From The Oak Ridger 17 Sep 2004 Dr. Harry Hopkins Hubbell Jr., 90, of Oak Ridge, Georgia A. Moore, 87, of Lake City, Dr. Harry Hopkins Hubbell Jr., 90, a longtime resident of Oak Ridge, died Friday, Sept. 10, 2004, at the Meridian Health Center in Englewood, Colo., of congestive heart failure and pneumonia. Born July 23, 1914, in Buffalo, N.Y., Dr. Hubbell was the son of the late Rev. Harry Hopkins Hubbell and the late Ella Watson Kelton Hubbell. He grew up in St. Louis, Mo., and Morristown, N.J., and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1931. In 1935, he received his bachelor's degree from Williams College, Mass. He earned his master of science degree in physics from Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., in 1937 and his doctorate also in physics from Princeton University in N.J., in 1947. He spent 15 years teaching undergraduate physics at Princeton and Williams, Amherst, Lafayette, and Middlebury colleges. An Oak Ridge resident for 49 years, Dr. Hubbell retired in 1973 from the Health Physics Division (later Health and Safety Research) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The following year he was called back as a consultant to the division, a position he held for the next 15 years. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church in Oak Ridge, a board member and patron of the Oak Ridge Civic Music Association and a life member, local treasurer, and senior navigator with the United States Power Squadrons and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for more than 50 years. Dr. Hubbell was also a certified health physicist, a member of the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, the Health Physics Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club, the Tennessee Trails Association and the Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning. Harry married Sylvia Delight Sherk on Feb. 1, 1941, in Brecksville, Ohio. The couple resided in Washington, D.C., where he was employed by the National Bureau of Standards. During World War II, the Hubbells also lived in Princeton, N.J., where Harry taught meteorology and advanced physics to naval officers and completed his doctoral research. Their daughter, Eleanor Joy Hubbell Coffey, was born July 17, 1947. In 1950, Dr. Hubbell took a summer job with Union Carbide Nuclear Division in the Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He later accepted a permanent position with the Health Physics Division at ORNL. In 1960, the Hubbells resided for several months in Japan, where Harry was a consultant with the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (now the Radiation Effects Research Foundation). He studied the effects of radiation and assisted the Japanese in calculating radiation doses for survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Dr. Hubbell and his family also spent a year in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was employed by the European Center for Nuclear Research. He presented some of his research results at several universities in China as a part of Scientific Exchange in 1986. The Hubbells participated in 16 Elderhostels together, and they enjoyed traveling extensively in North America and overseas. Harry's hobbies included entertaining foreign visitors, snow-skiing (both downhill and cross-country), power boating, water-skiing, hiking, fixing things, reading, writing to many friends, climbing 14,000-foot mountains and listening to classical music and anything played by the Oak Ridge Community Wind Ensemble. He was preceded in death by his wife of 53 years and his sister, Ellanor Kelton Hubbell. In addition to his daughter, Eleanor Joy Hubbell Coffey, he is survived by two grandsons, Ethan James Coffey and Daniel Luke Coffey, all of Littleton, Colo., as well as several cousins, nieces, and nephews. The body was cremated and a graveside memorial service was held on Friday, Sept. 17, at the Evergreen Memorial Park in Evergreen, Colo., with youth director Jeff Shankle and elder Bob Sandberg officiating. Dr. Hubbell's family requests that any memorials be in the form of donations to the Harry and Sylvia Hubbell Memorial Fund, First Presbyterian Church, 1051 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Georgia A. Moore, 87, of Lake City, died Thursday, Sept. 16, 2004, at NHC HealthCare of Oak Ridge. She was a member of Clear Branch Baptist Church and was a loving mother and grandmother, her family said. She was preceded in death by husband, Rufus Glenn Moore; daughter, Glenda Sue Moore; parents, Wendell and Hattie Hammock; sisters, Margaret Lawson, Lucille Newberry, Ruth Roach; and brother, Edward Hammock. She is survived by daughter, Verna L. Moore, of Clinton; a son, David S. Moore and wife, Kathy, of Clinton; grandchildren, Romona Gwynn and husband, Frank, Jeff Boyd and wife, Chris, Wendy Scott and husband, David, James Boyd and Heather Powers. She is also survived by great-grandchildren, Kevin and Ashley Boyd, Alexis Gwynn; half-sister, Betty Hammock, of Georgia. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 19, 2004, in the chapel of Holley-Gamble Funeral Home in Lake City with the Rev. Lynn Mowery officiating. Burial will follow the service at Leach Cemetery in Lake City. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home. =========================================== 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