Katherine Bogdanovich Loker

Philanthropist Katherine Bogdanovich Loker, heir to the StarKist tuna fortune, dies at 92

LOS ANGELES - Philanthropist Katherine Bogdanovich Loker, heir to the StarKist tuna fortune who along with her husband donated millions of dollars to Harvard University, the University of Southern California and other institutions, has died. She was 92.

Loker died Thursday at her home in Oceanside five days after a stroke, USC announced Friday.
Loker was the daughter of a fishing boat captain who in 1917 founded a fishing cannery that became StarKist Foods, which is now owned by Del Monte Foods Co.

She and her husband, Donald Loker, contributed tens of millions of dollars to institutions including Harvard, her husband's alma mater, and USC, her alma mater.

Loker also made gifts to the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation in Yorba Linda, California State University at Dominguez Hills, the Donald P. Loker Cancer Treatment Center in Los Angeles, the California Science Center in Los Angeles, the California Medical Center of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Music Center.