Sue Andrews McKinnon Ross, age 93, passed away peacefully July 19, 2015, at her retirement center in Downers Grove, Illinois.
Sue was born August 27, 1921, in Hohenwald, Tennessee, to George and Eula Mae Andrews, one of nine brothers and sisters. She grew up in the Great Depression in Turrell, Arkansas, where she met and married Joe Wallace McKinnon.
At the time of his death they were living in Columbia, Tennessee, where during the war years, she worked for Monsanto Corp. in a chemical factory. She loved to tell stories of driving the large cranes and swinging the huge phosphate loads around.
At the end of World War II, she moved to Oak Ridge to work at Y-12 as a chemistry lab technician. There, she met her future husband of 44 years, William J. (Bill) Ross, and married him at the Chapel on the Hill.
Sue became a homemaker and an active volunteer in Oak Ridge. She worked for the Recording for the Blind, at Daniel Arthur Rehabilitation Center, in the Oak Ridge Hospital as a Red Cross volunteer, with the Glenwood Elementary PTA and Cub Scout pack and First Methodist Church.
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