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Subject: [TNCAMPBE-L] Obits From The Oak Ridger 10 Jan 2001
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 19:37:04 EST


>From The Oak Ridger 10 Jan 2001

JAMES FREEMAN "Jim" VINES, 40, of 318 Louisiana Ave., died Tuesday, Jan. 9,
2001, of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
Mr. Vines had been an Anderson County commissioner since 1994. He represented
District 6 in west Oak Ridge and was serving his second term on commission.
As a commissioner, he was a strong advocate for the children of Anderson
County, making his top priority the initiation of the county-wide Healthy
Start program, now operating through the Anderson County Health Council.
The program helps first-time parents learn nurturing and parenting skills to
create a positive home environment. His concern for children also led to his
advocacy on county commission for funding nonprofit organizations.
He served on the Budget, Legislative, Nominating and Rules committees of
Anderson County Board of Commissioners and on the Oak Ridge/Anderson County
Communications Committee. He was also a member of the Anderson County Utility
Board and the Regional Solid Waste Planning Board.
Mr. Vines was president and owner of Freeman Communications, a television and
video production company. Involved in local broadcasting through his company,
he was the original host of "Coach's Corner," a local cable television show
focusing on Oak Ridge High School football, from 1988 to 1997.
He also broadcast color commentary for Oak Ridge youth sports for many years
at radio station WATO, starting at Oak Ridge High School where he was sports
director of the high school television station and provided the weekly "Boys
Club Report" for WATO.
Mr. Vines' first job as a youth was working for Charlie Painter at Oak Ridge
Putt-Putt Golf, earning money to play the course, and he continued working at
Putt-Putt for many years. As a youngster, he played sports at the Boys Club.
He was named "Boy of the Year" in 1977 by the Boys Club, in recognition of
his outstanding contributions to the club and community. As a student, he was
a volunteer coach and junior staff member at the Boys Club. As an adult, he
had been a member of the Optimists and the Jaycees and was named one of the
Outstanding Young Men of America in 1987.
A native of Oak Ridge, he attended Highland View Elementary School and
Robertsville Junior High School. A 1978 graduate of ORHS, where he played on
the varsity baseball team, he attended Middle Tennessee State University and
the University of Tennessee.
Mr. Vines was a staff member and later program director at the Boys Club in
the late 1970s and 1980s. He had served as a volunteer coach for more than 20
years in basketball, baseball, football and softball. He worked on the Clinch
River Breeder Reactor Project and formed Freeman Communications in 1990.
He served as an original member of the board of Comprehensive Resource
Evaluation & Application Model, now the Children's Advocacy Network, and he
has been a board member of the Oak Ridge Boys Club, the American Heart
Association, the Anderson County Health Council, and Oak Ridge Community
Television, and the Oak Ridge Sports Hall of Fame. He was a member of Grace
Lutheran Church.
Mr. Vines' wife, Anita, is property manager at Linda Brown Realty. Their son,
Wesley, 9, is a fourth-grade student at Willow Brook Elementary School.
In addition to his wife and son, survivors include his parents, Kathleen
"Kay" and L.P. "Pete" Vines; his sisters, Carol Price and her husband, Bill,
and Wanda Vines and her husband, Rick Wallace; and his uncle, A.J. Norris,
all of Oak Ridge; and by his sister-in-law, Pat Vines of Norfolk, Va.
Mr. Vines is also survived by his mother-in-law, June Bedwell; his
brother-in-law, Terry Bedwell and his wife, Cindy, and their daughter,
Taylor, all of Clarksville; his nieces and nephews, John Price and Jennifer
Price, both of Oak Ridge, Sheryl Lambdin and her husband, David, of
Chattanooga, and Garrett Ramsey and his wife, Jamie, and their children
Matthew, Krista and Kara, all of Clinton; and his cousins Kim, Linda and
Steve Norris, all of Oak Ridge.
His brother, Larry Vines, and his grandparents, Wesley and Gertrude Norris,
are deceased.
The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 12, at Grace Lutheran
Church. The Rev. Stephen Damos will officiate.
Burial will follow at Anderson Memorial Gardens, Oliver Springs Highway,
Clinton.
A family account for memorials has been established at TnBank of Oak Ridge,
1541 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, with Lawrence Hahn as
administrator. Memorial donations also may be made to the Healthy Start
Program, c/o Anderson County Health Council, P.O. Box 570, Clinton, TN 37717;
or to the Boys Club of Oak Ridge, P.O. Box 4021, Oak Ridge, TN 37831.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 11, at
Weatherford Mortuary.

