Tennessee, U.S., Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909
Edna Manuel Kelly
Mother of Robin Toth
Record dated at 1:43 p.m.
on Friday, April 10, 1998
Edna Manuel Kelly, 83, of San Francisco, Calif., and a former resident of Oak Ridge, died Sunday, April 5, 1998, at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in San Francisco.
Mrs. Kelly was born in Los Angeles, Calif., the daughter of Harry and Kate Manuel. She married
Andrew Robert Kelly, also a native Californian, who was a federal government employee and veteran of World War II.
She was primarily a homemaker but had also worked as a secretary for the Veterans Administration Hospital after her children were grown.
Upon retirement, the Kellys toured 47 of the 48 contiguous states in their camper. Thereafter, they came to Oak Ridge to live near their oldest daughter, Robin Toth, her husband, Kenneth Toth, and their two grandchildren, Debbie and Kenneth Toth Jr.
The Kellys were active in several Oak Ridge organizations, including the American Association of Retired Persons and the United Church, Chapel on the Hill. Mrs. Kelly enjoyed taking courses at Roane State Community College, her family said.
In 1981, a third grandchild, Jaron, was born to the Kellys' younger daughter, Kitty Epstein and her husband, Kenneth, of Oakland, Calif. Shortly after the Kellys traveled to Oakland to see their new grandchild, Mr. Kelly had a heart attack and died. He was buried in the family plot at Holy Cross cemetery in San Francisco.
Mrs. Kelly then moved to Oakland, where she was active in many volunteer and church activities. Her family said she was particularly fond of the small retirement complex, Salem Village, where she lived and enjoyed visits from her many friends, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Her great-grandchildren are Kenny and Christina Wyatt, children of Debbie Wyatt and her husband, Sam.
On her recent trip to Kaiser Permanente Hospital, where Mrs. Kelly was to have heart valve replacement surgery, she enjoyed discussing possible names for an expected great-grandchild to be born to grandson Kenneth Toth Jr., and his wife, Danrey.
Burial was Thursday, April 9, at Holy Cross cemetery in San Francisco.
A memorial service will be held at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Oakland on Saturday, April 11.
The family requests any memorials be in the form of donations to Salem Lutheran Home, Charitable Care Fund, 2361 E. 29th St., Oakland, CA 94606.
Eddie Ray Brewster Sr.
ETTP employee
Record dated at 1:06 p.m.
on Thursday, April 30, 1998
Eddie Ray Brewster Sr., 56, of Church Street, Philadelphia, Tenn., died Wednesday, April 29, 1998, at Fort Sanders Parkwest Medical Center in Knoxville.
Mr. Brewster was employed with Lockheed Martin Energy Systems Inc. at East Tennessee Technology Park, formerly called the Oak Ridge K-25 Site. He had worked for the past 27 years at K-25, beginning his employment there with Union Carbide Nuclear Division.
Mr. Brewster was a former member of the board of United Way of Loudon County, had served as a member of the Philadelphia City Council and on the board of directors of the Riverview Golf Course and was a Philadelphia volunteer fire chief.
He was a past master of the Philadelphia Masonic Lodge and had most recently been a member of Masonic Lodge No. 204 F&AM in Loudon.
Mr. Brewster was a member of Philadelphia United Methodist Church.
He is survived by his wife, Phyllis Schrimsher Brewster; two sons, Charles Christopher Brewster of Chattanooga and James Reid Brewster and his wife, Kimberlyn Anne, of Clarksville; and two grandchildren, Kristen Michelle Brewster and James Reid Brewster Jr.
Mr. Brewster is also survived by his mother and stepfather, Mary Joy Hill Brewster Mashburn and Waynes Mashburn of Philadelphia; four brothers, Roger Brewster and his wife, Toby, Freddie Brewster and his wife, Jo, all of Lenoir City, David Brewster and his wife, Becky, of Plant City, Fla., and Donnie Brewster and his wife, Suzy, of Murfreesboro; and by several nieces, nephews and grandnieces and grandnephews.
His father, Ray Brewster, and another son, Eddie Ray Brewster Jr., both died earlier.
The funeral will be held at 8 tonight, April 30, in the chapel of McGill-Karnes Funeral Home in Loudon, with the Rev. Charles Fritts and the Rev. David Jackson officiating.
A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, May 1, at Sweetwater Valley Memorial Park. Pallbearers will be Bill Everett, Danny Kerley, Doyle Arp, Andy Hill, Ronnie Roberts and Roy Bledsoe.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 tonight at the funeral home.
The family requests any memorials be in the form of donations to the National Kidney Cancer Association, 1234 Sherman Ave., Evanston, IL 60202.
