Ralph P. Levey III passed away on Aug. 9.
Born on Oct. 13, 1949, in Oak Ridge, he attended Oak Ridge schools and graduated from Oak Ridge High School in 1968. He received an associate degree from Cleveland State Community College and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Ruby Mae Baldwin Murph
Ruby Mae Baldwin Murph, 79, of Oak Ridge, passed away on Aug. 8 at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge.
She was born Dec. 19, 1932, in Lugoff, S.C., to Melton and Virginia Higgins Baldwin, both now deceased.
Sharon Dian Sundberg
Sharon Dian Sundberg, 71, of Oak Ridge, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 15, after a brief illness.
She was born in California and grew up in Greeley, Colo., where she graduated from Eaton High School in 1958.
She worked for the Greeley Colorado Tribune, where she met and married David Alan Sundberg of Johnstown, Colo., in 1961. They moved to Los Alamos, N.M., in 1962; to Chicago, Ill., in 1964; and settled in Oak Ridge in 1966.
William Rex Jackson, age 97, a resident of Clinton, passed away Thursday, Aug. 16, at Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge.
Mr. Jackson was born Nov. 27, 1914, in Coalfield. He continued to live in Coalfield until his move to Clinton in 1956.
Bessie Phillips
Bessie Phillips, age 100, a resident of New River, went home to be with her Lord and Savior Wednesday, Aug. 15, at the home of her son, Estel Phillips, in Wartburg.
Mrs. Phillips was born in a log home on Jan. 7, 1912, in New River. She watched our country change and witnessed automobiles, electricity, plumbing, the railroad, and other improvements come to New River.
Thomas E. “Tommy” Miller
Mr. Thomas E. “Tommy” Miller passed away Tuesday, Aug. 14.
He was born in Johnson City on Dec. 29, 1945. The Miller family moved to Oak Ridge in 1949.
He grew up hunting, fishing, and playing sports. He was an Eagle Scout and Explorer Scout with the local Boy Scouts troop. Mr. Miller graduated from Oak Ridge High School in 1964.
Thomas Clifton Tucker
Thomas Clifton Tucker, 81, of Oak Ridge, passed away Aug. 14.
Born in Chicago, he graduated from the University of Illinois in chemical engineering. After accepting a position at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he earned a master’s in mathematics from the University of Tennessee.
Russel Charles Blevins, age 85, of Kingston, died Sunday, Aug. 12, at his home.
He was born Oct. 8, 1926, in Rhea County, one of 12 children born to Callie Kathryn Walker Blevins and Walden Ervin Blevins.
Ilena “Guess” Crossno
Ilena “Guess” Crossno, age 82, a resident of Oliver Springs, passed away Saturday, Aug. 11, at her home.
Mrs. Crossno was born Feb. 20, 1930, in Elizabethton, Tenn. She moved to Oak Ridge in 1951, and following a stroke in 2005, she moved to Oliver Springs to make her home with a daughter, Brenda Duncan.
Vera M. Jones
Vera M. Jones, age 91, a resident of Coalfield, passed away Saturday, Aug. 11, at NHC of Oak Ridge.
Mrs. Jones was born June 26, 1921, in Morgan County. She lived in Coalfield for most of her life, but she also lived in Byrdstown, Tenn., for five years.
