Phillip Allan Work
Feb. 21, 2019 - Phillip Allan Work, a mechanical engineer and senior design associate, died Nov. 18, 2018. He was 90. Work was born in 1928 in Salt Lake City and attended the University of Utah, receiving a degree in architecture. He served in the Army during the…
Hasel (Jim) James Slone Jr.
Feb. 13, 2019 - Hasel (Jim) James Slone Jr. Hasel (Jim) James Slone Jr. died Feb. 17, 2018. He was 81. He attended Ohio State University, graduating with a doctorate of physics. From 1953 to 1957, he served in the Navy. He then was hired as a physicist in B Division…
Scott Lee Ray
Feb. 11, 2019 - Scott Lee Ray died Jan. 16, 2019. He was 62. He grew up in Grand Rapids, Mich. He attended Michigan State University where he received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. He earned his PhD in the same field from the University of…
Dixie Bates Wood
Feb. 11, 2019 - Dixie Bates Wood died Feb. 5, 2019. She was 90. She was born at Lakeside, Arizona, the 10th of 11 children of LaSelle and Nellie Mae Bates. She attended Phoenix Union High School with her twin sister Wynne and worked for the Central Intelligence Agency…
Frederick "Fred" Earle Hammer
Feb. 5, 2019 - Frederick "Fred" Earle Hammer died Dec. 14, 2018. He was 90 years old. After graduating from Oakland High School Hammer served in the Army during the Korean War. Hammer was a proud journeyman electrician and 70-year member of the International…
Loren Arthur Jacobson
Feb. 4, 2019 - Loren Arthur Jacobson died Dec. 26, 2018. He was 80 years old. Jacobson was born Aug. 20, 1938, in St. Peter, Minnesota, the son of Loraine K. Hansen and Arthur L. Jacobson. As the family moved, he attended school in Seattle; Limerick, Ireland; Billings…
William “Bill” K. Blevins
Jan. 24, 2019 - William “Bill” K. Blevins died Dec. 22, 2018. He was 72. He was born on Nov. 8, 1946, in Middletown, Ohio, to the late William and Della Jean (Baker) Blevins. He worked more than 40 years as a recognized tritium specialist with the U.S. Department of…
Albert J. Rothman
Jan. 23, 2019 - Albert J. Rothman died Dec. 11, 2018. He was 94. He was born Jan. 16, 1924 to immigrant Jewish parents and raised in Brooklyn, New York, as later described in his autobiography, “A Brooklyn Odyssey.” He graduated second in his class at Stuyvesant High…
Rachel Luevano Burke
Jan. 10, 2019 - Rachel Luevano Burke died Dec. 31, 2018. She was 75. Burke was a longtime resident of Livermore and a retiree from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). She took great pride in the divisions that she worked within LLNL and had a great love of…
Marian Barraza
Jan. 9, 2019 - Services have been held for Marian Barraza, who died on Nov. 9, 2018. She was 66. Born in Oakland on Nov. 19, 1951, Barraza was raised in San Leandro and Livermore, where she graduated from Livermore High School. She came to the Lab at the age of 17 and…
Thomas Tillotson
Jan. 7, 2019 - Thomas Michael “Tom” Tillotson died on Dec. 24. He was 64. Tillotson attended St. Bernard’s School and graduated in 1972 from Tracy High School. After a brief stint at the University of California, Berkeley, Tillotson transferred to Cal State University…
Chuzo Okuda
Jan. 7, 2019 - Chuzo Okuda died Dec. 19 after a valiant battle with liver cancer. He was 70. Okuda was born on March 5, 1948, in Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan. He came to the Wisconsin School for the Deaf in 1966 to learn English and American Sign Language, then headed to…
Mary Ann Chapeta
Jan. 7, 2019 - Mary Ann Chapeta died Dec. 30. She was 60. Chapeta graduated from Mission San Jose High School in Fremont in 1976. She married Corey Dean Chapeta July 20, 1985 in Myers, California. She worked as an administrator at Lawrence Livermore National…
Andrew Hazi
Jan. 3, 2019 - Andrew Hazi died Dec. 4 after a three year battle with cancer. He was 77. Hazi was born in Budapest, Hungary and came to United States on July 4, 1958. Upon graduation from high school in New York, he was granted a full science scholarship to University…
Michael Butler
Jan. 2, 2019 - Michael Butler died Dec. 22 after a 5-year battle with bone cancer. He was 69 years old. Butler worked for Livermore National Lawrence Laboratory, assigned to the Nevada National Security Test Site for more than 25 years, conducting nuclear testing and…
Robert (Bob) Feinberg
Dec. 10, 2018 - Robert (Bob) Feinberg died Nov. 24. He was 83 years old. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the late David and Rose Feinberg, he is survived by his soulmate of 61 years, Martha; his daughter, Nancy of Venice, California; his son, Jeff, and his wife,…
George Franklin Bing
Dec. 10, 2018 - George Franklin Bing died Nov. 18. He was 93 years old. Born Dec. 16, 1924 in Barberton, Ohio, he was an Eagle Scout, a first lieutenant in the Army Air Corps (1943-46) and a nuclear physicist at the Laboratory (1954-1988). He is the son of Ross and…
Jackson Go
Nov. 27, 2018 - Jackson Go died Oct. 31. He was 72. Go, of Stockton, peacefully passed from battling leukemia. He retired last year as a metallography researcher after 15 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; and previously after 27 years at Kaiser Aluminum…
Robert (Bob) Charles Becker
Nov. 21, 2018 - Robert (Bob) Charles Becker died Oct. 17. He was 94. Born Oct.14, 1924 in Oakland, he graduated from Lick Wilmerding High School in San Francisco, attended the University of California at Berkeley and then enlisted in the Navy Air Corps. He received…
Christopher Patrick Hendrickson
Nov. 21, 2018 - Christopher Patrick Hendrickson died unexpectedly of a heart attack on Sept. 23. He was 79. Born April 4, 1939 in New York City, he graduated from Xavier High School and participated in ROTC. He graduated from Fordham University in 1960 with a bachelor’…
