Boyd Jon Wheeler
March 23, 2008 - Boyd Jon Wheeler, a former Lab employee and Tracy resident, died March 23 in San Andreas. He was 65.Born in Ogden, Utah, Dec. 6, 1942, Wheeler lived in Tracy for 20 years. He worked as a physicist at the Lab and was a member of the Sportscopter…
John W. Taylor
March 7, 2008 - John William Taylor of Patterson, who worked as respirator technician at the Lab for five years, died March 7 in Walnut Creek. He was 56.Taylor was born Sept. 26, 1951. He was a native of Richmond and lived in Patterson five years. He previously lived in…
Olga Geraldine Tennant Jones
March 6, 2008 - Olga Geraldine Tennant Jones of Sun City West, Ariz., died March 6. She was 84.Jones was born Sept. 17, 1923, in Waxahatchie, Texas. She moved to Dallas where she met and married Albert W. Jones, a soldier in the U.S. Army.After World War II, they…
Raellen Dorough
Feb. 26, 2008 - Raellen “Rae” Dorough died unexpectedly Feb. 26 of post-operative complications. She was 74.A native of California, she was born in Los Angeles, and was a longtime Livermore resident.In the 1950s and '60s she worked for Kaiser Steel. Later, she worked as…
Terry Allison
Feb. 23, 2008 - Terry G. Allison, died Saturday, Feb. 23 at home. He was 63.Allison was born March 13, 1944, in Oakland, Calif. He started working at the Lab in 1961. He retired in 1988 as a senior computer associate in the Computation Directorate. He supported the…
William Marcus Miller
Feb. 19, 2008 - William Marcus Miller, a Lab employee and resident of Danville, died suddenly Feb. 19.Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Sept. 19, 1957, he was raised in several different states throughout the Midwest.He received his bachelor's degree from Western Kentucky…
Evelyn Maria Da Silva
Feb. 17, 2008 - Evelyn Maria Da Silva, a Lab retiree, died Feb. 17. She was 89.Born Jan. 24, 1919, in Shanghai, China, she had been a resident of Dublin, Calif., since 1960. She retired from the Lab in 1981.She was preceded in death by her husband Joe, son Reinaldo and…
Donna Parley Garka
Feb. 15, 2008 - Donna Parley Garka, a Livemore resident and former Lab employee, died Feb. 15, after battling cancer.Garka was born in Livermore in 1956. In the 1980s, she worked at the Department of Applied Science (DAS) at the Lab in support of UC Davis professors,…
William Norwood
Feb. 13, 2008 - William Norwood, a Tracy resident and former Laboratory employee, died Feb. 13 in Stockton. He was 65.Norwood was born Nov. 26, 1942, in Oakland. He was a telephone technician for AT&T and also worked as a technician for the Lab.He enjoyed playing…
Londa May
Feb. 12, 2008 - Londa May of Livermore, died Feb. 12 after a struggle with cancer. She was 57. Born August 3, 1950 in Portland, Ore., she lived in Northern and Southern California, and in Oahu, Hawaii, but considered Livermore her home.May worked at the Lab as an…
Terri Hughes
Feb. 9, 2008 - Terri Helen Hughes, a resident of Livermore, died Feb. 9 in Walnut Creek after battling colon cancer. She was 48.Hughes was born Nov. 11, 1959, in New Brighton, Penn. She worked at the Lab as a safety engineer. She was a Certified Safety Professional, a…
Jamie A. Panton
Feb. 3, 2008 - Jamie Panton, a Lab retiree and resident of Walnut Creek, died Feb. 3. He was 86.Born on Aug. 27, 1921 in Alameda, he was the son of James and Charlotte Rattray Panton, both of whom were born in Scotland. Growing up, he was interested in music, scouting…
Donald Whorton
Jan. 27, 2008 - Donald Whorton, M.D., of Oakland died at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley on Sunday, Jan. 27, after a two-year struggle with ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, commonly called Lou Gehrig’s disease While never an employee of the Laboratory,…
Lynn Kelly Brown
Jan. 22, 2008 - Lynn Kelly Brown, a Lab retiree and resident of Gardnerville, Nev., died Jan. 22. She was 83.Brown was born Rosslyn Elaine Morrison on Feb. 3, 1924, in Marysville, Calif. She later changed her name to Lynn. She was the youngest of three children born to…
Lynn Kelly Brown
Jan. 22, 2008 - Lynn Kelly Brown, a Lab retiree and resident of Gardnerville, Nev., died Jan. 22. She was 83.Brown was born Rosslyn Elaine Morrison on Feb. 3, 1924, in Marysville, Calif. She later changed her name to Lynn. She was the youngest of three children born to…
Lloyd Mancebo
Jan. 5, 2008 - Lloyd Mancebo, a retired Lab engineer, died Jan. 5. He was 89.Born July 19, 1918 in Atwater, Calif., he joined the U.S. Army in 1939, spending a portion of his military career stationed in Panama as a radar specialist. He was honorably discharged from…
Thomas Raison
Dec. 19, 2007 - Thomas Latham Raison died Dec. 19 in Livermore. He was 86.Raison was born in Chicago, Ill. Nov. 3, 1921. In 1942, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and served 18 months in the South Pacific. Following his discharge, he worked for AT&T where he met…
Lloyd Corvello
Dec. 2, 2007 - Lloyd CorvelloLloyd Corvello, a resident of Hilmar, Calif. died Dec. 2. He was 82.Corvello retired in 1978 from the Lab where he was a supervisor of the custodial department. He continued to work at the Lab as a security escort until 2002.He earned…
Doris Wilcox Hine
Oct. 15, 2007 - Doris Wilcox Hine, a longtime Lab employee who retired in the 1980s, died Oct.15, 2007, at her home in New Waverly, Texas. She was 82.At LLNL, she worked with Hans Bethe, John Emmett in the Laser Program, and the Technical Information Department.After…
