Estelle Pabis Miller
Dec. 3, 2024 - Estelle Pabis Miller died Nov. 16, 2024. She was 76. Miller was born Sept. 9, 1948, in Meadville, Pennsylvania, to Adam and Stasia Pabis. She spent her childhood in Ontario, California. During high school, she managed bookkeeping at her father’s Jimmie…
Lee Davisson
Nov. 25, 2024 - Lee Davisson died Sept. 6, 2024. He was 62. Davisson was born to David and Billie Davisson on Sept. 1, 1962 in Indianapolis, Indiana. During his childhood, he had a newspaper route. After spending his childhood in Indianapolis, he graduated from high…
Jason Lee Umbarger
Nov. 18, 2024 - Jason Lee Umbarger died Oct. 9, 2024. He was 43. Umbarger was born on Sept. 10, 1981. He was a graduate of Granada High School, class of 2000 and attended Laney Jr. College. He dedicated his career to technical expertise, working as an HVAC…
Karen Cullinan Phillips
Nov. 12, 2024 - Karen Cullinan Phillips died Oct. 19, 2024. She was 90. Phillips was born in Washington on Oct. 18, 1934, to John Thomas Cullinan and Virginia Ystad Wheatley of Oregon. She grew up and attended boarding school at St. Joseph’s Orphanage in Spokane,…
Anthony Ray Ybarra
Nov. 11, 2024 - Anthony Ray Ybarra died Oct. 16, 2024. He was 59. Ybarra passed away peacefully surrounded by an outpouring of love from his family after a courageous fight with cancer. Ybarra and his twin brother Alex were born Feb. 3, 1965, to Ruben and…
Allen Leigh Kuhl
Oct. 29, 2024 - Allen Leigh Kuhl died Oct. 13, 2024. He was 79. Kuhl was born on Feb. 9, 1945, in Mankato, Minnesota, to Leonard and Ardis Kuhl. Before high school, his family moved to San Carlos, California, where he attended Junipero Serra Catholic High School. His…
Eva Elizabeth Kohot
Oct. 23, 2024 - Eva Elizabeth Kohot died Aug. 25, 2024. She was 74. Kohot was born on July 10, 1950, in Oakland, California to John and Olga Kohot. She graduated from Granada High School and went on to California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo earning a…
John Arthur Flam
Oct. 23, 2024 - John Arthur Flam died July 4, 2024. He was 84. Flam was an Air Force veteran. After his discharge, he was hired by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in the late 1960s and assigned as a mechanical technician at the Nuclear Explosives Assembly…
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…
