Marvin Stanley Hollander
July 14, 2009 - Marvin Stanley Hollander died July 14. He was 86.Hollander was born in Oakland, Calif. on July 30, 1923, the second son of William and Lillian Hollander. His father was a prominent Oakland attorney and well known as a baseball coach and promoter of youth…
Marvin Eugene Lehman
July 13, 2009 - Marvin Eugene Lehman, a Lab retiree and resident of Brentwood, died July 13. He was 76. Born May 17, 1933, in Stockton to Ellis and Martha Lehman, he was the youngest of three children. He grew up on a farm in Tracy. He married Louanna Grieve in 1955 in…
Lawrence A. Chandler
July 4, 2009 - Lawrence “Larry” Chandler, whose Laboratory career in the Fire Department and Security Department spanned more than three decades, died July 4 in Eureka, Calif. after a short illness. He was 63.Chandler attended Castro Valley High School and, after…
Henry R. Cavagnolo
July 1, 2009 - Henry R. Cavagnolo, a Lab retiree, died July 1 in Pleasanton. He was 89.He was born February 21, 1920, in San Francisco to Emilio and Mary Cavagnolo.Cavagnolo was a senior research technician at the Lab for 32 years, where he worked on such projects as…
James Edward Leadstrom
June 26, 2009 - James Edward Leadstrom, who worked at the Lab for more than 30 years, died following a vehicle accident at the Lab on June 26. He was 58.Born April 20, 1951, he was a resident of Dublin.Leadstrom joined the Lab in 1976 as a draftsman in the Mechanical…
Col. Baldwin L. Troutman Jr.
June 15, 2009 - Col Baldwin L. Troutman Jr., USAF retired, who had served as a military liaison at the Lab, died at his home in Newnan, Ga. on June 15, from congestive heart failure. He was 91.Born Oct. 29, 1917, he was brought up on a plantation near the Okeefenoke…
Elteen Kirschbaum Stone
June 9, 2009 - Elteen Kirschbaum Stone, born Martha Elteen Krythe, died June 9. She was 90. Stone was born in Buhl, Idaho on April 26, 1919, the only child of Gerard and Maymie Krythe. Shortly after her birth, due to her father’s tuberculosis, the family moved to…
Melvin “Mel” Welch
June 3, 2009 - Melvin “Mel” Welch, a Lab retiree, died June 12 after a lengthy illness. He was 71.Welch, of Linden, Calif., and Fort Mohave, Ariz., served in the U.S. Army and later retired from LLNL after 25 years of service.He enjoyed being outdoors, hiking, camping…
Herbert Walter Quick
June 3, 2009 - Herbert Quick, a Lab retiree, died June 3 in San Jose. He was 81.Quick was born Feb. 9, 1928, in Johnson City, NY.He was a physicist, engineer, mathematician and technical writer and editor. He had worked at Intel, NASA and LLNL before he retired in 1997…
Genevieve Phillips
May 25, 2009 - Genevieve “Gen” Phillips, who worked as administrative support for a slew of Laboratory managers, died May 25. She was 85.In a long and distinguished career at Livermore, Phillips provided indispensable administrative support to two of the Laboratory…
Marjorie L. Slayter
May 24, 2009 - Marjorie L. Slayter, a Lab retiree and resident of Modesto, died at her home May 24. She was 89.A native of Torrington, Wyo., she moved to Tracy in 1939 and lived there until 10 years ago, when she moved to Modesto.She had worked in the quality-control…
Willis Arthur Sandholtz
May 11, 2009 - Willis Arthur “Sandy” Sandholtz, a Lab retiree and resident of Livermore, died May 11, at his home. Born Feb. 27, 1922, in Whitehall, Mont., he was the only child of Claus Arthur Sandholtz and Carma Willis Sandholtz. He grew up in Twin Falls, Idaho, and…
John H. McBride
April 15, 2009 - John Hubert McBride, who retired from the Lab after 25 years of service, died April 15 at Kaiser Hospital in Hayward after a brief illness. He was 84.McBride was born in Winchester, Mass. in November 1924 and grew up in Kentville, Nova Scotia. His…
Manuel M. Alcalde
April 7, 2009 - Manuel Montes Alcalde, a Lab retiree, died April 7 in Folsom. He was 87.Born Sept. 24, 1921, in San Leandro, he had lived in San Lorenzo for 18 years, and then lived in Pleasanton, shortly before his death. He worked as a machinist at Los Alamos during…
Walter E. Nervik
April 6, 2009 - Walter E. Nervik, a Lab retiree and resident of Danville, died April 6. He was 86. Nervik was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. on March 3, 1923, to John and Valborg Nervik. A lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, he served as a navigator during World War II. After…
Raylene Cooper
March 28, 2009 - Raylene Cooper, a former Tracy resident died March 28 in French Camp. She was 64.Cooper was born in Lindsey, Calif. to Ruby and William Simpson. She was a resident of Manteca for the past 20 years and previously of Tracy for 10 years. She worked at the…
Jimmie ‘Duke’ Wills
March 27, 2009 - Jimmie “Duke” Wills died unexpectedly March 27. He was 59.Wills was born and raised in Livermore. Until his retirement in 2007, he worked for various contractors as a warehouseman at the Lab.He enjoyed camping, fishing and hunting.Wills is survived by…
Kem Hainebach
March 27, 2009 - Kem Hainebach, a physicist and 35-year Lab employee, died March 27 after a courageous battle with lung cancer. He was 61.Born in Welsh, La. on June 18, 1947, Hainebach had worked at the Lab as a nuclear weapons physicist, working in both nuclear weapon…
James Richard Mann
March 25, 2009 - James (Jim) Mann, a retiree who had worked as a machinist at the Lab for 32 years, died March 25. He was 79.A resident of Manteca, Mann was born May 21, 1929.He retired from the Lab in 1993. He belonged to the Livermore Sons in Retirement (SIRS), the…
Carol Kaufman Briggs
March 24, 2009 - Carol Kaufman Briggs, a resident of Lafayette,, Calif., who had worked at the Lab as a research assistant, died March 24 after a long and courageous battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 78. Born April 18, 1930, in Pittsburgh, Pa., she was the…
