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Clarence W. Satchell

Project StaffX-10 Graphite Reactor

Oak Ridge, TN
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
The X-10 Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge

Clarence W. Satchell worked for Clinton Laboratories at the X-10 Reactor.

He was born on November 13, 1906 in Crowley, LA. His parents were George A. and Libby Terrell Satchell. He had four siblings, Harry, George Jr., Ulmond, and Wallace. Clarence married Marie Olite Broussard on November 6, 1930 in Acadia Parish, LA. He passed away on December 22, 1955 in Augusta, GA, and was buried in Crowley, LA. He and his wife had no children. 

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