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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 19:59:11 EDT

>From The Oak Ridger 6 Sep 2002

Jacinta K. Howard of Oak Ridge,
Charles Ray McKissack of Huntsville, Ala.,
William Lanier "Babe-Brother" Odom, 72, of Oak Ridge
Bobbie Jean Russell, 65, of Oak Ridge,
Tanya Lee Carmical, 42, of Oak Ridge,
Jeffrey Weatherspoon, 45, of Oak Ridge,
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JACINTA K. HOWARD of Oak Ridge, died Thursday, Sept. 5, 2002, at NHC
HealthCare Center of Oak Ridge, of complications following a stroke. She was
88.
Mrs. Howard was a founder and the first concertmaster of the Oak Ridge
Symphony.
Music was her career, beginning in her early childhood in the Chicago area.
The violin she played in the Oak Ridge Symphony was a high school graduation
gift from her parents. Teaching was as important to her as performing, and
during her life in Oak Ridge she had a myriad of violin and viola students,
ranging in age from 4 years to post-retirement.
Mrs. Howard came to Oak Ridge in 1943 with her husband, Frederick T. Howard,
who is now deceased. The couple met at Northwest Missouri Teachers College
where both were professors (music and physics) in the late 1930s.
At the onset of World War II, hoping to make a contribution to the war
effort, the Howards moved to Berkeley, Calif., where Mr. Howard joined E.O.
Lawrence's cyclotron laboratory. Within a year, a large scientific team that
included Mr. Howard, went from Berkeley to the secret city of Oak Ridge to
set up the calutron uranium separation process at the Y-12 Plant.
Among the Manhattan Project scientists and their spouses in Oak Ridge were a
number of serious amateur musicians. The town was barely a year old when the
Oak Ridge Symphonette, a string group, gave its first concert in June 1944,
with Mrs. Howard as a featured violinist.
The Symphonette added brass and woodwind players and changed its name to the
Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra in November 1944. Mrs. Howard remained an active
player in the symphony until her illness this past January.
In addition to the full orchestra, small ensemble concerts, popularly known
as the Coffee Concerts, became a feature of Oak Ridge musical life, and Mrs.
Howard was a frequent performer in these as well. She played violin or viola
as the occasion demanded.
She was well qualified for her musical role in the community, having music
degrees from Albertus Magnus College in 1937 and Yale University in 1939. In
1966, she earned a master of arts degree in music from the University of
Tennessee.
The Howards were married in 1941 in Door County, Wis., at the summer house
built by her parents, Otto F. Kampmeier, professor at the University of
Illinois Medical School, and Ruzena Tomek Kampmeier. The house has remained
in the family and Mrs. Howard spent every summer there for many years.
During these summers, she was active in volunteer work at the Hardy Gallery,
a public art gallery in Ephraim, Wis., and at The Ridges, a nature preserve
near Bailey's Harbor, Wis. In Oak Ridge, her volunteer work included teaching
music in the public schools and reading for Recording for the Blind.
Mrs. Howard was well traveled and participated in a number of foreign and
domestic Elderhostel programs. The Howard family hosted American Field
Service exchange students from Italy and Sweden during their children's high
school years. Mrs. Howard had maintained these contacts through a number of
trips over the years.
Her family said her warm and engaging presence will be missed by her
children, many cousins in various parts of the country, and friends in many
places, but particularly Oak Ridge and Door County.
The Howards had two children, Tom Howard of Savannah, Ga., and Phoebe Howard
of the San Francisco Bay area. Both grew up in Oak Ridge and graduated from
Oak Ridge High School.
A memorial service is planned for 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13, at the Oak Ridge
Unitarian Universalist Church where Mrs. Howard was an active member from the
earliest years of the congregation.
The family requests any memorials be in the form of donations to the Oak
Ridge Symphony, 205 Badger Ave., Oak Ridge, TN 37830.

CHARLES RAY MCKISSAK of Huntsville, Ala., died of cancer on Saturday, Aug.
31, 2002, at his home.
Mr. McKissack is survived by his wife, Marie White McKissack; his sister, Ina
Nell Blanton and her husband, Johnny Blanton, of Oak Ridge; and several
nieces and nephews, including Lynn Blanton of Oak Ridge and Glynn Blanton of
Brentwood.
The family received friends Sunday, Sept. 1, at Neal Funeral Home in
Lawrenceburg.
A graveside service was held Monday, Sept. 2, at the Lawrence County Memorial
Gardens with the Rev. David Hawkins officiating. Pallbearers were Mr.
McKissack's nephews and his brother-in-law.
The family requests any memorials be in the form of donations to Hospice
Family Care, 2225 Drake Ave., Suite 8, Huntsville, AL 35805.

