From The Knoxville News Sentinel 5 Jun 2004 APPERSON, RAY - 70, of Charlotte CALDWELL, BOBBIE MCCOY - HICKS, PAULINE - age 80 of Elk Valley APPERSON, RAY - 70, of Charlotte died at his residence on Friday, June 4, 2004. A service to celebrate his life will be held in the Dilworth Chapel of Hankins & Whittington Funeral Service on Saturday, June 5, at 7:00 P.M. The family will receive friends at the Dilworth Chapel of Hankins and Whittington one hour prior to the service. Graveside services will be held in Virtue Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Knoxville, TN on Monday, June 7, at 2:00 P.M. Visitation will be from 12:30 to 1: 30 PM at Click Funeral Home, Farragut Chapel in Farragut, TN. Ray was born August 18, 1933 in Caryville, TN son of the late Arliss Taylor and Sally Marie Jones Apperson. Mr. Apperson was a member of Wedgewood Baptist Church, and was retired from Hobart Corporation after 31 years of service. Ray enjoyed wood working, gardening, and mechanic work, and had a real talent for working with his hands. Survivors include his wife, Edna Apperson of Charlotte; son, Darrell Apperson of Boiling Springs, S.C.; sister, Fay Russell of Caryville, TN; two grandsons, Cody Joseph Apperson of Hilton Head, S.C., and Justin Taylor Rogers of Monroe, N.C.; granddaughter, Sarah Rose Apperson of Watertown, NY. Memorials may be made to the charity of the donor's choice. Click Funeral Home Farragut Chapel, 11915 Kingston Pike is serving the family of Ray Apperson. www.clickfuneralhome.com CALDWELL, BOBBIE MCCOY - Bobbie McCoy Caldwell, vice chairwoman of the Tennessee Democratic Party, died Thursday, June 3, 2004, of cancer at her home in Clinton. She was 71. This was the 11th year Mrs. Caldwell served as a full-time volunteer at this state-level position, and she was well-known among Democrats across the state and at the national level. As vice chairwoman, she represented Tennessee on the Democratic National Committee and the National Association of State Chairs and Vice Chairs. She was a member of the National Executive Committee representing the southern region and was on numerous national committees, many having to do with the Democratic National Convention. She was married to Dr. Gene Caldwell, retired Oak Ridge pediatrician and retired state representative representing the 33rd district of Anderson County, who survives. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last year. One of the volunteer jobs she was most proud of, according to her family, was getting at least 10 percent of the delegates elected from Tennessee to the Democratic National Conventions to be under 30 years of age for the 2000 and 2004 conventions. She then raised enough money across the state to pay their way to the conventions. Mrs. Caldwell became active in the Democratic Party in the 1970s by volunteering in local and state races. She became president of the Anderson County Democratic Women's Club and baked hundreds of pumpkin pies for the first several of John Rice Irwin's Homecoming events at the Museum of Appalachia. She became a delegate to the 1980 Democratic National Convention and repeated this for a total of five national conventions. She was to be a delegate to the 2004 convention. "Bobbie felt she was one of the luckiest people in the world," Dr. Caldwell said of his wife. "Born during the Depression, she witnessed four wars and many other events. She helped me as I served on active duty through two of those wars, Korea and Vietnam. She reared a family and always felt lucky that she could have an influence on making our government a little better and that she could influence lives with her volunteer jobs." He added that she considered herself a professional volunteer and often listed that on forms asking for her occupation. In 1988, Gov. Ned McWherter appointed her to represent Tennessee on the National Association of Women Highway Safety Leaders, another volunteer job. She organized the Tennessee Association of Women Highway Safety Leaders and established a volunteer organization with a leader in each of the state's counties. They worked for tougher DUI laws and for seat belt laws especially for children. Mrs. Caldwell wrote a manual and produced a program on the proper use of children's safety restraints and presented the training to police officers and sheriffs' associations across the state. Tennessee had one of the best records in the nation in saving children's lives in car accidents, Dr. Caldwell noted. Some courts across the state offered the course she developed in lieu of fines for child-restraint- law offenders. Mrs. Caldwell served on the founding board of CASA of the Tennessee Heartland, known as Court Appointed Special Advocates of Anderson County when she helped establish the nonprofit agency. CASA trains volunteers to serve as advocates for children who are neglected or abused when their cases come before juvenile