Obituaries

Helen V. Petell

Helen Virginia Petell, 79, of Roanoke, Va., formerly of Lenox, died Wednesday at Lewis Gale Hospital in Roanoke. Born in Lenox on May 13, 1923, daughter of Maurice and Alice Hall Weiss, she...

Dorothy Green

Dorothy Green, 93, of 5 West Lane, Latham, N.Y., formerly of Lee, died Monday at Northwoods at Rosewood Gardens Extended Care Facility in Rensselaer, N.Y. Born in Lee on March 1, 1909, daughter of...

Percy Larabee Jr.

Percy Ernest Larabee Jr., 83, of 10 Miner St. died Tuesday at Sweet Brook Health Care Center in Williamstown, where he had been admitted May 23. Born in Buckland on Jan. 28, 1919, son of Percy...

Natale Cancilla

Natale "Nat" Cancilla, 93, of Alexandria, Va., died May 8 at Mount Vernon Nursing Center in Alexandria. Born Dec. 25, 1908, in Isnello, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, son of Mariano and Angela Mazzola...

Mary A. Prejsnar

Mary A. Prejsnar, 79, of 44 East St. died Tuesday evening at Laurel Lake Nursing Center, where she had been a patient for several weeks. Born in Stockbridge on Jan. 20, 1923, daughter of Roman and...

Margaret E. Coyne

Margaret Eileen Coyne, 95, formerly of 91 Harvard St. and Melbourne Place died Tuesday afternoon at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on May 12, 1907, daughter of John T. and Margaret...

Helen Thompson

Helen Thompson, 97, of 4866 Chevy Chase Blvd., Chevy Chase, Md. died Saturday at home. Born in Springfield on June 30, 1904, daughter of George and Nellie Owens Donovan, she attended schools...

Elmer E. Wright

Elmer E. "Al" Wright, 88, of Lady Lake, Fla., formerly of Great Barrington, died April 30 at Leesburg Regional Medical Center in Leesburg, Fla. Born in Mount Vernon, N.Y., on June 12, 1913, son of...

Elizabeth McGrath

Elizabeth E. McGrath, 82, of 43 Wahconah Heights died Sunday at the Great Barrington Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 24, 1920, daughter of Mortimer and Ora Hotailing...

Daniel F. Brophy

Daniel Francis Brophy, 69, of 67 Oak Street Ext. died Monday at Fairview Commons in Great Barrington, where he had resided since September 1998. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 3, 1932, son of John and...

William Hurt Jr.

William Coates Hurt Jr., 94, of Lenox died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Tuskegee, Ala., on Dec. 27, 1907, son of William C. Hurt Sr. and Vernon Hurt, he attended schools in...

Stella K. Wilk

Stella K. Wilk, 77, of 83 Harvard St. died Monday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 6, 1924, daughter of Lawrence and Mary Zaik Malcik, she was a 1942 graduate of Pittsfield High School. She...

Roy W. Schlegel

Roy W. Schlegel, 74, of 277 Bradford St. died Sunday at Kimball Farms in Lenox. Born in Worcester on Nov. 27, 1927, son of Joseph and Alodia Williams Schlegel, he attended schools there. He...

Marjorie A. Oles

Marjorie Alice "Sis" Oles, 76, formerly of Locust Street, died Monday at the home of her daughter, Linda Welch of Pittsfield. Born in Great Barrington on April 21, 1926, daughter of Earl H. and...

Linn F. Wood

Linn F. Wood, 64, of Corinth, Vt., formerly of Sheffield, died Thursday at home after a long battle with cancer. Born at the Olongapo U.S. Naval Base on the Philippine Islands on Oct. 9, 1937,...

John B. Mancini

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — John Burton Mancini, 73, of 59 Chase Ave. died Monday evening, May 27, 2002, at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in North Adams on Feb. 24, 1929, son of John Lucien...

Eugene Beaupre

Eugene M. Beaupre, 74, of 10 Grant St. died Saturday evening at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in Adams on March 4, 1928, son of Eugene P. and Zepherine Gagnon Beaupre, he attended local...

Gerald Taylor Sr.

Gerald M. Taylor Sr., 81, of 9 Brooks Ave., Newport, R.I., a radio broadcaster and photographer, died Sunday afternoon. He was the father of Holly A. Taylor of Williamstown. Born in Newport on...

Georgette LeBeau

Georgette Olive LeBeau, 82, formerly of Longview Avenue, died Friday morning at Hillcrest Commons in Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on March 30, 1920, daughter of George A. and Mary Marcotte...

Francis Penna Sr.

Francis R. "Moose" Penna Sr., 74, died Saturday at home. Born in Pittsfield on March 21, 1928, son of Joseph and Elizabeth Sinopoli Penna, he was a graduate of Pittsfield High School. He was a...

Andrew Scherben

Andrew Scherben, 86, of Buffington Street, Taunton, formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday in Taunton. Born in Cornwall, Conn., son of John and Anastasia Sokoleska Scherben, he graduated from...

Richard Tierney

Richard D. Tierney, 65, of 26 Grace Terrace died Monday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 24, 1937, son of Peter W. and Judith E. Drennan Tierney, he was a 1954 graduate of St. Joseph's High...

Eric J. Weeks

Eric Jon Weeks, 54, of 56 Foundry Village Road, Colrain, formerly of Pittsfield, died yesterday morning at home after a short illness. He moved to Colrain in 1999. Born in Toledo, Ohio, on Oct. 7,...

A. Frederick Rohlfs Jr.

A. Frederick Rohlfs Jr., 64, of Monroe, N.J., formerly of Pittsfield, died yesterday at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J. Born in Lancaster, Pa., on June 12, 1937, son...

Prudence DiGrigoli

Prudence R. DiGrigoli, 88, of 11 Robert St. died yesterday at home. Born in Hinsdale on Sept. 25, 1913, daughter of Ignatius and Maria Cencia Panetti, she moved to Pittsfield as a child with her...