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Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 21:28:21 EST
>From The Oak Ridger 8 Jan 2001
FESTUS W. "Sandy" SNODGRASS Jr., 69, of Oak Ridge, died Friday, Jan. 5, 2001,
at his home after a long battle with cancer.
Mr. Snodgrass was born Oct. 15, 1931, in Fort Monroe, Va. He was
valedictorian of his high school graduating class and had always been
involved in planning class reunions. He was also a graduate of the University
of Tennessee.
An eight-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, he served two tours of duty
overseas and participated in Operation Ivy, the first testing of the hydrogen
bomb.
Mr. Snodgrass retired from Martin Marietta Energy Systems on Oct. 1, 1993, as
a professional electrical engineer at the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant. He had also
worked at the Oak Ridge K-25 Site and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
He was a member of Kern Memorial United Methodist Church. He had served the
church as a trustee and as a United Methodist youth counselor. He loved
anything that involved his family, such as camping, boating and hiking. His
family said he was born in the mountains of Southwest Virginia and loved
mountain vacations and trips.
He was an avid fan of all sporting events, but especially those of UT. His
family said he had visited all 50 states and 13 countries. He was described
as a "shade tree mechanic" who could fix anything and as someone who had a
great sense of humor and who was always willing to help. For the past few
years, he had been researching his family tree.
Mr. Snodgrass is survived by his wife, Jewell Roller Snodgrass; his son,
Jerry Steven Snodgrass and his wife, Robin Mink Snodgrass, of Red Bank; his
daughter, Delores Snodgrass Foust and her husband, James "Chuck" Foust, of
Oak Ridge; his mother, Irma Lane Snodgrass of Gate City, Va.; his sister,
JoAnn Snodgrass Moffa and her husband, Lou, of Summerville, S.C.; and his
brothers, Jim Snodgrass and his wife, Teresa, of Kingsport and John Snodgrass
and his wife, Irma, of Gate City.
He is also survived by his grandchildren, Heather Foust Holder and her
husband, Todd, of Knoxville, Jessica Sara Foust and Trevor Andrew Foust, both
of Oak Ridge, and Elizabeth Ruth Snodgrass of Red Bank; his
step-granddaughter, Danielle Suzanne Brown of Red Bank; and several nieces
and nephews.
Mr. Snodgrass's father, the Rev. Festus W. Snodgrass Sr., and an infant
granddaughter, Victoria Ann Snodgrass, died earlier. His special friends,
Donald D. Bates and James H. Todd, are also deceased.
The funeral was held Sunday, Jan. 7, in the chapel of Martin Oak Ridge
Funeral Home with the Rev. E.C. Vestal officiating.
A graveside service was to be conducted at 11 this morning, Jan. 8, at Oak
Ridge Memorial Park. William Moles, Ray Maginnis, Bill Hicks, C.E. Houston,
Delbert Bivens, Don Bates, Mark Shearin and Bill Daugherty were named
honorary pallbearers.
The family requests any memorials be in the form of donations to the Amercian
Cancer Society, c/o Lee Costanzo, 103 Case Lane, Oak Ridge, TN 37830.
MAXINE WHITAKER FLINCHUM, 69, of Maryville, died Friday, Jan. 5, 2001, at
Blount Memorial Hospital.
Born Dec. 13, 1931, in Hazard, Ky., she was the daughter of Edward and Etta
Catron Whitaker, both deceased. She was a former resident of Farragut.
Ms. Flinchum was described by her family and friends as a loving mother,
grandmother and great-grandmother who always had a smile and a hug for
everyone.
She is survived by three sons, Ronnie Flinchum and his wife Kathy, of Oak
Ridge, Lloyd Flinchum and his wife, Cathy, and Wayne Flinchum and his wife,
Deanna, all of Knoxville; a sister, Polly Shelton of Johnson City; and four
brothers, Manuel Whitaker of California, Herbert Whitaker of Kentucky, and
Bob Whitaker and Luther Whitaker, both of Tellico.
Ms. Flinchum is also survived by eight grandchildren, Cindy Flinchum, Tammy
Miller and Dawn Miller, all of Johnson City, Tara Flinchum of Knoxville,
Jordan Flinchum, Tiffany Hughes and Ryan Hughes, all of Oak Ridge, and Donny
Hughes of Illinois; three great-grandchildren, Brittney and Caitlin Miller of
Johnson City, and Ethan Hughes of Illinois; and by several nieces, nephews
and other relatives.
A graveside service will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 9, at Oak
Ridge Memorial Park with the Rev. Harold Scott officiating.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 tonight, Jan. 8, at Weatherford
Mortuary.
