Dana Territo, a champion of people with Alzheimer’s and a longtime Advocate columnist, died Jan. 25 at 67 after lengthy treatment for cancer.
Each week for the last 13 years, Territo, dubbed “The Memory Whisperer,” has shared her knowledge of all aspects of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia in her “Alzheimer’s Q&A” column in the newspaper’s Living section.
Throughout her battle with cancer, Territo, of Baton Rouge, continued filing a month’s worth of columns at a time, apologizing in her emails if she was slightly late due to her treatments and hospitalizations…