>From The Oak ridger 11 Apr 2003 Jackson Boatwright Davidson, 79, Dorathy "Dot" Smith Moneymaker, 88, of Oak Ridge, Arnetta McNeil Crabtree, 78, of Norris, Myrtle Jelf Mauney, 85, of Oak Ridge, ===================================== Jackson Boatwright Davidson, 79, died Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at his home following a short illness with pancreatic cancer. Born May 12, 1923, in Troup County, Ga., he was the son of Annie Della Stripling Davidson and Robert Calvin Davidson, both deceased. He graduated froJm West Point High School in Georgia and attended Georgia Institute of Technology as a co-op student. He graduated in 1944 with a degree in electrical engineering. Mr. Davidson worked at NACA (the forerunner of NASA) in Langley, Va., before his Army service during World War II. He became a member of the Special Engineering Detachment in support of the Manhattan Project and was deployed to Oak Ridge in 1945, arriving the day President Roosevelt died, and stayed until assigned to Los Alamos, N.M., where he spent the remainder of the war as an instrument technician. He stayed on as a civilian in Los Alamos for several months after the war ended. After this period, Mr. Davidson returned to NACA in Langley and subsequently, under the G.I. Bill, enrolled at St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., where he studied philosophy, classical languages, and mathematics. In 1948, he returned to Oak Ridge to work at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. An interest in low-light level detection systems led him to develop instrumentation for use in several different fields, including biology, crystallography, analytical chemistry, spectroscopy and the Human Genome Project. As a senior development engineer in the Instrumentation and Controls Division, he considered it a privilege to work with research scientists in these areas. After almost 46 years at ORNL, he retired from Lockheed Martin in Sept. 1994. In 1985, he won, with A. L. Case, a national IR-100 award for an electronic image detector for electrophoresis and chromatography, judged as "one of the 100 most significant technical products of the year." A derivative of the television-based "fly's eye" detector that he built for the Solid State Division at ORNL is still in use at the High Flux Isotope Reactor. His work was published in Science and other journals, and he enjoyed giving professional presentations in laboratories such as ILL in France, INER in Taiwan and JAERI in Japan. He held four U. S. patents. A member of the Oak Ridge Civic Music Association for 54 years, Mr. Davidson served on the ORCMA board and as president in the early 1970s. He and his wife particularly enjoyed chamber music. For 24 years, he served as a telephone worker for the CONTACT Helpline. Another of his most satisfying activities was serving as a member of the Oak Ridge Chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. He also held memberships in AAAS, Sigma Xi, the Friends of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Tennessee Inventors Association. In the l950s, he worked to help integrate lunch counters and businesses in Oak Ridge. He was an avid photographer, especially of birds, and a devoted fan of ORICL classes. Mr. Davidson was active at the First Presbyterian Church, where he was an elder and served many terms on the Session, the church's governing body, and several years as clerk of Session. He taught adult Sunday School many times over the years and had recently served as a member of the sound guild. His many friends in the church and in the Oak Ridge neighborhood, where he and his wife resided for over 50 years, provided an extended family. He was widely loved for his gentle humor and his ability to turn a phrase. Mr. Davidson is survived by his wife of almost 53 years, Mary Ann Courtenay Davidson, whom he met in Oak Ridge. They were married May 13, 1950. He is also survived by a son, William C. "Bill" Davidson of Knoxville; and a daughter, Adele S. Davidson, a Kenyon College faculty member in Gambier, Ohio; three brothers, William H. Davidson of West Point, Ga., Hugh Davidson of Charlottesville, Va., and his twin brother, Lee Davidson of Atlanta, Ga.; two brothers-in-law, William H. Courtenay and Thomas A. Courtenay; three nieces, Diane Cook, Julie McCaffrey, and Anne S. Davidson, and their families. A daughter, Anne Courtenay Davidson, two brothers, G. Nathaniel "Nat" Davidson and Robert C. Davidson Jr. and two sisters-in-law died earlier. A memorial service will be at 4 p.m. Monday, April 14, 2003, at First Presbyterian Church. Following the service, the family will receive visitors at 5 p.m. at a reception in the Church Fellowship Hall. The family requests that any memorials be in the form of donations to the CONTACT Helpline, P. O. Box 4641, Oak Ridge, TN 37830; the NAMI-Tennessee, 5410 Holmberg Place, Suite 4, Knoxville, TN 37919, or