Ronald Paul Koopman
Feb. 8, 2024 - Ronald Paul Koopman died Jan. 21. He was 80. Koopman was born on March 15, 1943, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Paul and Ilah Koopman. He graduated in 1961 from Ottawa High School. At the University of Michigan, he majored in mechanical engineering. He…
Charles (Chuck) Lincoln Folkers
Feb. 1, 2024 - Charles (Chuck) Lincoln Folkers died Nov. 14. He was 93. Folkers was born July 12, 1930, in Ackley, Iowa. He attended Ackley public schools, graduating in 1948. He attended Iowa State College in Ames, Iowa, majoring in ceramic engineering. He enrolled…
Sam Chakires
Jan. 25, 2024 - Sam Chakires died Dec. 25. He was 93. Chakires was born in 1930 to Christopher and Matina Chakires. He attended Fifth Street School and graduated from Livermore High School in 1948. After graduation, he worked in the carpentry field and helped build a…
Ray Finucane
Jan. 18, 2024 - Ray Finucane died Dec. 28. He was 80. Finucane served in Vietnam as a highly decorated Marine fighter pilot. He then received his masters degree in mechanical engineering at University of California, Los Angeles. He began his professional career at…
Kyran "Kim" Mish
Jan. 11, 2024 - Kyran "Kim" Mish died Dec. 8. He was 70. Mish was born Dec. 13, 1952, to Gloria V. Mish-Thompson and James I. Mish in Muskegon, Michigan. He earned his doctor of philosophy in engineering at California State University Davis in 1987. Then he joined…
Phillip Paul
Jan. 9, 2024 - Phillip Paul died June 18. He was 69. Paul earned his doctor of philosophy from Stanford University and spent 10 years at Sandia National Laboratories before becoming a chief engineer in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) Bio program in…
Paul Urtiew
Dec. 20, 2023 - Paul Urtiew died Nov. 2. He was 92. Urtiew was born in 1931 in Nish, Yugoslavia to Andrei Pavlovich and Margarita Vladimirovna Urtiew. He began his higher education at the University of California, Berkeley, where, after a 2-year U.S. Army stint, he…
William Edward Loewe
Dec. 7, 2023 - William Edward Loewe died Nov. 26. He was 91. Loewe was born in Chicago, Illinois to William Edward Loewe and Gertrude Althea Loewe, née Smith. He attended Carl Schurz High School. He later graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor of…
James Albert Adams
Dec. 5, 2023 - James Albert Adams died Oct. 14. He was 72. Adams was born on Nov. 1, 1950, in Livermore, California, to John and Mildred Adams. He graduated from Granada High School in 1970 and he enlisted in the U.S. Army, completing basic training in Fort Ord,…
Brice Turner
Nov. 21, 2023 - Brice Turner died Nov. 12. He was 23. Turner grew up in Jacksonville and St. Johns, Florida. He graduated from Creekside High School in 2018 and Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in 2022. At the time of his death he was a graduate student studying…
Roxanne Barnett Springer
Nov. 14, 2023 - Roxanne Barnett Springer died Oct. 26. She was 68. Springer was born on May 9, 1955, in Oakland, California. Growing up in San Lorenzo, the family moved to Castro Valley and eventually Livermore. She graduated from Livermore High School in 1973.…
Leslie Jean Rudy
Nov. 13, 2023 - Leslie Jean Rudy died Oct. 18. She was 78. Rudy was born in Oakland and raised in Castro Valley where she attended Castro Valley High School and later a private career college. She was a valued employee in the Health Services department of the…
Kelly Libatique
Nov. 10, 2023 - Kelly Libatique died Oct. 26. He was 53. Libatique was a valued member of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory training team educating workers about security and ES&H issues since Nov. 2018. He was a talented actor, voice actor, author, and…
Nicholas W. Winter
Nov. 8, 2023 - Nicholas W. Winter died Oct. 25. He was 80. Winter was born March 7, 1943, in Birmingham, Alabama, the son of Roland and Mary (Hagen) Winter. He graduated from Rockford East High School in 1961. He attended Northern Illinois University (NIU) on an…
Neil Holmes
Nov. 1, 2023 - Neil Holmes died Oct. 18. He was 75. Holmes was born on Sept. 27, 1948, in Oakland, California. After graduating from California Institute of Technology with a bachelor of science in physics, he completed a doctor of philosophy at Stanford University…
Duane Gary Gordon
Oct. 18, 2023 - Duane Gary Gordon died Sept. 5. He was 67. Gordon was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 14, 1956, to James (“Jim”) Clark Gordon and Suzanne Marie Gordon. He joined the U.S. Air Force in 1975 as a law enforcement specialist. From 1975 to 1986, he…
Eugene Wayne Burke
Oct. 3, 2023 - Eugene Wayne Burke died Sept. 16. He was 90. He was born on Sept.24, 1932, in Synarep, Washington. Burke served in the United States Air Force in England during the Korean War, then attended college at Washington State University. He graduated with…
Kennedy J. Reed
Oct. 2, 2023 - Kennedy J. Reed died June 20. He was 79. Reed was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1944 to Earl and Lula (née McClain) Reed. He grew up in the Ida B. Wells public housing of the south side Chicago where he developed an early interest in the sciences. He…
Thad F. Peck
Sept. 21, 2023 - Thad F. Peck died July 24. He was 67. Peck was born and lived in Northern California his entire life. He earned his engineering degree at Chabot College. He started his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1977 and worked in the…
Jim Kapsales
Sept. 19, 2023 - Jim Kapsales died May 16. He was 70. Kapsales was born in New York City on Dec. 16, 1952. He graduated magna cum laude from Syracuse University in 1974. He utilized his physics degree as a nuclear physicist with the U.S. Navy and Department of Energy/…
