Popular former Halls principal has died

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Douglas Brown Oliver was principal at Halls Middle School after succeeding the legendary principal and school founder James A. Ivey. Mr. Oliver passed away Oct. 24 at age 73.
Mr. Oliver …

Services set for Sarah Stowers

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Sarah Hobson Stowers, 89, of Knoxville, passed away October 21, 2021. She was active for many years in St. John’s Cathedral, the Knoxville Garden Club, the Knoxville Museum of Art …

Services Monday for Knoxville attorney

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James Anthony “Jim” Ridley III passed away on October 12, 2021, at age 79. His passing leaves one less good guy in town. I met Jim in 1970, as a …

Services today for Giovana Kingsberry

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Services are set for noon today (10/21) at Greater Warner Tabernacle AME Zion Church, 3800 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., for a remarkable woman – educator, entertainer, world traveler and …

Knoxville civic leader has died

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Knoxville gained a sterling asset when Elizabeth Margriet Koester and her husband, Rudolf Koester Ph.D., relocated here following his retirement in 2001 as a professor of German at the University …

Garrett Asher was Oak Ridge leader

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Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, for Anderson County business and civic leader Garrett Bruce Asher, who died Oct. 12, 2021, at age 79. He graduated …