Obituaries

Francis Alarie Sr.

Francis E. Alarie Sr., 83, of 119 Commercial St. died Saturday morning at North Adams Regional Hospital after suffering a heart attack. Born in Adams on Dec. 21, 1917, son of James and Gertrude...

William Dewhurst

William E. "Bud" Dewhurst, 73, of 1827 Jacob's Ladder Road died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in New Kingston, N.Y., on Sept. 26, 1927, son of Howard and Wilmah Yaple Dewhurst, he was...

MaryAnn Goodreau

MaryAnn Goodreau, 54, of 125 Devonshire Drive died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on March 14, 1946, daughter of Louis N. and Sophie Rogekevich Sicard, she graduated...

Mabel L. Mann

Mabel L. Mann, 94, of 67 Otis Ave. died Tuesday at home. Born in North Abington on March 14, 1906, daughter of Arthur G. and Emma Farr Stevens, she attended schools in Easthampton. A homemaker,...

M. June Platt

M. June Platt, 70, of 221 Orlando Ave. died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Abingdon, Va., on Feb. 12, 1931, daughter of Leslie and Mary Grace Lloyd Kestner, she attended schools...

Cecile Fontaine

Cecile Fontaine, 78, of 23 Laurel St. died Tuesday at home. Born in Highgate Springs, Vt., on March 1, 1922, daughter of John and Emma Tatro Fournier, she attended school there and in...

Austin T. Riiska

Austin T. Riiska, 73, of 198 New Hartford Road died yesterday at home. Born in Winsted, Conn., on June 13, 1927, he was the son of John Axel and Katherine Treacy Riiska. He moved to Sandisfield in...

Catheryn A.'Kay' Staebler Strommer Fisher

Catheryn A.'Kay' Staebler Strommer Fisher,83, of 151 Christian Hill Road Great Barrington formerly of Rockford, Illinois died Sunday at Fairview Hospital. She was born February 12, 1918 the daughter...

Florence (Sampson) Wheelock

Mrs. Florence(Sampson)Wheelock, 92, of 1591 Massachusetts Ave. North Adams, MA, died early Sunday morning Feb. l8, 2001 at her home. She was a former longtime resident of School St. in Cheshire,...

Edward Carl Therrien

Mr. Edward Carl Therrien, 79 of 1685 Oblong Rd., Williamstown, MA, died Friday morning Feb. 16, 200l in the emergency room of the North Adams Regional Hospital where he was taken after being stricken...

Adele Wojtaszek

Adele A. "Del" Wojtaszek, 83, of 100 Church St., a longtime businesswoman, died Sunday afternoon at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Savoy on Oct. 13, 1917, daughter of Walenty and Susanna Eliasz...

Elizabeth Pellizzaro

Elizabeth Irene Pellizzaro, 93, of Monroeville, Pa., formerly of Pittsfield, died Saturday at Beverly Manor in Monroeville. She and her husband, Oliver O. "Red" Pellizzaro, owned and operated...

Ethel M. Hornyak

Ethel Mae Hornyak, 85, of 43 Vivian Ave. died Sunday at the Center for Optimum Care, where she had resided for four years. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 31, 1915, daughter of Louis and Mabel Schaffer...

Ann E. Crouser

Ann E. Crouser, 71, of 19 Cambridge Ave. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in State College, Pa., on Dec. 30, 1929, daughter of James F. and Jennie Kelley Shigley, she graduated...

Philip A. Coons

Philip A. Coons, 76, of 892 Sheffield Egremont Road, died Friday at Fairview Hospital. Born in Richmond, MA, November 9, 1924 he was the son of Harold and Aletta Brasse Coons and attended the...

William J. West

William J. West, 71, of 61 Revere Parkway died Wednesday evening at home. Born in Chicago on Oct. 26, 1929, son of Archibald and Catherine Quaid West, he attended schools in Chicago. He was an...

Ursula Matuszak

Ursula Helena Matuszak, 92, of 79 Bachard Ave. died Wednesday at Sweet Brook Health Care Center in Williamstown, where she was admitted Feb. 9. Born in Adams on Oct. 21, 1908, daughter of John and...

Samuel Wallach

Samuel Wallach, 91, of West Road died Wednesday at Fairview Hospital. Born in Dolina, Poland, on July 1, 1909, son of Abraham and Bertha Schor Wallach, he emigrated to the United States with his...

Lawrence Mullett

Lawrence E. Mullett Sr., 72, of 251 Linden St. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in North Adams on Aug. 6, 1928, son of William and Elizabeth Brown Mullett, he attended Pittsfield...

Josephine Maugere

"Badia" Maugere, 85, of 99 Second St. died Wednesday evening at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Adams on June 13, 1915, daughter of Salem and Freda Shaker George, she graduated from the former...

George W. Kelsey

George W. Kelsey, 86, of 1032 North St. died Wednesday at East Ridge Hospital in Chattanooga, Tenn. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 24, 1914, son of George W. and Bertha Noble Kelsey, he was a 1932...

Edith M. LaBrode

Edith M. LaBrode, 76, of 109 Euclid Ave. died yesterday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had been a patient for less than two months. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 7, 1924, daughter of William J. and...

Mark R. Riley

Mark Raymond Riley, 35, of 3 Sprague Place, Albany, N.Y., formerly of Pittsfield, died yesterday at Albany Medical Center after a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 9, 1966, son of Raymond...

William S. Linscott

William Sterling Linscott, 75, of 113 West Road died yesterday at North Adams Regional Hospital shortly after being admitted. He was a longtime Adams businessman and community leader. Born in...

Grace M. Fuller

Grace M. Fuller, 76, of 2805 Main St. died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Hinsdale on Feb. 27, 1924, daughter of Charles and Grace Randall Yakey, she attended Hinsdale and Pittsfield...