Lucille T. Coy

06/09/2006

Lucille T. Coy, 79, of 2324 Fairskies Drive, Spring Hill, Fla., a native of Adams, died Friday at the home of her daughter, Karen Coy Ross of 7 Bird Road in Lebanon Springs, N.Y. Born on Feb. 28, 1927, daughter of Wilfred and Irene Ouellette Belisle, she graduated from the former Adams High School in 1945 and attended Pittsfield Secretarial School. Mrs. Coy was employed by the former Berkshire County Savings Bank, now Berkshire Bank, in the mortgage department for 26 years, retiring as vice president in 1984. While living in Pittsfield, she was a communicant of Sacred Heart Church; in Spring Hill, she was a communicant of St. Theresa's Church. She enjoyed golf, traveling and reading. She was a licensed pilot and frequently flew out of Harriman-West Airport in North Adams during the 1940s. She also skied the Thunderbolt Trail on Mount Greylock. She and her husband, Joseph W. Coy, were married July 30, 1949, at Notre Dame Church in Adams. They lived in Pittsfield for 36 years, retiring to Spring Hill in 1985. Besides her husband and daughter, she leaves another daughter, Deborah Irene Coy of New York and New Marlborough; a sister, Rochelle Beckwith of Simpsonville, S.C.; a brother, Donald G. Belisle of Burlington, Wash.; four grandchildren; three step-grandchildren, and five step-great-grandchildren. FUNERAL NOTICE -- Lucille T. Coy, baptized Marie Lucille Therese Belisle, who died Friday, June 9, 2006, was a loving mother-in-law to Jeffrey S. Ross of Lebanon Springs, N.Y., and Robert Alderson-Scott of New Marlborough; grandmother to Ivan Alexander Olchowski of Lee, David Coy Ross of Rensselaer, N.Y., Meredith Ahearn of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Morgan Ahearn of New York City, and step-grandmother to Marty Ross-Dolen of Columbus, Ohio, Merrill S. Ross of New Lebanon, N.Y., and Michael S. Ross of Gainesville, Fla. She was predeceased by a brother, Leonard, in 1950. Lucille was a cheerleader at Adams High School and spoke French with her family. She and her brothers loved to ski the Thunderbolt Trail on Mount Greylock in the 1940s, and she passed on this love of the outdoors to her children. She was a licensed pilot in the 1940s, and she and her brothers frequently flew out of Harriman-West airport in North Adams. While raising her children in the 1950s and 1960s, Lucille also managed a full-time job, and many couples starting out in the Berkshires got their first home mortgages through Lucille. She was efficient, fair, honest and kind. During her years at Berkshire County Savings Bank, she took many courses at the American Institute of Banking and always valued education highly. In her later years, she devoted many hours to caring for her grandchildren and spent many delighted hours in the company of her family's pets. Calling hours will be tomorrow, June 12, from 4 to 7 at DEVANNY-CONDRON FUNERAL HOME. The funeral will be Tuesday at 11 at Sacred Heart Church, with a Liturgy of Christian Burial celebrated by the Rev. James K. Joyce. Burial will follow in St. Joseph's Cemetery. Donations in her memory may be made to the Berkshire Humane Society or Community Hospice of Columbia/Greene in care of the funeral home, 40 Maplewood Ave., Pittsfield, MA 01201.

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