WILLIAM F. BOUDREAU, 86, died Jan. 2, 2001, in Mesa, Ariz., where he had
lived for the past three years. He had been a longtime resident of Oak Ridge.
Mr. Boudreau was born in Columbus, Ohio, and spent much of his youth in
Geneva, Switzerland, where his father headed the Health Division of the
League of Nations, now known as the World Health Organization.
He received his undergraduate degree from Case Institute of Technology in
Cleveland, Ohio, and his master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in Cambridge, Mass. In 1943, Mr. Boudreau began working at
Columbia University in New York City, in the Division of War Research
(Manhattan Project). In 1946, he and his family moved to Oak Ridge.
He worked for Union Carbide Nuclear Division in a variety of engineering
positions. In 1963, he left Oak Ridge for York, Pa., to become vice president
for the Automotive Compressive Development Department at the York Division of
Borg-Warner. In 1975, he returned to Oak Ridge to work in the Nuclear
Division of Union Carbide. He lived at 102 Norman Lane.
While in Oak Ridge, Mr. Boudreau and his wife, Eleanor, who is now deceased,
participated in many activities, including both square and folk dancing. He
was a member of the Cosmopolitan Club and actively supported and participated
in the Oak Ridge Community Playhouse and the Oak Ridge Civic Music
Association.
He was also an active member of First Presbyterian Church. In later years,
his family said he worked with several organizations concerning peaceful uses
only for atomic energy.
He is survived by his daughter, Penelope Garrett of Wilmette, Ill.; his
grandsons, Greg Garrett of Arlington, Va., and Tim Garrett of Mesa; and three
great-grandchildren, Danielle, Patrick and Alex Garrett, all of Mesa.
In addition to his wife, another daughter, Nancy, died earlier.
A memorial service will be held in Oak Ridge at a later date.
The family requests that any memorials be in the form of donations to First
Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 6106, Oak Ridge, TN 37831; or to the Odyssey
Hospice, 202 East Earl Drive, Phoenix, AZ 85021.
HOWARD JUAN RASH Jr., 58, of Frankfort, Ky., died Thursday, Jan. 4, 2001, at
Frankfort Regional Medical Center.
Mr. Rash was born March 4, 1942, in Wytheville, Va. He was the son of Mary
Wright and Howard Rash Sr. of Oak Ridge, who survive him. He was a 1960
graduate of Oak Ridge High School and lettered in baseball.
He had also served in the U.S. Air Force.
Mr. Rash loved horses and had lived in Frankfort for the past seven years. He
was the assistant horse trainer at Fawn Leap Farms in Frankfort.
In addition to his parents, he is survived by his son, Clinton Duane Rash and
his wife, Terry, of Oak Ridge; his sister, Barbara Jean Fowler and her
husband, Joe, of Barnesville, Ga.; his grandsons, Eric, Jarred and Bradley
Rash of Oak Ridge; and his nephew and nieces, Jeff Fowler, Jodi Henderson and
Jacquelyn Fowler, all of the Atlanta, Ga., area.
Shirley Housley of Frankfort was considered a special friend.
A graveside service was held Sunday, Jan. 7, at Oak Ridge Memorial Park with
the Rev. Charles Mattson officiating.
Weatherford Mortuary handled arrangements.
LAVONNA MILLER ENGLAND, 35, of the Batley community of Anderson County, died
Thursday, Jan. 4, 2001, at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge.
Ms. England was a member of Batley Baptist Church.
She was born Feb. 22, 1965, in Clinton. Her family said she will be
remembered as a loving mother, a precious daughter, a wonderful sister and a
special friend to those she knew.
She is survived by her daughter, Deanna England; her brother, Aaron England
and his wife, Kathryn England, and their daughter, Kalleen England of
Clinton; her mother, Shelby England of Clinton; and by her father, Raymond
England and his wife, Mabel, of Oliver Springs.
Ms. England is also survived by her stepbrothers, Tony Harper and David
Harper; her stepsisters, Pat Crowe and Frances Buck; her grandparents,
Marshal and Isabel Jones of Clinton; her uncles, Alvin Jones and Carl
McKamey, both of Clinton, and Ben Freels and his wife, Ruth, of Baltimore,
Md.; and by many other relatives.
Pat Goodman of Oliver Springs was considered a special friend.
The funeral was held Sunday, Jan. 7, at Batley Baptist Church in Oliver
Springs with the Rev. Luke Kidwell officiating.
Burial followed at the Batley Cemetery.
Sharp Funeral Home handled arrangements.
