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College mourns the loss of Alexis Walker

Friend, colleague and CPHHS family member Alexis Walker died Sunday, July 8, 2012 after years long battle with lymphoma.

Alexis Walker

Friend, colleague and CPHHS family member Alexis Walker died Sunday, July 8, 2012 at Oregon Health & Science University Hospital in Portland. Alexis served as co-director of the School of Social and Behavioral Health Sciences and as the Jo Anne Leonard Petersen Chair in Gerontology and Family Studies.

She recently received a national mentoring award for her thoughtful and effective guidance of generations of students, and you can read more about Alexis and her many contributions at LIFE@OSU.

Memorial donations may be directed to the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library in care of McHenry Funeral Home, 206 N.W. Fifth St., Corvallis, OR 97330 or to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.