Tennessee, U.S., Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909
James William Anderson Sr.
Retired K-25 employee
Record dated at 12:41 p.m.
on Wednesday, January 14, 1998
James William Anderson Sr., 71, of Kingston, died at 5:20 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13, 1998, at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge.
Mr. Anderson retired in 1986 from Martin Marietta Energy Systems, where he had been employed for 29 years at the K-25 Site.
He was the son of George and Alma Anderson, now deceased. He was a longtime member and elder of Young's Chapel Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kingston.
Mr. Anderson is survived by his wife, Elva Anderson; a daughter, Debbie Roberts and her husband, Mike, of Kingston; a son, James William Anderson Jr., and his wife, Nancy, of Oak Ridge; three sisters, Dosia Moore of Columbia, Ila Woody of Nashville and Christine Edwards of Spring Hill; four grandchildren, Holly and Joshua Anderson of Oak Ridge and Adam and Ellen Roberts of Kingston; and by several nieces and nephews.
Two sisters and five brothers, Mary, Osia, Irvin, Tom, Paul, Cecil and Moncie, died earlier.
The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 16, at Young's Chapel Presbyterian Church in Kingston. Burial will follow at Kingston Memorial Gardens.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, at Kyker Funeral Home in Kingston.
Margaret Helen Brown
Former Magnet Mills employee
Record dated at 12:41 p.m.
on Wednesday, January 14, 1998
Margaret Helen Brown, 74, of Oliver Springs, died Monday, Jan. 12, 1998, at her home.
Mrs. Brown was previously employed at the former Magnet Mills in Clinton.
She was born in Anderson County on Aug. 26, 1923, and lived in the Oliver Springs area all her life. She was the daughter of Mikey and Lena Smith Lough, both now deceased.
Mrs. Brown was a member of Frost Bottom Missionary Baptist Church.
She was the widow of Alfred P. Brown.
She is survived by two daughters, Lillian Brown of Oliver Springs and Paula Strickland and her husband, Buzz, of Harriman; a son, Charles "Doc" Brown of Oliver Springs; and a grandson, Terry Michael Brown of Oak Ridge.
Mrs. Brown is also survived by two sisters, Gladys Hensley of Clinton and Esther Parks of Laurel Grove; five brothers, Leon Lough, Alvin Lough, Albert Lough, Luther Lough and Lloyd Lough, all of Oliver Springs; and by several nieces and nephews.
Debi Brown of Oak Ridge was her former daughter-in-law.
A grandson, Brian Mack Strickland, died earlier.
The funeral will be held at 8:30 tonight, Jan. 14, in the chapel of Sharp Funeral Home in Oliver Springs with the Rev. Kenny Rains officiating.
A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, at Anderson Memorial Gardens, Oliver Springs Highway, Clinton.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 tonight at the funeral home.
Ruth Fowler
Former Oak Ridger employee
Record dated at 1:04 p.m.
on Wednesday, January 14, 1998
Ruth Gray Bowling Fowler, 79, of Oak Ridge, died Tuesday, Jan. 13, 1998, at Brakebill Nursing Home in Knoxville.
For many years Mrs. Fowler was a part-time reporter and columnist for The Oak Ridger. She had been a resident of the nursing home since shortly after suffering a stroke in February 1997.
She was the oldest of three children born to Dr. Cecil James Bowling and Vivian Gray Bowling of Mobile, Ala. She attended Judson College in Marion, Ala., and in 1944 went to Los Alamos, N.M., where she worked as an assistant in the scientific library at the laboratory involved in the development of the atomic bomb.
It was there that she met her future husband, Joseph Lee Fowler, one of the first physicists to arrive at Los Alamos and work on the bomb. They married
in 1945.
The Fowlers' first son, James Reese Fowler, was born in 1948 in Los Alamos. A second son, Robert Bowling Fowler, was born in 1951 in Oak Ridge. The Fowlers moved to Norris that year and lived there until 1963, when they returned to Oak Ridge.
Joseph Lee Fowler served as director of the Physics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for 16 years. After her children were raised, Mrs. Fowler returned to college in her mid-50s and graduated from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor's degree in English.
She also embarked on her career in journalism, primarily covering the Anderson County school system for The Oak Ridger.
Soon after the unexpected death in March 1984 of her older son and the death two months later of her husband of 37 years, Mrs. Fowler started writing a daily weather column for the newspaper. That column was discontinued in November 1996. She also was one of a two-person team that answered questions for the Ask Incky column in The Oak Ridger.
Survivors include her younger son, Robert Fowler, who is the Anderson County editor of The Knoxville News-Sentinel, and his wife, Martha, and Mrs. Fowler's two grandsons, Joseph Andrew Fowler and Robert Walker Fowler, all of Knoxville.
