Charmaine Yvonne Crossan Holbert, 83, of Oak Ridge, died Thursday, March 27.

Charmaine was born in West Virginia on April 8, 1930. She was a true coal miner’s daughter of Thomas Edward Crossan, who died from a mine injury on April 30, 1935, and Lura “Helen” Webb Crossan, who died in 1999.

She was married to William (Bill) H. Holbert Sr. They had three sons, Thomas M. Holbert, James M. Holbert, and William (Billy) H. Holbert Jr.

She graduated high school from Warren Wilson in North Carolina. [Read more…]