Obituaries

Martha N. Ozawa, former Bettie Bofinger Brown Distinguished Professor of Social Policy and professor emerita at the Brown School, died May 3, 2016, at her home in St. Louis. She was 82.

Robert E. Morrell, a professor emeritus who taught Japanese literature and Buddhism at Washington University in St. Louis for 34 years, died May 11, 2016, in St. Louis after a brief illness. He was 86.

Marvin E. Levin, MD, a renowned endocrinologist and teacher for many years at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died of complications from pneumonia April 30, 2016, in St. Louis. He was 91.

Mokhtar H. Gado, MD, professor emeritus and for decades a leading researcher at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at the School of Medicine, died of colon cancer April 28, 2016, in St. Louis. He was 84. He was noted for his work with neurological diseases and research involving brain and spine imaging.

Robert Charles Strunk, MD, a beloved and acclaimed pediatric allergist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died of cardiac arrest Thursday, April 28, 2016, in his native Chicago. He was 73.

Cathy Rodgers, former fashion design faculty member in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, died April 6 at her home in Ladue. She was 87. She taught tailoring and pattern-making to generations of designers, including such fashion luminaries as Carolyne Roehm, Kay Unger, Judd Waddell and Paul Dillinger.

James W. Davis, professor emeritus of political science at Washington University in St. Louis, a role model for faculty who was also beloved by students for decades, died Wednesday, April 27, 2016, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He was 80.

Sophomore Sarah Longyear died by suicide April 22 in her hometown of Palo Alto, Calif. She was 19. Advisers remember her as a kind and curious student who excelled academically but struggled with depression.

H. Edwin Trusheim, emeritus trustee of the board of Washington University in St. Louis, died March 23, 2016. He was 88.

Michael C. Purdy, a medical sciences writer in the Office of Medical Public Affairs, died Thursday, April 14, 2016, in St. Peters, Mo. He was 47.