Obituaries

Peter Kinnas Sr.,

Peter Stephen Kinnas Sr., 50, of 107 West Union St., owner of Kinnas Electric Co., died Monday at Berkshire Medical of cancer. Born in Pittsfield on March 21, 1950, son of Stephen and Sophia...

Katherine Schnopp

Katherine "Pat" Schnopp, 77, of 629 Hancock Road died Sunday morning at home. Born in Pittsfield on April 1, 1923, daughter of Jacob and Edith Harrington Zahn, she attended local...

Joseph Furcinite Sr.,

Joseph D. Furcinite Sr., 85, of 33 Root Place died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on March 17, 1915, son of Dominic and Barbara Parise Furcinite, he attended local...

James C. Rodick

James C. Rodick, 47, of 127 Commercial St. died Sunday evening at home after a long illness. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Jan. 14, 1954, son of John and Helen Alden Rodick, he graduated from Union...

Gladys Calderwood

Gladys Calderwood, 83, of 153 Ridgeway Ave. died Sunday evening at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Naugatuck, Conn., on Oct. 14, 1917, daughter of Charles and Agatha Reagan Weaving, she...

Evelyn W. Carolan

Evelyn W. Robie Carolan, 87, formerly of 372 West St., died yesterday morning at Hillcrest Commons after a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on June 15, 1913, daughter of George and Katherine...

Elizabeth C. Ohly

Elizabeth C. Ohly, 88, of 25 Pine Hill, Kimball Farms, 235 Walker St., died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Yonkers, N.Y., on July 15, 1912, daughter of Frederick I. and Anna Menken...

Virginia M. Martin

Virginia Maria Martin, 93, of 20 Bradley St. died Saturday at Sweet Brook Health Care Center in Williamstown. Born in North Adams on Oct. 22, 1907, daughter of Cesare and Luiggia Montagna Merlini,...

Harold Taskin, 81

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - Harold Taskin, 81, of 101 Chenaille Terrace died Sunday morning, Jan. 28, 2001, at his home. He was a longtime member of the Northern Berkshire business community and a civic...

Caishi Xu

Caishi Xu,59,of 4 High St., Great Barrington died Saturday, January 27, 2001 at Fairview Hospital. He was born in Jianhu, China; November 4,1941. Moving to Great Barrington recently. He was a...

Lorraine Naomi (Gagnon) Degere

Mrs. Lorraine Naomi (Gagnon) Degere, 72, of 75 Commercial St., Adams and earlier of 23 Enterprise St., Adams, died Saturday evening at Center For Optimum Care in Pittsfield where she had been a...

Katherine Ellery

Katherine Ellery, 60, of Clifford Street died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center after suffering a heart attack. Born in Milwaukee on April 14, 1940, daughter of James K. and Anna Sommers Link,...

Helen L. Ziarnik

Helen L. Ziarnik, 83, of 141 Kittredge Road died yesterday at Hillcrest Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Born in Adams on Oct. 17, 1917, daughter of John and Josephine Orlwaski Ryczek,...

Harry Weisberg

Harry Weisberg, 88, of 51 Saratoga Drive died yesterday morning at Hillcrest Commons, where he was admitted Wednesday. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 16, 1912, son of Isaac and Rachel Eastman...

Emil J. Kleiner Sr.

Emil J. "Dutch" Kleiner Sr., 83, of South Main Street,Freetown, a native of Adams, died Saturday at Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River. Born Dec. 24, 1917, son of Henry and Henrietta Wolfrum...

William Voltoline

William D. Voltoline, 50, of 37 Harding St. died Wednesday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 23, 1951, son of Constance Phelps Voltoline and the late Joseph J....

Thomas McDarby Sr.,

Thomas J. McDarby Sr., 51, of 8583 Nightingale Road, Brooksville, Fla., formerly of Lee, died Tuesday at home. Born in Pittsfield on April 22, 1949, son of Margaret O'Brien McDarby of Lee and the...

Sharron Clairmont

Sharron Lee Clairmont, 46, of 65 Columbus Ave. died Thursday at home. Born in Hollywood, Calif., on Jan. 28, 1954, daughter of Angela Stockley Newton and the late Dale Newton Sr., she attended...

Emma R. Blake

Emma R. Blake, 89, formerly of 9 Leslie Ave., died yesterday at Craneville Place in Dalton, where she had resided for 2 1/2 years. Born in Dalton on Aug. 15, 1911, daughter of Rudolph J. and Emma...

Attilio P. Scolforo

Attilio P. Scolforo, 85, of 7 Sandisfield Road, formerly of Union Street, Lee, died Tuesday at the Laurel Lake Center in Lee. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 15, 1915, son of Peter and Angela Trentin...

Raymond Rainka

Raymond Rainka, 82, of 1 Taubert Ave. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 24, 1918, son of Stanislaus and Mary Helinski Rainka, he attended local schools and was...

Lillian T. Snyder

Lillian T. Snyder, 85, of 380 Steven Glen Road died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on March 12, 1915, daughter of James H. and Nellie O'Connor Doran, she attended St....

Gladys Dilk

Gladys Dilk, 88, of 17 Pleasant St. died Tuesday at Willowood of North Adams Health Care Center. Born in Adams on Jan. 6, 1913, daughter of Peter and Mary Bachenske Martin, she attended Adams...

Michael G. Abdalla Sr.,

Michael G. Abdalla Sr., 64, of 28 Main St. died yesterday at home. Born in Great Barrington on July 22, 1936, son of George K. and Martha Skype Abdalla, he was a 1954 graduate of the former...

Herman E. Liveright

Herman Elsas Liveright, 89, of Pittsfield Road died Friday at his winter home in Corpus Christi, Texas, of heart failure following surgery for a hip replacement. Mr. Liveright and his wife, the...