Date of Birth
April 18, 1965
Date of Death
December 21, 2001
Location
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Cause of Death
Hemorrhage
Who She Was
Her Story
Gwyneth Claire Vives of Los Alamos, N.M., and a lifelong summer resident of Eagle River, died Friday, December 21, 2001, in Los Alamos. She was 36.
Gwyneth was a graduate of John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights. After high school, she attended the University of Illinois where she received a bachelor of science degree in engineering physics and a master’s in education. She received her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Florida. For the past 1 1/2 years, she was a Post Doctoral Fellow with the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Gwyneth was a member of the Division of Plasma Physics within the American Physical Society (APS).
She is survived by her husband, Ted Vives; infant son, Alex, both of Los Alamos; father, Wolfgang O. Junkel of Mount Prospect; brothers, Steven Junkel of O’Fallon, Mo. and Eric Junkel of Des Plaines; and many nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her mother, Helen Junkel.