From the Oak Ridger 15 Feb 2005 Henrietta "Penny" Keene, 94, of Oak Ridge, John Rufus Lund, 88, of Oak Ridge, Henry H. McGhee Jr., 85, of the Dutch Valley community, Dorothy M. Skinner, a resident of Falmouth, Mass., formerly of Oak Ridge, Henrietta "Penny" Keene, 94, of Oak Ridge, died Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005, at NHC HealthCare of Oak Ridge. She was born in Macon, Ga., on Feb. 15, 1910, the daughter of Arabella Virgin and William Hubert Young. Mrs. Keene, a registered nurse and licensed X-ray and lab technician originally employed by the Tennessee Valley Authority, began working at the Y-12 Plant in 1943, where she was head of the X-ray department until her retirement in 1973. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by three sisters, Mary Hackney, Anne Rollen and Arabella Young; and her husband of 58 years, Oliver L. Keene. She is survived by her sister, Carolyn Y. Zimmerman; her special niece, Meredith Holt and her husband, Tom, and their children, Kyra Schmitt and her husband, Nate, Jared and Travis Holt, all of Minn.; other nieces and nephews, Peggy Brown and her husband, Harry, of Athens, Ga., Dean Barbieri of Lakeworth, Fla., Hubert Rollen and his wife, Anne, of Clinton, William Rollen and his wife, Joyce, of Powell, and James Rollen and his wife, Judy, of North Carolina. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 20, 2005, at United Church, Chapel on the Hill, where Mrs. Keene was a longtime member. The family will receive friends at the church following the service. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, 1-800-227-2345, 1599 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30329. An online memorial guest book may be signed at www.weatherfordmortuary.com. Weatherford Mortuary is handling the arrangements. John Rufus Lund, 88, of Oak Ridge, died Monday, Feb. 14, 2005, at NHC HealthCare of Oak Ridge. A funeral Mass will be celebrated Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2005, at St. Mary's Catholic Church with the Rev. Michael Woods officiating. The family will receive friends from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at the church. A full obituary will be on the Martin Oak Ridge Funeral Home Web site later today and an online register book is available at www.martinoakridgefuneralhome.com. Martin Oak Ridge Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Henry H. McGhee Jr., 85, of the Dutch Valley community, died Sunday, Feb. 13, 2005, at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge. Mr. McGhee enjoyed gardening and fishing. He was a member of the Dutch Valley Missionary Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, Henry H. McGhee Sr. and Lenna Leach McGhee; his wife, Mary Ann McGhee; and a sister, Mary Lee Foster. He is survived by four children, two sons, Donald McGhee and Darrell McGhee and wife, Janice, of Clinton, and two daughters, Diane McGhee of Clinton and Mary McGhee of LaFollette; and one sister, Sue McGillis of Harriman; one granddaughter, Rochell Mari Hooks and husband, Samuel, of Clinton; and four great-grandchildren, Austin, Shawn, Kelse and Sammatha. The funeral will be at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2005, at Oliver Springs Mortuary with the Rev. Charles Northrup officiating. Burial will be at noon Thursday, Feb. 17, at Robbins Cemetery in Dutch Valley. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Oliver Springs Mortuary Dorothy M. Skinner, a resident of Falmouth, Mass., formerly of Oak Ridge, died Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005, from complications of Parkinson's disease. Dorothy was born in Newton, Mass., and graduated from Watertown High School, where she was Best Girl Athlete. At Tufts University she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year and was on the women's basketball team and a member of the Marlins, an aquatic ballet group. She earned her bachelor's degree in 1952. For two years, she was assistant dean of admissions at Tufts. Because the dean was unwell, Dorothy, at age 23, was given the chief responsibility for admitting two classes to the school of arts and sciences. The following year she was admitted to the biology department at Harvard. Her doctorate work there introduced her to the biology of Crustacea, particularly crabs, which became the focus area for her research career. At the time when she entered the field of biology, the importance and the functions of DNA were just being recognized and analyzed by molecular biologists, and she embarked on postdoctoral training in these areas at Harvard, Yale and Brandeis. Her first independent position was in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at New York University Medical School, where she met her husband, John Cook, a mammalian physiologist. After their marriage, they went to the biology division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory where they worked in their respective fields until they retired more than 30 years later. At Oak Ridge, Mrs. Skinner introduced molecular approaches to the investigation of numerous crustacean species, identifying unusual properties of the DNA of these animals as well as demonstrating special characteristics of the DNA that make it susceptible to mutation. She developed new insights into regeneration of new limbs when the old ones were damaged or lost, and she devised new methods for triggering crustacean growth and studying their hormones. Many of her graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, 24 in all, now hold significant positions in academia or in research institutions. Her other professional activities included editorships on editorial boards of four scientific journals and membership on review panels for the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. She also was an officer in several scientific societies. Throughout her life she devoted a significant effort to promoting the equal treatment of women in science and was elected to the governing council of the Association for Women in Science. In 1993, she received a Scholar-Athlete Award from Tufts University, and in 1994, she was honored with the Distinguished Service Award from the Tufts Alumni Association. That same year she was also honored by the Crustacean Society with an award for Excellence in Research, the citation being for a "lifetime of investigative achievements and for mentoring new trainees in the field." She and her husband developed an interest in 20th century art and filled their home with a substantial collection of painting, prints and sculpture. In addition to her husband, she is survived by two sisters, Marjorie Fralick of Belmont, Mass., and Joyce S. Hirtle of Lexington, Mass. A memorial service is being planned for a later date. Memorial donations may be made to the Association for Women in Science, 1200 New York Avenue N.W., Suite 650, Washington, D.C., 20005. Chapman, Cole & Gleason Funeral Home, in Falmouth, Mass., is in charge of the arrangements. =========================================== SUPPORT OUR TROOPS---FLY THE FLAG "Genealogy is like playing hide and seek. They hide I seek!!! www.byrge.com/genealogy/ Searching: BYRGE/BUNCH/DAUGHERTY/DUNCAN/KENNEDY/ PATTERSON/PHILLIPS/SEIBER/TACKETT/WARD