Charles William Cheeks
Retired truck driver
Record dated at 1:06 p.m.
on Thursday, April 30, 1998
Charles William Cheeks, 72, of Kingston, died Monday, April 27, 1998, at Roane Medical Center in Harriman.
Mr. Cheeks was a retired truck driver.
He was born in Morgan County on April 23, 1926, the son of Lum and Abbie Cheeks. He was a former resident of Coalfield but had lived in Kingston for the past 17 years.
Mr. Cheeks is survived by two sons, Charles Wayne Cheeks of Tulsa, Okla., and William Ray Cheeks of Kingston; and by four grandchildren.
A graveside service was to be held at 3 this afternoon, April 30, at Davis cemetery in Coalfield.
Sharp Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Willard Lowe
Clinton resident
Record dated at 12:25 p.m.
on Thursday, May 14, 1998
Willard Lowe, 82, of Clinton, died Tuesday, May 12, 1998, at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge.
Mr. Lowe is survived by three daughters, Edna Batts of Paducah, Ky., and Judy Brown and Trudy Smith and her husband, Mike, all of Clarksville; a son, James Lowe and his wife, Sandra, of Campbell, Mo.; a sister, Annie Kidwell of Knoxville; and nine grandchildren.
A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, May 15, at Frost Bottom cemetery in Clinton.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 tonight, May 14, at Holley-Gamble Funeral Home in Clinton.
Myrtle Johnson Farmer
Longtime Clinton resident
Record dated at 12:32 p.m.
on Friday, June 5, 1998
Myrtle Farmer, 96, of Clinton, died at 10:58 p.m. Thursday, June 4, 1998, at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge.
In earlier years, before she and her husband, the late R. Mack Farmer, were married
, she was employed as secretary to the president of Magnet Mills in Clinton.
Mrs. Farmer left work when she began her family. When her children entered school, she returned to work, first as a secretary for Stone & Webster and later as a secretary for the Atomic Energy Commission. She retired in 1969.
She was the great-great-great-granddaughter of Kinza Johnson, a Pennsylvania surveyor who came to this area in 1797. He was one of seven men who selected the site and laid out the boundaries for the county seat of Burrville, which is now Clinton.
Until seven years ago, Mrs. Farmer lived in Dutch Valley on a portion of the 640 acres Kinza Johnson purchased in 1805 from the holders of the original land grant.
Mrs. Farmer was a member of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church of Clinton, which her family said was always very important to her. She held several offices and served on numerous committees at the church and also participated in other community activities.
She is survived by her only sister, Creola Overton of Clinton, with whom she had made her home for the past seven years; two daughters, Carla R. Farmer of Oak Ridge and Mary E. Magill and her husband, Joe, of Clinton; three grandchildren, Elizabeth A. "Libby" Magill and Angela R. "Angie" Magill, both of Nashville, and Michael E. Magill and his wife, Deborah "Debbie" Ruyl Magill, of Franklin; and two great-grandchildren, Hannah and Peter Magill.
Mrs. Farmer is also survived by two sisters-in-law, Rushia Farmer and Ruth Farmer McCarty and her husband, Jess; a brother-in-law, Carl Farmer and his wife, Mable; and four nieces and a nephew.
Her brother, W. Clyde Farmer, died earlier.
The funeral will be held at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, June 6, in the chapel of Holley-Gamble Funeral Home in Clinton with the Rev. Herschel Barrington and the Rev. David Haynes officiating.
A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 7, at Pleasant Hill cemetery in Clinton.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
The family requests any memorials be in the form of donations to Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, in care of L. Allin Stephens, 122 Shinlever Road, Clinton, TN 37716.
Corey Wray Allen Gann
Wartburg infant
Record dated at 12:32 p.m.
on Friday, June 5, 1998
Corey Wray Allen Gann, the infant son of Kenneth Allen and Carmin Regnae Seeber Gann of Wartburg, died Thursday, June 4, 1998, at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge.
In addition to his parents, Corey is survived by his grandparents, Wanda Seeber of Harriman and Harlan Seeber and John L. and Elizabeth "Beth" Gann, all of Oliver Springs; and his great-grandmother, Evelyn Phillips of Oliver Springs.
A graveside service will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, June 6, at Anderson Memorial Gardens, Oliver Springs Highway, Clinton. The Rev. Gary Smith will officiate.
Sharp Funeral Home in Oliver Springs is handling arrangements.
Ethel Mae McCartt
Stephens Baptist member
Record dated at 12:32 p.m.
on Friday, June 5, 1998
Ethel Mae McCartt, 88, of Oliver Springs, died Wednesday, June 3, 1998, at the home of her niece, Dottie Stubbs, of Oliver Springs.
Mrs. McCartt was a member of Stephens Baptist Church in the Stephens community. She had taught Sunday school at the church for many years.
