Galina Taycher, z”l,  passed away on Aug. 23, 2022. She is survived by her son, Anatoliy “Nathan” Taycher, and her grandson, Roman Taycher, both of the Portland area.
Galina Taycher was born on May 13, 1930, in the daughter of electrical engineer Shaul Clayman and his wife, Emma Kurlat, in the sunny and joyous city of Odessa, Ukraine, the Jewish capital of humor on the Black Sea shore. She had a very energetic, outgoing personality and was the height of good company. She liked to sing and dance, played the piano and loved to tell anecdotes.  When World War II started, Galina was 11 and was evacuated with her family to Kazakhstan. They spent more than three years there until her city was free of Nazi occupation and they were able to return home.
In 1946, she met her husband, Semyon, and they spent the next 71 years together until his death. After the war, there were feelings of peace, happiness and a better life despite all of the obstacles they had to face. Galina became a pediatrician and specialized in children’s neurology, treating birth traumas and kids with cerebral palsy. She worked over 30 years at the same clinic and had the highest qualifications in her area of expertise. She lived in SW Portland for the past 28 years. The family attended Congregation Neveh Shalom.  She would always make sure you had enough or more then enough to eat when you visited. 
She is buried at the Ahavai Shalom cemetery next to her husband (who died almost exactly five years before she did).