Dorothea D. Mulaik, 96, biologist, died from pneumonia Sunday, June 9, 1996 at Dekalb Medical Center in Decatur, Georgia. She was a resident of Salt Lake City from 1939 to 1992.
She is survived by her son, Stanley Allen Mulaik, Stone Mountain, Georgia; grandsons, Stephen and Robert Mulaik, Atlanta, Georgia.She graduated from Lake Erie College near Cleveland, Ohio in the 1920's, was active in the Cleveland, Ohio Girl Scouts in the early 1930's, was a housewife and camp counselor in Texas in the 1930's. Earned a Master's degree in biology in 1944 from the University of Utah and taught comparative anatomy and genetics at the University of Utah and psysiology at Westminster College in Salt Lake City.
In the 1950's she worked as a researcher in the Laboratory of Human genetics at the University of Utah. In 1955 she and her husband, Stanley B. Mulaik were founding members of the Utah Nature Study Society, which she served as its secretary for over 20 years. In 1981, she and her husband received the "Connie Award" from the National Wildlife Federation for their "Nature Creeps" at numerous summer Conservation Summits of the Federation of the 1970.
A memorial services will be announced by the family at a later date.
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