OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Oak Ridge native Rose Weaver can be described in many different ways by many different people. Some know her as an activist, humanitarian, poet laureate or historian.
But those close to her can describe her in one word — a friend.
“I love her to death. She’s my friend and she always pats me like this when I say she’s my friend,” Sherry Simpkins, a long-time friend of Weaver, said…