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Ethel “Makey” Jane Moran was born on November 16th 1878 in Queron, Loire Inferior, France to William Lewis Morgan a Welsh man; and Catherine Ann Reece, and English woman. She and her three sisters traveled the world with their father who was a metallurgist opening mines. She married Charles Gilbert Sperry Sr on 12 Sept […]

Leland L. “Doc” Loach was born in Dunlap, Tennessee in 1907. He was a father of three, one of four brothers, and a magician to many. He was in the Navy, the Army Service Forces- Corps of Engineers, a Chiropractor, and a Land Developer. He developed Chula Vista on the outskirts of Ft. Lauderdale after […]

George Washington Stoker was born to Fred and Katharine Stoker on February 22, 1896, in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. He was a WWI veteran and amongst an early group of engineers to work on the Atomic Bomb. He first entered the service on June 22, 1918, at Minneapolis, assigned to Company F, 311 Engineers Camp Grant, and […]

Robert Geffel was born to John Geffel Sr. and Theresa (Logidice) Geffel who had come to Oak Ridge in 1943. He was one of two sons. His brother John was the eldest. They both graduated from Westinghouse High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania building their father had helped build. He later became a manager and drummer […]

Mathias (“Matthew”) Antone Thennes was born in 1895. He served in WW1 with the 39th Division, 153rd Regiment, in France. He was a skilled carpenter and spent two years constructing and maintaining the buildings at Oak Ridge, some military and some civilian. He also worked at the Ammunition Depot inside the “Secret City” at Oak […]

Madonna Elaine Thennes was in born 1925. When she had just graduated from high school in Pocahontas, Arkansas, in 1943, her father told her the military had good-paying jobs for civilians in a new place in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She applied, was hired, and worked in the “typing pool” of women who typed up documents for […]

G. Neil Hamilton was born in Amarillo, TX on October 23, 1930 during the great recession and the sand storms of the Dust Bowl, where he worked as a cowboy on his parents small ranch. Не graduated from Amarillo High School, Amarillo Junior College and in 1953 from Texas Technical College, with a BA in […]

Robert Krohn was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin December 26, 1919. He attended the University of Wisconsin and graduated from the Electrical Engineering School in June of 1942. He had been deferred by the draft board in order to finish his bachelors degree and again following graduation so he could work with his professor H.B. Wahlin […]

Larkin C. Wood was born on April 2, 1909, in Santa Rosa, New Mexico.  After graduating high school, he attended college at Montezuma College in Montezuma, New Mexico.  He married Ora Lee Jones in 1934 and opened his welding shop in Santa Rosa. Later, he was employed by the US Government to build military bases […]

Clyde Oehler Brown worked at California Institute of Technology on Project Camel, which supported the Manhattan Project during WWII. One of their assignments was B-29 airdrops of model atomic bombs so that scientists could calibrate the drop path of the bombs accordingly.