Geri Lynn Toyekoyah ’89

Geri Lynn Toyekoyah ’89 passed away on October 12, 2019, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A native of Anadarko, Oklahoma, Geri attended Anadarko High School and graduated as salutatorian and class president in 1985. At Dartmouth Geri majored in history and Native American studies and was a member of Native Americans at Dartmouth and Delta Phi Epsilon. As an alumna, Geri was involved with local Native Americans at Dartmouth Alumni Association members in the Albuquerque area. After Dartmouth Geri spent two years at the University of Oklahoma Centers for Research in Minority Education. She started working for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in 1993 as a disease intervention specialist. In 2004 Geri received her master’s in public health, health administration, and policy at the University of Oklahoma. In 2005 she was promoted to regional program operations manager for the CDC in Charlotte, North Carolina. Geri would go on to have other positions in the CDC throughout the Southeast before being assigned to the state of Arizona, working with many of the Native American Indian Nations public health programs. A classmate remembered Geri as a “sweet, caring, smart, funny, amazing person, devoted mother of three, loved by many. She was a treasure to all who knew her. I’m so sad that she’s left us.” Geri is survived by children Matthew, Katielynn, and John; father Marland Toyekoyah Sr.; and brothers Marland ’94 and Allie.