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/…
William (Bill) Goodman
Sept. 14, 2023 - William (Bill) Goodman died May 26. He was 88. Goodman was born to James and Dorothy Goodman in Tekamah, Nebraska on Aug. 2, 1934. He graduated from Tekamah High School in 1952 and attended Nebraska Wesleyan University for two years majoring in…
William (Bill) C. Herrmann
Sept. 13, 2023 - William (Bill) C. Herrmann died Aug. 17. He was 96. Son of the late Charles and Mare Herrmann, he was born in New York on Nov. 26, 1926, and grew up in Queens. After high school he attended New York Institute of Photography, where he received an…
Benjamin Nicholas Casses
Sept. 7, 2023 - Benjamin Nicholas Casses died August 16. He was 45. Casses was born Oct. 17, 1977, as the eldest child of Chris Casses and Suzanne Post. He spent his early years in Vero Beach, Florida. He later moved to North Carolina where he began running his own…
Alfred George Duba
Aug. 30, 2023 - Alfred George Duba died Aug. 21. He was 83. Duba was born on Jan. 26, 1940, to Frank and Erma Duba, of Braeholm, West Virginia. He graduated in 1958 from Man High School as the valedictorian. He subsequently enlisted in the U. S. Army as a personnel…
Samuel Franklin Eccles
Aug. 24, 2023 - Samuel Franklin Eccles died Aug. 8. He was 92. Eccles was born in Reno Nevada to parents Forrest Walker Eccles and Bessie Kelly. He attended Reno High School. He completed his undergraduate work in physics and mathematics at the University of Nevada,…
James Walter Fischer
Aug. 10, 2023 - James Walter Fischer died Aug. 1. He was 79. Fischer was born on Sept. 7, 1943, to Walter Carl Wilhelm Fischer and Pauline Katherine (Thaemert) Fischer in Twin Falls, Idaho. He attended Trinity Lutheran School. In 1956, the family moved to Lodi,…
Charles Durrell Hendricks, Jr.
Aug. 9, 2023 - Charles Durrell Hendricks, Jr. died July 13. He was 96. Hendricks was born on Dec. 5, 1926, in Lewiston, Utah to Charles Durrell Hendricks and Louise McAlister. He received his bachelor of science in physics at Utah State University in 1949; his master…
Eugene Ralph Fisher
Aug. 2, 2023 - Eugene Ralph Fisher died July 11. He was 82. Fisher was born on Oct. 15, 1940, to Ralph and Lacassa Fisher in Los Angeles, California. He migrated to Winston, Oregon with his family. He graduated from Douglas High School in Winston. He attended Oregon…
Norman David Stout
July 31, 2023 - Norman David Stout died May 24. He was 92. Stout was born in Berkeley, California to Robert Perry and Mable Stout. He graduated from Berkeley High School in 1949 and joined the U.S. Navy in 1950 as an electronics technician. After his service he got…
Milton L. Grissom
July 27, 2023 - Milton L. Grissom died July 19. He was 83. Grissom was born on Jan. 9, 1940, in Albuquerque, New Mexico to Milton and Vida Grissom. He grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He graduated from Los Alamos High School and the University of New Mexico. After…
Michael D. Feit
July 26, 2023 - Michael D. Feit died June 29. He was 80. Feit was born in Easton, Pennsylvania in 1942 to Kathryn Bracken and Joel Feit, and grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He studied physics at Lehigh University, graduating in 1964 with special honors, then…
Shirley Roberta Meadors
July 25, 2023 - Shirley Roberta Meadors died July 12. She was 90. Meadors was born Dec. 2, 1932, on the Vasco Grant. She graduated from Livermore High School and attended classes at Chabot College. She worked for many years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as…
Neil Patrick Lund
July 24, 2023 - Neil Patrick Lund died June 16. He was 78. Lund was born and raised in Hayward, California. He graduated from Tennyson High School in 1962 and enlisted in the United States Navy. Upon completion of courses at three of the Navy's Nuclear Power schools…
Bennie Dean Walker
July 3, 2023 - Bennie Dean Walker died June 19. He was 91. Walker was born on May 31, 1932, in Williston, North Dakota to Euclaire Irwin George Walker and Myrtle Smith Walker. He began working for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Aug. 1963 as a photographer…
Lawrence Woodruff
June 29, 2023 - Lawrence Woodruff died June 10. He was 85. Woodruff was born in Long Beach, California in 1938, to Ruth and Lawrence Woodruff. After graduating from Hayward High School in 1956 he earned a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering at Cal State…
Stephen George Cochran
June 23, 2023 - Stephen George Cochran died June 15. He was 75. Cochran was born August 19 in Marion, Indiana to the late Lloyd Grant Cochran and Irene Eunice (Johnson) Cochran. He attended Loyola University of New Orleans for his undergraduate education. In 1970, he…
