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Ole Miss professor dies after complications with COVID-19

Kevin Malloy was with the University of Mississippi since 2006.

OXFORD, Miss —

A University of Mississippi professor has died after complications with COVID-19.

Officials say Kevin Malloy, an instructor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric, is the university's first death from COVID-19. He had been with Ole Miss since 2006.

Malloy, 67, died on April 16 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford.

The school's provost says Mallloy was kind and a respected colleague.

He leaves behind his daughter Amanda, and his wife Rhona, who is a professor in the Department of Theatre and Film.

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