Connie Mack Walkup
June 2, 2017 - Connie (Con) Mack Walkup died May 21 after a battle with cancer. He was 87. Walkup was born May 5, 1930, in Elma, Washington, to Ronald and Cleo Walkup. He was the youngest of five children. He graduated from Elma High School. After his parents passed…
Roger Anderson
May 23, 2017 - Roger Anderson died April 26 with his family by his side. Anderson was born into a farming family in Donovan, Illinois; the second of seven children. He was always creating -- or taking things apart. At the age of five, he informed his mother that he…
James H. Cooper
May 23, 2017 - James Howard Cooper died March 3 after a brief illness. He was 82. Cooper was born Dec. 27, 1934, in Malta, Montana, the third child of Uriel and Elizabeth Jane (McCurdy) Cooper. He graduated from Three Forks High School, and went on to get his bachelor…
Judy Trotter
May 16, 2017 - Judy Louise Trotter of Willits died March 29 from complications of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis (a rare autoimmune lung disease). She was 70. Trotter was born in San Francisco in 1946, where she grew up and graduated from Mission High School in 1964.…
Ronald L. Bolt
May 5, 2017 - Ronald Leslie Bolt, a resident of Pleasanton for 45 years, died March 28. He was 90. Bolt was born July 14, 1926. He participated in World War II and the Korean Conflict. He received a bachelor’s in business administration from the University of San…
Jack Rego, Jr.
May 2, 2017 - Jack Rego Jr., a professional mechanical engineer, farmer and avid fly fisher, died April 6 after a valiant fight against cancer. He was 80. Born June 8, 1936, in French Camp, California to Jack and Irma Rego, he graduated Tracy High School in 1954 and…
Bruce L. Garner
April 30, 2017 - Bruce L. Garner died April 13. He was 94. Garner was born in Los Angeles, California, on June 15, 1922, to Julia and Smith Garner. In 1948 he married Patricia Thielmann. They remained married for 47 years, until she passed away in 1995. He studied at…
Floyd B. (Burt) Rupp Jr.
April 28, 2017 - Floyd B. (Burt) Rupp Jr. died April 5. He was 94. Rupp was born in Waterloo, Iowa, on June 27, 1922 to Floyd B. Rupp Sr. and Florence L. Rupp. He lived in Chicago and New York before moving with his family to Oakland in 1928. He attended Fisk Grammar…
Jerome (Jerry) Dow
April 18, 2017 - Jerome (Jerry) Dow of Pleasanton died March 17. He was 73. Dow was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Feb. 26, 1944. His family moved to Gallup, New Mexico when he was two years old. He attended Gallup Catholic Schools from kindergarten through high school and…
Ronald F. Litterst
April 18, 2017 - Ronald (Ron) Frank Litterst died April 11 at home after a year-long battle with squamous cell carcinoma, an extremely aggressive form of skin cancer. Litterst was born Oct. 9, 1933 in Vallejo, California, the only child of Della Merrill (Hopson)…
Barbara R. Keltz
April 14, 2017 - Barbara Rebecca Keltz, a longtime resident of Fremont, died March 15 in Vancouver, Washington. She was 87. Keltz was born to William F. and Bertha Matheson on June 17, 1929 in San Francisco. William Matheson had emigrated from Scotland by way of Canada…
Merritt Elmore
April 14, 2017 - Merritt Elmore, an educator and early computer scientist, died Jan. 22. He was 91. A son, brother, husband, father, teacher, friend, uncle and cousin, Elmore was gentle, curious, dignified, modest, precise and determined, and his life reflected his…
Nathan D. Benedict
April 13, 2017 - Nathan Dow Benedict, also known as Deacon Nate, died March 29. He was 94. Benedict was born April 2, 1922 in Lancaster, California to Edgar Ells Benedict and Bertha Alling Benedict. He had one brother Edgar Jr., seven years his senior. The family moved…
Bonnie Yochum
April 11, 2017 - Bonnie Yochum of Tracy died April 3. She was 62. Yochum was born May 17, 1954 to Aaron and Edith Hall in Elyria, Ohio. They moved to Tracy when she was three years old. She attended Lammersville School and graduated from Tracy High School in 1972.…
Robert Dean Rae Sr.
April 6, 2017 - Robert Dean Rae Sr., an Oakdale resident of more than 30 years, died March 25 after a long 12-year battle with Alzheimer’s. He was born April 16, 1934, to Eva and J.C. Arch, in Boyant, Oklahoma. He moved to California where he met his wife, Myrna Joy…
Alan M. Volpe
April 6, 2017 - Alan M. Volpe died March 10. He was 65. Volpe was an isotope geochemist with a Ph.D. from UC San Diego, Scripps Institute of Oceanography (1988). He investigated the chemistry of the earth's ocean, crust and mantle, including research in the Marianas…
Geneva Mae Phillips Erickson
March 30, 2017 - Geneva Mae Phillips Erickson, died in her home in Lincoln, California, on March 6, after a short struggle with cancer. She was 89. Erickson was born Feb. 2, 1928, in Big Stone, South Dakota, to Lawrence and Emma Phillips. After three brothers Douglas,…
Kenneth Roy Trigger
March 29, 2017 - Kenneth Roy Trigger died Feb. 19, two weeks before his 93rd birthday. Trigger was born in Chicago in 1924, moving to northern California once he graduated high school. During his military service, Trigger met Esther Meshul at the Hollywood USO. After…
Herman Ruby Leider
March 29, 2017 - Herman Ruby Leider, formerly of Livermore, died March 10. He was 88. Leider was born to Jacob and Esther Leider on Jan. 14, 1929 in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from Central High School in Detroit in 1947 and graduated from Wayne University (now…
Rockwell (Rocky) Darbee
March 29, 2017 - Rockwell (Rocky) Darbee died March 8. He was 70. Darbee was born April 9, 1946 in Clawson, Michigan. He was an avid marathon runner and mountain climber. His quirky sense of humor and bright personality will be missed by all that knew him. Darbee was…
