Lainie Andrew (-Koolkin)

Lainie Andrew (-Koolkin), 67, of Beaufort SC, succumbed to cancer at home on September 17, 2016 surrounded by her family. She was born to the late Edward and Louise Andrew, June 20, 1949, in Cambridge Massachusetts. Lainie graduated from Mt. Saint Joseph Academy in 1967, received an Associate’s degree in Psychology from Middlesex Community College in 1976, a BA from Emerson College in 1978, an MA from Vermont College in 1982, a PhD in Behavioral Psychology from Northeastern University in 1996, then completed a post doctoral fellowship as a pain psychologist at Boston’s Spaulding Rehab Hospital. Lainie met Larry Koolkin in 1973; they were married in 1978, and lived together for 43 years in Massachusetts, Texas, Bermuda, and Vermont before retiring to South Carolina in 2014. As well as a career in private practice as a Pain Psychologist, Lainie was also a teaching and clinical faculty member at both Harvard Medical School and Tufts Dental School. In retirement she remained active; volunteering with Main Street Beaufort, as co-founder and president of the Sage Society, and doing what she loved; reading, traveling, camping, and crafting. She was smart, eclectic, and stalwart. Lainie is survived by her husband Larry, and daughter Kristin, son-in-law Mark and granddaughter Madeleine Magnant of South Burlington, VT. Her ashes will be scattered as per her wishes. Instead of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Friends of Caroline Hospice of Port Royal, SC.