Alexis Ioann Shelokov

Alexis Shelokov was born October 18, 1919, Harbin, China to parents Ioann Shelokov and Maria Zolotov. He died December 16, 2016, Dallas, Texas. Alexis moved to California in the 1930's to attend college, and during World War II worked at the Climatic Research Laboratory, part of the US Army Quartermaster Corps, Lawrence, MA. He graduated from Stanford Medical School, interned at Haynes Memorial Hospital, Boston, and trained there through the devastating polio epidemics of the late 1940's and early 1950's. He continued work with polio virus at the National Institutes of Health starting in 1950, until he moved to Panama to set up the Middle America Research Institute as part of the US Public Health Service.

Over the ensuing years he was a founding faculty member of the University of Texas at San Antonio medical school, followed by stints at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, consultant for the World Health Organization, the Salk Institute, infectious disease laboratory at Fort Detrick, and as a vaccine advisor for USAID in the Ukraine and other former Soviet Socialist Republics. He was part of the US delegation sent to investigate the Anthrax outbreak in the Soviet Union as well. He married Paula Helbig in 1947, and had one son, Alexis Paul. In later years he and Paula retired in San Antonio, and moved to Dallas in the 1990's to be close to their son and his family.

Alexis is predeceased by his wife Paula and his son Alexis. He is survived by his daughter-in-law Georgiana, his grandchildren Nicholas and Lara, his nephew Alyosha, his nieces Natalia and Irina, and many members of the Dallas Russian Orthodox community.

A Funeral Service will be on Wednesday, December 21, 2016 at 10:00 am at St. Seraphim Cathedral, 4208 Wycliff Ave., Dallas, TX 75219. Burial will follow in Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery followed by a reception at the Funeral Home. A Prayer service will begin at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, December 20, 2016 at Sparkman/Hillcrest Northwest Chapel, 7405 W. Northwest Hwy., Dallas, TX 75225. Online condolences may be made at www.Sparkman-Hillcrest.com.