Obituaries

Eleanor M. DeSanty, 82

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Eleanor Marie DeSanty, 82, of 23 Harris St. died Friday, March 16,200l at Willowood of North Adams. Born in North Adams on June 18,1918, one of 13 children of Vincent...

Robert W. Curtiss

Robert Wells Curtiss, 76, of Mount Washington Road died Sunday at home. Born in Egremont on April 6, 1924, son of William and Bessie Chase Curtiss, he was a 1942 graduate of the former Searles...

Mabel L. Bennett

Mabel L. Bennett, 96, formerly of Cove Meadow Road, Northampton, died Thursday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had been a patient since September 1996. Born in Peru on Aug. 25, 1904, daughter of...

Doris A. Porter

Doris A. Porter, 92, formerly of 55 West Union St., died Sunday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had been a patient for three years. Born in Great Barrington on Feb. 5, 1909, daughter of Egbert V....

Phyllis Spadafora

Phyllis L. Spadafora, 84, of 420 Monroe Ave., Cape Canaveral, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died March 6 at home. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 17, 1917, she was the daughter of Biago and Carmella...

Lauretta F. Moore

Lauretta F. Moore, 92, of Santa Fe, N.M., formerly of Williamstown, died March 9 at home. Born in North Adams on July 17, 1908, daughter of William G. and Odna G. Hamel Frenier, she graduated from...

Josephine Nigrelli

Josephine Rose Nigrelli, 95, of 16 Marcella Ave. died Wednesday evening at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on May 23, 1905, daughter of Santo and Josephine Spadaro Nigrelli, she...

John C. White Jr.

John C. White Jr., 70, of Washington Township, Ohio, died March 8 at Dayton Hospice in Dayton, Ohio. Born in Stockbridge on Oct. 19, 1930, son of John C. White Sr. and Catherine Drake White, he...

Helen Lippman

Helen M. Lippman, 77, formerly of East Otis, died Wednesday at Fairview Hospital. She had resided at Great Barrington Nursing and Rehab Center for the past two years. Born in Bronx, N.Y., on Nov....

Charles Silvernail

Charles R. Silvernail Jr., 85, of Baldwin Hill Road died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Dalton on Jan. 16, 1916, son of Charles R. Silvernail Sr. and Mable Maude Moore Silvernail,...

Cecile Carberry

Cecile M. Carberry, 83, of Delmar, N.Y., formerly of Great Barrington and Wynantskill, N.Y., died Wednesday at St. Peter's Community Hospice Inn in Albany, N.Y. Born in Cohoes, N.Y., on Aug. 7,...

Barbara Lee

Barbara Lee, 59, of Boston, died Wednesday of ovarian cancer. She was the daughter of Ruth Lee of Pittsfield. Born in St. Paul, Minn., on July 19, 1941, daughter of Ruth Lee and the late Raymond...

Rose Nero

Rose Nero, 93, of Hudson, N.Y., recently of Barnwell Nursing Home in Valatie, N.Y., died yesterday at Barnwell Nursing Home. She was the mother of Katherine Jane Torchia of Pittsfield. Born in...

Nelson O. Bushaw

Nelson O. Bushaw, 75, of 44 Columbia St. died Sunday at home of an apparent heart attack. Born in Charlestown, Vt., on Jan. 1, 1926, son of Ora and Mae Sanborne Bushaw, he attended schools...

Nancy Ann LeBeau

Nancy Ann LeBeau, 82, of 5006 Western Ave., Omaha, Neb., formerly of North Adams, died Monday at St. Joseph Villa Nursing Home in Omaha. Born in Utica, N.Y., on Feb. 13, 1919, daughter of Guiseppe...

Dorothy H. Vose

Dorothy Helen Vose, 95, a resident of the Issaquah Care Center, Issaquah, Wash., formerly of Pittsfield, Dalton and Windsor, died Monday at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, Wash. Born in Walpole on...

Bessie E. Pupo

Bessie E. Pupo, 90, of Underhill Place died March 7 at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on June 25, 1910, daughter of Henry C. and Martha S. Langer Stache, she attended local...

Alfonso Barbarotta

Alfonso F. Barbarotta, 79, of 14 Parker St. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on July 2, 1921, son of Guiseppe F. and Maria Ferrente Barbarotta, he attended local...

George Passenant

George F. Passenant, 86, of 96 B Depot St. died Monday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility in Pittsfield. Born in Astoria, N.Y., on July 7, 1914, son of Louis and Minnie Weiss Passenant, he...

Felicia J. Tetlow

Felicia J. Dimitropolis-Tetlow, 81, of 26 South Willow St. died Monday at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in East Longmeadow on May 15, 1919, daughter of Antonio and Elizabeth Zarlengo Grandi,...

Edith Stenson

Edith Graham Stenson, 93, of 34 Jackson St. died Monday at Willowood of North Adams, where she had been a patient since 1997. Born in North Adams on Sept. 22, 1907, daughter of O. Andrew and...

Carl W. Reed

Carl William Reed, 63, of 1 Alice Drive died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 25, 1937, son of Emily White Reed Adams and the late Carlos D. Reed, he had resided in...

Andrea Hammond

Andrea Jane Hammond, 61, of San Jose, Calif., formerly of Lanesboro, died March 5 at home. Born in Westfield on June 10, 1939, daughter of Elizabeth Cain Trimels and the late Albert A. Trimels,...

Nancy S. Robie

Nancy Stewart Robie, 49, of Riverbrook Residence, 4 Ice Glen Road, died Sunday evening at Laurel Lake Center for Health and Rehabilitation after a brief illness. Born in Boston on July 19, 1951,...

Mary R. Best

Mary R. Best, 88, formerly of 600 Main St. died yesterday morning at Springside of Pittsfield, where she had resided for 3 1/2 years. Born in Berkshire on March 3, 1913, daughter of Frank H. and...