby Hopkins, 1977; sister, Peggy Williams, 1965. Survivors
include; wife, Patricia "Pat" McWilliams Hopkins, Oak Ridge; sons, Jamie
Hopkins and wife, Alison, US Navy, Jacksonville, Fla., Mark Hopkins and wife,
Karla, Powell, Shannon Hopkins, Knoxville; grandchildren, Nathan, Jordan,
Stephanie, Natalie, Hayden; several nieces and nephews. Funeral service will
be held on Monday August 14, 2000, 8 p.m. with Rev. Boyd Carter officiating
and Judge Buddy Scott giving the eulogy. Graveside service will be held on
Tuesday 11 a.m. Anderson Memorial Gardens. Memorials may be made to United
Church, Chapel of the Hill, 85 Kentucky Ave. Oak Ridge, Tenn.37830 or The
Boys' Club of Oak Ridge, 102 South Jefferson Cr., Oak Ridge, Tenn. 37830. The
family will receive friends Monday, 5:30-8 p.m. at Weatherford Mortuary, Oak
Ridge

MOORE, MICKEY MARY MARGARET - 64, of Oak Ridge, died on Friday, August 11.
2000 at the Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge after a lengthy battle with
lung cancer. Mrs. Moore was born on December 26, 1935 in Gadsden, Ala., the
daughter of Rayford A. Wall and Margaret B. Wall, deceased. She is survived
by her husband of 31 years. Benton W. Moore; daughters Margaret Wall Garrett
of Powell and Laura Moore Escamilla of Oak Ridge; by her sister, Nancy
Mullinax and her husband, Joe of Gadsden, Ala.; and by six grandchildren,
Chad Wilson of Coalfield, Sarah Garrett of Wartburg, Rachel Escamilla, T.K.
Escamilla, James Escamilla, and Emily Escamilla all of El Campo, Texas. She
is also survived by several nieces and nephews. Mrs. Moore attended Gadsden
State Community College and graduated summa cum laude from the University of
Tennessee with a double major in English and Library Science. She taught
English and was librarian at Clinton Senior High for a few years before
joining DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information as an editor.
While with OSTI, she made a career change and became a computer programmer
and retired in 1996 as software product manager. While at DOE, she was
founding member of and served in several capacities in the local chapter of
Federally Employed Women. Mrs. Moore, along with her husband, were
internationally known dance teachers and choreographers in the Round Dance
movement (a form of sequence ballroom dancing) and had taught in most of the
states of the United States and in Japan, Germany, Mexico, and Canada. They
were currently serving their second term as Presidents of the Universal Round
Dance Council (URDC), were currently on the Advisory Board and past Chairmen
of the Dixie Round Dance Council, were founding members of a local ballroom
club, the Dancers Club of Oak Ridge, and were active in several other dance
organizations. Locally, they taught weekly Round Dance classes for the
Knoxville Recreation Department. The had also taught ballroom dancing for
some of the local studios, for the YWCA, and for various other organizations.
She and her husband were honored to have been one of only five couples to
have been awarded the highest awards of the two largest Round Dance
organizations in the world; the Golden Torch Award from the URDC, and the
Silver Halo Award from the International Association of Round Dance Teachers
(ROUNDALAB). Both awards are for significant contributions to the Round Dance
movement. The family request that any memorials or remembrances be in the
form of donations to the American Lung Assoc., the American Cancer Society,
or to a worthy cause of their choosing. At Mrs. Moore's request, there will
not be a funeral and the body has been cremated. McCarty-Martin Oak Ridge
Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
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