Jacqueline Winterkorn

Winterkorn, Jacqueline M.
Jacqueline Marjorie Schuker Winterkorn, Ph.D., M.D., 68, beloved mother, grandmother, wife, physician, teacher, and friend, died on Saturday, July 11. A resident of Roxbury, Connecticut for the last 19 years, Dr. Winterkorn was born and raised in Queens, New York, the youngest of the four children of Louis Schuker and Millicent Milchman Schuker, both lifelong educators. A graduate of Barnard College, Dr. Winterkorn's first career was as a laboratory neuroscientist. She received her Ph.D. in neurobiology from Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences and taught neuroanatomy at Cornell while researching the neurobiology of the visual system. Dr. Winterkorn later earned her M.D. from Cornell University Medical College and completed a residency in ophthalmology at Mount Sinai Medical School / Beth Israel Hospital and a fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at Columbia University Medical School / Harkness Eye Institute. She practiced neuro-ophthalmology on Long Island and at Cornell for nearly 25 years, training numerous classes of neurology and ophthalmology residents, publishing dozens of papers in medical journals, and caring for thousands of patients with neurological deficits related to the visual system. She continued her teaching and clinical work until the day she died. Dr. Winterkorn married and later divorced Hans F. Z. Winterkorn III. In 1986, she married Dr. Thomas H. Meikle, Jr., the then Dean of Cornell University Medical College and later President of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. After Dr. Meikle's death, she married attorney Dr. David Lincicome. She raised two daughters, Dr. Elisabeth Winterkorn Lyczkowski and Margaret Winterkorn-Meikle Meyers, both of whom graduated from Harvard College and earned advanced degrees: Elisabeth is a pediatrician in Massachusetts and Margaret is an attorney in New York City. Her four grandchildren, now aged 11 years, 9 years, 5 years, and 6 months, became the delight of her life in recent years. She is survived by her husband David Lincicome, her siblings Stephen, Eleanor, and Theodore Schuker, her daughters Elisabeth and Margaret, and her grandchildren Samuel, Benjamin, and Charlotte Lyczkowski, and Louise Meyers. The memorial service will on Saturday July 18th, 11 am at the Roxbury Congregational Church, 24 Church Street. Roxbury, CT. Memorial contributions can be made to Weill Cornell Medical College 1300 York Ave. New York, NY 10021 Online condolences can be sent to www.munsonloveterefuneralhome.com