>From the Oak Ridger 17 Mar 2004 Marilyn Pauline Revare Combs, 76, of Oak Ridge, Marvin M. Yarosh, 77, Marilyn Pauline Revare Combs, 76, of Oak Ridge, died Monday, March 15, 2004, at Life Care Center in Wartburg, of complications from a massive stroke. Born July 21, 1927, in Portsmouth, Ohio, she was the daughter of Paul Herman and Irene Louise Revare. She grew up and attended high school in Portsmouth, and married her childhood sweetheart, Steve "Doc" Combs. Before starting her family, Mrs. Combs worked at the Royal Music Co. in Bowling Green, Ky. She moved to Oak Ridge with her husband and young family in 1960, where her husband was employed with the Oak Ridge schools as band director at Oak Ridge High School. After the couple's eldest daughter started school, Mrs. Combs worked in retail at Miller's Department Store and J.C. Penney Co. She was later employed as a purchasing and administrative assistant with Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Comparative Animal Research Laboratory, and for Martin Marietta Energy Systems at the Y-12 Plant. Her family was the center of her life but in later years she was a volunteer at Recording for the Blind, enjoyed bowling, playing canasta, Body Recall exercise classes, traveling and the life of a wife of a music director, her family said. She was at one time a member of the United Church, Chapel on the Hill, but later became a member of the Covenant Presbyterian Church. In addition to her husband of 56 years, Mrs. Combs is survived by four daughters, Judith Stephanie Evans and husband, John of Port Saint Joe, Fla., Victoria Celeste Rose of Athens, Ala., Leslie Susan Homan and husband, David, of Murfreesboro, and Virginia Reid Stevens and husband, George, of Ooltewah; a sister, Janet Irene Revare of Portsmouth; and by 12 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Her family said she longed for a cure for the disease from which she suffered. Her body was donated to the James H. Quillen, College of Medicine, at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City. A memorial service will be at 4 p.m. Saturday, March 20, 2004, at Covenant Presbyterian Church. The family requests that any memorials be in the form of donations to the Parkinson's Disease Foundation or to Covenant Presbyterian Church, 184 Lafayette Drive, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. The family will receive friends at 3 p.m. Saturday at the church. Former Oak Ridger and Cocoa Beach (Florida) city commissioner Marvin M. Yarosh, 77, died Saturday, March 6, 2004, at Cape Canaveral Hospital in Cocoa Beach, after a lengthy illness. Elected to the Cocoa Beach City Council in 1992, Mr. Yarosh was a leading researcher in atomic and solar energy, and the founding director of the Florida Solar Energy Center. He also served as a member of the faculty and later as professor emeritus, at the University of Central Florida. The son of working-class Russian immigrants, he was born March 26, 1926, in Minneapolis, Minn. As a youngster, he showed great athletic promise, but his father, a toolmaker by trade, had other plans for his son. At age 16, he was enrolled in the University of Minnesota's School of Engineering. He had great talent in engineering and physics, earning a master of science degree in mechanical engineering with high honors in 1950, and then taught in the University's Engineering Department. The early 1950s was a time of rapid experimentation and development in the emerging field of nuclear energy. After marrying Shirley Green of St. Paul, Minn., they moved to Oak Ridge, where Mr. Yarosh worked as a design engineer, first at the former Gaseous Diffusion Plant, K-25, and then at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, X-10. For the next two decades, he worked as a member of the senior staff at ORNL, holding a variety of positions involving high-level interactions with the Atomic Energy Commission, the President's Office of Science and Technology, and the Ford Foundation. In addition, from 1967 until 1969, he and his family lived in Sydney, Australia, where he served as a special consultant to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. In 1973, at the personal request of then Florida Gov. Rueben Askew, Mr. Yarosh took what he thought would be a two-year leave of absence from ORNL to assist the state of Florida in developing a long-term energy policy. In his new position as executive director of the Florida Energy Committee, and in the midst of an Arab oil embargo, he quickly laid the groundwork for a comprehensive state energy policy. A cornerstone of that policy was legislation drafted to create and establish the Florida Solar Energy Center. After overseeing the passage of that legislation, he moved to Cocoa Beach, where he organized and helped to establish the Solar Energy Center. He was the founding executive director, and during his 13 years of leadership, he shaped the Solar Energy Center into one of the world's leading research development and training centers in its field. Mr. Yarosh, who was a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a Professional Engineer, retired from the Solar Center in 1992 and spent the next three years privately consulting on energy-related issues. Also in 1992, he was approached by a group of local citizens and asked to run as a candidate for the Cocoa Beach City Council. He entered the race and was elected to a three-year term as city commissioner. During his tenure on the Council, Mr. Yarosh distinguished himself with his thoughtful, common-sense approach to city planning. After completing his term, he returned to private life, where he continued to consult on a wide range of energy-related issues. In addition to his wife of 52 years, Mr. Yarosh is survived by his three children, Cindy Yarosh of Titusville, Fla., Steve Yarosh and his wife, Irma Valdez, of Portland, Ore., and Dara Yarosh and her husband, Pierre Gravelat of Titusville; and by his two grandsons, Axel Gravelat and Morgan Gravelat, both of Titusville. Memorial services were held in Cocoa Beach on March 11, 2004. Officiating the service was cantor and spiritual leader, Patricia Ernest-Hickman, of Beth Israel Temple. The family requests that any memorials be in the form of contributions to the Jewish Congregation of Oak Ridge, P.O. Box 5434, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-5434. =========================================== SUPPORT OUR TROOPS---FLY THE FLAG "Genealogy is like playing hide and seek. 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