WILLIAM HOWARD HILDRETH, a longtime Realtor and insurance agent of Oak Ridge,
died Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2001, at the age of 82.
Mr. Hildreth was born June 26, 1918, in Alexandria, Tenn., where he was
raised on a farm during the Great Depression. He was one of the first men to
sell Diamond kerosene irons, which started his career as a successful
salesman.
After graduating from Watertown High School, he went to Cumberland University
in Lebanon, Tenn., and then graduated from Middle Tennessee State University
with a degree in chemistry.
Mr. Hildreth came to Oak Ridge in 1943 as a chemist in the Manhattan Project,
working for Tennessee Eastman Corp. He soon resumed his talent for sales as
he opened the Howard Hildreth Insurance and Real Estate Agency in the
Woodland Shopping Center, which he owned.
He was a charter member of First Baptist Church of Oak Ridge, where he was
also a deacon and trustee. He was an active member of the Oak Ridge Country
Club, the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce and the Kiwanis Club.
Mr. Hildreth's family said he will forever be remembered by family and
friends as a person who was caring and compassionate for others; determined,
driven and totally positive in every way; one who always had a very
reasonable and logical solution for any of life's problems faced by family or
friends; a person who always enjoyed a good laugh, no matter what the
situation; a great lover of music as a participant or listener; a golfer with
a great passion for the game's rewards of achievement, natural beauty and
companionship; a great achiever, and unbeatable person, who if any methods
had been available would have overcome his devastating disease; and a person
who loved travel and adventure and is now on a trip through the ages with old
family and friends.
He is survived by his wife of 56 years, "Mickie" Hildreth; his brother,
Norman Hildreth of Oak Ridge; his children, Johnny Hildreth and his wife,
Haverly, Billy Hildreth Sr. and Mary Hildreth, all of Knoxville, and Linda
Higgins and her husband, Andrew, of Brentwood; and by 12 grandchildren, Heath
Hildreth, Keri Hildreth, Brittany Hildreth, Brook Hildreth, Jennifer Higgins
Black, Scott Higgins, Julie Higgins, Billy Hildreth Jr., Daniel Hildreth,
Dustin Bolin, Joy Bolin and Joseph Roszell.
Another son, Paul Hildreth, and a grandson, Shane Hildreth, preceded him in
death.
Mr. Hildreth donated his body to science.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 11, at First
Baptist Church of Oak Ridge. A memorial service will follow.
The family requests that any memorials be in the form of donations to the
American Cancer Society, 871 Weisgarber Road, Knoxville, TN 37909
(1-800-227-2345).

JESS LONG, 91, of Briceville, died Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2001, at Lake City Health
Care Center.
Mr. Long was a member of Walden's View Baptist Church of Briceville.
He was the son of George and Polly Long, who are deceased.
Mr. Long is survived by his sons, Glen M. Long and his wife, Joann, of
Harriman and Michael L. Long and his wife, Barbara, of Oliver Springs; his
daughters, Mary Ruth Chambers and her husband, Harold, of Clinton, Zola M.
Vealey of Cleveland, Ohio, and Helen Hester and her husband, Sam, of
Harriman; and his brother, Fred Long of Lake City.
He is also survived by his daughters-in-law, Bonnie Long, Cleta Long and Judy
Long, all of Briceville, and Jean Long of Lake City; and by several
grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
In addition to his parents, his wife, Ethel Louise Vandergriff Long, and four
other sons, William George "Billy" Long, J.L. Long, Ronnie Long and Jimmy
Long, and another daughter, Rema Nel Long, died earlier.
The funeral will be held at 8 tonight, Jan. 10, in the chapel of
Holley-Gamble Funeral Home in Lake City with the Rev. Larry Potter
officiating.
A graveside service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 11, at Indian
Bluff Cemetery in the Braden Flats community of Briceville. Mr. Long's
grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 tonight at the funeral home.

