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Brigham and Women’s Hospital mourns the loss of Jane Dunne, Operating Room flow manager, who died at her Duxbury home Monday. She was 60.
“She was exuberant,” Claire Fitzgerald-O’Shea, OR nurse manager and close friend of Ms. Dunne, said. “She would just light up a room and engage everyone in it with her outgoing personality and bright smile.”
Ms. Dunne joined the BWH OR family in March 1999, but she developed close friendships with many at BWH well before that. She had worked as a product representative and as a nurse consultant, and both positions often brought her to BWH. It was during these years when Ms. Dunne and a close group of OR friends began taking trips together, and for the last decade, six of them annually vacationed in Turks and Caicos.
Known for her outgoing personality, Ms. Dunne loved to dance, sing and entertain. The charismatic Ms. Dunne loved hosting friends and family at her home and pool.
“She was always singing show tunes,” Fitzgerald-O’Shea said. “But she only knew a few verses and she’d keep repeating them. That was Jane.”
Ms. Dunne was well known for sharing stories of her beloved nieces and nephews. “Jane may not have had children of her own, but she was indeed a mother,” Danielle Bennett, OR facilitator, said. “She was every part of the word—loving, caring, open, honest, a great listener, a good advice giver, and most of all, an excellent hugger.”
Ms. Dunne is survived by three brothers, Paul Torndorf, Robert Torndorf and Sherwood Torndorf; a sister, Nancy Cooney; many nieces and nephews; and many grandnieces and grandnephews.
Her funeral was today from the Richardson-Gaffey Funeral Home in Scituate with a Mass of Christian Burial to be celebrated in St. Mary of the Nativity Church, Scituate. She was to be buried in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Scituate.