Mike Gallegos
May 9, 2022 - Mike Gallegos died April 29. He was 70. Gallegos was born in French Camp, California to his parents Jose E. Gallegos and Esther L. Martinez. He attended East Union High School and Delta College and was employed by Loomis Armored Car, and retired from…
Donald Thomas Ryder
May 5, 2022 - Donald Thomas Ryder died Fed. 5. He was 81. Ryder was born in Oakland, California and grew up in Castro Valley. He survived polio at age 13 and spent a year in an iron lung and though he had lost most of the muscles in his hands, became quite the artist…
William (Bill) Charles Turner
April 25, 2022 - William (Bill) Charles Turner died April 10. He was 79. Turner graduated from Bellevue High School in Bellevue, Washington in 1960. He attended Stanford University and graduated in 1965 with a bachelor of science in physics. He received a PhD in…
James Nielsen (Jim) Doggett
April 19, 2022 - James Nielsen (Jim) Doggett died April 7. He was 80. Doggett was born in Santa Rosa to William and Thelma Doggett. He spent his youth in Santa Rosa, San Francisco, Walnut Creek, and San Anselmo, where he graduated from Tamalpais High School. Following…
Donald Lee Emig
April 1, 2022 - Donald Emig died March 24. He was 87. Emig was born May 23, 1934, in Oahu, Hawaii to John and Marie Emig. His family moved to Oakland, California in 1946. He went to Oakland High school then attended San Francisco State College. He served his country in…
Mike Zimmerman
April 1, 2022 - Mike Zimmerman died Jan. 17. He was 73. Zimmerman was born in San Bernardino, California on Oct.15, 1948. Moving with his family at the age of 12 to Fresno, California, he graduated from Hoover High School, Fresno City College, and California State…
E. Lorene Stack
March 16, 2022 - E. Lorene Stack died Dec. 28, 2020. She was 95. Stack was born in Portland, Oregon on March 25, 1925. She grew up in Portland and graduated from Oregon State University in 1947. She married her high school sweetheart, Bernard G. Olsen in 1948, after he…
Harold (Hal) R. Nida
March 7, 2022 - Harold (Hal) R. Nida died Feb. 22. He was 78. Nida was born on Oct. 19, 1943, in Des Moines, Iowa, to Harold A. Nida and Mary Nida. They moved to Castro Valley when he was a young child where he graduated from Castro Valley High School in 1961. He…
Gerald J. “Jerry” Burke
Feb. 24, 2022 - Gerald J. “Jerry” Burke died Feb. 14, 2021. Burke received his bachelor of science and master of science degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1965 and 1968, respectively, before starting his career at MBA…
Fred E. Followill
Feb. 23, 2022 - Fred E. Followill died May, 2021. He was 82. Followill was born August 1939 in Stephenville, Texas. He grew up in Alamagordo, New Mexico before his family moved to Texas where he attended high school at Texas Tech. He came to Lawrence Livermore…
Stephen Douglas Santor
Feb. 22, 2022 - Stephen Douglas Santor died Feb. 10. He was 78. Santor was born on March 9, 1943, in Stockton, to his parents, William and Roberta Santor. After moving to the Los Angeles area for many of his early years, he settled in Fremont in 1958. He graduated from…
Matthew Laird Eubanks
Feb. 17, 2022 - Matthew Laird Eubanks died Jan. 12. He was 60. Eubanks was born on July 13, 1961, in Houston, Texas to Huard (“Doc”) Houston Eubanks, and Gail Elinor Locke Eubanks. He grew up in both Pasadena, Texas, and later Lyndhurst, Ohio for ten years. The family…
Gerrie Miller Froberg
Feb. 11, 2022 - Gerrie Miller Froberg died Jan. 25. She was 88. Froberg was born in Cedar, Minnesota, and moved with her husband Robert Miller to Spokane, Washington in 1952. Later, she and her family relocated to Pleasanton in 1969. She was hired at Lawrence…
Herman Carl Koberle
Feb. 9, 2022 - Herman Carl Koberle died Jan. 21. He was 85. Koberle was born and raised in San Francisco, eventually moving to Pleasanton to raise his family, and resided here for the 54 years. He worked at Lawrence Livermore Lab as an electronics technician for 37…
Kevin Ray Carver
Feb. 1, 2022 - Kevin Ray Carver died Jan. 23. He was 55. Carver was born Oct. 28, 1966, in Modesto to Linda and Robert Carver. He graduated from Thomas Downey High School where he played football, was on the wrestling team and started bull riding in high school rodeo…
Jerry Cairns Russell
Jan. 4, 2022 - Jerry Cairns Russell died Dec. 2. He was 85. Russell was the first child of Ward Cairns and Frances Owens Russell. He was born in Berkeley, on Aug. 8, 1936. He attended schools in Berkeley and graduated from Berkeley High School in 1954. He majored in…
Marvin Roger Foster
Dec. 13, 2021 - Marvin Roger Foster died Nov. 22. He was 87. Foster was born Feb. 19, 1934, in Fort Collins Colorado to Orville and Dorothy (Munn) Foster. He graduated in 1952 from Tracy High School and played basketball, track and then went to Delta College where his…
L. Lynn Cleland
Dec. 7, 2021 - L. Lynn Cleland died Dec. 24, 2020. He was 81. Cleland received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1968. He was briefly an assistant professor in the Electrical Engineering department at Purdue University before beginning a…
Robert Scott McKim
Dec. 6, 2021 - Robert Scott McKim died Oct. 4. He was 57. McKim was born on Naval Air Station Pensacola on Sept. 24, 1964, to Robert D. and Barbara J. McKim. In 1983 he enlisted in the U.S Army, becoming an arctic paratrooper and then changing his military …
Ninon Claire Cabrales
Dec. 1, 2021 - Ninon Claire Cabrales died Oct. 29. She was 81. Cabrales born Ninon Claire Pelletier to Howard Gaspar Pelletier and Emilie Claire Vignolo on March 19, 1940, in Modesto, California. She graduated from Clovis High School in 1958. She worked at the…
