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Obituary for Dr. Lois Kathryn Kitze Smithies

Dr. Lois Kathryn Kitze Smithies died on Tuesday, May 18, 2010, at the age of 86. She served as director of virology at the State Laboratory of Hygiene and then as director of virology at the State Animal Health Laboratory (now Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory in the Department of Veterinary Sciences) until her retirement in 1984.