In Memoriam

Steven Savage

March 7, 2011 - Steven Thomas Savage, a former lab employee and resident of Castro Valley and Tracy, died March 7. He was 51.Born April 20, 1959, in Oakland, Calif., Savage grew up in Castro Valley where he also raised his family. He worked at the Lab for most of his…

Nancy Howard

March 6, 2011 - Nancy Woodside Howard of Houston, Texas, died May 6, of brain cancer. She was 74.Formerly of Livermore, Howard was born Sept. 8, 1936, in El Paso, Texas, where she grew up. She attended Dudley School and El Paso High School. Howard was raised at the…

Thomas Harper

March 2, 2011 - Thomas L. Harper, a Lab retiree, died Wednesday, March 2, from pancreatic cancer. He was 67.Harper was born May 3, 1943 in Salinas, Calif., to the late Thomas Lawrence and Anne Mae Harper. He attended Sacred Heart School in Salinas and was an Eagle Scout…

John B. Twiss

Feb. 17, 2011 - Long time Hayward resident, John B. Twiss, died Feb. 17, in Hayward. He was 94.Twiss retired from the Lab in 1980 as a sheet metal worker.He is survived by his wife Sylvia; son Dale and wife Carol Twiss of Livermore; daughters Marsha Brigleb and husband…

Manuel Franscisco de Morais

Feb. 14, 2011 - Manuel Franscisco de Morais died Feb. 14 after a long illness. He was 77.Born on July 14, 1933, in Terra Do Pao, Pico, Azores, he lived in Tracy for the past 29 years.De Morais worked as a firefighter for the American Air Force Base in Terceira, Azores…

Dorothy Jeanette Mendoza

Feb. 11, 2011 - Dorothy Jeanette Mendoza, a Lab retiree, died Feb 12. She was 82.Born Dec. 24, 1928, she was raised in Livermore, where she later married Frank Mendoza.Mendoza worked for Water Works in Sunol, at Wente Vineyards in Livermore and at LLNL, where she…

Norman 'Shawn' McKinley

Jan. 31, 2011 - Norman “Shawn” McKinley, an LLNL Protective Force Division officer, died Jan. 31 at the Lab. He was 46.Born August 19, 1964, in Crossett, Ark., he was a resident of Manteca for nine years.McKinley retired from the U.S. Air Force, National Guard and Army…

Chris Seymour

Jan. 22, 2011 - Chris Seymour, a longtime employee of the Laboratory, died Jan. 22. He was 47.Born and raised in Pleasanton, he was one of three children. He enjoyed cooking, music, traveling and being a member of the Valley Community Church in Pleasanton.He loved…

Jennings Peter Stoering

Jan. 15, 2011 - Jennings Peter “Pete” Stoering, a Lab physicist and retiree, died at his home Jan. 15. He was 86.Born March 22, 1924, to Valerie (Elsie) Doucette and Ernest Stoering in Fort Ripley, Minn., he was a resident of Fremont for the past 47 years.Stoering spent…

Deborah Ann Lindo

Jan. 5, 2011 - Deborah Ann (Quinn) Lindo, a resident of Modesto, died Dec. 24, at her home after a courageous battle with cancer. She was 59.Lindo was one of two children born to Rosemarie Viera and Fredrick Quinn. She was raised in the Bay Area and graduated from…

Richard Meyer

Dec. 26, 2010 - Richard Meyer, a retired program manager for the Department of Energy and former Lab employee, died Dec. 26 in Falmouth, Mass. He was 77.Born in 1933 in Norwood, Mass., Meyer graduated from the University of Illinois in 1963. He served two years in the U…

Kevin Gleason

Dec. 26, 2010 - Kevin Gleason, a former TID employee, died Dec. 26, 2010 after a two-year struggle with cancer. He was 70.He was born in Brooklyn NY on Nov. 1, 1940. Despite relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area in his 30s, he remained an avowed New Yorker.Talented…

William Belzer

Dec. 26, 2010 - William Belzerof of Yakima, Wash. died Dec. 26 at Willow Springs Nursing Home. He was 91.He was born in New England, N.D. He worked as an electronic technician at the Laboratory, retiring after 17 years.He is survived by his wife, Mary Belzer of Yakima;…

Willie H. Lane

Dec. 23, 2010 - Willie H. Lane, a 47-year Tracy resident, died Dec. 23 at Sutter Tracy Community Hospital. He was 92.Lane, a native of Hamon, Ky., worked on submarines as an electrician during World War II and helped install Titan 1 and 2 missile silos during the Cold…

David Carleton Rogers

Dec. 21, 2010 - David Carleton Rogers of Stockton died Dec. 21. He was 70.Rogers was born in Augusta, Maine. In his early years, he had a wide range of interests, from being a male cheerleader in high school to harness racing of trotting horses. He married his high…

Thomas W. Schroeder

Dec. 21, 2010 - Thomas W. Schroeder died in Folsom, Calif. on Dec. 21. He was 68.Schroeder was born on Sept. 13, 1942, in Lamar, Colo. He served in the U.S. Navy on the submarine USS Rasher for seven years. Schroeder retired as a facility operations and maintenance…

Victor Garner

Dec. 21, 2010 - Victor Garner, a longtime Livermore resident, died Dec. 10 in Pleasanton, after a long battle with heart disease. He was 81. A native of Little Rock, Ark., Garner was born March 1, 1929. During his childhood, in addition to Arkansas, he lived in Texas,…

Jeffrey Thomas Groth

Dec. 10, 2010 - Jeffrey Thomas Groth, a Lab retiree, died Nov. 29.  He was 50.Born Sept. 19, 1960, in Waukesha, Wis., he lived in Modesto for 20 years.  He worked at the Lab as a machinist for 27 years.Groth is survived by his wife, Marianne of Modesto; his mother Susan…

Richard A. Du Val

Dec. 8, 2010 - Richard A. “Dick” Du Val, a resident of Clayton and San Diego, who served as a consultant to the Lab, died on Thursday, Dec. 2, at Kaiser Hospital in Walnut Creek, after a two year battle with cancer. He was 76.Born Sept. 30, 1934, in New York, his…

Keith Edward Moseley

Dec. 7, 2010 - Keith Edward Moseley died Nov. 26 in Monterey, Calif. He was 73. The son of Percy and Frances Moseley, he was born in San Francisco, on Feb. 15, 1937.Moseley’s professional life included 25 years of developing career counseling programs at the Lab. That…

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