WILLIAM LANIER "Babe-Brother" ODOM, 72, of Oak Ridge, died Thursday, Sept. 5,
2002, at the University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville.
He was born Aug. 11, 1930 in Athens, Ga., the son of Sarah and Francis Odom,
who are deceased. He served with the United States Army in the Korean War.
Mr. Odom retired from Martin Marietta Energy Systems in 1994 after 27 years
of service.
He was a very devoted member of the International and Protective Order of
Elks, Lodge No. 1301. His family said he accepted Christ at an early age and
attended True Light Missionary Baptist Church. He enjoyed gardening, fishing
and working crossword puzzles.
Mr. Odom is survived by his wife, Annie Frances Spratling Odom; his sons,
Stanley Odom of Chattanooga and Larry Spratling of Oak Ridge; his daughters,
Sarah Odom and Louise Odom, both of Chattanooga, and Patricia Bailey and her
husband, Thomas, of Hopkinsville, Ky.; 15 grandchildren; and numerous
great-grandchildren.
He is also survived by his mother-in-law, Lillian Spratling; his
sister-in-laws, Annabel Williams and C. Barbara Bolton; his nieces and
nephews, Thelmarine Steele and her husband, Tommy, Dorothy Glass and her
husband, Roy, and Joyce Lewis; and his cousin, Sarah Barnett.
Also surviving are his nieces, Shirley Guinn, Deborah Long, Janice Spratling,
Gwendolyn Schofield and Juanita Hawkins and her husband, Norman; his
grandnieces, Donna Blanton, Claudia Burton, Deshundra Williams and DeWanna
Guinn; and his nephews, Johnnie Williams, Anthony Spratling and Kenny
Spratling; his grandnephews, DeMiko Long, Marc Burton, Michael Royshaun and
Jesse Teasley; and many other nieces and nephews.
In addition to his parents, Mr. Odom was preceded in death by his
grandparents, Sally Gray and William Lasiter; four sisters, Sarah Francis
Odom, Corine Odom, Minnie Syce and Beaulah Gregory; and two brothers, Prince
Albert and Jesse Odom; and a niece, Claudine Dodson.
The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9, in the chapel of
Weatherford Mortuary.
Burial will follow at Oak Ridge Memorial Park. The pallbearers and flowers
girls will be brothers of Atomic Lodge No. 1301 and daughters of Roberta
Bohanon Temple No. 1381.
The family requests any memorials be in the form of donations to the Kidney
Foundation of East Tennessee, 4450 Walker Blvd, Suite No. 2, Knoxville, TN
37917-1523.
The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 p.m. Monday at the mortuary

BOBBIE JEAN RUSSELL, 65, of Oak Ridge, died Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2002, at
Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge.
She was born April 25, 1937, in Anderson County, the daughter of Jackson and
Omie Vann Russell, who are deceased.
Ms. Russell was a former resident of Oliver Springs and a member of Indian
Creek Baptist Church.
She had worked at Palm Beach Department Store in Rockwood and at a Weigel's
store in Oak Ridge.
Ms. Russell is survived by two sisters, Martha Hall and Ethel Hester, both of
Oliver Springs; and by several nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by three brothers and
three sisters, Andrew Russell, Rastus Russell, Jackie Russell, Gertrude
Gardner, Bonnie Breeden and Virgie Taylor.
The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, at Indian Creek Baptist
Church with the Rev. Don Daugherty and the Rev. Ralph Wilson officiating.
Burial will follow at the church cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 9 tonight, Sept. 6, at Sharp
Funeral Home in Oliver Springs.

TANYA LEE CARMICAL, 42, of Oak Ridge, died this morning, Sept. 6, 2002, at
her home.
Weatherford Mortuary is handling the arrangements, which were incomplete this
morning.

JEFFERY WEATHERSPOON, 45, of Oak Ridge, died Thursday, Sept. 5, 2002, at his
home.
Weatherford Mortuary is handling the arrangements, which were incomplete this
morning.
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