Obituaries

Exilda Bianco

Exilda "DeeDee" Bianco, 96, formerly of 51 Chestnut St., died Sunday at Sweet Brook Health Care Center, where she had resided since 1997. Born in North Adams on Sept. 6, 1905, daughter of John...

Edward C. Perkins

Edward C. Perkins, 83, of Tyringham and Bethlehem, Pa., died Monday morning at home in Tyringham. Born in Ridgefield, Conn., on July 31, 1919, son of Edward N. and Kate Riggs Perkins, he was...

William Nacorchuk

William Nacorchuk, 83, of 68B Highview Drive died Friday evening at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on March 29, 1919, son of Anthony and Anastasia Kowchuk Nykorchuk, he was a 1938...

Sharon Hamblin

Sharon Hamblin, 49, of Route 23B, Claverack, N.Y., a native of Egremont, died yesterday at Hospice in the Catskills in Hudson, N.Y. Born on May 18, 1953, daughter of Donald and Grace Taylor...

Leonard Hoffman

Leonard A. Hoffman, 74, of Cherry Plain and Malone, N.Y., died yesterday morning of cancer at home in Malone. He was the father of Patricia Schmidt of Windsor. Born in Cherry Plain, son of Michael...

Jeannine A. Macchi, 72

PITTSFIELD, Mass. â€' Jeannine A. Macchi, 72, of 48 Adam St. died Saturday, Aug. 10, 2002, at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 7, 1929, daughter of Anthony and Roseanna...

Carmen DiGrigoli

Carmen DiGrigoli, 54, of Canton, Ga., a native of Lee, died Friday at home of cancer. Born on Nov. 21, 1947, son of Angelo and Susie Pizzuto DiGrigoli, he was a graduate of Lee High School, where...

Alwina Wood

Alwina Wood, 102, of Providence Care Center, formerly of Northfield and Shelburne Falls, died early Saturday morning at the nursing facility. She was the mother of Helen McCarthy of Lenox. Born in...

Sonya Sokolove

Sonya Sokolove, 92, of 175 West 12th St., New York City, formerly of North Adams, died Thursday afternoon at St. Vincent's Medical Center in Manhattan, N.Y. She moved to New York in 1959 to be with...

Nicholas Mounsey

Nicholas David Mounsey, 18, of Castle Rock, Colo., formerly of Hazelwood Terrace, Pittsfield, died July 27 in Englewood, Colo., in a rock-climbing accident. Born in North Charleston, S.C., on...

Helen Rita Dean

Helen Rita Dean, 77, of 108 Meadow St. died yesterday morning at home. Born in North Adams on Sept. 5, 1924, daughter of Felix and Julia Cavey Duquette, she attended North Adams schools, including...

Dorothy E. Amato

Dorothy Eva Amato, 90, of 489 East Main St. died yesterday morning at home. Born in Cobalt, Ontario, on May 15, 1912, daughter of Frank H. and Eva M. Harris Stockwell, she attended elementary...

Arthur A. Rock Jr.

Arthur Albert Rock Jr., 72, formerly of 892 South Church St. died Tuesday at Sweet Brook Care Center in Williamstown, where he had resided since March 2000. Born in North Adams on Nov. 24, 1929,...

Roger Morrisey Sr.

Roger Joseph Morrissey Sr., 86, a former resident of Quincy Street, North Adams, died Tuesday at Williamstown Commons following a brief illness. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Jan. 19, 1916, son of...

Mary I. Tobin

Mary I. Tobin, 87, of 209 Housatonic St., Lenox, a former resident of 92 Seymour St., died yesterday morning at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 27, 1914,...

Marie Lafayette

Marie "Marion" Lafayette, 84, of Burlington, Vt., died Saturday at the Starr Farm Nursing Care Center in Burlington. She had suffered a stroke in January 2001 from which she never fully recovered....

John C. Prenguber, 77

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — John C. Prenguber, 77, of 62 Sadler Ave. died Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2002, at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility, where he had been admitted July 25. Born in North Adams on...

Allison M. Kittler

Alison M. Kittler, 76, of 77 Partridge Road died Monday at Craneville Place in Dalton. Born in Deolali, India, on Jan. 12, 1926, daughter of Arthur and Alison McMorran Jones, she moved to Scotland...

Alfred V. Ostrowski, 85

ADAMS, Mass. — Alfred Victor Ostrowski, 85, of 5 Elm St. died Wednesday morning, Aug. 7, 2002, at Craneville Place in Dalton. Born in Adams on Sept. 10, 1916, son of Jozef and Katarzyna...

Robert P. Fyler

Robert P. Fyler, 76, of Brea, Calif., a former Pittsfield resident, died July 12 at home of lung cancer. Born in New Haven, Conn., on July 21, 1925, son of Lane K. and Elsie Parmalee Fyler, he...

Lillian DelSoldato

Lillian J. DelSoldato, 65, of State Line Road died yesterday at Willowood Commons, where she had resided for a month. Born in West Stockbridge on Aug. 30, 1936, daughter of William and Carmella...

Helen J. Adams

Helen Jean Adams, 65, of 840 Peaceful Valley Road, North Creek, N.Y., formerly of North Adams, died yesterday morning at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Utica, N.Y., as a result of an automobile accident...

Ruth E. Salvini

Ruth E. Salvini, 95, formerly of School Street, Chester, died Thursday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility. Born in Chester on June 10, 1907, daughter of Eugene J. and Edna Soule Besancon,...

Robert E. Rohane, 84

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Robert E. Rohane, 84, of Gibsonton, Fla., formerly of North Adams, died Saturday, July 27, 2002. He was a member of the North Adams City Council during the 1940s. Born in...

Norman V. Blair

Norman Victor Blair, 67, of 46 1/2 Hall St. died Thursday at home after a brief illness. Born in North Adams on Oct. 20, 1934, son of the late James H. and Clara McPhail Blair, he attended North...