She is also survived by a sister, Betty Bowling McGowen of Birmingham, Ala., and a brother, Cecil James "Jack" Bowling Jr. of Waycross, Ga.
A memorial service will be conducted at 3 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, at the United Church, Chapel on the Hill, 85 Kentucky Ave. The Rev. Howard Box, pastor emeritus of the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church, will officiate.
The family will receive friends after the service in the church's fellowship hall.
A family graveside service will be conducted Friday morning, Jan. 16, at Oak Ridge Memorial Park. Mrs. Fowler's ashes will be interred next to those of her husband and her son.
The family requests any memorials be in the form of donations to the Oak Ridge Art Center, P.O. Box 7005, Oak Ridge, TN 37831.
McCarty-Martin Oak Ridge Funeral Home handled arrangements.
Furman 'Frank' Strang Jr.
Retired ORGDP superintendent
Record dated at 12:41 p.m.
on Wednesday, January 14, 1998
Furman "Frank" Strang Jr., 78, of Oak Ridge, died Monday, Jan. 12, 1998, at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge.
Mr. Strang, a chemical engineer, retired from Union Carbide Nuclear Division in 1981 as superintendent at the barrier plant at the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant.
He was born in New York, N.Y., on Sept. 27, 1919, the son of Emma Mary Schuppert and Furman Strang Sr. He held a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.
Mr. Strang had been an Oak Ridge resident since 1945. He was a member of the University of Tennessee Arboretum Society, the North American Rock Garden Society, the Retirees Mixed Bowling League, the Wednesday Evening Men's League and Friends of the Garden. He had served as treasurer of the Retirees Association at the Union Carbide plants and was a volunteer with the plant blood drives. He was also considered a master gardener, his family said.
He is survived by his wife, Hazel Kamin Strang; two daughters, Lisa Strang Carroll and her husband, Timothy H., of Knoxville, and Leslie Strang Reese of Great Neck, N.Y.; a granddaughter, Shaina Greyson Reese of Great Neck; a nephew, Robert Craig Oresko of London, England; and two brothers-in-law, Nicholas Oresko of Tenafly, N.J., and Edward Otto Kamin and his wife, Madeline Schwartz Kamin, of Etowah, N.C.
His son, F. Greyson Strang, died on May 16, 1975, and a sister, Jean Strang Oresko, also died earlier.
The body was cremated. No service will be held.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, at Weatherford Mortuary.
The family requests any memorials be in the form of donations to the American Lung Association of Tennessee, 109 Northshore Drive, Suite 301, Knoxville, TN 37919; the American Cancer Society, Anderson County Unit, in care of Lee Costanzo, 103 Case Lane, Oak Ridge, TN 37830; the Oak Ridge Humane Society, 1345 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Suite 366, Oak Ridge, TN 37830; or to a charity of the donor's choice.
Allen Lee Babb
Grandfather of Oak Ridger
Record dated at 1:21 p.m.
on Monday, January 26, 1998
Allen Lee Babb, 77, of Knoxville, died at his home Saturday, Jan. 24, 1998.
He was the grandfather of Leah Bradley of Oak Ridge.
Mr. Babb was retired after working as a millwright in Oakland, Calif.
He was born in Oneida on April 12, 1920, the son of Lawrence and Bertha Duncan Babb.
He was a veteran who served with the Merchant Marine during World War II. He was a member of Local No. 102 of the Carpenter's Union in Oakland.
He was an avid fan of the Lady Volunteers, according to the family.
In addition to his local granddaughter, he is survived by his wife, Mary Lynn Lattrelle Babb; two sons, Stephan Babb of Chattanooga and Donald Babb and his wife, Frances, of Knoxville; three brothers, James and Bill Babb, both of Plainsville, Ohio, and J.C. Babb, of Marietta, Ga.; four other grandchildren, Don Babb of Grand Rapids, Mich., Brian Babb of Cambridge Springs, Pa., Stephanie DePew of Walled Lake, Mich., and Jason Babb of Chattanooga; three great-grandchildren, Brianne and Taylor Babb and Zachary Bradley; and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews.
A sister, Rheba Wright, and two brothers, Kenneth and Claude Babb, died earlier.
The funeral will be held at noon Wednesday, Jan. 28, 1998, in the chapel of Weatherford Mortuary, with Leon Ebbert of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints officiating. Burial will be in Oak Ridge Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday at the funeral home.
The family asks that any memorials be in the form of donations to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, P.O. Box 3704, Memphis TN 38173-0704.
Noble Lee Bray
Retired coal miner
Record dated at 1:21 p.m.
on Monday, January 26, 1998
Noble Lee Bray, 84, of Oliver Springs and a former resident of the Stephens community, died Saturday, Jan. 24, 1998, at his home.
