In Memoriam

Shirley Roberta Meadors

Shirley Roberta Meadors

July 25, 2023 - Shirley Roberta Meadors died July 12. She was 90. Meadors was born Dec. 2, 1932, on the Vasco Grant. She graduated from Livermore High School and attended classes at Chabot College. She worked for many years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as…

Neil Patrick Lund

Neil Patrick Lund

July 24, 2023 - Neil Patrick Lund died June 16. He was 78. Lund was born and raised in Hayward, California. He graduated from Tennyson High School in 1962 and enlisted in the United States Navy. Upon completion of courses at three of the Navy's Nuclear Power schools…

Bennie Dean Walker

Bennie Dean Walker

July 3, 2023 - Bennie Dean Walker died June 19. He was 91. Walker was born on May 31, 1932, in Williston, North Dakota to Euclaire Irwin George Walker and Myrtle Smith Walker. He began working for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Aug. 1963 as a photographer…

Lawrence Woodruff

Lawrence Woodruff

June 29, 2023 - Lawrence Woodruff died June 10. He was 85. Woodruff was born in Long Beach, California in 1938, to Ruth and Lawrence Woodruff. After graduating from Hayward High School in 1956 he earned a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering at Cal State…

Stephen George Cochran

Stephen George Cochran

June 23, 2023 - Stephen George Cochran died June 15. He was 75. Cochran was born August 19 in Marion, Indiana to the late Lloyd Grant Cochran and Irene Eunice (Johnson) Cochran. He attended Loyola University of New Orleans for his undergraduate education.  In 1970, he…

Michael David Sa

Michael David Sa

June 22, 2023 - Michael David Sa died June 4. He was 73. Sa was born in San Jose, California to Arthur and Elaine Sa. In 1980, he settled in Livermore. For 34 years, he served as a construction manager at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In lieu of flowers,…

Manuel Perry

Manuel Perry

June 21, 2023 - Manuel Perry died May 14. He was 86. Perry was born in Madison, Illinois to Verna Pauline and Charles McKinley Perry. He attended Ukiah High School. He graduated from San Francisco State University in 1960 with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. After…

Gary Anthony Bear

Gary Anthony Bear

June 5, 2023 - Gary Anthony Bear died May 18. He was 61. Bear was born Sept. 3, 1961, to Ken and Beverly Bear. He grew up in Livermore, California, where he graduated from Granada High School and went on to further his education by graduating with an associate of…

Lois Helen Ruby

Lois Helen Ruby

May 31, 2023 - Lois Helen Ruby died March 12. She was 81. Ruby was born on Aug. 23, 1941, in Hayward, California. She was a graduate of Hayward High School. She spent her career working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Ruby is survived by her son, Terry Ruby…

Cynthia Leigh Keifer

Cynthia Leigh Keifer

May 26, 2023 - Keifer was born on Sept. 24, 1957, in Florence, Oregon to Lee and Sharon Hargrove. She lived in Klamath Falls and Grants Pass, Oregon. She attended Grants Pass High School where she met her husband, Patrick. They moved to Livermore in 1975. She began…

Sue Harvey Stacy

Sue Harvey Stacy

May 24, 2023 - Sue (Harvey) Stacy died April 30. She was 83.   Stacy was born on Aug. 15, 1939 in Kansas to parents Vesta and Ernie Bennett.  She graduated from Sacred Heart Academy in Redlands, California.  She was hired at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (…

David Potter

David Potter

May 23, 2023 - David Potter died Feb. 25. He was 77. Potter was born and raised in Berkeley, California. He split his career as an auditor, spending his first 20 years working for the federal government in San Francisco at the Government Accountability Office and…

Alexander (Sasha) Rubenchik

Alexander (Sasha) Rubenchik

May 19, 2023 - Alexander (Sasha) Rubenchik died May 18. He was 75. Rubenchik was born in Lugansk, Ukraine to Mark and Genia Rubenchik on July 15, 1947. He lived in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Novosibirsk, Russia before moving to Livermore in 1992.   He received a…

Manuel O. Calderon

Manuel O. Calderon

May 12, 2023 - Manuel O. Calderon died May 2. He was 98. Calderon was born and raised in Stockton, California. Upon high school graduation he joined the U.S. Army Air Corp where he qualified as an officer and pilot. In 1945 he became a U.S. Army Air Corp instructor.…

David Henry Roberts

David Henry Roberts

April 26, 2023 - David Henry Roberts died April 4. He was 77. Roberts was born on Jan. 1, 1946, in South San Francisco, California to parents Benjamin Max Roberts and Eva Daisy Roberts. His family moved to Tracy, California where he attended Tracy High School. He later…

Arnold R. Clobes

Arnold R. Clobes

April 25, 2023 - Clobes was born on Aug. 8, 1939, in Wadena, Minnesota to Harold and Agnes Clobes. After graduating from Fairfax High School in Fairfax, Minnesota in 1957 he attended South Dakota State University for two years and later graduated from the University of…

Patrick Crowley

Patrick Crowley

April 24, 2023 - Patrick Crowley died March 5. He was 87. Crowley was born to Michael J. Crowley and Nelle Slemmons on April 6, 1935, in Ketchikan, Alaska. He graduated from Ketchikan High School as the salutatorian. After graduating he attended San Diego State…

Derril Rikard

Derril Rikard

April 20, 2023 - Derril Rikard died March 1. He was 71.   Rikard received his degree in radiologic sciences and national medical x-ray licenses. He began working as a registered radiologic technologist. In 1973, he started his Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory…

Robert Holmes

Robert Holmes

April 13, 2023 - Robert Sylvester Holmes died March 9. He was 92. Holmes was born on Dec. 15, 1930 to Capt. and Mrs. Thomas R. Holmes at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, District of Columbia. He graduated in 1947 from the Tokyo American School as a salutatorian…

William (Bill) Ruvalcaba

William (Bill) Ruvalcaba

Feb. 2, 2023 - William (Bill) Ruvalcaba died Jan. 6. He was 85. After graduating from Wichita State, with a mechanical engineering degree, Ruvalcaba went to Boeing and became a vacuum systems engineer. He then went to work at EG&G in 1968 where he designed…

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