Merilyn Baker (Marshall)
Dec. 25, 2012 - Merilyn F. Baker (Marshall), a Lab retiree and resident of Penn Valley, Calif., died Dec. 25 after a short battle with cancer.Born in Oakland, Calif. in 1938, she attended Castlemont High School where she was a cheerleader and a diver.She married soon…
Jim blades
Dec. 25, 2012 - Jim Blades, a Lab retiree and a resident of Pleasanton, died Dec. 25. He was 93.Born Dec. 23, 1919 in Chicago, his family moved to Brooklyn in 1931 where he attended Brooklyn Tech in preparation for MIT.During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy.…
Joy Allen Jensen
Dec. 21, 2012 - Joy Allen Jensen, a resident of Danville, Calif., died Dec. 21 at Bruns House in Alamo, Calif. He was 88.Born Jan. 28, 1923, in Manti, Utah, he was the eldest of two sons born to Joy Lynn Jensen and Helen Maude Merriam. Jensen grew up and attended school…
Patricia Kruppa
Dec. 20, 2012 - Patricia "Pat" Kruppa, of Richmond, Texas, died Dec. 20 at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. She was 73.Born Dec. 27, 1938, in Sellersville, Pa., she was the youngest of 13 children of Francis "Frank" Donahue and Susan Ferry Donahue.She graduated…
Jon Lewis Wiser
Dec. 18, 2012 - Jon Lewis Wiser of Benicia, Calif., died Dec. 18. He was 77.Born Oct. 8, 1935, in Whittier, Calif., his career in the computer industry spanned 40 years. He worked for Bechtel Corp. at LLNL before retiring in 1998.He was a longtime member of St. Dominic'…
Gerald Stephen Bell
Dec. 15, 2012 - Gerald Stephen Bell, a Livermore resident, died Dec. 15. He was 68.Bell grew up in Castro Valley and served in the U.S. Navy on the USS Coral Sea. After serving a year in Vietnam, he went to work for San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard.In 1973, he began…
Harry Watson
Dec. 15, 2012 - Pastor Harry Kern Watson died Dec. 15 in Middletown, N.Y. He was 89. Watson was born March 23, 1923, in Gantt, S.C. He spent his early years perfecting his skills as a concert pianist. He was well known in the Southeast before World War II as a…
Melville Clark Jr.
Nov. 23, 2012 - Melville Clark Jr., of Wayland, Mass. died Nov. 23 in Boston. He was 90.Born and raised in Syracuse, N.Y., he was the son of harpist and entrepreneur Melville Clark Sr. and pianist Dorothy Clark.Clark dedicated his life to advancements in physics and the…
Rose Kloian Smithson
Nov. 22, 2012 - Rose Kloian Smithson died Nov. 22 in Santa Rosa, Calif. She was 89.A native of Detroit, Mich., Smithson was an accomplished pianist. She met her future husband, Gene Smithson, while studying music at Wayne State University. They married in 1944 before…
Nicholas James Chakakis
Nov. 15, 2012 - Lab retiree Nicholas James Chakakis, a resident of Livermore, died Nov. 15. He was 88.Born Dec. 6, 1923 in Hanna, Wyo., he was the son of Greek immigrants James and Athena (Kotsifakis) Tsakakis. He graduated from Reliance High School in Reliance, Wyo. in…
Eric Christoffereson
Nov. 10, 2012 - Eric Christofferson, a resident of San Ramon, died Nov. 10. He was 73.Born May 29, 1939 in Newburyport, Mass., he attended Princeton University on a scholarship from the U.S. Navy majoring in geology and minoring in naval science.After earning a bachelor…
William J. Shanahan
Nov. 4, 2012 - Lab retiree William J. Shanahan, a resident of Orinda, died Nov. 4. He was 90.Born May 20, 1922 in Brockton, Mass. to William Joseph Shanahan Sr. and Ada Landry Shanahan, he graduated from Thayer Academy in Braintree 1940 and served in the U.S. Navy…
Leonard Len Silva
Oct. 31, 2012 - Leonard Len Silva, of Livermore, died Oct. 31. He was 63.Born Aug. 1, 1949, he was raised in Hayward and Livermore. He spent 30 years working at the the Lab and spent his free time working as a general contractor.On his days off, Silva enjoyed…
Christian van Warmerdam
Oct. 31, 2012 - Christian 'Chris' J. van Warmerdam, 84, died peacefully at his home on Oct. 31.Born May 5, 1928 in Haarlem, the Netherlands, Warmerdam immigrated to the U.S. in 1954 with his new bride. He spent much of his career in the dairy business, a family…
Douglas M. Norris Jr.
Oct. 25, 2012 - Douglas M. Norris Jr. died Oct. 25. He was 85.Born April 14, 1927, the elder son of Douglas Monroe Norris and Ruth Blum, he grew up in New Jersey. After serving in the Army at the end of World War II, he attended Tufts University, graduating with an…
Francois Heuze
Oct. 22, 2012 - Francois Heuze‚ a resident of Carlsbad, Calif., died at his home after a long untreatable illness.Born in Algeria, he moved to California when he was 25. He became a U.S. citizen and graduated from UC Berkeley with a Ph. D. in civil engineering. He…
Scott Franklin Sailors
Oct. 18, 2012 - Scott Franklin Sailors, a senior electronics technician in NIF, died Oct. 18 in Tracy. He was 41.The youngest of four boys, Sailors was born Feb. 2, 1971, in Dumas, Texas to the late Dewey and Norma Sailors.The family moved to American Falls, Idaho when…
Philip Anderson
Oct. 15, 2012 - Lab retiree Philip Anderson of Brentwood, Calif., died Oct. 15. He was 82.Anderson was the son of Stacy Philip Anderson and Allie (Walls) Anderson.He retired from the Laboratory after 40 years.He was a longtime resident of Fremont before moving to…
Patsy Corrine Wells
Oct. 12, 2012 - Patsy Corrine "Corky" Wells of Livermore died recently. She was 75.The youngest of 3 children, she was born Aug. 28, 1937 to Elbert and Ludie Hurst, a share-cropper family in Oklahoma.While in her youth, the family moved to California in hopes of…
William Charles King
Oct. 9, 2012 - Lab retiree William Charles King of Bountiful, Utah, died Oct. 9. He was 87.Born Dec. 15, 1924, in Pendleton, Ore. to William Earl King and Vashti Bell Hoskins, he enlisted in the Army at the age of 17 and served in the Pacific theatre during World War…