HOBART C. TAYLOR, 87, of Preston Place, Kingsport, died Sunday, Jan. 7, 2001,
at Indian Path Medical Center in Kingsport, following a brief illness.
Mr. Taylor was a former resident of Oak Ridge and had worked as a chemical
supervisor at the Oak Ridge K-25 Site. Prior to working in Oak Ridge, he
worked at Tennessee Eastman Co. as a chemical supervisor.
He was a native of Scott County, Va., and he was a U.S. Army veteran of World
War II.
Mr. Taylor was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church (PCA) where he was
a trustee. He was also a member of Hammond Post No. 3 of the American Legion
and a member of the AMVETS.
He is survived by his wife, Virginia Adams Taylor; his daughter, Norma Sue
Ketola and her husband, Carl, of Rochester, N.Y.; his son, Ronald W. Taylor
and his wife, Carol, of Oak Ridge; and by four grandchildren, two
great-grandchildren and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Six brothers and six sisters died earlier.
The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 11, in the chapel of
Hamlett-Dobson Funeral Home in Kingsport with the Rev. G. Brent Bradley
officiating.
Burial will follow at the Tri-Cities Memory Gardens.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 tonight, Jan. 10, at the funeral
home.

LARRY CREEKMORE, 66, of Clinton, died Monday, Jan. 8, 2001, at Methodist
Medical Center of Oak Ridge.
Mr. Creekmore was born Dec. 3, 1934, in Jellico, Ky., the son of Sterling and
Mildred Creekmore, who are deceased.
He was a graduate of Pleasant View High School in Williamsburg, Ky., and he
attended college in Williamsburg. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean
War. He was a big Kentucky fan, his family said.
Mr. Creekmore served as assistant postmaster at the Clinton post office from
1964 to 1990. From 1990 to 1992, he served as the postmaster at the
Andersonville post office. After leaving the U.S. Postal Service, he worked
as a school bus driver for Robbins School Bus & Parker Transport companies.
Before going to work for the Postal Service, he was employed at Magnet Mills
in Clinton from 1960 to 1964.
He was a member of Black Oak Baptist Church of Clinton.
He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Lois Payne Creekmore; his son, Bruce
Creekmore and his wife, Gina Graham Creekmore, of Clinton; his
granddaughters, Sara Creekmore and Spencer Creekmore, both of Clinton; and
his sister, Billie Paul of New Carlisle, Ohio.
Mr. Creekmore is also survived by his aunts, Geneva Creekmore and Gladys
Creekmore, both of Jellico, Tenn., and Roberta Casey of Cincinnati, Ohio; his
sisters-in-law, Patsy Robbins and Totsy Burress and her husband, Dennis, all
of Clinton; and his brother-in-law, Delbert G. Payne and his wife, Betty, of
Mulberry, Tenn.
Dr. John Foust, Dr. Kenneth Miller, Dr. Randall Pearson, Dr. Randall Robbins,
Patsy Robbins and Patsy Ward were considered special friends.
In addition to his parents, his grandparents, Sharkey and Dora Head Wright of
Jellico, Ky., and Luke and Rachel Creekmore of Jellico, Tenn., and his
sister, Phyllis Higginbotham of Jellico, Ky., died earlier. Also, his
father-in-law and mother-in-law, the Rev. Delbert and Laura Long Payne of
Clinton, are deceased.
The funeral will be held at 8 tonight, Jan. 10, in the chapel of
Holley-Gamble Funeral Home in Clinton. The Rev. Mack Smith, the Rev. Layton
Beets and the Rev. Harvey Sherlin will officiate.
A graveside service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 11, at
Grandview Memorial Gardens in Clinton with the Rev. Paul Frick of First
Baptist Church of Clinton officiating. Pallbearers will be David Parker,
Wayne Burress, Rick Keever, Carol Head, Larry Higginbotham, Boyd
Higginbotham, Shannon Higginbotham and Robert Robbins.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 tonight at the funeral home.

MARY FRANCES DIEBOLD, 58, of Oak Ridge, died at 12:05 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan.
9, 2001, at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge, one day before her 59th
birthday.
Ms. Diebold was a former kitchen assistant manager at Red Lobster restaurant.
She had worked there for six years.
She was born Jan. 10, 1942, in Decatur, Ill., the daughter of John L. and
Neta O. Creighton, who are deceased. She received a general equivalency
diploma from Oak Ridge High School. Her interests included bowling, and she
was a Baptist.
Ms. Diebold is survived by her sisters, Karen Creighton of Oak Ridge and
Betty Greutman of Flat Rock, Mich.; and by several nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents, her brother, John Creighton, died earlier.
The funeral will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 11, in the chapel of Martin
Oak Ridge Funeral Home with the Rev. Steve McDonald officiating.
Burial will follow at Oak Ridge Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at the
funeral home.
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