to First Presbyterian Church Music Fund, P. O. Box 6106, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Martin Oak Ridge Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Dorathy "Dot" Smith Moneymaker, 88, of Oak Ridge, died Thursday, April 10, 2003, at Briarcliff Health Care Center. Born Oct. 9, 1914, in the Wheat community, she was the daughter of Smith Phillips Sellers and Myrtle May Stubbs Sellers. She began teaching Sunday School at the age of 18 on the first Sunday of every month at the Baptist church in Wheat. She was head of the Music Department at Wheat High School and had also worked as a bookkeeper for the then Roane County sheriff. She came to Oak Ridge in 1961 and was a longtime member of Robertsville Baptist Church. At Robertsville, she taught a Sunday School class known as "the Moneymaker group." She was an extensive genealogist and authored two books: "We'll Call It Wheat" and "Fun and Foolishness." In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Russell S. Moneymaker, who died Nov. 30, 1984 and a sister, Winnie McCall Brown, who also died in 1984. Mrs. Moneymaker is survived by two sons, Russell Smith Moneymaker of Manassas, Va. and Gordon C. Moneymaker of Oak Ridge; and by a niece and nephew, Barbara McCall Ely of Oak Ridge and Guy Eugene McCall of Union City, Calif. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 12, 2003, in the chapel of Weatherford Mortuary with the Rev. Michael Prince officiating. Burial will follow at Woodhaven Memorial Gardens in Claxton. The family requests that any memorials be in the form of contributions to Robertsville Baptist Church, 251 Robertsville Road, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. The family will receive friends from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at the mortuary. Arnetta McNeil Crabtree, 78, of Norris, died Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at Saint Mary's Residential Hospice in Halls. She was a member of Norris United Methodist Church. She retired from Martin Marietta Energy Systems as a clerk at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas Edward Crabtree, a daughter, Michelle Crabtree and three brothers and two sisters, Glendon McNeil, Howard McNeil, Letcher McNeil, Sylvia Freeman and Nancy McNeil. She was born March 16, 1925, in Barbourville, Ky. Mrs. Crabtree is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Peggy and Jim Stooksbury of Norris; a son and daughter-in-law, Richard and Jan Crabtree of Macon, Ga.; two granddaughters, Emily Wilburn and her husband, Duane, of Knoxville, and Lauren Crabtree of Atlanta, Ga.; and a grandson, Josh Crabtree of Macon, Ga. She is also survived by two sisters, Mable Lee of Jacksonville, Fla., and Thelma Davis of MacClenny, Fla.; a brother, Oscar McNeil and his wife, Nina, of Oak Ridge; and by several nieces and nephews. A graveside service will be at 11 a.m., Saturday, April 12, 2003, at Anderson Memorial Gardens, Oliver Springs Highway, with the Rev. Lisa Stone officiating. Friends and family may visit at their convenience at Holley-Gamble Funeral Home in Clinton. Myrtle Jelf Mauney, 85, a resident of the Estates of Oak Ridge, died Monday, April 7, 2003, at her home. The middle child of William and Irene Jelf of Chattanooga, she was preceded in death by her older brother and younger sister, William and Mary Elizabeth. She was the widow of Thomas Henry Mauney and was also preceded in death by her grandson, Brett Alan Mayes. Mrs. Mauney had been a resident of Oak Ridge since 1946 but moved to Wooster, Ohio, six years ago because of her illness. She was a longtime member of First United Methodist Church in Oak Ridge and had attended the United Methodist Church in Wooster. According to her family, she loved Oak Ridge and appreciated its uniqueness. For many years, she was an administrative secretary in the principal's office at Oak Ridge High School, where she was blessed with many friends, whom she considered family. She loved life, family, friends, the mountains, a good joke and duplicate bridge, for which she earned a life master certification. She was a member of the Oak Ridge and Wooster Duplicate Bridge Associations. Mrs. Mauney is survived by three daughters, Mary Mayes and her husband, Phillip, Kristen Clary and Sylvia Hurst; grandchildren, Ashley Long and her husband, David, Gretchen Hurst, Charles Clary, Preston Clary, Raven Clary, Austin Mayes and Scott Hurst; great-grandchildren, Taylor Long and Bradyn Long; and by several nieces and nephews. Roy Clary and Mike Hurst are her former sons-in-law. A service celebrating her life will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 12, 2003, at First United Methodist Church. Burial will be at Oak Ridge Memorial Park. The family asked that individual acts of kindness be given to any Alzheimer's sufferer, caregiver or hospice organization. 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