Obituaries

Virginia M. Martin

Virginia Maria Martin, 93, of 20 Bradley St. died Saturday at Sweet Brook Health Care Center in Williamstown. Born in North Adams on Oct. 22, 1907, daughter of Cesare and Luiggia Montagna Merlini,...

Harold Taskin, 81

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - Harold Taskin, 81, of 101 Chenaille Terrace died Sunday morning, Jan. 28, 2001, at his home. He was a longtime member of the Northern Berkshire business community and a civic...

Caishi Xu

Caishi Xu,59,of 4 High St., Great Barrington died Saturday, January 27, 2001 at Fairview Hospital. He was born in Jianhu, China; November 4,1941. Moving to Great Barrington recently. He was a...

Lorraine Naomi (Gagnon) Degere

Mrs. Lorraine Naomi (Gagnon) Degere, 72, of 75 Commercial St., Adams and earlier of 23 Enterprise St., Adams, died Saturday evening at Center For Optimum Care in Pittsfield where she had been a...

Katherine Ellery

Katherine Ellery, 60, of Clifford Street died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center after suffering a heart attack. Born in Milwaukee on April 14, 1940, daughter of James K. and Anna Sommers Link,...

Helen L. Ziarnik

Helen L. Ziarnik, 83, of 141 Kittredge Road died yesterday at Hillcrest Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Born in Adams on Oct. 17, 1917, daughter of John and Josephine Orlwaski Ryczek,...

Harry Weisberg

Harry Weisberg, 88, of 51 Saratoga Drive died yesterday morning at Hillcrest Commons, where he was admitted Wednesday. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 16, 1912, son of Isaac and Rachel Eastman...

Emil J. Kleiner Sr.

Emil J. "Dutch" Kleiner Sr., 83, of South Main Street,Freetown, a native of Adams, died Saturday at Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River. Born Dec. 24, 1917, son of Henry and Henrietta Wolfrum...

William Voltoline

William D. Voltoline, 50, of 37 Harding St. died Wednesday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 23, 1951, son of Constance Phelps Voltoline and the late Joseph J....

Thomas McDarby Sr.,

Thomas J. McDarby Sr., 51, of 8583 Nightingale Road, Brooksville, Fla., formerly of Lee, died Tuesday at home. Born in Pittsfield on April 22, 1949, son of Margaret O'Brien McDarby of Lee and the...

Sharron Clairmont

Sharron Lee Clairmont, 46, of 65 Columbus Ave. died Thursday at home. Born in Hollywood, Calif., on Jan. 28, 1954, daughter of Angela Stockley Newton and the late Dale Newton Sr., she attended...

Emma R. Blake

Emma R. Blake, 89, formerly of 9 Leslie Ave., died yesterday at Craneville Place in Dalton, where she had resided for 2 1/2 years. Born in Dalton on Aug. 15, 1911, daughter of Rudolph J. and Emma...

Attilio P. Scolforo

Attilio P. Scolforo, 85, of 7 Sandisfield Road, formerly of Union Street, Lee, died Tuesday at the Laurel Lake Center in Lee. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 15, 1915, son of Peter and Angela Trentin...

Raymond Rainka

Raymond Rainka, 82, of 1 Taubert Ave. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 24, 1918, son of Stanislaus and Mary Helinski Rainka, he attended local schools and was...

Lillian T. Snyder

Lillian T. Snyder, 85, of 380 Steven Glen Road died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on March 12, 1915, daughter of James H. and Nellie O'Connor Doran, she attended St....

Gladys Dilk

Gladys Dilk, 88, of 17 Pleasant St. died Tuesday at Willowood of North Adams Health Care Center. Born in Adams on Jan. 6, 1913, daughter of Peter and Mary Bachenske Martin, she attended Adams...

Michael G. Abdalla Sr.,

Michael G. Abdalla Sr., 64, of 28 Main St. died yesterday at home. Born in Great Barrington on July 22, 1936, son of George K. and Martha Skype Abdalla, he was a 1954 graduate of the former...

Herman E. Liveright

Herman Elsas Liveright, 89, of Pittsfield Road died Friday at his winter home in Corpus Christi, Texas, of heart failure following surgery for a hip replacement. Mr. Liveright and his wife, the...

Agnes B. Gennari

Agnes B. Gennari, 83, formerly of West Stockbridge, died yesterday at Hillcrest Commons in Pittsfield. Agnes, or Enus as family and friends knew her, was born in West Stockbridge on November 15,...

Louise F. Kubik

Louise F. Kubik, 82, of 39 Dresser Ave., Great Barrington, died Saturday at Fairview Hospital. She was born in Housatonic on July 8,1918 daughter of the late John and Bronislawa Bembenek Kubik. She...

George Hussey Jr.

Mr. George Hussey Jr., 80, of Sweetwood Nursing Home, 1611 Cold Spring Rd. Williamstown, MA, died Friday, January 19, 2001, at the North Adams Regional Hospital. He was the retired President of the...

Edna Bahnson

Mrs. Edna Bahnson, 97 of Jerusalem Road, Tyringham, died Thursday night, January 18, 2001 at home following a long illness. Born June 22,1903 in North Bergan, New Jersey, she was the only child of...

Marie Alice Skovera

Mrs. Marie Alice (Robertson) Skovera, 84, of 567 State Road, North Adams, Ma, died Saturday, January 20, 2001 at the Willowood Health Care Center, 25 Adams Road, Williamstown, MA, where she was...

Linda Neuhaus Nagy

Linda Neuhaus Nagy, 40, of Monterey Road, Great Barrington, died Thursday morning, January 18, 2001 at her home. A native and life long resident of Great Barrington, she was born August 8, 1960,...

Linda Neuhaus Nagy

Linda Neuhaus Nagy, 40, of Monterey Road, Great Barrington, died Thursday morning, January 18, 2001 at her home. A native and life long resident of Great Barrington, she was born August 8, 1960,...