George M. Bonawitz
May 7, 2014 - George M. Bonawitz of Phoenix, Arizona died May 7. He was 80.Bonawitz was born in Billings, Montana on March 15, 1934 to Harold and Beatrice Bonawitz and was raised in San Francisco.Bonawitz was a veteran of the Korean War where he performed duty in…
Colonel Douglas "CD" Gardner
May 4, 2014 - Colonel Douglas "CD" Gardner died May 4. He was 101.Gardner was born Sept. 7, 1912 in Shawnee, Oklahoma to Arthur James and Juliette Gardner. He attended Kentwood High School in Kentwood, Louisiana before attending Southern University in Baton Rouge. He…
Jody Mackenzie
May 2, 2014 - Jody Mackenzie of Carlsbad, New Mexico, died May 2. She was 72. Mackenzie was born October 20, 1941, in Piedmont, California, to William A. Mackenzie and Elizabeth (Jordan) Shaffer. She worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore,…
Sandra Elizabeth Harvey
April 25, 2014 - Sandra Elizabeth Harvey of Livermore died April 25. She was 68.Harvey was born May 17, 1945 in Albany, Calif., to Thomas and Selma Lee. She received her bachelor's degree from Fresno State College, and after graduation in 1968, she moved to Livermore and…
James "Jim" T. King
April 20, 2014 - James "Jim" T. King died April 20 after a long and courageous battle with cancer. He was 72.King was born July 3, 1941. He loved classic cars and owned three of them. He also loved collecting die cast cars, traveling and going to car shows. He was an…
Aldo F. Sciamanna
April 15, 2014 - Aldo F. Sciamanna of Oakland died April 15. He was 85.Sciamanna was born Jan. 26, 1929, in Cumberland, Wyo. He grew up in Rock Springs, Wyo. and later moved to San Francisco. He graduated from the University of San Francisco in 1952 with both bachelor’s…
Virginia "Ginger" Rae Aafedt
April 12, 2014 - Virginia “Ginger” Rae Aafedt of Pleasanton died April 12. She was 79.Born Dec. 19, 1934, Aafedt was a loving and caring wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend. Aafedt retired from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a telephone…
Deborah "Debbie" Browning
April 10, 2014 - Deborah (Debbie) Dee Browning of Manteca died April 10. She was 59.Browning was born Feb. 12, 1955, in Idaho Falls. She grew up in Idaho Falls and was a resident of Manteca, Calif., for the past 36 years.Browning worked as an administrator for the…
Richard Douglas Holt
April 5, 2014 - Richard Douglas Holt of Livermore died April 5. He was 72.Holt was born on Oct. 31, 1941 in Greensboro, N.C., to Palmer and Lois Holt. He earned his bachelor's degree in engineering (physics and mathematics) from the University of Michigan. Upon…
Ron Enos
April 4, 2014 - Ron "Ronnie" Enos died April 4 at home after a short battle with cancer. He was 75.Enos and his wife Pam resided lived at "Enos Ranch" in Mariposa for the past 12 years after moving from Oakdale where he lived for 26 years.He retired from Lawrence…
Joe Edward Segrest Jr.
April 3, 2014 - Joe Edward Segrest Jr. of Livermore, Calif., died in a bicycling accident on Altamont Pass Road on Thursday, April 3.Segrest worked for two decades as one of the exercise physiologists for the Security Department at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory…
David L. Johnson
April 3, 2014 - David Leland Johnson of Livermore died April 3. He was 65.Johnson was born in Idaho Falls on Jan. 20, 1949 to Leland and Mary Lou Johnson. He honorably served our country in the Army for three years during the Vietnam War.Johnson studied laser technology…
James (Jim) Dunn
March 31, 2014 - James (Jim) Dunn of Livermore died March 31. He was 54.Dunn was born in Glasgow, Scotland in July 1959, and grew up in East Kilbride. He earned a bachelor's degree in natural philosophy from Glasgow University, a master's in experimental space physics…
Hugh E. DeWitt
March 28, 2014 - Hugh Edgar DeWitt of Berkeley died March 28. He was 83.DeWitt was born in 1930 in Memphis, Tenn. He graduated from Stanford University in 1951 and received his doctorate from Cornell University in 1957.DeWitt began his career at Lawrence Livermore…
Magalee Ford Bleckert
March 25, 2014 - Magalee Ford Bleckert died recently. She was 91.Bleckert was born Sept. 30, 1922, in Haskell, Okla., to Millard Fillmore and Flute Jane Ford.Bleckert was married to Carl Bleckert in 1950. They had a daughter, Cynde, and son, Michael. She engaged fully in…
Sammie LaWanda Burdette
March 24, 2014 - Sammie LaWanda Burdette, a former longtime Tracy resident, died March 24. She was 89.Burdette, a native of Olustee, Okla., was born May 12, 1924. She lived in Tracy 80 years before moving to Sonora to be near family after her husband died in 2006.…
Fernando "Chuck" Bazan
March 18, 2014 - Fernando "Chuck" Bazan of Pleasanton died March 18.Born in Potosi, Bolivia, Bazan came to the United States in 1957 for undergraduate studies, earning his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Drew University and completing graduate work in geochemistry at…
Edward Willette McCauley
March 15, 2014 - Edward W. McCauley of Pleasanton died March 15. He was 85.McCauley was born and raised in Seattle, Wash., on July 14, 1928. After earning a bachelor's degree at Seattle University, he went on to earn both a master's degree and doctorate in nuclear…
Hal Ahlstrom
March 11, 2014 - Hal Ahlstrom of Maple Valley, Wash., died March 11. He was 78.Ahlstrom was born in 1935 to Archie and Eva Ahlstrom. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in astronautics and aeronautics at the University of Washington (UW) in 1957 and 1959. He…
Phillip Watts
March 10, 2014 - Phillip C. Watts of Longmont died March 10. He was 63.Watts was born on May 13, 1950 in Sheridan, Wyo., to Leo P. Wilson and Elna (Nelson) Wilson. Raised in Powell, Wyoming, Watts graduated from Powell High School in 1969. He attended from the University…
