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Subject: [TNCAMPBE-L] Obits From The Oak Ridger 29 Nov 2000
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 06:38:01 EST
>From The Oak Ridger 29 Nov 2000
LENA BYRD PICKRELL, 84, of Clinton, died Monday, Nov. 27, 2000, at Lake City
Health Care Center.
Mrs. Pickrell was a homemaker and a member of First Baptist Church of
Clinton.
Her family described her as a loving wife and mother who will be missed by
her family as well as by her finches and the birds that visited on her back
porch.
She was born in Anderson County on Nov. 18, 1915, the daughter of Robert and
Allie Farmer Byrd.
Mrs. Pickrell is survived by her husband of 68 years, Lionel Pickrell; her
sons, David Pickrell and his wife, Sharon, of Houston, Texas, and James
Pickrell and Stephen Pickrell and his wife, Debbie, all of Clinton; and by
four grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents, her sisters and brothers, Flora Gault, Gustava
Miller, Gertrude Keith, Hershel Byrd and Virgil Byrd, died earlier.
A graveside service will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, at
Sunset Cemetery in Clinton with the Rev. Sam Dean officiating.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 tonight, Nov. 29, at
Holley-Gamble Funeral Home in Clinton.
Doyle L. Cope, 75, of Oliver Springs, died Monday, Nov. 27, 2000, at
Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge.
Mr. Cope was born in Colony, Okla., on Feb. 7, 1925, the son of Alvin and
Mary Elizabeth Rose Cope, who are deceased.
He was retired as an operating engineer who was employed by the Powers
Foundation Drilling Co. for 38 years.
He and his wife of 56 years, Irene M. Cope, who survives him, moved to Oliver
Springs in 1996 from Oklahoma City, where they had lived for 50 years.
He was a member of First Baptist Church of Oak Ridge and formerly a longtime
member of First Baptist Church of Del City, Okla.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Cope is survived by his daughters, Mary Alice
Cope and Rosa Lee Cornett and her husband, James C. Cornett, all of Oliver
Springs; his grandchildren, Russell J. "Rusty" Cornett, Lee Anthony "Tony"
Cornett and Jonathan Lowell Cornett; his great-grandchildren, Sydney Cornett
and Lyndsey Cornett; and several other family members.
In addition to his parents, two brothers, Albert Cope and Booster Cope, a
sister, Dorothy Turner, and five half-sisters, Jeanette Jarett, Viola Turner,
Bertie Lynn, Ann Hudson and Myrtle Turner, died earlier.
The funeral will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, in the chapel of Sharp
Funeral Home in Oliver Springs. The Rev. Buddy Townsend and Michael Shellman
will officiate.
Burial and graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 1, at
Anderson Memorial Gardens, Oliver Springs Highway, Clinton.
The family will receive friends from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral
home.
JESSIE MAE HINTON MEYERS, 78, of Taylors, S.C., formerly of Oak Ridge, died
Monday, Nov. 27, 2000, in Taylors.
Mrs. Meyers is survived by her sister, Mildred Ragland of Huntington Beach,
Calif.; her son-in-law, Jack A. Carter of Greenville, S.C.; and by three
grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, in the chapel of Thomas
McAfee Funeral Home, Northwest, Greenville.
Burial will be at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Greenville.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 tonight, Nov. 29, at the
funeral home.
Family members are at the home of Jack A. Carter, 111 Jasmine Drive,
Greenville.
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