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Sandra Duso

June 26, 1946 — October 13, 2011

DEDHAM, MA / BERKSHIRE, VT - Sandra J. Duso, 65, of Dedham, Mass., died Thursday, October 13, 2011 at the Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

The daughter of the late Walter & Marion E. (Leahy) Duso, Sandra was born on June 26, 1946 in St. Albans, Vermont. She was a graduate of Enosburg Falls High School and the Mary Fletcher Hospital School of Nursing in Burlington, where she became a Registered Nurse. She received her B.S. in rehabilitation psychology from Emmanuel College and her M.B.A. from Suffolk University both of Boston, MA. Over the years, her healthcare career included working as a staff nurse at Mary Fletcher Hospital, Hartford Hospital, and Boston University Hospital. She was also the manager of clinical support staff for Medical Care Affiliates and the manager of Allied Health/Consumer Education for EMD Serono. She used her health care experience, her strong interpersonal skills and her keen business sense in her roles as New England Sales Manager for Nursing Spectrum, Director of Client Strategy for the Albion Group and most recently the Community Merketing Liaison for Medical Resources Home Health Corporation. She called the Boston area her home for the laast 30 years.

Sandy is survived by her longtime life partner, J. Robert McLaughlin, Ph.D.; her brothers, Robert Duso of Enosburg Falls and John Duso and his wife, Perri, of South Burlington; her sister, Carolena Jaquith and her husband Myrl of Port St. Joe, FL; She is also survived by Bobs daughter, Lauren McLaughlin of Sidney, Australia and his son Mark McLaughlin and his wife Alena of Barnstable, MA along with many cousins, nieces, nephews and Sandys beloved cat Tinker . Besides her parents, she was predeceased by her sister-in-law Beverly Duso and a nephew Michael Duso.

After her services in Massachusetts, a memorial service will be held Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 2:00 PM at the Spears Funeral Home, 96 Dickinson Ave., Enosburg Falls with Pastor Patrick Hoadley officiating. Interment will follow in the East Berkshire Congregational Cemetery.

Visiting hours will be held Saturday from 1:00 PM until the hour of the funeral.

We will dearly miss Sandys sense of adventure, zest for life, her friends, good food and good wine, the Celtics, her talent and creativity in making beautiful wedding cakes, her love of her home and passion for travel"from Egypt to Italy to Australia to Switzerland to Hawaii and all through the United States.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in Sandras memory may be made to: Office of Development for Breast Cancer Research, Beth Israel Hospital, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 (Please make notation on check, "In Memory of Sandra J. Duso.") or to the Vermont Cancer Center, The Courtyard at Given - 1 South, 89 Beaumont Ave.,
Burlington, VT 05405.

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