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Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on Sep 8, 2015

Oak Ridge attorney and altenate judge William Lawrence Tunnell died Sept. 5, The Oak Ridger reports. He was 94. Tunnell attended the University of Tennessee Knoxville for his undergraduate degree and for law school. He was a U.S. Army sergeant major during World War II and received the Republican Senatorial Medal of Freedom in 2004. Weatherford Mortuary in Oak Ridge is in charge of the arrangements.