William George “Bill” Sutcliffe
Feb. 8, 2021 - William George “Bill” Sutcliffe, former LLNL physicist, died Jan. 10. He was 83. Sutcliffe was a University of Michigan alumni and former U.S. Navy officer. He and wife Sally had lived in Livermore since 1968, when he began a career as a nuclear…
Charles "Chuck" Anthony Hurley
Feb. 8, 2021 - Charles "Chuck" Anthony Hurley died Jan. 28. He was 93. Hurley was born in San Francisco, on Aug. 13, 1927. He was a retiree of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He worked there for more than five decades and was immensely proud of his many…
Rose Marie Mueller Lawson
Feb. 8, 2021 - Rose Marie Mueller Lawson died Sept. 15. She was 80. Lawson was born in Winnemucca, Nevada, to Louis and Rose Mueller. The family moved to Livermore, where she grew up on South L Street, attended 5th Street School, and graduated from Livermore High…
John Trenholme
Feb. 5, 2021 - John Trenholme died Nov. 23. He was 81. John Trenholme, a pioneer in laser physics who left a lasting impact on the field, passed away from a rare neurological illness on Nov. 23, 2020. He was 81. Much of Trenholme’s work came to fruition in the…
John Irvin Castor
Feb. 3, 2021 - John Irvin Castor died Jan. 19. He was 78. John Irvin Castor of Livermore, California passed away suddenly of a suspected aneurysm on Jan. 19, 2021. Castor was born in Fresno in 1943, the youngest child of Lyle Castor and Virginia (Bragg) Castor. By…
Frank Arnold Dolbeare
Feb. 2, 2021 - Frank Arnold Dolbeare, former LLNL biochemist, died Jan. 25. He was 87. Dolbeare (affectionately known as “Doc”), was born March 11, 1933 in Barry, Illinois. He had great love for family and a sense of duty, so he chose to remain near his hometown of…
Jerry Gaines
Jan. 29, 2021 - Jerry Gaines died Jan. 14. Gaines was born in Whittier, to John and Josephine Gaines. He completed his higher education in Reno, graduating in 1961 from the University of Nevada with a master’s degree in physics, where he also completed his ROTC courses…
Tiffany Jane Ashworth
Jan. 29, 2021 - Tiffany Jane Ashworth died Jan. 27. She was 56. Ashworth was surrounded by her husband Charles, her children Auston and Kira, daughter-in-law Molly, and her sister April when she died. The world welcomed her on Nov. 30, 1964. She lived a full and warm…
Corlyn Lea Althouse
Jan. 25, 2021 - Corlyn Lea Althouse died Dec. 17. She was 85. Althouse was born on Feb. 18, 1935 in Sparta, Wisconsin. She worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for more than 25 years as an administrative secretary for K and E Division and the Director’s…
David William Dorn
Jan. 25, 2021 - David William Dorn, former LLNL physicist, died Jan. 10. He was 90. Dorn was born June 25, 1930, in Detroit, Michigan to Ernest and Ruth Dorn. He attended Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana, to study physics on a Naval Reserve Officers Training…
Fernandes Fagundes
Jan. 19, 2021 - Fernandes Fagundes died Jan. 7. He was 91. Fagundes was born in Tracy on Jan. 26, 1929. He worked with his father and two brothers maintaining and operating a dairy farm. He was the first of his family to graduate from Tracy High School. Shortly after…
Dale Common
Jan. 15, 2021 - Dale Common died Sept. 11. He was 76. Common was born July 29, 1944 in Detroit to Chet and Dorothy Common. He was a longtime Livermore resident and retired from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory after more than 30 years. His hobbies included…
Pete Nickolas
Jan. 15, 2021 - Pete Nickolas died Jan. 1. He was 95. Nickolas was born on Oct. 4, 1925, in Rock Springs, Wyoming, to Louis and Diamanta Xirakis Nickolas. When he was 18, he joined the Army and enlisted at Fort Warren in Wyoming. He served in Europe and fought in…
Robert L. Morrison
Jan. 12, 2021 - Robert L. Morrison died Nov. 20. He was 87. Morrison, was born in Omaha, Nebraska; his family had to move to Modesto due to the Great Depression. He started work at Gallo Winery after college as their chief chemist. He moved on to Lawrence Livermore…
Rose Marie Mueller Lawson
Jan. 11, 2021 - Rose Marie Mueller Lawson died Sept. 15. She was 80. Lawson was born on May 30, 1940 in Winnemucca, Nevada to Louis and Rose Mueller. The family returned to Livermore where she graduated from Livermore High School in 1958. She was working at Snow White…
Viktor Erwin Hampel
Jan. 8, 2021 - Viktor Erwin Hampel, former LLNL physicist, died Dec. 26. He was 90. Hampel was born in Vilnius, Lithuania to Richard and Edith Hampel. In 1950, at the age of 20, he received a one-year full scholarship to study at the University of Mississippi. In…
Loren Gilmore Lundquist
Dec. 30, 2020 - Loren Gilmore Lundquist died Dec. 16. He was 78. Lundquist was born April 14, 1942 in Alexandria, Louisiana to Mae Lorraine (Obenland) Lundquist and Gilmore John Peter Lundquist. Graduating from Ohio's Fairborn High School in 1960, he went on to receive…
James Arthur Butler III
Dec. 22, 2020 - James Arthur Butler III, known as Jim, a longtime machinist at the Lab, died Nov. 17. He was 66. Butler was born in Oakland on July 25, 1954 to Kathleen and James Arthur Butler II. He was raised in Fremont and attended Chabot College. He joined Lawrence…
David Eimerl
Dec. 16, 2020 - David Eimerl died July 31. He was 71. Eimerl was born in England on Aug. 13, 1948 to Teviot Selwyn and Dulcie Guyda (Mounsey), Eimerl, attended Brasenose College at the University of Oxford, earning first-class honors (summa cum laude) in nuclear…
Calvin Henry Gillespie
Dec. 14, 2020 - Calvin Henry Gillespie died Nov. 30. He was 82. Gillespie was born in Medford, Oregon, to Dick and Bernice Gillespie. He graduated from Crater High School in Central Point, Oregon. He served eight years in the U.S. Army and Army Reserve. Gillespie…
