LOS ANGELES (AP) – Philanthropist Katherine Bogdanovich Loker has died in Southern California at 92.

John Taylor of the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation says Loker died Thursday in Oceanside after suffering a stroke at her nearby home on Saturday.

Loker was a major donor to the Nixon Library, Harvard and the University of Southern California, where she was a track athlete in the 1930s.

Loker was the daughter of a fishing boat captain who founded a cannery that became Star-Kist Foods.

The Loker Reading Room at Harvard’s Widener Library is named in her honor.

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