Obituaries

Walter Bronson Jr.

Walter Michael Bronson Jr., 77, of 56 Liberty St. died Saturday at home. Born in North Adams on June 7, 1925, son of Walter M. and Helen Griffin Bronson, he graduated from the former St. Joseph's...

Richard Boucher

Richard Roland Boucher, 54, of 26 East Ave. died yesterday morning at home after a short battle with cancer. Born in North Adams on July 28, 1948, son of Eugene J. and Jeannette D. Lefave Boucher...

James F. Pierce

James F. Pierce, 55, of 221 Cheshire Road died Saturday evening at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center. Born in Rochester, N.Y., on May 2, 1947, son of Richard F. Pierce and Virginia Carrado Pierce...

G. Kenneth Bostley

G. Kenneth Bostley, 93, formerly of 91 Smith St., Greenfield, died Saturday at Epoch Assisted Living Center at Melbourne Place. Born in Troy, N.Y., on Jan. 22, 1909, son of Albert and Mary E....

Edward Konopka

Edward J. Konopka, 96, of 154 Kemp Ave. died Saturday evening at Williamstown Commons, where he was admitted Nov. 3, 2001. He served as a city councilor from 1960 to 1968. Born in Adams on July...

Edith M. Bertelli

Edith M. Bertelli, 95, of 728 Creamery Road died yesterday at Laurel Lake Center in Lee. Born in Venetia, Italy, on Jan. 12, 1907, daughter of Eugene and Teresa Mettifogo Pellizzaro, she came to...

William M. Duryea

William Michael Duryea, 28, of Waldorf, Md., died Wednesday at Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park, Md. He was the grandson of Theodore and June Duryea of South Egremont. Born in...

M. Rita McCarthy

M. Rita McCarthy, 86, of Slingerlands, N.Y., formerly of Pittsfield, died Thursday at Our Lady of Mercy Life Center in Guilderland, N.Y. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 15, 1916, daughter of William E....

Gladys Radlowski

Gladys M. Radlowski, 78, formerly of Loop Road, died yesterday at Craneville Place in Dalton, where she had resided for several years. Born in Savoy on Nov. 6, 1923, daughter of Clarence and...

Elizabeth Holbrook

Elizabeth Holbrook, 81, of Sentry Hill at York, Maine, formerly of Great Barrington, died Tuesday at home. Born in Westfield on Sept. 23, 1920, daughter of George and Marguerite Searle, she...

Dorothy Martel Moody, 86

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Dorothy Evelyn Martel Moody, 86, of 86 Nutmeg Lane died Saturday, July 27, 2002, at Bennington (Vt.) Health and Rehabilitation Center. Born in North Adams on Sept. 24,...

Evelyn Giorgianni

Evelyn Maude Giorgianni, 88, of 66 Bachand Ave. died Tuesday at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in Jamaica, N.Y., on April 8, 1914, daughter of Thomas and Andrea Abrahams Thompson, she was a...

Roma Sweeney, 87

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Roma Anna Sweeney, 87, formerly of Ashland Park Apartments, 150 Ashland St., died Monday, July 22, 2002, at Sweet Brook Care Centers in Williamstown. Born in Adams on...

N. Marie Guzzy

N. Marie Guzzy, 90, formerly of 318 Onota St., died Tuesday at Providence Care Center of Lenox, where she had resided for the past three years. Born in Williamstown on May 23, 1912, daughter of...

Mary O'Connell

Mary O'Connell, 81, of 136 Blythewood Drive died Tuesday at Laurel Lake Center for Health and Rehabilitation in Lee. Born in Pittsfield on May 13, 1921, daughter of James and Catherine Doheny...

Henrietta Elder

Henrietta "Etta" Elder, 91, of 218 Franklin St. died Tuesday at home. Born in Adams on June 26, 1911, daughter of Robert and Mary Fischer Joppich, she attended Adams schools, including the former...

Alberta Normandeau

Alberta B. "Bert" Normandeau, 71, of 21 Harwood St. died yesterday at home. Born in Readsboro, Vt., on Nov. 23, 1930, daughter of Benjamin and Rachel Bishop Butterfield, she attended schools in...

Phalice O'Brien Jr.

Phalice E. O'Brien Jr., 75, formerly of 99 Second St., died Monday at Hillcrest Commons Nursing Care Facility, where she had resided for four years. She had previously resided at the former Edgecomb...

Louis W. Robesch

Louis W. Robesch, 79, of 963 North Parker Terrace, Olathe, Kan., formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday at home. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Aug. 3, 1922, son of Louis A. and Catherine Cavanogh...

Leonard Spencer

Leonard Rudd Spencer, 85, of High Street died yesterday at Providence Care Center in Lenox, where he had been a resident since 1999. He was a descendant of one of Becket's founders, Jonathan...

Juanita Terry

Juanita Terry, 95, of Spring Street, died Sunday at Springside of Pittsfield. Born July 25, 1906, in Evangeline, La., daughter of William Ernest Terry Sr. and Marie Effie Boudreaux, she graduated...

William E. Laston

William E. Laston, 23, of 700 N. Main St. died early Sunday morning as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 16, 1978, son of William L. Laston and...

Ruth H. Tolvo

Ruth H. Tolvo, 78, of Leesburg, Fla., formerly of Lenox and South Egremont, died July 15 at Leesburg Regional Medical Center in Florida. Born in Holden on Nov. 2, 1923, daughter of Ludovic and...

Ronda M. North

Ronda M. North, 63, of Rome, Ga., died Sunday afternoon at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided for five weeks. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 6, 1938, daughter of Louis G. Thomas Sr. and Mary...

Roland J. Pratt Jr.

Roland J. Pratt Jr., 65, of Tremont Street, Taunton, a native of Pittsfield, died Sunday at West Roxbury Veterans Hospital after a long illness. Born on Sept. 16, 1936, son of Roland J. Pratt Sr....