court. Dr. Caldwell said that few people knew the extent of her volunteer activities over her lifetime. Many of her volunteer roles were associated with activities of their five children. The daughter of Inez and Arnold McCoy, both now deceased, Mrs. Caldwell was born in Madison County on Aug., 25, 1932, at the height of the Depression. She played basketball at Northside High School, on one of West Tennessee's premier basketball teams, from 1948 to 1950. She graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1953 with a bachelor's degree in home economics, and met her future husband after volunteering to help his fraternity plan social events. She worked as a home demonstration agent, later known as extension service agents, and she was the first in the state allowed to be married. During her husband's time in medical school, Mrs. Caldwell served as president of the Student Wives Club. Later, when Dr. Caldwell was assigned to the U.S. Naval Hospital in Millington, Tenn., she was president of the Officers Wives Club for the Naval Command, becoming the official hostess and representative of the admiral at community functions. The family lived in the Rosemark community while at Millington. Their first child, Debbie, attended school there, and Mrs. Caldwell volunteered to restore the school's outdated library, conducting fund- raising events involving the PTA. She noticed a lack of activities for young girls, and organized the first Girl Scout troop in north Shelby County and became its leader. When the Caldwells moved to Oak Ridge in December 1966, Dr. Caldwell joined the Children's Clinic of Oak Ridge and Mrs. Caldwell became president of the Medical Auxiliary, participating in many volunteer activities. The youngest of their five children was born in Oak Ridge, and Mrs. Caldwell spent the next 17 years in volunteer activities with her children in school and community events. She served as a Camp Fire leader for the troop her daughter Amanda joined. The Caldwells served as host families for two international student exchange programs, and all their children participated either at home or abroad. Last year, Mrs. Caldwell put together a 50-plus-year collection of recipes collected from her mother and friends all over the country in a cookbook for her family and friends. Drawing on her home economics training, she included a low-sodium section for her husband and a galactose-free section for her three grandchildren with galactosemia. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Caldwell is survived by a son, Randolph Caldwell, and his wife, Diana Caldwell, of Munich, Germany; three daughters, Deborah Bader and her husband, Curt Bader, of Richmond, Va., and Amanda Spaid and her husband, Scott Spaid, and Jennifer Weaver and her husband, Chris Weaver, all of Knoxville; and six grandchildren, Ian Caldwell of Munich, Germany, Jeremy Birdwhistell of Denver, Colo., Nathan Birdwhistell of Tulsa, Okla, and Sean Spaid, Adam Spaid and Sarah Spaid, all of Knoxville; and a sister, Clara Haltom of Jackson. A daughter, Sarah Caldwell, died in 1983. There will be no formal service, but the family will receive friends at Holley-Gamble Funeral Home in Clinton Sunday June 6, 2004 from 4-7 p.m. Clinton is handling arrangements. In keeping with all her volunteer efforts to help young people, the family requests that any memorials be in the form of gifts to the Tennessee Young Democrats, in care of the Tennessee Democratic Party, 223 Eighth Ave. N., Suite 200, Nashville, TN 37203. HICKS, PAULINE - age 80 of Elk Valley passed away Friday, June 04, 2004 at the UT Medical Center in Knoxville. She was a member of the New Canaan Baptist Church. Mrs. Hicks enjoyed sewing and making quilts and was an avid reader. She was preceded in death by husband: Frank Hicks; son: Jerry Hicks; Parents: Walter and Lillian Douglas Allen; brother: George "Doc" Allen and nephew: George Allen. Mrs. Hicks is survived by son and daughter-in-law: Carl and Brenda Hicks of Elk Valley; 4 grandchildren and spouses: Frank and Leah Hicks of Winchester, KY; Cynthia and Kevin Galbreath of Maryville, TN; Carla and John Derick F aulconer of Andersonville; Amber and Matthew Caruso of Monroe, NC; 3 great grandchildren: Sara, Hayden and Harrison Galbreath; brother and sisters-in-law: Ray and Henrietta Allen of Elk Valley; sister: Maxine Cullenbine of Harrison Township, MI; sister-in-law: Rose Allen of MI; nephew and spouse: Jerry and June Allen of Shelby Township, MI; Nieces: Shelia Studdard and Tina Morgan both of Elk Valley; Elizabeth and Maria Allen; Niece-in-law: Judy Allen all of MI; and a host of friends and relatives. Funeral services will be 8 PM Sunday, June 6 in the Chapel of Martin Wilson Funeral Home with Rev. James Adkins officiating. The family and friends will meet for graveside services and interment 11 AM Monday in Warren Memorial Gardens. 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