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Subject: [TNSCOTT] Obits From The Oak Ridger 1 Feb 2002
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 21:18:54 EST
>From The Oak Ridger 1 Feb 2002
Longtime civic activist
MARJORIE KETELLE, 86, of Oak Ridge died Thursday, Jan. 31, 2002, at her home,
surrounded by her family.
Born Feb. 28, 1915, in Huron, S.D., she was the daughter of Robert Benjamin
and Blanch Wright Hill.
After attending Huron College, she completed requirements for her degree in
medical technology at the University of Minnesota in 1936. For the next five
years she worked as a medical technologist in hospitals in Minnesota and
Illinois.
She and Bruce Ketelle, her friend from childhood, were married in Huron on
Sept. 23, 1941. After honeymooning in the Black Hills, the couple settled in
Chicago, where Mr. Ketelle was attending graduate school at the University of
Chicago.
Two years later in the fall of 1943, he relocated to Oak Ridge and was
followed six months later by his wife and their first child, Janice Ketelle.
Mrs. Ketelle often told stories of the early days in Oak Ridge and the
primitive conditions.
Mrs. Ketelle was actively involved in the Oak Ridge community. She was a
member of the first Oak Ridge Regional Planning Commission and the first
woman member on the commission. Later she served on the city's Environmental
Quality Advisory Board.
Always interested in the political process, Mrs. Ketelle spent many years in
the Oak Ridge League of Women Voters as a board member and committee
chairwoman. She was also active as a Girl Scout troop leader and Cub Scout
den mother.
She was an active member of the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church and
an avid supporter of the arts, serving as a member of the Oak Ridge Civic
Music Association Guild.
During the 1960s, her family said, she helped facilitate integration in the
Oak Ridge schools through sponsorship of the fellowship day camp with others
from the church.
In her later years Mrs. Ketelle continued to support environmental causes,
civil rights, and women's issues.
She and her husband, who survives her, celebrated their 60th wedding
anniversary in September 2001.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Ketelle is survived by her children, Janice
Ketelle of Wisconsin, Martha Ketelle of Glenwood Springs, Colo., and Richard
Ketelle of Oak Ridge; her grandchildren, Brian Clarke of Boulder, Colo.,
Rachel Ketelle of Calhoun, Ga., and Erin Ketelle of Oak Ridge; and a
great-grandchild, Lauren Houston of Calhoun.
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4, at the Oak Ridge
Unitarian Universalist Church, 1500 Oak Ridge Turnpike. The Rev. Diana Heath
will officiate.
The family will receive friends at the church following the service.
The family requests that any memorials be in the form of donations to a
charity of the donor's choice.
Weatherford Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
Former Oak Ridge resident
CHARLES E. PARRISH, 64, of Orlando, Fla., died of cancer on Monday, Jan. 28,
2002, in Orlando.
He was a resident and research analyst at Valencia Community College in
Orlando.
Mr. Parrish was born in Orlando, the son of Earl and Maggie Crittenden
Parrish, who are deceased. His parents lived in Oak Ridge from 1944 to 1964
before returning to Orlando.
According to his family, Mr. Parrish had always loved to tinker. As a young
boy in Oak Ridge, he wired his bedroom so the lights would come on when
someone entered the room.
He graduated from Oak Ridge High School in 1955. He then attended the
University of Tennessee, where he became a member of Alpha Tau Omega
fraternity.
After graduating from UT with a degree in electrical engineering, he returned
to Orlando to work for what was then Martin Marietta Co. as a design engineer
on missile projects.
Mr. Parrish and his wife later moved to Greensboro, N.C., where he founded
Computer Labs, a small technology company.
He moved back to Central Florida in 1980.
Mr. Parrish became fascinated with remote control devices a few years ago,
his family said, and hooked up almost everything in his home, including
appliances, the outdoor fountain and the sprinkler system.
"He could never let something go until he took it apart, found out how it
worked and put it back together again," said his wife, Penny E. Parrish, who
survives him.
Mr. Parrish was the original director of the Technology Innovation Center at
Valencia and started Success Solutions, a consulting program that helped
small business owners launch their companies.
As a research analyst studying demographics, he believed that what the
Orlando area needed was high-technology companies, that high-paying jobs
would bring people who would want to live in the area for a long time, his
wife said.
His wife described him as a very kind man who, when he made a friend, was a
friend for life.
Mr. Parrish was a member of First United Methodist Church of Orlando. He was
also a member of the Conway Cemetery Foundation.
In addition to his wife of almost 40 years, he is survived by a son, Charles
M. Parrish of San Francisco, Calif.; a sister, Patricia Ann Watson of
Oakwood, Ill.; and a grandson.
Carey Hand Colonial Funeral Home in Orlando handled the arrangements.
Retired chemical operator
THOMAS R. SLAUGHTER, 83 of the Eureka community of Rockwood, died Wednesday
morning, Jan. 30, 2002, at his home following a brief illness.
Mr. Slaughter had lived in Eureka for 54 years. He was born in Petros, and
attended Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate.
He taught school and coached football at Coalfield High School until joining
the U.S. Army in June 1941. He served in the horse cavalry at Fort Riley,
Kansas, until the outbreak of World War II. He was a staff sergeant in the
43rd Armored Cavalry Reconnaissance in Europe.
Mr. Slaughter was employed at the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant as a
chemical operator until his retirement in 1981.
He was an avid fisherman and served with numerous charitable organizations,
his family said. He was a Methodist and a member of the Rockwood Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Jay Slaughter; his daughter, Lynn
Pickett and her husband Glenn, of Harrison, Ark.; his son, Thomas Allen
Slaughter of Rockwood; his granddaughter, Gina House and her husband Scott,
of Conway, Ark.; his grandson, Aaron Thomas Pickett; and "special
grandchildren" Lucy Copeland and Seth Copeland.
Mr. Slaughter was preceded in death by his parents, George G. and Aleine
Slaughter; and a brother and sister, George R. Slaughter and Elizabeth
Slaughter.
A graveside service will be conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, at Oak
Grove Cemetery in Rockwood with the Rev. Charles Liles officiating.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 tonight at Evans Mortuary in
Rockwood.
Clinton resident
JAMES L. BAILEY, 71, of Clinton, died Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2002, at Methodist
Medical Center of Oak Ridge.
Mr. Bailey is survived by his wife, Edna Bailey; his son, Don Bailey and his
wife, Carolyn, of Oliver Springs; three brothers, Ray Bailey and his wife
Lisa, and Jerry Bailey and his wife Martha, all of Clinton, and Bedie
Franklin Bailey Sr. and his wife Gladys, of Burlington, N.C.; two sisters,
Mary Roberts of Florida and Dorothy Roach of Clinton; three grandchildren;
and two step-grandchildren.
The funeral will be held at 8 tonight, Feb. 1, in the chapel of Cox-Martin
Funeral Home in Lake City with the Rev. Larry Watts, the Rev. Clifford
Fraker, the Rev. Ernest Ward and the Rev. Donnie Disney officiating.
A graveside service will be conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, at Oak
Ridge Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 tonight at the funeral home.
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