Carl C. Aaron, Jr.
May 5, 2025 - Carl C. Aaron, Jr. died Oct. 23, 2023. He was 92. Aaron was born in Dallas, Texas on April 24, 1931. His parents brought the family to California’s East Bay to join in the war effort at the Richmond shipyards during World War II. After graduating from…
Alfred S. Fontes, Jr.
April 30, 2025 - Alfred S. Fontes, Jr. died March 28, 2025. He was 81. Fontes was born to Alfred and Minnie Fontes in the town of Makawao on the island of Maui. The family moved to Oakland, California, in 1955 where he graduated from Castlemont High School in 1962. He…
David Stephen Fisher
April 29, 2025 - David Stephen Fisher died Jan. 4, 2025. He was 73. Fisher was born in Kent, Ohio, May 19, 1951. He attended Rosevelt High School where he entered every science fair. He attended Purdue University where he graduated with a bachelor of science in…
Arnold Charles Lange
April 24, 2025 - Arnold Charles Lange died April 18, 2025. He was 87. Lange was born in Lodi, California on February 11, 1938. He was a graduate of Sequoia High School in Redwood City and earned bachelor’s and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from San José…
William (Bill) Charles Behrendt
April 24, 2025 - William (Bill) Charles Behrendt died April 5, 2025. He was 73. Behrendt was the fourth of eight children born to Annetta and Hubert Behrendt on Feb. 25, 1952, in Athens, Wisconsin. In 1960, the family moved to a hobby farm in Wausau. He graduated from…
Cameron Kennedy
April 8, 2025 - Cameron Kennedy died March 30, 2025. He was 46. Kennedy worked at Aerojet Rocketdyne Sacramento from 2003 until coming to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as a radiographer with the Nondestructive Evaluation Group in June 2018 before…
Michael Eugene Moriarty
March 28, 2025 - Michael Eugene Moriarty died March 18, 2025. He was 86. Moriarty was born on August 2, 1938, at McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota to the late Charles and Magdalene (Marso) Moriarty. He lived in Marion, South Dakota, until age four and then…
Jack LeRoy Cutting
March 28, 2025 - Jack LeRoy Cutting died Feb. 5, 2025. He was 88. He was born in Sacramento, California, and was the only child of Vera Wilhelmina Cutting (nee Snyder) and Ralph Hardy Cutting. When he was four years old, the family moved to Oakland, California. His dad…
Barbara Evans Macchioni
March 24, 2025 - Barbara Evans Macchioni died March 16, 2025. She was 59. Macchioni was born on March 4, 1966, the eldest child of Milton Harrison Evans and Rosario Meza De Evans. She grew up in Mulege, Baja Sur, Mexico. She moved to San Diego, California to learn…
David Ronald Parks
March 11, 2025 - David Ronald Parks died Jan. 19, 2025. He was 70. Parks was a long-time Z Program analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He retired on April 30, 2023. His memorial service will be held at 10 am on Saturday, March 29 at Our Saviour Lutheran…
Frederick Marshall (Fred) Cutter
March 5, 2025 - Frederick Marshall "Fred" Cutter died Feb. 8, 2025. He was 95. Cutter was born on July 9, 1929 in Cleveland, Ohio to Robert and Frances Cutter. He was the eldest of four children. Eventually his family settled in the San Francisco Bay Area and he…
Arthur J. McAlice
Feb. 24, 2025 - Arthur J McAlice died Feb. 22, 2025. He was 92. McAlice was born in Rhode Island, and after his tour in the United States Navy, relocated to California. He was an electrical engineer who started at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 1960.…
Delbert Wright
Feb. 13, 2025 - Delbert Wright passed on Sunday, Jan 26, 2025. He was 88. Wright was a longtime Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employee. A longtime colleague offered a comment, having worked so closely with him over the years: his death comes not as a surprise…
Robert Wesley Taylor
Feb. 12, 2025 - Robert Wesley Taylor died Nov. 1, 2024. He was 92. Taylor earned a degree in chemistry from California State University, Berkeley before pursuing a doctor of philosophy in geochemistry at Pennsylvania State University. His sharp mind took him across…
Lawrence H. Thompson
Feb. 11, 2025 - Lawrence H. “Larry” Thompson, died Dec. 16, 2024. He was 83. Thompson was born on July 22, 1941, in Tyler, Texas. He graduated from John Tyler High School and went on to earn a B.S. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin. While his early…
Joseph Mazrimas
Jan. 28, 2025 - Joseph Mazrimas died Dec. 27, 2024. He was 87. The eldest of four children, Mazrimas was born to Joseph and Mary Mazrimas on Sept. 22, 1937, in Boston, Massachusetts. After high school, he received his undergraduate degree from Boston College before…
Joseph C. Behne Jr.
Jan. 23, 2025 - Joseph C. Behne Jr. died Jan. 4, 2025. He was 97. Behne was born in Abilene, Texas to Joseph C. Behne Sr. and Peggy Behne. He attended Lee Elementary School in Abilene prior to the family relocating to Dallas. There he attended Woodrow Wilson, Grenier…
Reynold Valentine
Jan. 22, 2025 - Reynold Valentine died Dec. 21, 2024. He was 81. Valentine was born to John and Marguerite Valentine. He started his career with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the Machinist Apprenticeship Program managed by the University of California in…
Howard Allen Scott
Jan. 16, 2025 - Howard Allen Scott died Nov. 25, 2024. He was 69. Scott was born to Harold and Naomi Scott, and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, one of four brothers. He graduated in 1975 from Dartmouth College, majoring in math and physics, and was awarded Phi Beta Kappa…
William Walter Simmons
Jan. 15, 2025 - William Walter Simmons died Sept. 28, 2024. Simmons attended Austin High School in Chicago, Illinois and received a bachelor degree in physics in 1953 from Carlton College in Northfield, Minnesota. He diligently continued his studies at the University…
