Dr. Donald Thomas Wicklow

BENICIA CA - Dr. Donald Thomas Wicklow, 81, formerly of Peoria IL, died at 6 PM, Sunday November 21, 2021. Born June 22, 1940, in San Francisco, California, to Thomas Paton Wicklow and Willa Cope Wicklow, he married Constance Kirchhoff on Dec. 20, 1970, in Burlington, Wisconsin. They were remarried in January 2004 in Peoria, Illinois. Surviving are two sons, Cameron (m. Melanie Reeves Wicklow) of Benicia, California and Brandon (m. Dr. Danielle Germain Wicklow) of Scottsdale, Arizona; one brother Brian Wicklow of Springboro, Ohio; one sister Dr. Marcia Wicklow-Howard of Boise, Idaho; and five grandchildren. He was a 1957 graduate of Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco. He completed requirements for B.A. (1962) and M. A. (1964) degrees in Biology from San Francisco State College, lettered in three varsity sports (cross country, track, & soccer) and was a President of the Sigma Pi Sigma social fraternity. He earned a PhD in Botany and Plant Pathology from the University of Wisconsin (1971). While in Madison he joined a multinational soccer club playing on Sundays throughout Wisconsin. He was on the faculty of the Department of Biology and Laboratory of Ecology, University of Pittsburgh (1970 - 1977). He was a Microbiologist at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Peoria, Illinois for 37 years, retiring in 2014. His career included serving as Lead Scientist of the Mycotoxin Research Unit. His ecological studies of fungi and their chemistry were supported in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. He was a member of the Mycological Society of America; the British Mycological Society; and the Mycological Society of Japan. He was elected to Fellowship by the American Society for Microbiology and to Centenary Fellowship in 1996 by the British Mycological Society. He received the 2016 Distinguished Mycologist award by the Mycological Society of America. The fungus Wicklowia Aquatica was named in his honor “for outstanding studies of the nature and role of fungal secondary compounds.” There will be no services or visitation. Cremation has been accorded. Memorials may be made to the UW-Madison Arboretum, 1207 Seminole Highway, Madison, Wisconsin 53711-3726.

Dr. Donald Thomas Wicklow

June 22, 1940 - November 21, 2021