Charles M. Paukert
April 6, 2010 - Charles M. Paukert, a Lab retiree, died April 6. He was 88.Born Oct. 28, 1922, he served in World War II in the Army 75th Infantry Division in Europe. In 1946, he moved from Minnesota to California with his wife Glennice, and settled in the Bay Area.He…
Albert Henry Streicher
April 1, 2010 - Albert Henry Streicher, a Lab retiree and a former resident of Livermore, died April 1, in Tucson, Ariz. from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease. He was 87.Born Nov. 8, 1922, Streicher was a mechanical engineer at the Lab until his retirement in 1985.…
Morris Jeppson
March 30, 2010 - LLNL retiree Morris Richard Jeppson died March 30. He was 87.Born in Logan, Utah, on June 23, 1922, he served in the military from 1943 to 1946. He attended Air Force electronics and radar schools at Yale, Harvard and MIT, after which he was assigned to…
Henry Victor Tardiff
March 30, 2010 - Henry Victor “Vic” Tardiff died March 30, after a long battle with cancer.Tardiff worked as a mechanical designer at the Lab from 1980 to 1993, starting in Material Fabrication and retiring from Lasers.A memorial service will be held at Celebration…
Lido Ranieri
March 18, 2010 - Lido Michael Ranieri, a Lab retiree, died March 18. He was 88.Born Dec. 11, 1921, in Stockett, Mont., to Enrico and Emma Ranieri, he later moved to Oakland with his family.In January 1943, at the age of 21, Ranieri enlisted in the U.S. Army in San…
Patricia M. Boyd
March 18, 2010 - Patricia (Pat) M. Boyd, who worked in the Lab’s Technical Information Department (TID), died of cancer at her home in Berkeley, Calif., on March 18. She was 76.Born in Lincoln, Neb., on Nov. 28, 1933, she was the first child of Marie Kreikenbaum Boyd and…
Howard James Rien
March 14, 2010 - Lab retiree Howard James Rien died March 14. He was 84.Rien was born Aug. 15, 1925. In 1942, at 17, he joined the Navy. After World War II ended, he worked for his father in the bearing business.Rien began his career at LLNL in 1964 as a technical…
George Keppel
March 13, 2010 - George Everett Keppel, a Livermore resident and Lab retiree, died March 13. He was 95.Born Oct. 29, 1914, he was one of two children of Garrett and Lucille Ellen Keppel and lived on a small farm east of Manteca. He graduated from Manteca High School in…
Anthony Kliss Jr.
March 7, 2010 - Anthony "Tony" Kliss Jr. died March 7 at his home in Livermore. He was 89.Born Oct. 9, 1921, to Anton and Theresa Kliss in Oakland, Calif., he retired from the Lab after a 25-year career as a carpenter.Kliss was an avid golfer who enjoyed a long, healthy…
Franklin Ford
March 7, 2010 - Retired LLNL physicist Franklin Carson Ford died at home on March 7. He was 88.Ford was born in Chewella, Wash., raised in San Francisco and a longtime resident of Pleasanton.Ford served as a U.S. Navy fighter pilot during World War II and had a…
Jeffrey Alan Oicles
March 3, 2010 - Jeffrey Alan Oicles died March 3 in Escondido, Calif. He was 67.Oicles completed his undergraduate degree at UCLA and master’s degree at USC in electrical engineering. He worked in aerospace technology for NASA projects and also in the Nova laser program…
Ian Melville Thomas
March 1, 2010 - Retired Laboratory chemist and consultant Ian Thomas died March 1 at his home after a valiant struggle with cancer. Born in 1935, Thomas attended the highly regarded Repton School as a boy during World War II in England. He received a bachelor’s degree…
Mary Elizabeth Greeno Hensley
Feb. 27, 2010 - Mary Hensley died Feb. 27 in Vacaville. She was 73.Born Oct. 1, 1936, in Livermore, she graduated from Livermore High School. She lived in Mount Vernon, Wash., and in Stuttgart, Germany, before settling in Vacaville, Calif.She worked for many years at…
Raymond Kotla
Feb. 27, 2010 - Raymond Michael Kotla, a Lab retiree and resident of Livermore, died Feb. 27. He was 67.Kotla was born Oct. 7, 1942. He retired after 33 years of service with Pacific Bell. He worked for the Laboratory for 10 years.He enjoyed motorcycles, holidays and…
Ray King
Feb. 21, 2010 - Ray King, a retired Lab engineer, died Feb. 21. He was 77. Born in Montrose, Colo., on Jan. 1, 1933, King grew up on a large ranch in the mountains outside of Montrose. He took great pride and enjoyment in his high school years as a member of FFA (…
Linda Ruby Schreck
Feb. 17, 2010 - Linda Ruby Schreck died Feb. 17. She was 62.Schreck was born May 16, 1947, and was resident of Oakland and Castro Valley. She had worked at the Lab for nearly 30 years.She is preceded in death by her parents, Howard and Ruby Bilund, and her husband,…
James Morris
Feb. 16, 2010 - James Whittla Morris, a resident of Livermore, died Feb. 16 of congestive heart failure. He was 92.Morris was born Aug. 8, 1917, in North Platte, Neb. His career included work at Lockheed Aircraft in Burbank, Calif., Elmendorf Air Base in Alaska, LLNL…
Robert Myers
Feb. 14, 2010 - Robert C. Myers, a former resident of Livermore and Lab retiree, died Feb. 14. He was 88.Born May 19, 1921, in Junction City, Kan., he was the son of Edgar and Bessie Myers. He graduated with honors from Kansas State College in 1943 with a degree in…
Albert Hahn Jr.
Feb. 10, 2010 - Albert Hahn Jr., a resident of Livermore and a Lab retiree, died Feb. 10. He was 96.Born in September 1923, in Minnesota, he was raised in New Florence, Mo.He served in the Navy during World War II and in Korea. He graduated from North Dakota State…
Gerald St. Legar–Barter
Feb. 8, 2010 - Gerald St. Legar–Barter, a Lab retiree, died Feb. 8, in Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center from cardiopulmonary problems.Born on Long Island, N.Y., on Nov. 2, 1930, he survived World War II in England and returned to America in 1946. He married…
