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/…
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…
