AUBURN – Susan Dunlap, 64, of Kingfield, died peacefully on Friday, Aug. 18, from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease at the Hospice House.

A native of Northern California, she settled in Kingfield in 1974, after working as a physical therapist in Seattle and serving in the U.S. Army at West Point. In Maine she worked at Franklin Memorial Hospital and Androscoggin Home Care. She was the first to bring physical therapy to homes in Somerset and Franklin counties.

With her life-partner, Donald Cutler, she enjoyed cycling, often riding a tandem in Maine’s annual two-day multiple sclerosis benefit ride. She was a guitarist and tennis player. In keeping with her commitment to science and health, she arranged to donate her remains to Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard University to assist in the study of ALS, a devastating disease about which little is known.

She is survived by Donald Cutler of Kingfield; Rick and Nancy Walker of Putnam Conn. with their children Abe, Luke, and Victoria Walker; and her sisters, Louise Dunlap of Cambridge, Mass. and Sarah Galbraith of Washington, D.C., and David, Kate, and Jean Galbraith.