BESSIE V. MCKEETHAN, 88, of Oliver Springs, died Friday, Jan. 5, 2001, at the
Life Care Center of Morgan County.
Mrs. McKeethan was born Aug. 3, 1912, in Sunbright, the daughter of Leander
Claude Galloway and Edie Emaline England Galloway. She had lived in Oliver
Springs since 1944.
She was the widow of Forrest McKeethan. She had attended Mount Pisgah Baptist
Church of Oliver Springs.
Mrs. McKeethan is survived by her sons, Mike McKeethan of Kingston and Tim
McKeethan and his wife, Melba, of Oliver Springs; her grandchildren, Janene
Browder of Knoxville, Steve McKeethan of Kingston and Heather Burnett of
Harriman; her great-grandchildren, Laura Browder, Andrew Sullivan and Ethan
Burnett; and her sister, Lorene Stringfield of Wartburg.
In addition to her husband and her parents, four brothers and two sisters,
Liesley Hayes Galloway, Charles Wesley Galloway, Claude Leander Galloway,
William Hurgin Galloway, Hannah Rebecca Summers and Mamie Elizabeth Colditz,
died earlier.
The funeral was held Sunday, Jan. 7, in the chapel of Sharp Funeral Home in
Oliver Springs with the Rev. Garvan Walls officiating.
A graveside service was to be conducted at 11 this morning, Jan. 8, at Oliver
Springs Cemetery.
WILLIE O. "Billie" GILLESPI, 93, of Oak Ridge, died Friday, Jan. 5, 2001, at
Farragut Health Care Center in Farragut.
Mrs. Gillespie was born Aug. 12, 1907, in Greenwood, Ky., the daughter of
William Clinton Daly and Mary K. Brummitt Owens, both deceased.
She came to Oak Ridge in 1949 with her husband, Jack Gillespie, an internal
auditor who retired from the Department of Energy in 1975 after 30 years of
service. Her husband died June 4, 1981.
She met her husband in Knoxville and they were married at Church Street
United Methodist Church in Knoxville on Sept. 23, 1934. Prior to her
husband's going to work for the government, Mrs. Gillespie worked at the
Tennessee Valley Authority for 10 years as secretary to George H. Irish, head
of the Transportation Department.
Shortly after arriving in Oak Ridge, Mrs. Gillespie became active in
volunteer services of the American Red Cross, serving as chairman of the Gray
Ladies and then chairman of Volunteer Services, donating much of her time in
the days of Bloodmobile visits.
She was an active member of First United Methodist Church and the Oak Ridge
Woman's Club. She was also a member of the Order of Eastern Star and had
served as past worthy matron of the Acacia Chapter in Knoxville. Her hobbies
were knitting, doing needlepoint embroidery, playing bridge and traveling,
which she did extensively.
Mrs. Gillespie is survived by her nieces and nephews, Betty McKeehan
McSpadden of Knoxville, Elizabeth Owings Franklin, Jean Gover Watkins and
Janice Gover King, all of Lexington, Ky., Katherine Foster Baum of Coronado,
Calif., Mary Katherine Minnich of Benton, La., and Charles W. Owings and Glen
Gover, both of Somerset, Ky.
A graveside service was to be conducted at 1:30 this afternoon, Jan. 8, at
Anderson Memorial Gardens in Clinton.
The family requests that any memorials be in the form of donations to a
charity of the donor's choice.
Martin Oak Ridge Funeral Home handled arrangements.
HAZEL CARDEN, 87, died Saturday, Jan. 6, 2001, at the University of Tennessee
Medical Center at Knoxville. She was the daughter of William Elvis and Annie
Elizabeth Wade Carden.
Ms. Carden was born April 1, 1913, at Riverside Farm, across the Clinch River
from Clinton. In 1962, the farm was sold to the Tennessee Valley Authority.
She and her sister, Marie, now deceased, moved to Eagle Bend Lane in Clinton
where they lived until 1995 when they moved to Shannondale Retirement
Community in Knoxville.
She graduated with honors from Clinton High School and Knoxville Business
College and later studied real estate at the University of Tennessee. She
worked first in John T. Webb's Register of Deeds office, then as a typist for
attorneys abstracting land acquired for the building of Norris Dam.
In 1939, Ms. Carden and John Webb purchased an insurance agency which later
was named General Insurance Agency. She organized the Anderson County Credit
Bureau when rationing began in World War II, worked for Judge T.L. Seeber
until 1952, served as deputy register of deeds, clerk of Anderson County
Court meetings and did real estate work for many attorneys.
In addition to the insurance company, she obtained her real estate broker's
license in 1964 and open the Hazel Carden Agency. She was the first woman to
be named a member of the Anderson County Board of Realtors and the first
woman to serve on the Clinton Planning Commission.
