Obituaries

Sister Mary Gabrielle Muth VHM

Sister Mary Gabrielle Muth VHM, 90, of the Sisters of the Visitation in Tyringham, died Tuesday at home in the Monastery of her Order. Born in Baltimore, on Oct. 8, 1916, she was the daughter of...

Robert J. Ives

Robert J. Ives, 84, of 83 South Beech Plain Road, died Tuesday at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington. Born in Sandisfield on Feb. 2, 1922, son of Henry and Sarah Brague Ives, he attended...

Helen R. Evans

Helen R. Evans, 95, formerly of Virginia Avenue, died Wednesday, Oct. 25, at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided for the past 4 1/2 years. Born in Blandford on Aug. 12, 1911, daughter of...

Genevieve E. Beauchemin

Genevieve E. Beauchemin, 95, of 1275 Massachusetts Ave. died Monday at Williamstown Commons. Born in North Adams on Aug. 19, 1911, daughter of the late Mark E. and Eliza M. Caron Lord, she...

Carlo P. Quaglietti

Carlo P. Quaglietti, 92, of Melbourne Place, 140 Melbourne Road, formerly of 32 Highview Drive, died Sunday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility. Born in Pittsfield on May 1, 1914, son of...

Frank Philip Pezze Jr.

Frank Philip Pezze Jr., 80, of Guilderland, N.Y., a native of Sheffield, died Sunday after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. He was the owner of Pega Risk Managers Inc. in...

Robert M. Hicks

Robert M. Hicks, 76, of Westford, a native of North Adams, died Saturday at Emerson Hospital in Concord after a brief illness. Born on Aug. 17, 1930, son of Murray and Doris Hall Hicks, he...

William James Conklin

William James Conklin, 91, of East Main Street, Ashley Falls, died Saturday at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington. Born in Ashley Falls on Sept. 11, 1915, son of Harry E. and Anna Lyman Dunham...

Pasquale A. "Pat" Bruni

Pasquale A. "Pat" Bruni, 81, of 111 Highview Drive died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 1, 1924, son of Vincenzo A. and Mary Carnute Bruni, he received his...

Theresa T. Taylor

Theresa T. Taylor, 94, of 89 Adelaide Ave. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. She had been a resident of Providence Care Center in Lenox since June 2004. Born in Pittsfield on June...

Michelle Anne Grandshaw

Michelle Anne Grandshaw, 43, of Kelsey Road died yesterday at Fairview Hospital of an aneuyrism. She was a member of the Conservation Commission. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 19, 1963, daughter...

William Edward Danaher Jr.

William Edward Danaher Jr., 78, of 37 Main St. died Wednesday at Williamstown Commons. Born in Williamstown on Feb. 19, 1928, son of William E. Danaher Sr. and Helen Wandrei Danaher, he was a...

Franklin Alan Baker

Franklin Alan Baker, 55, of 64 Pines Lodge Park died of cancer Wednesday at Williamstown Commons Care Center. Born in Adams on Oct. 30, 1950, son of Franklin A. and Irene LaBelle Baker, he...

Louise Pino

Louise Pino, 95, died Friday at Fairview Commons Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Great Barrington, where she had resided for 10 years. She was a former longtime resident of Egremont Heights in...

Judith Roberts Perry

Judith Roberts Perry, 57, of 69 Onota St. died yesterday at home. Born in Boston on April 9, 1949, daughter of Helen Roberts Perry and the late Thomas Doane Perry, she lived at and attended...

Robert B. Magner

Robert B. Magner, 88, of 298 West Housatonic St. died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on June 10, 1918, son of John P. and Katherine Clary Magner, he was a 1936 graduate...

Susan Caven

Susan Caven, 98, of 765 South Church St. died yesterday at North Adams Commons. Born in Scotland on July 31, 1908, daughter of Robert and Susan Morgan Stalker, she emigrated to Clarksburg as a...

Jennie S. Perreault

Jennie S. Perreault, 84, formerly of Sugar Hill, died Wednesday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided since June 2005. Born in Pittsfield on April 21, 1922, daughter of Charles and Sheila...

Gerald Donald Brassard

Gerald Donald Brassard, 68, of 1 Nelson St. died Wednesday evening at his home. Born in North Adams on Dec. 25, 1937, son of the late Gerald T. Brassard and Laura Scarbo Brassard Wilton, he...

Barbara E. Walton

Barbara E. Walton, 81, of County Highway 14, New Lisbon, N.Y., formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday at home. Born in Hopkinton on Nov. 4, 1924, daughter of Elmer and Alice Kimball MacKay, she was a...

Oscar "Ozzie" Shreefter

Oscar "Ozzie" Shreefter, 88, of 140 Melbourne Road, Melbourne Place, died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in New York City on Oct. 10, 1918, son of Nathan and Mary Asnis Shreefter, he...

Maurice Shapiro

Maurice Shapiro, 94, of 20379 West Country Club Road, Aventura, Fla., formerly of North Adams, died yesterday at the Regent Park Care Center in North Miami Beach. Born in North Adams on Oct. 8,...

Robert D. Healy, Jr.

Robert D. Healy, Jr., 47, of 4037 North West Blitchon Road, Ocala, Fla., died at home Friday from medical complications. His mother, Juanita Tirrell McGovern, lives in Pittsfield. Born on...

Richard F. "Dick" Claffie

Richard F. "Dick" Claffie, 78, formerly of Dalton, died Oct. 14, at his home in The Villages, Fla. Born in Medford on Dec. 15, 1927, son of Francis G. and Mary E. Claffie, he lived in the Boston...

Helen M. "Cookie" Brooks

Helen M. "Cookie" Brooks, 59, formerly of the Leeds section of Northampton, died Saturday at the Worcester Skilled Care Nursing Center in Worcester after a 12-year battle with Huntington's...