Obituaries

Morton H. Kaplan

Morton H. Kaplan, 84, of 54 Zeff Drive died Thursday at home. Born in Providence, R.I., on April 12, 1922, son of Abraham and Tillie Siegel Kaplan, he was a 1939 graduate of Central High School...

Heide Jill Curtis

Heide Jill Curtis, 48, of Laurel Street, died Friday at home. Before moving to Lee in October 2005, she lived on Elm Street in Pittsfield for more than 20 years. Born in Sharon, Conn., on...

Marion G. Brady

Marion G. Brady, 91, of 3930 NE Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala, Fla., a native of Pittsfield, died Friday at Marion House Health Care of Ocala. Born on June 14, 1915, daughter of Harry A. and Mary...

Stella Bernat

Stella Bernat, 88, formerly of 5 Edmund St., died yesterday at North Adams Commons. Born in Adams on Oct. 9, 1918, daughter of Peter and Hanora Ostrobinski Zgrzebniak, she attended local schools....

Peter P. Nykorchuk

Peter P. Nykorchuk, 75, of 514 South Main St., died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on July 23, 1931, son of Anthony and Anastasia Kowchuk Nykorchuk, he was a 1950 graduate...

Edwin Luczynski

Edwin Luczynski, 80, of 37 Crandall St. and Fort Pierce, Fla., died Thursday at the Consulate Rehab Center in Vero Beach, Fla. Born in Clarksburg on Dec. 15, 1926, son of John and Leona Furtek...

Dorothea T. Kirchner

Dorothea T. Kirchner, 76, of 40 Old Stockbridge Road, died of cancer Saturday at home. Born in Pittsfield on July 23, 1930, daughter of James and Lillian Akroyd Thomson, she graduated from Lenox...

Marjorie Lillis Dus

Marjorie Lillis Dus, 86, of Lenox Road, died Saturday at Albany Medical Center after a short illness. Born in the Rockdale section of West Stockbridge on Dec. 28, 1920, daughter of Chester L. and...

Albert Edward Scherr III

Albert Edward Scherr III, 85, of 300 Petersburg Road died March 28 at home. He was a former chairman of the town Finance Committee Born in Mount Vernon, N.Y., on Nov. 26, 1921, son of Albert E....

Todd D. Oliveira

Todd D. Oliveira, 44, of 20 Wexford Court and Naples, Fla., died Tuesday in Dorchester. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 2, 1962, son of Ronald Oliveira and Diana "Toni" Fontana, he was a 1980 graduate...

Sybil Mary Griffin

Sybil Mary Griffin, 89, of 150 Pineview Road, Tequesta, Fla., a former longtime resident of Colonial Gardens, Pittsfield, died Saturday at Palm Beach Gardens in Palm Beach, Fla. She moved to...

James E. Stimpson

James E. Stimpson, 68, of Largo, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died March 26 at Largo (Fla.) Medical Center following a short illness. Born in Ticonderoga, N.Y., on Feb 7, 1939, son of Raymond and...

Laurette A. Luczynski

Laurette A. Luczynski, 67, of 585 Main Road, died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Burlington, Vt., on Feb. 15, 1940, daughter of Emile and Yvonne Piche Boucher, she...

Priscilla Keresey

Priscilla Keresey, 84, of State Line Road, died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Astoria, Queens, N.Y., on Feb. 2, 1923, daughter of Eugene and Helen Casterline Shrigley, she attended...

Mary Faivre

Mary Faivre, 88, of North Plain Road, died yesterday at Great Barrington Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, where she had resided for the past several years. Born in Lee on Oct. 15, 1918, daughter...

Nechama "Nettie" G. Baum

Nechama "Nettie" G. Baum, 90, of Hollenbeck Avenue, died at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center in Lenox yesterday. Born in New York City on Sept. 26, 1916, daughter of Max and Fannie Oster...

Virginia M. Maynard

Virginia M. Maynard, 72, of 335 Wahconah Heights, died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Uxbridge on Jan. 10, 1935, daughter of James and Edith Litano VanValkenburg, she attended the...

Raymond F. Kirby

Raymond F. Kirby, 89, of Walker Street, died Tuesday afternoon at Providence Care Center of Lenox. A native of Lenox, he was born Nov. 5, 1917, the son of Robert and Mary Gorman Kirby. He attended...

Corinne G. Burtt

Corinne G. Burtt, 66, of 115 Egremont Ave., died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 26, 1940, daughter of the late Ralph and Marion Lynch Bousquet, she attended local...

Peter Romeo Cerveira Bianchi

Peter Romeo Cerveira Bianchi, 15, of 429 Lanesborough Road, died at home on Friday evening. Born in Pittsfield, Jan. 8, 1992, son of John and Lynda Cerveira Bianchi, he was a sophomore at St....

Irene Hopkins Buck

Irene Hopkins Buck, 94, formerly of Centennial Avenue, died Sunday at Renaissance Manor in Westfield, where she had resided since August 2004. Born in Dalton on June 1, 1912, daughter of Arthur...

Gary M. Reid

Gary M. Reid, 72, of 245 Cheshire Road, died Saturday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 5, 1934, son of Francis and Olive Trembley Reid, he was educated in local schools. A Marine Corps...

Rachel J. Wright LaBonte White

Rachel J. Wright LaBonte White, 69, of 7 West St., died yesterday at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in Adams on Oct. 10, 1937, daughter of Joseph and Anna Pinsonneault Pigeon, she attended...

Henry Alfred Nichols

Henry Alfred Nichols, 85, of 136 Sand Springs Road, died yesterday at Sweet Brook Health Care Centers. Born in Williamstown on April 6, 1921, son of Henry R. and Ethel Moore Nichols, he graduated...

Ruth Sears Sumner, 80

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - Ruth M. Sears Sumner, 80, of 18 1/2 Washington Ave. died Friday, March 30, 2007, at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Adams on Dec. 7, 1926, daughter of Louis...