Mr. Bray was retired from Windrock coal mines. He was the son of Joseph and Emily Dobbs Bray.
He is survived by two daughters, Margie Cox and her husband, Bernard, of Oliver Springs, and Violet Keen and her husband, Donald, of Baton Rouge, La.; a son, Roger Bray and his wife, Betty, of Oliver Springs; and two stepdaughters and a stepson, Shirley Daugherty and Arnold Jones, both of the Stephens community, and Darlis Campbell of Sunbright.
Mr. Bray is also survived by two sisters, Edna Meadows of Pine Knot, Ky., and Jennifer Oliver of Jackson, Ohio; a brother, Clyde Bray of Wartburg; and by 13 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
His wife, Marie Lowe Bray, died earlier. A daughter, Jo Ann Bray Broyles, two sisters, Myrtie Baughn and Elsie Walker, and three brothers, Montie Bray, Dewey Bray and Joseph Bray Jr., also died earlier.
The funeral will be held at 8 tonight, Jan. 26, in the chapel of Schubert Funeral Home in Wartburg with the Rev. Rick Duncan officiating.
A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 27, at Union cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 tonight at the funeral home.
Jewell 'D' Free
Knoxville resident
Record dated at 1:21 p.m.
on Monday, January 26, 1998
Jewell "D" Free of Knoxville died Thursday, Jan. 22, 1998, at the University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville.
Mrs. Free is survived by her husband, Robert L. Free; three daughters, Evelyn Poore and her husband, Rickey, of Briceville, Glenna Carroll and her husband, Lonnie, of Wartburg, and April Free of Clinton; five sons, Randall Ely and his wife, Barbara, and Stephen Ely, all of Knoxville, Charles Ely and his wife, Diana, of Norris, Darrell Ely and his wife, Sandra, of Buford, Ga., and James Ely and his wife, Lynn, of Plainville, Conn.; and a sister, Wilma Jean Miller of Mount Orab, Ohio.
The funeral was held Sunday night, Jan. 25, in the chapel of Holley-Gamble Funeral Home in Clinton with the Rev. Bob Zavattieri and the Rev. Allen Lusby officiating.
A graveside service was to be held at 11 this morning, Jan. 26, at Grandview Memorial Gardens in Clinton.
Georgia B. Hill
Former Clinton resident
Record dated at 1:21 p.m.
on Monday, January 26, 1998
Georgia B. Hill, 73, of Morristown died Thursday, Jan. 22, 1998, in Morristown.
Mrs. Hill was a former resident of Clinton. She had lived in Morristown for the past six years.
She was the daughter of Mack and Gladys Clark, both now deceased, and the widow of Austin Hill.
Mrs. Hill is survived by three daughters, Diana Logan and her husband, Ken, of Morristown, Janace Madewell and her husband, Bob, of Clinton, and Denise Branch and her husband, Tim, of Knoxville; a son, Duane Hill and his wife, Carolyn, of Clinton; two sisters, Sally London of Chattanooga, Edith Harmening of Clinton and Polly Guy of Oak Ridge; and by two brothers, J.B. Clark of Hillsboro and Raleigh Clark of Deckerd.
She is also survived by 12 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Another brother, Mack Clark Jr., died earlier.
The funeral was held Saturday, Jan. 24, in the chapel of Holley-Gamble Funeral Home in Clinton with the Rev. Lester Mullins officiating.
A graveside service was held Sunday, Jan. 25, at Hill cemetery in Deckerd.
The family requests any memorials be in the form of donations to the National Kidney Foundation of East Tennessee, 4450 Walker Blvd., Suite 2, Knoxville, TN 37917-1523.
Anna Dew Raines
Former credit union employee
Record dated at 1:21 p.m.
on Monday, January 26, 1998
Anna Dew Raines, 50, of Knoxville, died Friday, Jan. 23, 1998, at her home.
Mrs. Raines was employed as an executive secretary with PHP Health Care in Knoxville and previously worked for 12 years with ORNL Federal Credit Union in Oak Ridge.
She was born in Knox County on July 2, 1947. She was a member of Royce Baptist Church of Oak Ridge.
Mrs. Raines is survived by her parents, Clyde and Lorene Yarber Dew of Norris, two sons, Darren Lee Raines and Todd Allen Raines, both of Knoxville; her sister, Victoria S. Dew of Nashville; her brother, Terry Allen Dew and his wife, Debbie, of Knoxville; and by several aunts, uncles and cousins.
The funeral was held Sunday night, Jan. 25, in the chapel of Holley-Gamble Funeral Home in Clinton with the Rev. David Seiber officiating.
A graveside service was to be held at noon today, Jan. 26, at Norris Memorial Gardens.
