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Funeral services for Mr. Charles P. "Chuck" Ross, 74, of Englewood Road, Aiken, S.C., who died October 25, 2004, will be conducted Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m. from the Trinity United Methodist Church. Dr. Rodney K. Powell officiating. Interment in Pineview Memorial Gardens.
Mr. Ross was a native of Dearborn, Michigan, a former resident of North Augusta for 23 years, having made Aiken his home for the past 24 years. Mr. Ross was a graduate and life-long supporter of Purdue University and earned his M.S. degree at Illinois University. In l953 immediately after graduate school, he joined DuPont de Nemours Corporation as a young Chemical Engineer at the young Savannah River Plant and moved with his wife Joyce to North Augusta. He worked mainly in Reactor Technology and the Savannah River Laboratory. In l976, he was appointed Superintendent of Fuel Fabrication and Nuclear Processes and moved his family to Wilmington, Del. In 1985- 1990, he served as DuPont and then Westinghouse Savannah River Company Technical Advisor to the Department of Energy in Germantown, Md., after which he and Joyce returned to Aiken. After retirement, he pursued his passion for intellectual inquiry as an audit student of Philosophy and Literature at USCA. He was a voracious reader of (among other things) biographies and detective novels, and a traveler, with Joyce, to serene places. He demonstrated his unflinching compassion as a volunteer to Hitchcock Hospice and Mattie C. Hall as a private tutor and was 1997 Hitchcock Rehabilitation Volunteer of the Year for "Mr. Chuck's" work with the preschool children. He showed his energetic love for his family in frequent visits, patient discussions, and frank hugs. He was an active member of Trinity United Methodist Church and a member of the Board of Friends of the Aiken County Historical Museum. Chuck Ross was a man of honor and compassion.See the full content of this document
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Mr. Charles P. Ross
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