Kyran "Kim" Mish

Kyran "Kim" Mish died Dec. 8. He was 70.  

Mish was born Dec. 13, 1952, to Gloria V. Mish-Thompson and James I. Mish in Muskegon, Michigan. He earned his doctor of philosophy in engineering at California State University Davis in 1987. Then he joined the civil and environmental engineering department faculty from 1987-1992.  Later he became a senior bridge engineer at Imbeen and Associates from 1993-1995.

After serving as a consultant to several important firms, including both Sandia National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, he joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as director of the center for computational engineering. He remained at LLNL until 2002 when took a position as professor at the school of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science at the University of Oklahoma. He subsequently joined Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, where he remained involved in computational mechanics and was highly active in the Department of Defense and Department of Energy joint munition program.

He is survived by his loving wife, Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, son Charles of La Jolla, California and son Samuel, a career LLNL employee, and daughter-in-law Haley Mirts of Livermore, California. He was also survived by five siblings: J. Vincent (Anna) Mish of Signal Mountain, Tennessee; Terrence Mish of Southwick, Massachusetts; Veronica (Ray) Muscat of Ann Arbor, Michigan; William “Bill” (Cheryl) Mish of Chattanooga, Tennessee; and John (Patricia) Mish of Grand Rapids, Michigan.  He has several nieces and nephews, and two uncles, Joseph Mish, Jr., and Jerome Mish of Muskegon.