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Richard Reimers Obituary
Jan. 4, 1934 - June 24, 2020
Resident of Moraga, CA
Richard Martin Reimers died peacefully at age 86 after a prolonged battle with dementia. He was born in Long Island, New York to Alfred Karl and Bertha Marie Koechel Reimers. He was second youngest of their six children. He got started at Pasadena City College on the GI Bill, going on to receive his bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics and master's in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley. He worked as a cyclotron engineer at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory until he retired in 1993, along with the decommissioning of the Bevelac. He lost his wife of 42 years, Luz Amparo de Maria Navarro Reimers in 2006. He is survived by siblings Alfred, Amy, and Carla, as well as children (grandchildren): Dr. Monica Morris of Richmond, Virginia (Grant/Zoe, Eric), Stephen/Anneke of Walnut Creek (Sean, Evan, Elizabeth), Michael/Lesli of Austin, Texas (Eric, Allison, Reilly), and Michelle/Chris Roth of Thousand Oaks (Kiersten).
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Wendy Kress
May 27, 2025
Richard was my love for nine years. I will always miss him.
Francis B Fanning II
August 30, 2024
I never really had the chance to know my Uncle Rich. I do know that he visited his sister Bertha (Amy) after I was born. I have seen the pictures
. I wish I knew more about his military experience in the Army as I was also in the Army in Germany (FRG) as he was. He offered his help to me at a dark time in my life, And I greatly appreciated it more than a lot of my family could possibly understand. I hardly knew him, but I will miss him. Not because of what he did for me...Not because of what he was willing to do for me...But because he was family and also a Veteran like me. A brotherhood and sisterhood that only a few of us can and are a part of. Francis B Fanning II.
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