Mendel Sachs
May 5, 2012 - Mendel Sachs, a retired physics professor at the University at Buffalo and former Lab scientist, died May 5 at his home in Williamsville, New York. He was 85.Born in Portland, Ore., he served stateside in the Navy aboard a ship based in San Francisco…
Robert Bramley Barker
April 30, 2012 - A memorial service will be held Friday (May 4) in Hawaii for Robert Bramley Barker, a Lab retiree who held key management positions within the LLNL weapons program, served as an assistant secretary of defense and also worked for a number of government…
Dwight Barlow
April 25, 2012 - Dwight Edward Barlow, a mechanical engineer, died April 25 in Portland. He was 78.Born Sept. 1, 1933, in New Britain, Conn. to Robert Henry and Marguerite Vara (Melville) Barlow, he was the younger of two children.Raised in Lansing, Mich., he graduated…
Roy Walter Wyant
April 23, 2012 - Roy Walter Wyant died April 23 of complications from congestive heart failure.Born in November 1932 in Leechburg, Penn., to Nelson E. and Pearl G. Wyant, the family lived in Ohio and New York before moving to Wapato, Wash. in 1947.In the late 1950s, he…
Lt. Col. Veronica J. "Vern" Hutfles
April 7, 2012 - Air Force Lt. Col. Veronica J. "Vern" Hutfles of Bellevue, Neb., died, April 7 at her home, following a seven-year battle with melanoma. She was 37.Hutfles had been assigned to the Lab as an Air Force Fellow from August 2009 to July 2010. During her time…
Patricia J. Stone
April 6, 2012 - Patricia J. Stone, a Lab retiree, died April 6 in Jackson, Calif. She was 85.Born March 12, 1927, in Findlay, Ohio, on the family farm, Stone moved with her parents from Ohio to Reno, Nev. where her father coached football at the University of Nevada. …
Eulos Edmond Graham
April 6, 2012 - Eulos Edmond Graham, a Lab retiree and Livermore resident, died April 6 at Valley Memorial Hospital in Livermore. He was 93.Born Nov. 24, 1918, in Little Rock, Ark., Graham resided at the J&C Care Home for the last two years.He served 20 years in the…
Dennis Hewett
April 5, 2012 - Dennis Hewett, a plasma physicist at LLNL, died April 5. He was 64.Born Sept. 17, 1947 to Clifford and Lucille Hewett in Girard, Kansas, he received his bachelor's degree in physics from Pittsburg State College, Pittsburg Kan. in 1969 where he was later…
Jay Wilson Heefner
April 1, 2012 - Jay Wilson Heefner II died in April after a yearlong battle with colon cancer.Heefner was born in Nov. 1960 in St. Louis, Mo. to Dr. Wilson and Pat Heefner. He graduated from Lincoln High School in Stockton, Calif. in 1987, excelling academically and…
Henry Freynik
April 1, 2012 - Henry Stanley Freynik, Jr. died in April 2012.Born Nov. 16, 1937, in Riverside, N.J. to Laura Mary (Guzik) and Henry Stanley Freynik, Sr., he received his master's degree from MIT and worked as an engineer for what was the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory,…
Stephen C. Herrick
March 31, 2012 - Stephen C. Herrick, a Lab retiree, died March 31 in Laramie, Wyo. He was 67.Born Jan. 10, 1945, in Buffalo, N.Y., he was the son of Robert E. and Shirley (Smith) Herrick.In 1959, he moved with his family to San Jose, Calif., where he met Venancia “Bennie…
Andy McGrew
March 28, 2012 - Andy McGrew, a NIF lead operator, died last weekend after a brief and unexpected illness. He was 43.McGrew was a leader and innovator and most recently became a key member of the control room process improvement team. He was passionate about Web design…
Frank E. Green
March 25, 2012 - Frank Green, a Lab retiree and longtime resident of Livermore, died March 25 in Pleasanton. He was 80.Born Oct. 24, 1931 in El Reno, Okla. he served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a sergeant and in the 1st Marine Division Regiment, 3rd Battalion Weapons.…
Joseph Smith
March 24, 2012 - Lab retiree Joseph 'EJ' Smith of Livermore, died, March 24, at Fremont Kaiser Hospital following complications of congestive heart failure. He was 70.Born April 12, 1941, in Culpeper County, Va., Smith was the son of Joseph Andrew and Demetria Catherine…
Alan McKenzie Raeburn
March 22, 2012 - Alan McKenzie Raeburn, a Lab retiree, died March 22, in Livermore. He was 80.Born in Sheridan, Wyo. to John S. and Mary G. Raeburn, he was a Navy veteran of the Korean conflict and served as a machinery repairman, third class, from 1951-1954.He was…
William Duguid
March 22, 2012 - William Alexander Duguid, a Lab retiree and resident of Livermore, died March 22. He was 86. Born Feb. 1, 192, in Phoenix, Ariz., he moved to California with his family at an early age. His parents first moved to the Los Angeles area before settling in…
Dave Pehrson
March 19, 2012 - David (Dave) L. Pehrson, a former Laboratory Association Director for Engineering, died March 19 after a long struggle from a severe stroke suffered nearly 11 years ago. He was 71. Born Sept. 5, 1940, he was a resident of Livermore since 1965. Pehrson…
Daniel Williams
March 16, 2012 - Lab retiree Daniel Edward Williams of Pleasanton died March 16. He was 81.Williams was born in Klamath Falls, Ore. He graduated from Butte Valley High School in Dorris, Calif.After graduation, he served in the Army. He was stationed in Japan during the…
Harmon W. Hubbard
March 14, 2012 - Harmon W. Hubbard, a former Lab physicist, died March 14 at his home in Brentwood, after a brief illness. He was 89.Hubbard was born in St. Louis, Mo. in 1923. He attended elementary and high schools in Bloomington, Ill., served in the U.S. Army from…
Roy Steven Robitaille
March 10, 2012 - Lab retiree Roy Steven Robitaille died March 10 after a yearlong battle with cancer.Robitaille, the oldest of three sons, was born March 30, 1930 in Detroit, Mich. to Frank and Helen Robitaille.He served in the Korean War for two years. During that time…
