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…
Robert Wikkerink
March 9, 2014 - Robert "Bob" Wikkerink died March 9. He was 75.Wikkerink was the son of William and Myrtle Wikkerink of Topeka, Kan. He joined the Navy in 1956, and after a tour of duty, started work at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in 1963. He transferred to the…
Gerald Ray Cox
March 8, 2014 - Gerald Ray Cox died March 8. He was 80.Cox was born Dec. 15, 1933, in Blackwell, Okla. In 1944, he moved with his family to Richmond, Calif. He graduated from El Cerrito High School, West Contra Costa College and California Baptist University. Cox's…
Donald Walter Rock
Feb. 27, 2014 - Donald Walter Rock died Feb. 27. He was 67.Rock was born on March 9, 1946, in Port Huron, Mich. He joined the Air Force and developed a love for electronics that fueled a career working in seismology and travel to all continents.On a trip to Brazil, he…
William R. Wade
Feb. 25, 2014 - William R. Wade of Pleasant Hill died Feb. 25. He was 90.Wade was born Nov. 7, 1923, in Bronx, N.Y. He came to the Bay Area with the Navy during World War II and met his wife Elizabeth Brennan. They married Dec. 1, 1945.Wade had a long and successful…
Theodore Staten "Ted" Bohn
Feb. 21, 2014 - Theodore Staten "Ted" Bohn died Friday, Feb. 21, at his home in Idaho Falls, Idaho, with loved ones by his side after a six-year battle with colon cancer. He was 76.Bohn was born Sept. 27, 1937, to Theodore and Henrietta Staten Bohn in Beaver, Utah. His…
William D. Tomany
Feb. 19, 2014 - William Donald Tomany of Reno, Nev., died Feb. 19. He was 70.Tomany was born on Jan. 14, 1944, to Donald and Anne Tomany. He was well known and loved by many as Willie, Will, Bill or "beloved brother."Proud of his Serbian heritage, Tomany was a generous…
Jack R. Keef
Feb. 15, 2014 - Keef was born Sept. 1, 1947 to John and Margaret Keef in Los Angeles, Calif. He was a United States Veteran proudly serving his country through the Army. He worked for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for 17 years as a contractor. He was a…
Hans R. Bruijnes
Feb. 12, 2014 - Hans R. Bruijnes of Livermore died on Feb. 12. He was 86.Bruijnes was born on August 16, 1927 in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, the youngest of three sons born to Johannes Bruijnes, a physicist, and his wife, Johanna Van der Hauw.The Bruijnes family came…
Johannes (John) Reehl
Feb. 11, 2014 - Johannes (John) Reehl of Modesto died Feb. 11. He was 98.Reehl was born Sept. 22, 1915, to George and Mary (Dick) Reehl, in the township of Omro, Wis. He grew up in Wisconsin working on the farm with his father. During this time he met his future wife,…
Edward Lafranchi
Feb. 5, 2014 - Edward "Ed" Alvin Lafranchi of Livermore died Feb. 5. He was 85.LaFranchi was born in Petaluma, Calif., on July 23, 1928 to Fridolino and Zelma LaFranchi. He was raised in Nicasio on his family's dairy and attended Nicasio elementary school. He graduated…
Cynthia E. Annese
Jan. 28, 2014 - Cynthia E. Annese died Jan. 28. She was 62.Annese was a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley where she earned her doctorate in nuclear physics. She joined the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 1985 as a physicist in laser…
Ralph M. Toms
Jan. 27, 2014 - Ralph Marvin Toms of Tracy died Jan. 27. He was 78.Toms was born on July 23, 1935 to the late Leon and Mary Toms. He graduated from Anderson High school in 1953 and received a doctorate in mathematics in 1973. He was married to his wife Gwendolyn on Nov…
Bert E. Holder
Jan. 24, 2014 - Bert Holder, a retired Laboratory chemist, died April 20, about six months after suffering a fall in his home. He was 89.Born Nov. 5, 1922, near Big Timber, Mont., he was the fourth of five children of Earl and Virginia (Ellis) Holder. The family moved…
Edward J. Leahy
Jan. 24, 2014 - Edward J. Leahy, a Lab retiree, died suddenly May 25 at his home in San Mateo, Calif. He was 87.Born May 4, 1925 to Helen and Joseph William Leahy, in Cohoes, NY, he graduated from Vincentian Institute High School in Albany, N.Y. in 1943.Upon graduation…
Myles Walter Spann Jr.
Jan. 22, 2014 - Myles Walter Spann, Jr., died Jan. 22. He was 67.Spann was born in San Francisco, Calif. to the Myles Walter Spann, Sr. and Eveyln Grove Spann. He was welcomed by five generations of family.Spann began his career in 1963 at the Alameda Naval Air Station…
David J. Wenker
Jan. 20, 2014 - David J. Wenker, formerly of Livermore, died Jan. 20. He was 77.Wenker, a resident of Navarre, Florida, was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on July 23, 1936. He grew up in Portland, Oregon and became involved in ROTC in high school and made the military…
Donald (Don) Eugene Ward
Jan. 20, 2014 - Donald (Don) Eugene Ward of Oakdale died Jan. 20. He was 62.Ward was the oldest of four children born to Donald Jerome Ward and Roberta Ann Ward at the naval hospital in Oakland. He was an alumnus of Granada High School, class of 1969, in Livermore.…
John F. Lakner
Jan. 18, 2014 - John F. Lakner of Livermore died Jan. 18. He was 92.Lakner was born on Feb. 5, 1921 in Iron Belt, Wis., to John and Anna Lakner who had emigrated from Yugoslavia. He grew up in Ironwood, Mich. As a child, he enjoyed ice skating and skiing down snow…
John "Bruce" Blucker
Jan. 18, 2014 - John "Bruce" Blucker of Castro Valley died Jan. 18. He was 84.Blucker was raised in Castro Valley where his family had settled in 1932. He rode horses and enjoyed country living. He became an accomplished stamper of Western saddles. It was a skill that…
