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Steve Thomas Hildebrand

HUMPHREY FUNERAL HOME of OLA, ARKANSAS
Published Wednesday, April 11, 2001 in the Nevada County Picayune

Steve Thomas Hildebrand, 52, a

resident of Los Alamos, N.M., died Friday, April 6, 2001, at his home.

Mr. Hildebrand was born May 17, 1948, at Prescott to Arl and Cleo Wynn Hildebrand. He married Mary Jane Watson on May 27, 1973, at Plainview. He received his bachelor's degree in 1970 and his master's in physics in 1973 from the University of Arkansas. He completed his Ph.D. in geophysics from the University of Texas in Dallas in 1993. After working in oil and gas exploration for several companies he joined Los Alamos National Laboratory as a seismologist. Mr. Hildebrand was a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and the American Geophysical Union. He was a member of the Los Alamos Unitarian Universalist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Mary Watson Hildebrand of Los Alamos; three daughters, Melissa Hildebrand of Chicago, Ill., Emily Hildebrand of Fayetteville and Katie Hildebrand of Los Alamos; his mother, Cleo Wynn Hildebrand of Prescott; and one brother, Jerry Hildebrand of Texarkana, Texas.

Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m. today, Wednesday, April 11, at Plainview Methodist Church in Yell County with Rev. Elizabeth McMaster officiating. Burial will be at Salem Cemetery at Plainview under the direction of Humphrey Funeral Home of Ola. The family will receive friends from 7:00 to 8:30 at the funeral home in Ola.

Memorials may be made to ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) Association, 27001 Agoura Rd., Suite 150, Calabasas, CA 91301-5104 (www.alsa.org) or the Muscular Dystrophy Association, 3300 E. Sunrise Dr., Tucson, AZ 85718. Internet obituary may be found at Legacy.com

Pallbearers were Jerry Hildebrand, Jim Watson, Bill Pugh, Phil Church, Steve Chilcoat and John Watson.


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