Tom Maxwell
April 28, 2015 - Tom Maxwell died March 30. He was 63. Maxwell was born Oct. 6, 1951. He grew up in Santa Maria, California, where he gained a love for “off-roading” on the local beaches.After high school, he joined the Navy where he learned what would become a life…
Nathan Hale Steele
April 28, 2015 - Nathan “Nate” Hale Steele died April 15. He was 88.Born Sept. 26, 1926, in Ada, Oklahoma, Steele was one of 14 children born on a small farm. At age 17, he joined the Navy and was stationed aboard the USS Cornell in the South Pacific in WWII. After the…
Norma Holder
April 27, 2015 - Norma Holder of Livermore died April 17. She was 90.Holder was born Dec. 14, 1924, in Denver, Colorado, the youngest of three children and the only daughter of Claude Kindig, a train conductor, and Lillian (Heath), a homemaker. Holder graduated in…
Keith M. Sheirich
April 27, 2015 - Keith Mershon Sheirich of San Ramon died March 13. He was 47.Sheirich was born in Oakland, California, on April 1, 1967 to Stephen Sheirich and Mary Cushman. He attended El Cerrito High School and continued his education at the University of California,…
Clark L. Hanson
April 27, 2015 - Clark L. Hanson of Ashland, Oregon, died April 16. He was 90.Hanson was born in Laporte, Minnesota on June 12, 1924. He was a WWII veteran who served in the Navy. He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural…
Ian D. Hutcheon
March 30, 2015 - Ian D. Hutcheon, PhD, (Physics, UC Berkeley, 1974), group leader of the Chemical and Isotopic Signatures Group in Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division and deputy director of the Glenn Seaborg Institute, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, passed…
Kenneth Olsen Sr.
March 23, 2015 - Kenneth Olsen Sr., of Livermore, died March 12. He was 82.Olsen was born on June 18, 1932 to Bertel and Mae Olsen. He worked as an electronic technician/coordinator for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.He enjoyed family, humor, baseball,…
John Rodrigues Neto Jr.
March 18, 2015 - John Rodrigues Neto Jr. died March 16. He was 81.Neto was the son of Portuguese immigrants and was born Nov. 23, 1933 in Oakland. He grew up in Hayward, California as was instrumental in helping his parents adapt to a new country. Neto worked ranches in…
Robert P. Avila
March 16, 2015 - Robert P. Avila, a longtime Tracy resident, died March 4. He was 91.Avila was born in Anaheim and had lived in Tracy 41 years. He served in the U.S. Army Air Forces military police during World War II, reaching the rank of corporal.Avila worked six years…
John R. Hiskes
March 16, 2015 - John R. Hiskes, formerly of Livermore, died Feb. 19. He was 86.Hiskes was born in Chicago on May 30, 1928, to John and Alice Hiskes. He was raised in Chicago and following high school he served in the Coast Guard as an electronic technician, attending to…
James F. Smith
March 11, 2015 - James F. Smith died Feb. 28 surrounded by his family.Among his many accomplishments in life Smith spent an abundance of career (from 1962 to 1987) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.In addition to being a loving husband and father, Smith…
Gary Collins
March 10, 2015 - Gary Collins died March 5. He was 65.Collins was born on Aug. 11, 1949, in Oakland, California. He began his career in Alameda at the Naval Aviation Depot (NADEP Alameda) in 1968 as a maintenance electrician apprentice. He worked as a journeyman…
Gary S. Bales
March 5, 2015 - Gary Steven Bales died Feb. 27. He was 51.Bales was born Aug. 22, 1963 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He graduated from Cathedral Christian Academy in 1981, received his bachelor’s at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1985, and his master’s and…
Michael (Terry) T. Moran
March 4, 2015 - Michael T. “Terry” Moran of Las Vegas died Feb. 21. He was 82.Moran was born July 16, 1932, to Viola and Mike Moran in Great Falls, Montana, and moved to Anaconda, Montana as a child. After graduation, he served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. He…
Marlene (Diane) Draghi Kelly
Feb. 27, 2015 - Marlene (Diane) Draghi Kelly of Livermore died Feb. 19. She was 74.Kelly was born May 27, 1940. She was a lifelong native of Livermore and a graduate of Livermore High School in 1958. She worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for 26 years.…
Christine Helen Rapp
Feb. 27, 2015 - Christine Helen Rapp of Livermore died Feb. 23. She was 66.Rapp was born on March 6, 1948 in San Francisco, California to Paul and Helen Gallegos. The Gallegos family moved to Fremont in 1963, where Rapp attended Washington High School. Later in life…
Sam DiGiallonardo
Feb. 26, 2015 - Sam DiGiallonardo of Pleasanton died Feb. 22. He was 81. DiGiallonardo was born on Jan. 26, 1934. He was raised in Frederick, Colorado, near Denver, and started his career at Dow Chemical, in Rocky Flats, Colorado in 1952. In 1962, he moved to…
Ken Rhodie
Feb. 23, 2015 - Update: March 11, 2015Kenneth B. Rhodie of Discovery Bay, a devoted husband, father and grandfather who created the first comprehensive internal communications program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, died on Feb. 2, 2015 following a nine-month…
Arthur Franceschi
Feb. 23, 2015 - Arthur Franceschi died Jan. 4. He was 83.Franceschi was born on Aug. 19, 1931, in Antioch to Arthur and Elena Franceschi. He grew up in Nichols, California, a small company town, and graduated from the College of Arts in Oakland. He married soon…
Max Stanley Leap
Feb. 23, 2015 - Max Stanley Leap of Dobbins, California, died Feb. 6. He was 87.Leap was born Nov. 27, 1927 in Ajo, Arizona, to Raymond and Lois Leap. After graduating from high school, he enlisted in the army where he served two years. After his discharge he went to…
