Huskey, Former Mayor, Passes

Donald Lee Huskey passed away Saturday at the age of 80.

Huskey leaves behind three children, Chris (Marchiel) Huskey of Franklin, Tenn., Jason (Kelly) Huskey of Cranford, N.J., Summer (Clint) Carroll of Chattanooga.

Huskey graduated from Central High School in 1958, and attended the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied business administration. He had a career in banking before becoming a small business owner in East Ridge.

Huskey served East Ridge as Mayor and as Commissioner of Public Works. He was a volunteer in youth sports. He served as Commissioner of Baseball and Softball, and was President of the Boys Twilight League.

A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, April 8, at Redemption Point Church in Ooltewah. The family will receive friends prior to the service from 12-2 p.m. Internment will follow at Lakewood Memory Gardens, East.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.