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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
Albert Ronald Thiessen
Jan. 30, 2023 - Albert Ronald Thiessen died Dec. 27. He was 90. Thiessen passed away after a long battle with dementia. He was born to Albert and Dorothy Thiessen on February 21, 1932, in San Francisco, California. He graduated from Lincoln High School in 1950 and…
Charles Gaston, Jr.
Jan. 25, 2023 - Charles Gaston, Jr. died Dec. 30. He was 51 years old. Gaston started in the waste management industry in 1989 working for DECON Environmental in Hayward. In 2002, he came to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as a contractor supporting…
Alfred Goldberg
Jan. 23, 2023 - Alfred Goldberg died Dec. 17. He was 99. Goldberg was born on Oct. 2, 1923, in Montreal, Canada, son of Mary and Morris Goldberg. During World War II, and while attending college, he was a member of the Canadian Reserve Army. After graduating from…
Robert Ray Bennett
Jan. 17, 2023 - Robert Ray Bennett died Dec. 7. He was 88. Bennett left his hometown of Buffalo, Missouri at the age of 18 and headed west. He began his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 1957; he retired in the fall of 1991 after 34 years of…
Jess Thomas Silva
Jan. 17, 2023 - Jess Thomas Silva died Dec. 14. He was 79. Silva was born Oct. 6, 1943, to Jess and Pauline Silva in Alameda, California. He attended two years of city college. In 1965, he went to work for Addressograph-Multigraph. He started in the mail and…
Cleve A Gunderson
Jan. 12, 2023 - Cleve A Gunderson died Nov. 1. He was 93. Gunderson was born in Saskatchewan, Canada and moved to Oakland, California in 1943. He joined the U.S. Army in 1948 and served during the Korean War. He was hired at the Livermore Radiation Laboratory in…
Roger Allen Cunning
Jan. 11, 2023 - Roger Allen Cunning died Jan. 3. He was 74. Cunning was born in Toledo, Ohio to Clifford Charles Cunning and Hester Louise Cunning on April 22, 1948. He had one sibling, Gerald (Jerry) Charles Cunning. He graduated with a bachelor of science degree…
