Warren L. Owings
Jan. 2, 2012 - Lab retiree Warren L. Owings died Jan. 2 in Lodi, Calif. He was 89.Born April 3, 1922, in St. Joseph Mo., Owings graduated from high school in Portland, Ore. in 1941. He then served in the Navy until 1947. He served on the USS Lamberton and the USS…
Gerald (Jerry) Goudreau
Dec. 30, 2011 - Gerald (Jerry) Goudreau, a Lab retiree, died Dec. 30 in his home after a long illness.A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Delaware, he received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.…
Bonnie Jean (BJ) Sibley
Dec. 29, 2011 - Bonnie Jean (BJ) Sibley, a Lab retiree who held positions in public affairs and emergency response, died Dec. 29, at her Livermore home after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 68.Born on Feb. 25, 1943 in Waltham, Mass., she was part of a…
Clark H. Radewan
Dec. 26, 2011 - Clark H. Radewan, a Lab retiree and Livermore resident, died Dec. 26. He was 69.Born June 11, 1942 in Battle Creek, Mich., to Herbert and Arletta Radewan, he graduated from Battle Creek Lakeview High School in 1960.He received a degree in electrical…
Karen Common
Dec. 25, 2011 - Lab retiree Karen Common died suddenly Dec. 25 in Oak Valley hospital in Oakdale after suffering a heart attack in her home. She was 62.Common worked as an administrative specialist at the Lab for more than 20 years.She leaves her husband, David Lario;…
Lawrence Howard Bakken
Dec. 24, 2011 - Lab retiree Lawrence Bakken Jr. died Dec. 24 in Livermore after a lengthy illness. He was 80.Born in Chicago, Ill. on Nov. 19, 1931, he moved with his parents, Lawrence Howard Bakken Sr. and Viola May to Minneapolis, Minn. He attended St. Thomas Military…
Sharon Snowden
Dec. 16, 2011 - Lab retiree Sharon Snowden of Livermore died Dec. 16.Born in Detroit, she lived in Michigan until her early teens, when her family moved first to New Jersey, then to Buenos Aires, and finally to Cordoba, Argentina.She graduated from high school in…
Donald Salmi
Dec. 16, 2011 - Donald (Don) Eldon Salmi, a Lab retiree, died Dec. 16. He was 80.Born Dec. 2, 1931 in Clatskanie, Ore. to Ansel and Edla Salmi, he was raised in Woodson, Ore. He married Ann Westerberg. The family moved to Livermore in 1958 when he was recruited to work…
Lester Paulvin Ridgon
Dec. 16, 2011 - Lester Rigdon, a Lab retiree, died Dec. 16. He was 84.Born Feb. 14, 1927, he graduated from House High School, in Union, Miss. in 1944. He enlisted in the Navy on his 18th birthday and served as a medical assistant for nine years, reaching the rank of…
Herbert William Newkirk Jr.
Dec. 13, 2011 - Lab retiree Herbert William Newkirk Jr. died Dec. 13, at his home in Livermore after a brief illness.Born on Nov. 23, 1928, he was a ninth generation descendant of Mattheuse Cornelissen Van Nieuwkiercke, of Nijkerk, Holland who came to the New Netherland…
Kathleen Green Alviso
Dec. 8, 2011 - Kathleen Green Alviso, a long-time Lab employee, died Dec. 8, after a long illness. She was 55.A resident of Rescue, Calif., she was a senior technical coordinator in the Lab’s National Ignition Facility.She enjoyed spending time with her family and…
Lockwood 'Woody' Pereira
Dec. 7, 2011 - Lockwood “Woody” Pereira, a former Lab employee and long-time active member in the Pleasanton community, died Dec. 7. He was 80. Pereira was born July 13, 1931 in Oakland to Mitchell Emanuel Pereira and Evelyn Barrons Pereira. He attended Piedmont…
William Bagot
Dec. 3, 2011 - William Coombs Bagot died Dec. 3 in Walnut Creek. He was 82.Born Oct. 16, 1929 in San Francisco, he joined the Naval ROTC at University of California, Berkeley. After completing his bachelor’s degree in chemistry, he joined the Navy as a Lt. JG and…
Clyde Taylor
Nov. 16, 2011 - Clyde Eugene Taylor, a former mayor of Livermore and LLNL engineer, died Nov. 16. He was 80.Born and raised in Susanville, Calif., he completed his master’s degree in mechanical engineering at Stanford University.Taylor met his wife, Ruthann, on a blind…
Robert W. Hopper
Nov. 11, 2011 - Robert Hopper, a Lab materials scientist, died Nov. 11.Born in 1941, Hopper received his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1971, and joined the Lab in 1976 as a metallurgist in the Chemistry and Materials Science (CMS) Directorate. His extensive experience…
Joe Alegre Jr.
Nov. 9, 2011 - Joe Alegre Jr., a lifelong Tracy area resident, died Nov. 9 at Sutter Tracy Community Hospital. He was 83.Born Sept. 22, 1928, in Banta, Calif., he was the son of Joe and Vera Alegre Sr. and grew up on the family dairy west of Tracy.Alegre was a dairyman…
Charles Teevan
Oct. 27, 2011 - Charles Teevan, one of the early members of the Lab’s Z Program during the 1970s, died Oct. 27. Teevan is the father of Jon Teevan, a Lab employee. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 4, at St. Isidore’s Church, 440 La Gonda in Danville.…
Johnny S. Sutton
Oct. 26, 2011 - Johnny S. Sutton, Tracy resident from the 1950s to the 1990s, died at Manteca Care and Rehabilitation Center. He was 79.Born June 9, 1932, he was a native of Urbana, Mo., and a veteran of the Korean War. He worked as a heavy equipment operator for the…
Lee C. Simpson
Oct. 24, 2011 - Lee C. Simpson, a longtime Livermore resident, died on Oct. 24. He was 83.Born July 11, 1928, in Oakland, Calif., he married Rita Kohles of Oakland in 1948. They moved to Livermore in 1952, where they raised five children. Simpson worked at the…
Mayme L. Harp
Oct. 24, 2011 - Lab retiree Mayme L. Harp died Oct. 24. She was 87.Born August 19, 1924, she was a resident of Livermore for 35 years.Harp was a witty storyteller and would captivate everyone with her attention to detail and her Texas drawl.Harp was preceded in death by…
