Henry McDonald
June 21, 2016 - Henry McDonald of Danville died June 2. He was 87. McDonald was born July 2, 1928 to Henry and Edith McDonald in Long Beach, California and moved to Glendale, California in 1932. He graduated from Hoover High School in 1946 and enlisted in the U.S. Navy…
James Stephen Johnson
June 9, 2016 - James Stephen Johnson of Tracy died peacefully on June 4 with his family by his side. He was 66.Johnson was born in Paris, Texas and grew up in Idabel, Oklahoma,before moving to California where he attended high school and college. After college he began…
Vernon D. Fisher
May 31, 2016 - Vernon D. Fisher of Anderson died May 16. He was 45.Fisher was born Aug. 25, 1970 to Kathy and Frank Fisher in Hayward. He began his 20 year career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a contractor. He worked as a Laboratory employee from May…
Wayne Gartside
May 18, 2016 - Wayne Gartside, a LLNL retiree and long-time Livermore resident, died May 13 at Bonnie Lane Care Home in Pleasant Hill, CA. He was 82.Wayne, and his twin brother Duane, were born in Lebanon, Illinois on Aug. 24, 1933, to Elmore and Mabel (Nee Burk)…
Cathy Groth
May 12, 2016 - Cathy (Carpenter) Groth died April 24 after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 55. Groth was born March 9, 1961 in San Luis Obispo, California to Bill and Gail Carpenter. She spent her childhood years in New Hampshire, Guam, before finally…
Shea Gardner
May 10, 2016 - Shea Nicole Gardner of Oakland died Feb. 21 after a 15-month battle with metastatic lung cancer. She was 46.Gardner was born in Fontana, California and grew up in Bellingham, Washington, graduating in 1987 from Sehome High School as her class'…
Victor Hugo Hendricks
April 25, 2016 - 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…
Richard Carlos
April 19, 2016 - Richard Carlos died March 25. He was 69.Born in Stockton on May 27, 1946, Carlos lived in Tracy for 57 years before moving to Minden, Nevada in 2003 after retiring from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory after 25 years of employment.His hobbies…
Ralph Burkett
April 12, 2016 - Ralph Edward Burkett, a Livermore resident for 51 years, died March 25. He was 97.Burkett was born Jan. 18, 1919, in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was a civilian employee of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for 35 years. Most of his federal employment…
Emilio Ramirez
March 30, 2016 - Emilio Ramirez of Livermore died March 19. He was 91.Ramirez served in the Army during both WWII and the Korean War. He married Mary Esther in 1949 and moved with his bride from San Antonio, Texas to California. He worked during the day as a machinist…
R. Thomas Westfall
March 24, 2016 - Raymond Thomas "Tom" Westfall, of Seminole, Florida, died March 16. He was 71.Westfall was born on Sept. 28, 1944, in Clarksburg, West Virginia to Raymond G. and Margaret R. (Banks) Westfall.At age 18 Westfall joined the U.S. Navy and in 1964 he began…
Margaret Cecilia (Peg) Bockover
March 17, 2016 - Margaret ‘Peg’ C. Bockover of Livermore, a former 911 dispatcher for Alameda County Fire, died March 7, following a brief illness. She was 55.Bockover was born on Nov. 14, 1961 in Phoenix, Arizona to Gerald and Norma Caldwell.She is survived by her …
Frank Beckett
March 15, 2016 - Frank Beckett, of Susanville, California, died March 7. He was 66.Beckett was born on June 24, 1949, in Grand Junction, Colorado, to Jeanne Horning Beckett and Franklin Clark Beckett. He attended Longmont High School, where he was an avid member of the…
Ruth Anderson
March 10, 2016 - Ruth P. Anderson died Feb. 26. She was 86.Anderson was born July 27, 1929. She worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for 29 years as a nuclear chemist and gamma spectroscopist. She retired in 1991.Anderson was a trailblazer in the running…
Edward Floth
March 3, 2016 - Edward Floth died Feb. 15. He was 91.Floth worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site 300 as a refrigeration engineer for 31 years until he retired in 1989. He also worked as a vocational teacher at San Joaquin Delta College. Floth, along…
Shaun Kesterson
Feb. 22, 2016 - Shaun Kesterson died Feb. 10. He was 64.Kesterson was born May 23, 1951, in Montana, but grew up in San Bernardino County in Southern California. He graduated from Fontana High School in 1969, and joined the Navy. He served on the USS Seawolf in the…
Virginia Brown
Feb. 17, 2016 - Virginia Ruth Brown died Feb. 8. She was 81. Brown’s life work and passion was theoretical nuclear physics which led to a distinguished career that spanned more than 50 years, working at institutions including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, MIT…
James Alviso
Feb. 17, 2016 - James “Jumbo” Alviso died Feb. 2. He was 67.Alviso was born May 27, 1948 to Albert and Henrietta (Rochin) Alviso. He was raised in Livermore and was a standout athlete in the first graduating class of 1966 at Granada High School. At Granada he was the…
Charles Shearer
Feb. 11, 2016 - Charles "Chuck" Shearer, also known as "Bud" died Jan. 12. He was 87.Shearer was born in Loudonville, Ohio, Feb. 19, 1928 to Ernest and Pearl Shearer. He relocated with his family to Oakland, California and graduated from Castlemont High School in 1947.…
Robert O. Duff Jr.
Feb. 10, 2016 - Robert Olin Duff Jr. died Dec. 6. He was 85.Duff was born in Dallas, Texas, Dec. 23, 1929, to R. Olin and Mary (Hudson) Duff. He was educated at Dallas Public Schools, Texas Technical College (1951) and Harvard Business School (1956). Duff worked at…
