Mary Ann Ruth (Mansigh) Karlsen
Oct. 3, 2024 - Mary Ann Ruth (Mansigh) Karlsen died Aug. 28, 2024. She was 91. Mary Ann Ruth (Mansigh) Karlsen was born Sept. 12, 1932, in rural Otter Tail County, Minnesota. She was raised by her parents, Esther and John. She was the valedictorian when she graduated…
Robert (Bob) D. Gibson Jr.
Sept. 26, 2024 - Robert (Bob) D. Gibson Jr. died June 13, 2020. He was 66. Gibson was born to Robert Dean Gibson and Doris Mamie Gibson on March 24, 1954, In Norwalk, California. He attended San Ramon High School and graduated in 1972 and then attended to Diablo…
Charles “Chuck” William Meier
Sept. 24, 2024 - Charles “Chuck” William Meier died Aug. 27, 2024. He was 88. Meier was born May 18, 1936, in Batavia, New York. He graduated from LaSalle High School and earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. While in college…
Charles F. McMillan
Sept. 19, 2024 - Dr. Charles F. McMillan died Sept. 6, 2024. He was 69. McMillan passed away unexpectedly as a result of a vehicle accident in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He was born on October 25, 1954, in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to Robert Charles McMillan and Betty…
Donald (Don) Kelley
Sept. 10, 2024 - Donald (Don) Kelley died Sept. 6, 2024. He was 85. Kelley was born on Jan. 29, 1939, in Union Town, Pennsylvania and moved to California when he was five years old. He graduated in 1957 from Encinal High School in Alameda, California. His first job was…
Gaylor Grace (DeBalto) Maestas
Aug. 29, 2024 - Gaylor Grace (DeBalto) Maestas died June 3, 2024. She was 86. Maestas was born on Sept. 29, 1937 in Seattle, Washington. Daughter of Charles and Florence (Rigdon) DeBalto, she grew up in Hayward, California and graduated from Hayward High School in…
Denetris "Dee" Rollins-Perry
Aug. 21, 2024 - Denetris "Dee" Rollins-Perry died Aug. 3, 2024. She was 64. Perry was born on Nov. 25, 1959, in San Francisco, California. She was the youngest of three children born to Robert and Modiste Rollins. She started doing hair at 14 and received her barbering…
Mary Ann Bullis Dante
Aug. 20, 2024 - Mary Ann Bullis Dante died Aug. 4, 2024. She was 88. Dante was born on June 24, 1936, in Salem, Oregon, to Ann and William Bullis. The family moved to Salinas, California, where Dante graduated from Salinas High School in 1954, and attended Hartnell…
Tommy E. Smith, Jr.
Aug. 16, 2024 - Tommy E. Smith, Jr. died Aug. 8, 2024. Smith was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and grew up in Oakland, California. He began working at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1979. After winning the Laboratory’s Undergraduate Technical Scholarship…
Charles W. Hartman
Aug. 14, 2024 - Charles W. Hartman died June 18, 2024. He was 91. Hartman was born in Denver, Colorado to Fred and Marie (Krieger) Hartman. He spent his youth in Seattle, Washington and Sacramento, California. He earned his bachelor's of science at University of…
Dolores U. Olness
Aug. 13, 2024 - Dolores U. Olness died July 18, 2024. She was 89. Olness was born on March 20, 1935, to Manuel and Josephine Belle (Wyrick) Urquiza in Kingsport, Tennessee, where she lived throughout her youth. She graduated from Dobyns-Bennet High School in 1953 and…
Emily (Emmy) S. Ward
Aug. 6, 2024 - Emily (Emmy) S. Ward died July 29, 2024. She was 85. Ward was born on Nov. 4,1938, in Fresno, California. The family eventually moved to Tracy where she attended New Jerusalem Elementary School and Tracy High School. After graduation, she worked at…
Christine Hearn
July 30, 2024 - Christine Hearn died July 18. She was 66. Hearn grew up in Pueblo, Colorado and graduated from Centennial High School. She worked as a deaf interpreting specialist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for more than 17 years and also provided…
Thomas (Tom) W. Hindley
July 25, 2024 - Thomas (Tom) W. Hindley died Nov. 29. He was 73. Hindley was born in Bellview, Ohio, on Dec. 2, 1949, to Arthur W. Hindley and Clara May Anderson. He was raised in Sandusky, Ohio., where he attended and graduated from Sandusky High School. He enlisted…
Stephen Isaac Warshaw
July 15, 2024 - Stephen Isaac Warshaw died Feb. 14. He was 85. Whether you knew him from Belle Harbor, FRHS, Brooklyn Polytech, Johns Hopkins, University of Illinois, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory or Acoustical Society of America…
Richard Harold White
July 11, 2024 - Richard Harold White died May 24. He was 89. White was born in Salem, Oregon, on Nov. 9, 1934, to Laverne and Pauline White. He worked summers when he was 15 and 16 loading trains to help with the family finances. He attended Salem High School. He later…
Niel Kay Madsen
July 9, 2024 - Niel Kay Madsen died July 4. He was 81. Madsen was the second of five children born to Farrell and Margaret Madsen. He attended Chico State University and graduated summa cum laude with a double bachelor’s degree in math and physics. He later began…
Clay Widmayer
July 1, 2024 - Clay Widmayer died June 26. He was 64. Widmayer was born in Walla Walla, Washington, on June 16, 1960 and received his education at Whitman College and the University of Oregon. In 1995, he accepted a position in the laser program (later known as NIF…
Peter Prassinos
June 28, 2024 - Pete Prassinos died May 15. He was 75. Prassinos of Boyds, Maryland was born on Jan. 17, 1949 in Hampton, Virginia; he was the son of George and Helvetia Prassinos. He worked at Idaho National Engineering Lab at the Loss of Fluid Testing Facility, was…
Alexander Brabson Cecil
June 21, 2024 - Alexander Brabson Cecil died June 15. He was 94. In 1955, he began working at Lawerence Livermore National Labertory (LLNL) as a programmer. He retired from LLNL in 1992. He is survived by his wife, Flora Alvarado, sisters, Ann Guirao and Barbara Frech…
