Brooke Thorner

Feb. 26, 1952 - Jan. 30, 2025

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Brooke Joann Thorner February 26, 1952 – January 30, 2025 Portland [Maine] High School, 1970 Tufts University 1974, BS Magna cum laude University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, MD, 1978 Brooke Joann Thorner, BS, MD, passed away on January 30, 2025 in her home in Seattle, after a long illness. She had maintained a decades-long practice in Neurology, Psychiatry, and Forensic Psychiatry. Brooke was born in Biddeford, Maine to Irving Nelson Thorner and Bertha Smith Thorner, and though a childhood cancer survivor, enjoyed a lively youth among friends, her late brother Arnold, and family. After her father’s sudden death, the family moved to nearby Portland, where she graduated high school. Summers were spent at Old Orchard Beach and Camp Wunnegen in NH. She was a lover of animals, an equestrian, an outdoors woman, and athlete. Brooke had a deep love for the arts, was passionate about her home design, and assembled a significant collection of Alaskan Inuit and Tlingit stone carvings and wooden artifacts. And she was an accomplished woodworker and pretty damn good cook. Brooke was also a global citizen and traveler, and she had a deep fondness for the various niches

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