Date: 11/17/2009 to 12/17/2009
Dr. Robert Willkens ’50 — doctor, civic leader, father, husband — died Wednesday at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle of complications from pneumonia and the H1N1 virus. He was 82.
Robert Willkens was a Renaissance man. The Seattle doctor and professor was a skilled researcher who could bury himself in study or the classroom at the University of Washington where he taught — but loved people too much to quit seeing patients.