Mau-Hsiung Chen
Feb. 27, 2018 - Mau-Hsiung Chen died Feb. 12 due to respiratory disease complications. He was 77. Chen was a world-renowned physicist in the field of atomic theory and a staff physicist in the Theory and Modeling Group of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (…
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.…
James W. Lyle
Feb. 16, 2018 - James W. “Jim” Lyle died Jan. 21 due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 86. Lyle began working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in April 1964 for B Division. During his more than 45 years' association with the Lab, he always…
William N. Junk
Feb. 16, 2018 - William “Bill” N. Junk of Livermore died Feb. 1 from the effects of dememtia. He was 88. He was born on Jan. 22, 1930, in Fresno to Frank and Laura Junk. When he was 2 years old, the family moved to Santa Cruz. There he attended Live Oak School,…
Margaret A. Cooke
Feb. 16, 2018 - Margaret Anne (Collins) Cooke of Livermore died Dec.1 due to complications during a surgical procedure. She was 53. She was born in Riverside, California on Feb. 29, 1963 to Jim and Anne Collins. She was raised in Santa Barbara and graduated from San…
Nickie Mondell Brazell
Feb. 15, 2018 - Nickie Mondell Brazell (a.k.a., Nick, Dad, Pa Pa Nick) died Jan. 14, after a battle with cancer. He was 75. Brazell was born Dec. 10, 1942, to Kenneth Wilson Brazell and Evelyn Marguerite (Carter) Brazell, in Romoland, California. He lived in Warrington…
Cheryl D. Krossa
Feb. 12, 2018 - Cheryl D. Krossa of Livermore, California died Jan. 25, after a yearlong battle with non-hodgkins lymphoma. She was 63. Krossa was born in New York City on Feb. 10, 1954 to Bruce and Evelyn (Clarke) Delemos. She and her family moved to the island of St…
William Day Barrowman
Feb. 7, 2018 - William Day Barrowman died Feb. 3, due to kidney failure and complications from a fall. He was 79. Barrowman was born in Sacramento on Aug.14, 1938. He started his mechanical career repairing garbage trucks in Sacramento. Knowing that he needed a…
Thomas R. Crabtree
Feb. 2, 2018 - Thomas R. “Tom” Crabtree died Jan. 6 after a four-month battle with metastatic bone cancer from melanoma. He was 73. Crabtree worked for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for 25 years. After he retired in 2006, he volunteered for another 12…
Tressie Elwanda Wellmer
Jan. 29, 2018 - Tressie Elwanda Wellmer, 79, of Perryville, Missouri, died Jan. 27. She was 79. She was born March 24, 1938 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, daughter of William Ardell and Cleffie Leona (Stewart) Hartgraves. She and Paul Leonard Wellmer were married on Dec. 23,…
Charles Wraith
Jan. 24, 2018 - Charles “Chuck” Lucken Wraith died Jan 2. He was 86. He was born Sept. 25, 1931 in Luanshya, Northern Rhodesia to Elizabeth Lucken and Charles Roswald Wraith. The family was in Luanshya while his father developed a copper smelter for Rhone Antelope, a…
Frederick T. Hatch
Jan. 22, 2018 - Frederick Tasker Hatch died Jan. 14. He was 93. A research scientist, Hatch was born in Boston in August 1924, the son of Frederick Southard and Beatrice (Tasker) Hatch. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1944, from Harvard Medical School in 1948…
Abel Adolfo Garcia
Jan. 16, 2018 - Abel Adolfo Garcia of Livermore, California, died Dec. 22 at his home. He was 76. Garcia was born Feb. 3, 1941, in Benavides, Texas to Adolfo Garcia and Maria Aminta Yzaguirre. He graduated from Sundeen High School in 1959 and graduated third in his…
Ernest Plechaty
Jan. 10, 2018 - Ernest (Ernie) Plechaty died Dec. 28. He was 88. With his heart of gold, and life practice of generosity, the son of Ernest and Katharine Plechaty was born and raised in Chicago and graduated from the University of Illinois in 1952. Upon graduation, he…
Jerrold C. Schaefer
Jan. 10, 2018 - Jerrold (Jerry) Charles Schaefer died Dec.14, following a 17-year battle with a blood disorder that became leukemia. He was 76. Schaefer was born Nov. 10, 1941, a third-generation San Franciscan, the first child born to Emmett and Bernice Schaefer. He…
