Reed Bowen Baird
Sept. 20, 2021 - Reed Bowen Baird died Aug. 26. He was 83. Baird was born on Sept. 28, 1937, to Charles (Charlie) and Dorothy (Dottie) Baird. He graduated from Burlingame High School. He went on to receive his bachelor's degree from San Jose State, during which time…
Jose C. Lima
Sept. 7, 2021 - Jose C. Lima died June 4. He was 84. Lima was born to Maria C. Lima and John S. Lima on June 13, 1936, in the village of Pedro Miguel on the island of Fayal, Azores, Portugal. He was the oldest of 10 siblings. Growing up, he took care of the family…
Leon Gregory Keller, Jr.
Sept. 3, 2021 - Leon Gregory Keller, Jr. died Aug. 9. He was 79. Keller was born Oct. 31, 1941 in Louisville, Kentucky. He grew up in a military family and started school in Puerto Rico. He lived and studied all over the U.S. and attended high school in Germany and…
Darrell Gene Griffin
Sept. 1, 2021 - Darrell Gene Griffin died Aug. 26. He was 75. Griffin was born in Evansville, Indiana, January 9, 1946, to Jewel and Doris Griffin. On Jan. 28, 1966, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy as a submarine electronics technician and attended the Naval Nuclear…
Denece Bowden
Aug. 5, 2021 - Denece Bowden died July 13. She was 93. Bowden was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 25, 1927, to Harold A and Julia Hiatt Decker. On June 9, 1949, she married Daloy Carl Bowden in the Salt Lake City Temple. She attended school in Salt Lake City and…
Robert Jerold Grabske
Aug. 5, 2021 - Robert Jerold Grabske died June 22. He was 84. Grabske was born in Independence, Missouri on June 29, 1936. He was a graduate of Kansas University with a PhD in biochemistry. He married his wife Helga (Frenzel) Grabske in 1957. They came to California…
Thomas B. Deaton
July 21, 2021 - Thomas B. Deaton died July 11. He was 80. Deaton was born Oct. 5, 1940, in Ola, Arkansas. He was the second of four sons to the late Mr. and Mrs. Boyd and Ruby Deaton, and the older brother to the late Wendell Deaton. He attended Arroyo High School in…
Homer Walter Lohr, Jr.
July 19, 2021 - Homer Walter Lohr, Jr. died July 13. He was 91. Lohr was born outside of Chicago, Illinois. After attending Lodi High School and earning his Eagle Scout badge, he enrolled in San Jose State majoring in art. While at San Jose State he met Jacquie…
David Peter Warwas
June 30, 2021 - David Peter Warwas died June 4. He was 68. Warwas was born in Buffalo, Minnesota. He was a Navy veteran, an avid Minnesota Vikings fan, and a nuclear trained electronics technician (ETN2) who proudly served his country on the USS Enterprise (CVN-65)…
Earl Strain
June 24, 2021 - Earl Strain died June 2. He was 94. Strain was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Andrew and Bertha Strain, on Jan. 10, 1927. After his father died in 1933, his mother moved the family to Gerald, Missouri, where he attended grammar school. He graduated…
Charles “Chuck” Vinson Rice
June 17, 2021 - Charles “Chuck” Vinson Rice died Feb. 21. He was 67. Rice went to elementary school in Livermore and graduated from Livermore High School in 1971. He served his country in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War as a machinist mate. After serving in the…
Robert “Bob” Kaster
June 14, 2021 - Robert “Bob” Kaster died April 2. He was 89. Kaster was born in Portland, Oregon, on July 11, 1931, to Reva and Roy Kaster. When his mother died in 1941, he moved to California to live with his mother’s sister, Gurtha Lewis. In 1948, he joined the U.…
Gilbert Scott Stratton
June 14, 2021 - Gilbert Scott Stratton died March 17. He was 91. Stratton was born Nov. 13, 1929, in Eugene, Oregon, the only child of Thelma and Ralph Stratton. His father, a merchant marine and mechanical engineer, moved the family frequently, settling on the naval…
Juan “Delfin” Carvajal Bergonia
June 14, 2021 - Juan “Delfin” Carvajal Bergonia died May 26. He was 86. Bergonia was born on June 14, 1934, to Genoveva Carvajal and Victorino Bergonia in Bolinao, Pangasinan, Philippines. He married his sweetheart, Merofe Aquino Bergonia, on Jan. 24, 1955. He served…
Charles B. McFann, Jr.
June 7, 2021 - Charles B. McFann, Jr. died May 22. He was 95. McFann was born on Feb. 8, 1926, in Mishawaka, Indiana, to Iva (née Jackman) and Charles B. McFann, Sr., but spent most of his childhood in Southern California. He graduated from the University of Denver in…
Evelyn Larain DiMercurio
June 7, 2021 - Evelyn Larain DiMercurio died May 23. She was 82. DiMercurio was born in Hiawatha, Utah, Nov. 11, 1938. She received her diploma from Carbon High School in Price, Utah, graduating with honors. She represented her area at the prestigious Girl’s State…
Paul Joseph Ebert
June 7, 2021 - Paul Joseph Ebert died Sept. 15. He was 84. Ebert was born on Jan. 11, 1936, in New Orleans, where he graduated from Holy Cross High School. When he was 15, he met the love of his life, Violet Ann Morovich, on a blind date; six years later, in 1957,…
Terry Donald Schwinn
June 1, 2021 - Terry Donald Schwinn died May 16. He was 73. Schwinn retired from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2013 after 42 years of service. He is preceded in death by his parents "Bud" and May Schwinn; siblings Len and Mary Schwinn. He is survived by…
Mary Jane Spletter
May 27, 2021 - Mary Jane Spletter died May 6. She was 74. Spletter was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, on Nov. 28, 1946, to Mary Elizabeth (Kelly) Spletter and Norman Julius Spletter. Very early on she developed a love of writing, journalism in particular, and served as…
Jeffery Taylor Huntsman
May 25, 2021 - Jeffery Taylor Huntsman died March 13. He was 62. Huntsman was born in Barberton, Ohio to Violet Huntsman of West Virginia. The family moved to Oakland and later to San Ramon. He graduated from California High School in 1976 and soon after joined the…
