Victor Hugo Hendricks

Victor Hugo Hendricks of Tracy died April 13. He was 83.

Hendricks was born in Morrilton, Arkansas on June 24, 1932. He graduated from Conway High School in three years and had one year at Conway Teachers College. He moved to Vallejo, California and worked at Mare Island Shipyard in 1950. While working at Mare Island, he took CREI electronics correspondence courses and received an electronics technician certificate.

He moved to Livermore and began working at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1956 starting as an electronics coordinator and advancing to a Level 2 supervisor in the chemistry electronics division. He enjoyed a 35-year career working at the Laboratory and retired in 1991.

Hendricks began his involvement with the Masons in 1970 and became Master of the Mosaic Lodge 218 FAAM in Livermore, California, in 1978. After serving as the Lodge Master, he became Lodge secretary, serving for 10 years, and also served on the building committee for over 10 years. He thoroughly enjoyed his time in and participation with the Masons organization.

Hendricks was an avid outdoorsman and enjoyed duck, pheasant and deer hunting. It gave him great joy to fish and catch coho and sockeye salmon with his son, Stephen, in Alaska. He loved working with wood and was an accomplished carpenter. This interest began when he built a kitchen table for his family where they had meals while he was still a teen. When stereo music began broadcasting in the 50s, he built the cabinetry for his first home stereo system. The home he shared with his wife for the last 40 years has been well developed and remodeled inside and out and the landscaped yard looks like a well maintained park. He believed in leaving a place better than he found it.

Hendricks is survived by his loving and devoted wife of 65 years, Kentucky; his three children Stephen (Vicki Price) Hendricks (Anchorage, Alaska), Timothy (Barbara) Hendricks (Hayward) and Karen Trenton of Virginia Beach, Virginia; grandchildren Zachary Hendricks (Missoula, Montana), Jessica Briar (San Jose, California) and Matthew (Lillian) Trenton (Virginia Beach, Virginia). He is also survived by his brothers Opie Hendricks (McKinleyville, California), Wayne Hendricks (Batesville, Arkansas), sister Sue Pate (Conway, Arkansas) and numerous nieces and nephews.