Lance Gene Tindell
Aug. 4, 2026 - Lance Gene Tindell died July 18, 2026. Tindell was born in Walnut Creek, California, to Randy and Sharilyn Tindell. He was raised in Livermore, where he attended local schools before studying law enforcement at Las Positas College. He began his…
Minnie (Renteria) Robles Pedersen
July 28, 2026 - Minnie (Renteria) Robles Pedersen died June 22, 2026. She was 103. The eldest of four children, Minnie grew up in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. Her husband passed away in 1964, leaving her to run the family business, “Robles Concrete”. Eventually it…
Eleanor Jean Gannaway
July 28, 2026 - Eleanor Jean Gannaway died June 11, 2026. She was 97. She was born in Baldwin Park, California, to Carrie Matilda Brink and Elwood Black. She happily lived the last 54 years in Pleasanton, and had a long successful career at Lawrence Livermore National…
Aileen Perez
July 20, 2026 - Aileen Perez died July 3, 2026. She was 26. Perez was born in Mission, Texas. She graduated from IDEA public schools before earning her bachelor of science in computer science from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She later fulfilled…
Nancy Lee Suski
July 8, 2026 - Nancy Lee Suski died June 19, 2026. She was 71. Born on January 31, 1955, in Park Ridge, Illinois, to Dolores and Charles Schwertz, she grew up in a military family that eventually settled in San Antonio. An exceptional student, she graduated from John…
George Malcolm Moore
June 30, 2026 - George Malcolm Moore died on June 23, 2026. Moore joined the Middlebury Institute for International Studies's Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) as a scientist in residence in 2012 following a career with the International Atomic Energy Agency (…
John William Dini
June 30, 2026 - John William Dini died June 17, 2026. He was 89. Dini was born in Cleveland, Ohio on Nov. 14, 1936. Beginning in high school through college, he worked part-time for the Cleveland Supply Company (now PAVCO), a vendor that supplied services to the…
Mark Kaufeldt
June 16, 2026 - Mark Kaufeldt died June 5, 2026. He was 70. Kaufeldt was raised in Millbrae, California. He attended Capuchino High School. He worked his way through college, graduating from San Francisco State University with a bachelor in science in clinical…
Jeff Robinson
June 8, 2026 - Jeff Robinson died April 8, 2026. He was 62. Robinson joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 1991, working as an operations and maintenance technologist on Nova. More recently, he ran an optics and coatings lab at the Center for Micro…
Robert "Bob" Arol Anderson
June 3, 2026 - Robert "Bob" Arol Anderson died April 16, 2026. He was 93. Anderson was born on Oct. 13, 1932, in Genoa, Illinois. He joined the military during the Korean War. In 1959, he graduated from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo with a…
John Honig
May 19, 2026 - John Honig died May 10, 2026. He was 68. He was born Hans Honigschnabel on April 1, 1958 in Buchschachen, Austria. He immigrated with his parents to St. Louis, MO in 1959 and became citizens in 1966. John attended Northwestern University for his…
Carlisle (Russ) Markishtum
May 6, 2026 - Carlisle (Russ) Markishtum died May 3, 2026. He was 72. Markishtum graduated from high school and immediately joined the U.S. Navy, proudly serving aboard the USS Oklahoma City during the Vietnam War. He started working at Lawrence Livermore…
Shirley Calvert
May 5, 2026 - Shirley Calvert died April 29, 2026. She was 87. Calvert was born on April 18, 1939, in Hayward, California. She graduated from Hayward High School in 1956. She began working at a young age, spending summers peeling apricots alongside her siblings and…
Ken Gregorich
May 4, 2026 - Ken Gregorich died March 17, 2026. He was 67. Gregorich was born on Oct. 21,1958. He studied chemistry at University of California, Berkeley, where he fell in love with superheavy element research, working under heavy-element pioneers Glenn Seaborg and…
Cherie Jo Patenaude
April 30, 2026 - Cherie Jo Patenaude (neé Coombes) died March 31, 2026. She was 85. She was born on July 11, 1940, to R.W. and Frances Coombes in Fort Worth, Texas. She showed an early aptitude for mathematics, and after attending Stephens College, went on to get a…
Deborah Dennison
April 24, 2026 - Deborah Dennison died Dec. 21, 2025. She was 60. She was born Aug. 4, 1965, in Chicago, Illinois to Eric Hohnwald and Karen (Jensen) Hohnwald. She grew up in Sarasota, Florida, and graduated from high school there. After acquiring a degree in business…
Harold (Hal) Whitlow
April 7, 2026 - Harold (Hal) Whitlow died March 2, 2026. He was 88. Whitlow joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 1960 and first worked in the Pluto Program, the effort to develop a ram-jet engine, until the…
William Joseph Evans
March 30, 2026 - William Joseph Evans passed away Feb. 4, 2026. He was 60. Born in Chicago, Evans pursued physics with remarkable focus and curiosity from an early age. He earned his bachelor of science from the California Institute of Technology, graduating with…
Ninon Claire Cabrales
March 24, 2026 - Ninon Claire Cabrales died Oct. 29, 2021. She was 81. Born Ninon Claire Pelletier to the union of Howard Gaspar Pelletier and Emilie Claire Vignolo on March 19, 1940, in Modesto, California. She grew up in Turlock, California, Salt Lake City, Utah, and…
James Howard Scofield
March 4, 2026 - James Howard Scofield died Nov. 24, 2025. He was 92. Scofield was born Oct. 10, 1933 in Gary, Indiana. He grew up on a farm in Portage Township, Indiana, where he graduated as valedictorian of his high school class. He went to Indiana University in…
