Alexandra Clark
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Alexandra Page ClarkSeptember 28, 1961 - August 22, 2017Alex, a descendant of a California pioneer family, died in the City of San Francisco, the home of her birth, on August 22, after a valiant battle with glioblastoma brain cancer, with her family by her side.
Alex was the daughter of the late Susan Page of San Francisco and Edgar "Sandy" Clark of Mill Valley. She grew up in San Francisco and Brussels, Belgium, attending the Convent of Sacred Heart in Brussels; the French-American Bilingual School and the Lycee Francaise in San Francisco. She held degrees in Horticulture and Culinary Sciences and also earned her BS at UC Berkeley in 1993.
After meeting her soul mate and husband, Oscar Dunn, she made her home in Florida, and also in New York City where she continued her education, earning her MS in Biology at NYU. Alex worked as an Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Biology at NYU where she helped co-author several scientific articles on plant genes.
Alex was an accomplished skier, learning the sport at a young age during family trips to Chateau d'Oex, Switzerland. She and her late husband, Oscar, were also avid tennis players and were members of the River Club in New York.
Alex is survived by her sisters Pam Clark of Carmel; Schuyler Clark Loos of Ashland, OR; brother Colin Clark of Washington D.C; nephews Alexander, Erik and Campbell; niece, Lily; aunt and uncle Pamela and Philippe Galy of Tahoe City, CA; step-mother Nancy Clark of Mill Valley, CA; brother-in-law, Curtis Harvey; sister-in-law, Judith Pearce and many loyal cousins and friends in California and New York who visited regularly and kept her engaged with the world she loved so much. She is remembered most fondly by her colleagues at NYU and Dr. Joseph Schein and his family of NYC. The family is grateful to her many wonderful caregivers over the past year, her oncology team at UCSF and Sutter Hospice of San Francisco. Memorials in her honor were held in Carmel, San Francisco, Lake Tahoe and New York.
An endowment in Alex's name has been established for research of brain diseases. Contributions can be made to Mount Sinai Health System, c/o Carlos Cordon-Cardo, MD, PhD., One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1049, New York, NY 10029-6574.
Our dear Alex, lover of life, has departed this earth much too soon, but those of us left know how lucky we are to have known and been loved by her.
Alex was the daughter of the late Susan Page of San Francisco and Edgar "Sandy" Clark of Mill Valley. She grew up in San Francisco and Brussels, Belgium, attending the Convent of Sacred Heart in Brussels; the French-American Bilingual School and the Lycee Francaise in San Francisco. She held degrees in Horticulture and Culinary Sciences and also earned her BS at UC Berkeley in 1993.
After meeting her soul mate and husband, Oscar Dunn, she made her home in Florida, and also in New York City where she continued her education, earning her MS in Biology at NYU. Alex worked as an Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Biology at NYU where she helped co-author several scientific articles on plant genes.
Alex was an accomplished skier, learning the sport at a young age during family trips to Chateau d'Oex, Switzerland. She and her late husband, Oscar, were also avid tennis players and were members of the River Club in New York.
Alex is survived by her sisters Pam Clark of Carmel; Schuyler Clark Loos of Ashland, OR; brother Colin Clark of Washington D.C; nephews Alexander, Erik and Campbell; niece, Lily; aunt and uncle Pamela and Philippe Galy of Tahoe City, CA; step-mother Nancy Clark of Mill Valley, CA; brother-in-law, Curtis Harvey; sister-in-law, Judith Pearce and many loyal cousins and friends in California and New York who visited regularly and kept her engaged with the world she loved so much. She is remembered most fondly by her colleagues at NYU and Dr. Joseph Schein and his family of NYC. The family is grateful to her many wonderful caregivers over the past year, her oncology team at UCSF and Sutter Hospice of San Francisco. Memorials in her honor were held in Carmel, San Francisco, Lake Tahoe and New York.
An endowment in Alex's name has been established for research of brain diseases. Contributions can be made to Mount Sinai Health System, c/o Carlos Cordon-Cardo, MD, PhD., One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1049, New York, NY 10029-6574.
Our dear Alex, lover of life, has departed this earth much too soon, but those of us left know how lucky we are to have known and been loved by her.
Fonte: San Francisco Gate
Publicado em: 08-10-2017