Harold 'Hank' Finn
Sept. 1, 2022 - Harold 'Hank' Finn died Aug. 23. He was 87. Finn was born Sept. 8, 1934, in Chicago, Illinois to Harold Francis Finn and Anna K. (Seibold) Finn. He married his wife Karen Krueger, June 16, 1956, in a small chapel on the University of Chicago campus.…
George Victor Orloff
Aug. 25, 2022 - George Orloff died Aug. 20. He was 88. Orloff was born Feb. 17, 1934, in San Francisco, to Vera and Fred Orloff. He came to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1954 and retired in 1991 with 37 years at the Lab. At LLNL, he was a senior mechanical…
Robert Allan DeChene
Aug. 23, 2022 - Robert Allan DeChene died. He was 98. DeChene and his twin sister Margaret (Peg) were born to Ernie and Alvie DeChene on Feb 2, 1924, in Oakland, California. He was a Lt.in the U.S. Army Air Corp. in World War II, served as a navigator on the City of…
Paul Kotta
Aug. 23, 2022 - Paul Kotta died Aug. 18. He was 56. Kotta was a renaissance man with a warm intellect and sharp sense of humor. Fluent in Japanese both written and oral, He initially taught English in Japan, became a free-lance translator specializing in science and…
Niels Richard Borch
Aug. 23, 2022 - Niels Richard Borch died Aug. 16. He was 92. Borch was born on Aug. 4, 1930, in Fort Dodge, Iowa, to Lilly Merete Hein and Ole Gotfred Borch. He attended Pasadena City College and University of California Berkeley, with studies in metallurgical…
Judy Welsh
Aug. 22, 2022 - Judy Welsh died July 15. She was 80. Welsh and her identical twin sister Patty were born on NOv. 11, 1941, in San Francisco to Archie and Betty Simmons. She attended University of California Berkeley in 1959. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 1963 with…
Beatrice Huberta MacCreary Armstrong
Aug. 19, 2022 - Beatrice Huberta MacCreary Armstrong died June 30. She was 87. Armstrong was born in Portland, Oregon to Hugh and Arlene MacCreary. In 1952, she graduated from Washington High School and in 1956 from Lewis and Clark College with a bachelor of science in…
John Olmsted Cowles
Aug. 19, 2022 - John Olmsted Cowles died July 2. He was 88. Cowles, the son of Addison and Alexandra Cowles, grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska and graduated from Weston High School. He received bachelor of science and master of science degrees in chemical engineering from…
Charles Henry Otto, Jr.
Aug. 19, 2022 - Charles Henry Otto, Jr. died July 25. He was 87. Otto was born to Charles and Dolly Otto in Mankato, Minnesota on July 19, 1935. He grew up in Mankato, Minnesota and at the age of 17, he met the love of his life, Barbara, while working together at Stan…
Gerald (Gerry) Walter Hedstrom
Aug. 17, 2022 - Gerald (Gerry) Walter Hedstrom died on July 6, 2022. He was 88. Hedstrom was born on July 31, 1933, in Kenosha, Wisc., to Gladys and Gustav Hedstrom. He graduated from Mary D. Bradford High School in Kenosha in 1951. He then went to the University of…
James (JT) Thompson
Aug. 12, 2022 - James Thompson of Livermore passed away on July 28, 2022. He was 54. James Thompson (JT) one of the Lab’s (O&B’s) dedicated AC technicians. He worked at the Lab for the past 11 years and will be deeply missed by all. He was a dedicated employee and…
Sang-Wook Kang
Aug. 8, 2022 - Sang-Wook Kang died July 21, 2021. He was 86. Kang was born in 1935 in North Korea. He studied physics at Seoul National University for two years. In 1955 he was awarded a scholarship offered by the Army Officers’ Wives Club and enrolled at the…
Milo D. Nordyke
Aug. 4, 2022 - Milo D. Nordyke died July 22. He was 92. Nordyke was born on Dec. 2, 1929, in Maynard, Iowa, the youngest of four children to Clyde and Lucy Nordyke. He grew up in Marshalltown, Iowa. He served as the valedictorian at his junior college. He then earned…
Larry L. Shaw
Aug. 2, 2022 - Larry L. Shaw died June 29. He was 87. Shaw was born in Thief River Falls, Minnesota to Bert Shaw and Inger Mikelson. As a child, he lived in Westly, Wisconsin, Newton, Iowa and Northfield, Minnesota. He attended Saint Olaf College, graduating in 1957.…
Lee Tennant
Aug. 2, 2022 - Lee Tennant died June. 29. He was 87. Tennant was born on Sept 30, 1934, and raised in San Francisco. Attending Lowell High School, San Francisco City College and then graduating from San Francisco State University with a mathematics degree. He worked…
Brian King
July 20, 2022 - Brian King died June 22. He was 43. King was born in Modesto and graduated from Beyer High School in 1997. After high school graduation he pursued his professional ambition to become a machinist which he did for 25 years. He joined Lawrence Livermore…
Jean Higby
July 19, 2022 - Jean Higby died July 8. She was 84. Higby was born on June 19, 1938, to John & Viola McCrary in Rock Chapel, Georgia. She moved to Livermore where she attended elementary school. She attended middle school in a barracks at the Naval Air Station…
John Robert Ambrosino
July 12, 2022 - John Robert Ambrosino died June 17. He was 87. Ambrosino was born April 5, 1935, in Gloversville, New York. He his younger years growing up in Gloversville helping his uncles with cement sidewalk repairs and local paper route, and then entered the Air…
Frederick “Fred” Mackie
July 12, 2022 - Frederick “Fred” Mackie died May 25. He was 81. Mackie was born in Madison, Wisconsin on Aug. 20, 1940. After graduating from Madison High School in 1958, he served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, where he applied to be in the nuclear power program…
Blanca L. Haendler
July 5, 2022 - Blanca L. Haendler died June 10. She was 73. Haendler was born Nov. 22, 1948 to Helmut and Mildred Haendler of Lee, New Hampshire. She received her bachelor of arts in chemistry from Goucher College in 1969 and her Ph.D. in chemistry from Johns Hopkins…
