Paula E. Low

Paula Low, a long-time Lab employee and Livermore resident, died Oct. 27, after battling breast cancer for one year.

Low was born in Richmond, Ky. to Roland and Dovie Yost. Due to her father’s career in the military, she was well traveled and lived in a variety of places in her early adolescence, eventually settling in Mount Clemens, Mich. where she attended middle school and high school.

She served as a radio operator in the Navy and was stationed on Oahu, Hawaii. Upon being discharged from the Navy, Low came to California where she eventually settled in Livermore. She worked at LLNL beginning in May 1977 and worked as a computer technician. She continued to work at the Lab until her diagnosis of cancer in October 2007.

Low was an excellent athlete and competed in a number of sports, including softball, rugby and roller hockey. In the summer she liked to jet ski on the Delta and at Lake Comanche with her family and snow ski in the winter. She loved to dance.

She is survived by her mother, Dovie; her husband of 24 years, Bruce; her daughters Kari and Kelsey; and her dachshunds, Maxie, Cody and Penny.

Memorial services will be held Thursday, Nov. 13, at 11 a.m., at Callaghan’s Mortuary, 3833 East Ave., Livermore, CA. (925) 447-2942. A “Gathering of Friends and Family” will commence at 10 a.m. prior to the service.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to the American Cancer Society, or to Hope Hospice, which did an exemplary job of providing comfort and aid to her and her family in her last days.