Ms. Carden was named a lifetime member of the Clinton Chamber of Commerce in
1992, having been the first woman to serve as its president. Her other civic
activities included being a charter member of Clinton's Business and
Professional Women's Club, where a high school scholarship was established in
her name. She was also a member of the Timely Topics Club and a lifelong
member of First Baptist Church of Clinton.
Ms. Carden is survived by her sister, Anne Carden Wilbanks of Knoxville; her
brother, Wade Hampton Carden of Houston, Texas; several nieces and nephews,
including Doris Carden Wood of Charlotte, N.C., Carole Ann Carden Qumsieh of
Houston, Dr. Wade Douglas Carden of Cincinnati, Ohio, Allen Carden of Los
Angeles, Calif., Linda Wilbanks Morgan, Patricia Wilbanks Watters and Caye
Wilbanks Teegarden, all of Atlanta, Ga.; and by many grandnieces and
grandnephews.
In addition to her parents and her sister, another sister, Bernese Carden,
died earlier.
The funeral was to be held at 1 this afternoon, Jan. 8, in the chapel of
Holley-Gamble Funeral Home in Clinton with the Rev. Samuel Dean and the Rev.
John B. Morgan III, officiating.
Burial was to follow at Sunset Cemetery in Clinton.
The family requests any memorials be in the form of donations to First
Baptist Church, P.O. Box 268, Clinton, TN 37717.
A.A. WALLS, 75, of Knoxville, died Friday, Jan. 5, 2001, in Knoxville.
Mr. Walls was born Nov. 27, 1925, in Morgan County, the son of Alex Walls and
Mamie McGlothlin Walls, who are deceased. After graduating from Coalfield
High School in 1943, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps where he was a
bombardier, flying in a B-17, during World War II. He received two service
medals.
After the war, he earned his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from
the University of Tennessee. In January 1951, he married Louise Huskisson.
The couple had been married for 45 years at the time of her death.
Mr. Walls was retired from Union Carbide Nuclear Division. He worked as an
engineer for five years at the Oak Ridge K-25 Site and for 29 years at the
Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
His professional memberships included architectural and engineering societies
in Tennessee and Toastmasters. Mr. Walls received the Distinguished
Toastmasters Award from the Fountain City Toastmasters.
His childhood church was Middle Creek Baptist Church in Oliver Springs but
for the past 45 years, he had been a member of Second Methodist Church of
Knoxville.
He is survived by his sister, Naomi Webster; several nieces, Susan Huskisson
and Judy Rhyne, whom he considered special, and Elaine Jump and Cheryl
Kohlrieser; his nephews, Richard Walls, Jim Webster and Mike Webster; his
sister-in-law, Sarah Wimmyer; his brother-in-law, Harry Huskisson; and 15
grandnieces and grandnephews.
Ben Cathy and Rube McCord were considered special friends.
In addition to his wife and his parents, two other brothers, Warren Walls and
James Walls, died earlier.
The funeral was held Saturday, Jan. 6, at Rose Mortuary, Mann Heritage
Chapel, Knoxville, with the Rev. Bob Tripp officiating.
A graveside service was held Sunday, Jan. 7, at Edgewood Cemetery, Knoxville.
Members of the Volunteer State Veterans Honor Guard conducted military rites.
The family requests that any memorials be in the form of donations to the
Stained-Glass-Window Fund at Middle Creek Baptist Church, 6455 Knoxville
Highway, Oliver Springs, TN 37840; or to Second United Methodist Church, 1524
Western Ave., Knoxville, TN 37921.
THELMA RUTH GOODMAN MCCULLEY, 90, of Lake City, died Friday, Jan. 5, 2001, at
the Lake City Health Care Center.
She was born Oct. 20, 1910, in Anderson County.
Survivors include two daughters and their husbands, Marjorie and John Dugger
of Briceville and Thelma and Benji Quintana of Virginia; a son and his wife,
Johnny and Joyce McCulley of Clinton; a sister, Claudia Gross of Lake City;
and nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
The funeral was held Sunday evening, Jan. 7, in the chapel of Cox-Martin
Funeral Home in Lake City. The Rev. Harvey Sherlin officiated.
A graveside service was conducted at 11 this morning, Jan. 8, at Oak Grove
Cemetery in Lake City.
Carol Vale, 62, of Oak Ridge, died Sunday, Jan. 7, 2001, at Methodist Medical
Center of Oak Ridge.
Weatherford Mortuary is handling arrangements, which were incomplete this
morning.
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