Dr. Bertold Franke – vtdigger

Native November 18, 1940

Koslin, Pomerania

Die January 17, 2025

West Glover, Vermont

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The holiday of life will be held at a time that will be determined next summer, and his ashes will be questioned at the Andersonville Cemetery in Glover.

The 84 -year -old Bertold (Bert) Franke, who died at his home in West Glover on January 17, 2025, after a period of decreasing health.

He was born on November 18th^th1940, in Koslin, Pomerania (Poland) and was raised in Bonn, Germany. As a four -year -old, he witnessed Dresden’s bombing.

Franke wrote his first string quartet at the age of 13 for the family quartet – his father on a cello, his brother at 2^nd Violin, his mother of Viola, and he, himself on the 1st violin.

He graduated from Ernst-Moritz Arndt High School in Bonn, where he was trained by his music teacher and completed his second string quartet.

From childhood on wherever he lives, Franke always played quartets, usually the first violin. He wrote a third quartet in Munich, Germany, where he visited university and after moving to the United States in 1969 to do biomedical research at the UCLA Medical School, writes Fourth in Los Angeles and from there to San Diego to Do research at the Salk Institute. After eight years in California, he moved to New Haven, Connecticut, where he had a lab in Yale for three years.

At nearly forty, Franke changed his career, studied psychiatry, graduated from a psychiatric residence at St. Vincent Hospital in New York, became a psychoanalyst and moved to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, where he joined the theater for bread and doll and met with his late partner, Don Sunseri.

Continuing to play and compose string quartets, Franke eventually became a medical director and chief psychiatrist at Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury, and for thirty years he has directed an octet – string quartet and four singers – who performs Hydens Seven Last Words During the Easter Week throughout the Vermont State.

After withdrawing from the State Hospital, Franke practices psychiatry at his home in Glover, Vermont until 2021.

He survived his partner Bob Hunt of West Glover, four brothers and sisters Renate Gierer, Dr. Albrecht Franke, Dr. Ulrike Mad and Cornelia Franke of Germany, former spouse Franka of Palo Alto, California and his Stepson Dakota Sunseri, daughter -in -law Lizan Sartor and two grandchildren Anthony and August Dreams from Los Angeles, California, as well as nephews, nephews, special friend, Claire Dolan from Glover, and many friends and dolls.