She was a homemaker and enjoyed vegetable and flower gardening, canning and other household activities, her family said. She was the widow of Arnold McCartt.
Mrs. McCartt was born in Anderson County on Dec. 24, 1909, the daughter of Willie Martin and Allie Mae Lively Cox.
In addition to her niece and her niece's husband, Mack Stubbs, she is survived by a son, James Willie McCartt of Coalfield; two sisters, Dorothy Melton of Oliver Springs and Ella Miller of Phoenix, Ariz.; two brothers, Elmer Cox and his wife, Hazel, of Knoxville, and James Franklin Cox and his wife, Elizabeth, of Coalfield; two sisters-in-law, Bertha McCartt and Ina Cox, both of Oliver Springs; and by many other nieces and nephews.
A son, Willis McCartt, and two brothers, Albert Cox and Tom Cox, died earlier.
The funeral will be held at 8 tonight, June 5, in the chapel of Sharp Funeral Home in Oliver Springs with the Rev. Kenneth Stubbs and the Rev. Kenny Rains officiating.
A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 6, at Butler cemetery in Oliver Springs.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 tonight at the funeral home.
Michael Charles Birt
Oak Ridge resident
Record dated at 1:12 p.m.
on Thursday, July 16, 1998
Michael Charles Birt, 18, of 286 S. Benedict Ave., died Tuesday, July 14, 1998, at the University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
Mr. Birt was the son of Earlean Birt and of Charlie Birt, both of Oak Ridge.
In addition to his parents, he is survived by two sisters, Jennifer Birt of the home and Louise Shaver and her husband, George, of Mississippi; and two brothers, Addonis Johnson of Knoxville and Walter E. Pitchford and his wife, Julia, of Mississippi.
Mr. Birt is also survived by four aunts, Kathy Bailey Solomon, Connie Bailey McBath, Amy Rasetta Lowe and Jaunita Grant, all of Knoxville; four uncles, Rusty Bailey, Eric Lewis, Adren Bailey and Henry Lowe, all of Knoxville; several cousins, including Cheryl Smith of Oak Ridge; and by many nieces and nephews.
Crystal Jackson of Knoxville and her daughter, Desheena Kyle, and Armand "Rico" Booker of Oak Ridge were considered devoted friends.
The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 18, at Oak Valley Baptist Church with the Rev. Hardil Thomas officiating. The Rev. Margaret Mack will deliver the eulogy.
Burial will follow at Oak Ridge Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Saturday at the church.
Unity Mortuary, Knoxville, is handling arrangements.
Stacy Dow Clinton
Retired ORHS teacher
Record dated at 1:12 p.m.
on Thursday, July 16, 1998
Stacy Dow Clinton, 92, of Oliver Springs, died Wednesday, July 15, 1998, at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge.
Mr. Clinton, a retired teacher, came to Oak Ridge in 1945 and taught at the old Jefferson Junior High School. From 1952 until his retirement in 1971, he taught English and American history at Oak Ridge High School and also led the audiovisual aids program at the high school.
He was born in Cookeville on Feb. 1, 1906, the son of Harvey L. Clinton and Mary E. Terry Clinton.
He and his wife, Gladys L. Wilhite Clinton, who survives him, were married
in Clinton County, Ky., on Nov. 11, 1931.
Mr. Clinton was a 1939 graduate of Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, now Tennessee Technological University, where he majored in English and had a minor in elementary education. He received his master's degree from the University of Tennessee in 1950.
He was a charter member of Robertsville Baptist Church and had served the church as a deacon and taught a men's Sunday school class. In earlier years, he was a volunteer at the American Museum of Science and Energy. Until a few years ago, he enjoyed bowling and gardening, his family said. He also liked to walk and was an avid reader. He and his family moved to Oliver Springs in 1952.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Clinton is survived by a son, Sam Clinton and his wife, Doris, of Oak Ridge; a brother, Herbert S. Clinton and his wife, Elizabeth, of Pleasant Hill; and two grandchildren, Pamela Smith and her husband, Jim, of Knoxville, and Steve Clinton and his wife, Melody, of Chattanooga.
Two other brothers, Ernest B. Clinton and Carl H. Clinton, died earlier.
The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 18, at Robertsville Baptist Church with the Rev. Don Olive officiating.
Burial will be at Anderson Memorial Gardens, Oliver Springs Highway, Clinton. Pallbearers will be Ray French, Charles Gifford, Berdell Tolliver, Earl Smith, Jay Stephens and Fred Kiser. Ken Fugate and members of the Adult IV Sunday school class were named honorary pallbearers.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Weatherford Mortuary.
The family requests any memorials be in the form of donations to Robertsville Baptist Church, 251 Robertsville Road, Oak Ridge, TN 37830.
