Obituaries

Mardelle Elaine Tatro

Mardelle Elaine Tatro, 89, of 200 Hollow Tree Lane, Houston, a native and former resident of Pittsfield, died Thursday, Feb. 12, at Mariner Health Center in Houston. Born in Pittsfield on Sept....

Milton I. Shaw

Milton I. Shaw, 78, of 41 Pleasant St. died Feb. 11 at home. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 28, 1925, son of Harry G. and Mildred Sweeney Shaw, he was a 1944 graduate of Pittsfield High School. A...

Walter R. O'Dell

Walter R. O'Dell, 39, of 37 Elm St. Adams, died yesterday morning at home following a long illness. Born in North Adams on July 31, 1964, son of Walter H. O'Dell Jr. and Geraldine Farr O'Dell, he...

Walter Peel Hainsworth Jr

Walter Peel Hainsworth Jr., 89, of State Line Road died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center after being admitted Feb. 6. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 4, 1914, son of Walter and Amelia Peel...

Arthur H. Gregory

Arthur H. Gregory, 84, of Cameron House, Housatonic Street, died Feb. 11 at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Maplewood, N.J., on May 21, 1919, son of Alfred and Helen Ingersoll Gregory, he...

Joseph H. Foote, 85

ADAMS, Mass. — Joseph Henry "Harry" Foote, 85, of 159 Durkee Road, Cleveland, Tenn., died Sunday, Feb. 15, 2004, at his home following about two months of failing health. He was a former...

Fredric Richard Dellea

Fredric Richard Dellea, 71, of North Adams died Monday at North Adams Regional Hospital after a battle with lung cancer. Born in North Egremont on April 4, 1932, son of John G. and Mary G....

Doris F. Curtain

Doris F. Curtain, 86, of Leominster, formerly of Pittsfield, died Saturday at Keystone Nursing Home in Leominster. Born May 19, 1917, in Pittsfield, daughter of Charles and Mary Logan Young, she...

Sherry Ann Bird

Sherry Ann Bird, 59, of 19 Edgemere Road died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center following a brief illness. Born in Shamokin, Pa., on Sept. 16, 1944, daughter of Oscar and Grace Adams Wallick,...

Patricia A. Varner

Patricia A. Varner, 78, of Weirton, W. Va., died Tuesday at the Weirton Medical Center. She was a native of Williamstown. Born in Williamstown on Aug. 17, 1925, the daughter of Patrick Joseph...

Joan C. Sockey

Joan C. Sockey, 79, of 30 Buel St. died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Newport, R.I., on May 25, 1924, daughter of Harry H. and Mary A. Fitzgerald Gear, she was a 1941 graduate of...

Helen E. Sadlo

Helen E. Sadlo, 92, of 116 North Summer St. died Thursday evening at Sweet Brook Care Center in Williamstown. Born in Windber, Pa., on April 5, 1911, daughter of Anthony and Katherine Leja Balut,...

Velma V. Lincoln

Velma V. Lincoln, 100, of Village East died Thursday at the Sweet Brook Care Centers in Williamstown, where she was admitted Feb. 26, 2003. Born in Fall River on Dec. 6, 1903, daughter of Herbert...

Doris Lamb Friedel

Doris Lamb Friedel, 78, of Lockcrest Drive, Cincinnati, formerly of Williamstown, died at Hospice of Cincinnati on Feb. 9 from complications of Alzheimer's disease. She spent her last year in the...

Donald Dewey Tanner

Donald Dewey Tanner, 81, of 27 Watson St. died yesterday at North Adams Regional Hospital, where he was admitted Feb. 2. Born in North Adams on Oct. 30, 1922, son of Dewey S. and Beatrice A....

Emil J. Rist

Emil J. Rist, 78, of 237 Wahconah St. died Thursday at home following a long illness. Born in Guilford, Vt., on Dec. 23, 1925, son of Harry and Cassie Williams Rist, he attended schools there and...

Donald R. Dubree

Donald R. Dubree, 70, of 60 Eleanor Road died Friday at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston after a long illness. Born in Overton, Texas, on March 2, 1933, son of Louis C. and Minnie M....

Ronald Joseph Collins

Ronald Joseph Collins, 50, of Flatland Trail, Converse, Texas, a native of Pittsfield, died Wednesday at home after a long illness. Born Feb. 7, 1954, son of Deolinda Alice Ferreira Collins of...

Jacquelyn Cobden

Jacquelyn Cobden, 69, of Sheffield Road, South Egremont, died Friday at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington. Born in New York City on April 6, 1934, daughter of Aloysious J. and Jeannette Adams...

Rodney J. Ruane, 60

SHEFFIELD, Mass. — Rodney J. Ruane, 60, of 82 West Stahl Road, Ashley Falls, died Friday, Feb. 13, 2004, at home after a brief illness. Born in Pittsfield on July 28, 1943, son of Etta...

Peter P. Pulasky

Peter P. Pulasky, 63, of 341 West St. died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on March 17, 1940, son of Elizabeth Collins Pulasky Niarchos of Pittsfield and the late Peter G....

Martin L. Lasker

Martin L. Lasker, 72, of Iroquois Avenue and Sarasota, Fla., died Feb. 12 at the Moffitt Cancer Center Hospital in Tampa, Fla. Born in New York City on Jan. 26, 1932, son of Abraham and Fannie...

Sister Mary L. Carr

Sister Mary L. Carr, also known as Sister Elizabeth Therese, 81, formerly of Pittsfield, died Saturday at Mont Marie Health Care Center in Holyoke, where she had resided for a short time. She...

Joseph Justyn Zieba Sr

Joseph Justyn Zieba Sr., 65, of 14 Murray St. died yesterday morning at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in Adams on July 1, 1938, son of Mildred M. Zieba of Adams and the late Henry J. Zieba,...

James Norris Ward

James Norris Ward, 64, of 6 Claremont Road died yesterday morning at his home from leukemia. Born Dec. 15, 1939, in Altoona, Pa., son of James Albert and Mary Edna Norris Ward, he was a 1957...