In Memoriam

Donald Anthony Brazil

May 22, 2018 - Donald Anthony Brazil of Livermore died May 15. He was 84. Brazil was born in Sacramento, California and graduated from Hayward High School. He began his career as a materials fabricator machinist upon graduation, working for multiple industrial…

Charles Robert Henry

May 15, 2018 - Charles Robert Henry died April 9, just two months before his 95th birthday, surrounded by family in his Danville, California home. Born in Norwood, Massachusetts, Henry headed west to attend the University of California at Berkeley after graduating…

Gretchen Piscotty

May 11, 2018 - A celebration of life for former LLNL employee Gretchen Piscotty will be held May 14 at Asbury United Methodist Church in Livermore, beginning at 11 a.m. Piscotty died on May 6 from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig’s disease. She was…

Donald R. DaRonco Sr.

April 27, 2018 - Donald R. DaRonco Sr. of Salida, California died peacefully at home on Monday April 23, 2018 after a 10-year battle with Lewy Body Dementia. He was 71. DaRonco was born in Sandwich, Illinois on Jan. 5, 1947 to John and Eunice (Champlain) DaRonco. At the…

Claude H. Dittmore

April 19, 2018 - Claude H. Dittmore, resident of Livermore, died April 15. He was 88. Dittmore was born Dec. 5, 1929, in San Francisco. He graduated from Washington High in San Francisco and City College of San Francisco. He served in the U.S. Navy in Korea during the…

Laimdota Agnese Maizitis

April 9, 2018 - Laimdota Agnese Maizitis, a resident of Dublin, died March 28. She was 81. Laimdota was born to August and Erika Maizits on July 31, 1936, in Riga, Latvia. She and her family were WW II refugees in Mannheim, Germany, coming to the United States to start…

James Hadley

April 4, 2018 - James "Jim" Warren Hadley of Livermore died Jan. 31. He was 93. Hadley was born Nov. 15, 1924 in Los Angeles County to Walter Jerome and Laura Margaret Hadley. He served three years in the U.S. Naval Reserve (USNR) during WWII as a student at Caltech,…

Frederick Kovar

April 4, 2018 - Fredrick Kovar, a 52-year resident of Walnut Creek, died March 2 following a brief illness. He was born Sept. 20, 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio. The first in his family to graduate from high school, he went on to graduate from John Carroll University and…

Jose Pastrana Estrellado

April 4, 2018 - Jose Pastrana Estrellado, Jr. of Richland, Washington died March 25. He was 74. Estrellado was born June 20, 1943 in Mauban Quezon, Philippines. He grew up in Mauban and graduated from MLQ University in Manila, Philippines. He then married the love of…

Willie D. Thompson

April 4, 2018 - Willie D. Thompson died Feb. 15. He was 72. Thompson was born Nov. 15, 1945. He began his career as a health and safety technologist in the Hazards Control Department at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in March 1984. Several years later, he was…

Anthony “Tony” Ruggiero

March 20, 2018 - Anthony “Tony” Ruggiero died at his workplace in Livermore, California, on March 1. He was 62. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio along with his younger brother Michael Ruggiero and older sister Cindy Riffici to parents Anthony Ruggiero Sr. and Adeline…

Paul Sims Knechtli

March 7, 2018 - Paul Sims Knechtli of Livermore died Dec. 13. He was 78. Knechtli was born in Sacramento on April 14, 1939  to Louis and Kathleen Knechtli. He was married to Frances in 1962. Knectli worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the machine tool…

Arthur Rodrigues

March 7, 2018 - Arthur “Art” Rodrigues, a native of California and a Livermore resident for 53 years, died Feb. 16 at Tulane University Medical Center in New Orleans. He was 73. Rodrigues was born in Oakland, the middle of three sons. He graduated from Berkeley High,…

Richard Bryan

Feb. 27, 2018 - Richard Bryan died Jan. 12. He was 91. Bryan was born April 11, 1926, In Minneapolis, Minnesota. He joined the Navy at 17 and served on the U.S.S. Killen. He ended his naval career in Portland where he met and married the love of his life, Betty, in…

Paul Jarvis

Feb. 27, 2018 - Paul Edward Jarvis of Redwood City died Jan. 2. He was 76. Jarvis was born in Deadwood, South Dakota on Sept. 17, 1941 to Edward and Hilma Jarvis of Lead, South Dakota. He was raised in Eugene, Oregon with his late sister, Patricia (1949-1980). Jarvis…

Enzo DiPietro

Feb. 27, 2018 - Enzo DiPietro died in his sleep Jan. 31. He was 97. He was born in Bozzano, Italy Oct. 3, 1920. He arrived in the United States in 1929 and spent most of his childhood in Sparks, Nevada. In 1938, he represented the Nevada National Guard at the Camp…

Olivia Ayson

Feb. 27, 2018 - Olivia Ayson, of Stockton, California, died Jan. 8, surrounded by her family who will forever miss and treasure her. She was 74. Ayson was born March 5, 1943. She retired from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory several years ago and continued…

James Alfred Happe

Feb. 27, 2018 - James Alfred “Jim” Happe, resident of Livermore, died Feb. 9. He was 88. Happe was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota to Mabel and Alfred Happe on Dec. 23, 1929. He attended Cretin High School, an all-boy Catholic school and met his future wife, Rosemary…

Eleanor Jean (Barrett) Collins

Feb. 27, 2018 - Eleanor (Elly) Jean (Barrett) Collins died Jan. 2. She was 90. Collins was born in 1927 to Dewey and Hazel Barrett in Fowler, California. She graduated from Richmond Union High School in 1945. She married the love of her life, Edward Collins, in 1951.…

Edward Mueller

Feb. 27, 2018 - Edward "Ed" Mueller, a resident of Banks, Oregon died Jan. 7 at Tuality Community Hospital in Hillsboro, Oregon. He was 67. Mueller was born May 18, 1950, in Oakland, California, the son of the late Otto Mueller and Charlotte (Neddersen) Mueller. He was…

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