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…
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…
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…
William Fox Scanlin
Dec. 9, 2020 - William Fox Scanlin, former LLNL engineer, died Sept. 2. He was 88. Scanlin was born April 16, 1932 in Philadelphia.He married the love of his life, Dori on June 26, 1954. He received his bachelor of science in mechanical engineering in 1954 from Penn…
Thomas A. Kuczmarski
Dec. 7, 2020 - Thomas A. Kuczmarski, former LLNL computer scientist, died Nov. 29. He was 74. Kuczmarski was born on Sept. 19, 1945, in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Vincent and Virginia (Kniola) Kuczmarski. In 1963, he graduated as class valedictorian from Benedictine…
Keith Morris McDowell
Nov. 30, 2020 - Keith Morris McDowell died Sept. 22. He was 97. McDowell was born on May 4, 1923, in Hayden, Arizona. He served in WWII on Iwo Jima. After his discharge from the service, he lived in Culver City, where he met and married Lorna Jones. They were married…
Robert Kaifer
Nov. 30, 2020 - Robert Kaifer, former LLNL engineer, died Nov. 23. He was 93. Kaifer was born in Alameda on Feb. 28, 1927, to Clarence Robert Kaifer and Mary Christina Meiss. He was class valedictorian at San Leandro High School. After high school, he served two years…
Claudia Cecile Watkins
Nov. 9, 2020 - Claudia Cecile Watkins died Oct. 13. She was 80. Watkins was born on Aug. 7, 1940 in Phoenix. She spent most of her early years growing up in San Francisco, attending Galileo High School. It was in the city where she met her husband of 44 years, Donald…
Lino Giovacchini
Nov. 9, 2020 - Lino Giovacchini died Oct. 29. He was 80. Giovacchini was born in French Camp on Aug. 14, 1940 to the parents of Narciso and Regina Giovacchini. He graduated from Manteca High School in 1958. He married Linda Fay Given on July 27, 1963. After high…
