Ex-Magnet Mills worker Roach dies<\/strong>.\u00a0 Former Magnet Mills, Inc., employee John L. Roach, 79, died after a year long illness Friday in Oak Ridge Hospital.\u00a0 He was dead on arrival at 8:40 p.m.<\/p>\n Roach resided in the Blowing Springs Community, Clinton Rt. 3.\u00a0 He was a native of Jefferson County.<\/p>\n Roach retired from his job at Magnet Mills where he did maintenance work.<\/p>\n He belonged to Clinton Church of God.\u00a0 Roach enjoyed working in his garden.<\/p>\n Survivors are three sons, Arlie\u00a0and Harold Roach both of Clinton Rt. 2, Earl Roach of Caryville; two daughters, Mrs. Tressie\u00a0(Elmer) Rhea and Mrs. Lena Kate (John) Kidwell, both of Clinton Rt. 2; one step-daughter, Mrs. Jessie (Fred) Rains of Caryville; one sister, Mrs. Odie Morgan of Clinton.<\/p>\n Services were held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Clinton Church of God.\u00a0 Officiating ministers were the Rev. Charles Harness, the Rev. Lunas Keck and the Rev. Virgil Shears.\u00a0 Burial was in Tennessee Valley Memory Gardens.<\/p>\n Clinton Courier-News<\/em>, May 3, 1974<\/p>\n [Transcribed by Stephanie A. Hill from a photocopy of the microfilm in the genealogy vertical files at Lake City Library.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Obituary of John L. Roach, 1974: Ex-Magnet Mills worker Roach dies.\u00a0 Former Magnet Mills, Inc., employee John L. Roach, 79, died after a year long illness Friday in Oak Ridge Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries-q-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4989,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions\/4989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}