Obituaries

Emilio Anthony "Slim" Ariazi

Emilio Anthony "Slim" Ariazi, 86, of 352 Houghton St. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center, where he was admitted two weeks ago. Born in North Adams on June 6, 1920, son of the late Joseph...

Nancy Hart Markgraf

Nancy Hart Markgraf, 72, of 104 Forest Road, died at North Adams Regional Hospital on Saturday. Born in West Cornwall, Conn., on March 12, 1934, daughter of C. Whittelsey and Doris Shurtleff...

Mary K. Lusignan

Mary K. Lusignan, 87, of Chestnut Hill Road, Montpelier, Vt., a native and longtime resident of Pittsfield, died Sunday evening at Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin, Vt. Born in Pittsfield...

Gertrude Bowers Burdsall

Gertrude Bowers Burdsall, 99, of Baldwin Hill died Monday at her home. Born Sept. 30, 1906, in Lansdowne, Pa., daughter of Walter and Gertrude Kissick Bowers, she graduated from Lansdowne High...

Orville Clayton Benoit Sr.

Orville Clayton Benoit Sr., 65, of 85 Eagle St., died Saturday at Williamstown Commons following a battle with lung cancer. Born in Florida on Nov. 27, 1940, son of the late Leo Arthur Benoit Sr....

Louise May "Lulu" Webb

Louise May "Lulu" Webb, 90, of 118 Church St. died Saturday at Williamstown Commons. Born in Barre, Vt., on May 18, 1916, daughter of David and Emma Cadwell Vania, she moved to Hartford, Conn.,...

Thomas A. Sacchetti

Thomas A. Sacchetti, 88, of 52 McKinley Terrace died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center after a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 2, 1918, son of Anthony M. Sacchetti Sr. and Amelia...

Laszlo George Kish

Laszlo George Kish, 84, of 1739 Old Brook Road, Charlottesville, Va., formerly of Lee, died Wednesday at Hospice of the Piedmont in Charlottesville. Born in Budapest, Hungary, on May 18, 1922,...

Phalice A. Jenks

Phalice A. Jenks, 77, of 27 Franklin St. died Friday at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 19, 1928, daughter of Clymer and Anna McCarty Dunbar, she was a 1946...

Barbara A. McMahon

Barbara A. McMahon, 73, of 186 Lebanon Ave., died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center following a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on May 22, 1933, daughter of Frederick and Evelyn Daigle...

Patrick H. Mathews

Patrick H. Mathews, 82, of Fabiano Boulevard in Greensport, formerly of Pittsfield, died Thursday at Community Hospice Memorial Hospital in Hudson. Born in Pittsfield on March 17, 1924, son of...

Julia Landry, 83

ADAMS, Mass. — Julia Landry, 83, of 40 Commercial St. died Thursday, Aug. 24, 2006, at North Adams Regional Hospital after a brief illness. Born in North Adams on Sept. 13, 1922, daughter...

Vivian A. Dupuis

Vivian A. Dupuis, 88, of 93 Johnson St. died Friday at Sweet Brook Care Center in Williamstown. Born in Madison, Wis., on June 11, 1918, the eldest of the eight children of Frederick N. and Anna...

Catherine Tracy Staples

Catherine Tracy Staples, 78, died Wednesday on Hilton Head, S.C. Born in Great Barrington on Feb. 29, 1928, daughter of Edward and Mary Bailly Tracy, she attended local schools. She was a...

Eugene T. McCarthy

Eugene T. McCarthy, 80, of 76 Baldwin Ave., died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center after a brief illness. Born in Pittsfield on June 5, 1926, son of Thomas and Pauline Labrode McCarthy, he...

Stephen Raymond Kelly

Stephen Raymond Kelly, 39, of 71 Doreen St. died at home on Sunday of heart failure. He came to Pittsfield in 2002 from Overland Park, Kan. Born in Kansas City, Miss., on May 5, 1967, son of...

Thomas P. Hurley

Thomas P. Hurley, 88, of 512 Oak St. died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield after a long battle with cancer. Born in Haverhill on March 28, 1918, son of Tim and Mary Lyons, he...

Robert L. Collins

Robert L. Collins, 62, of 13 Murray St. died Wednesday evening, at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in West Stockbridge on Oct. 8, 1943, son of the late Francis and Mabel Fiehrer Collins, he...

Irene Theresa Wojtkowski

Irene Theresa Wojtkowski, 75, of 1565 West Housatonic St. died yesterday at Springside of Pittsfield, where she had resided since December. Born in Adams on July 5, 1931, daughter of Albert and...

M. Eileen Walshe

M. Eileen Walshe, 99, formerly of 26 Franklin St., died Sunday at Sweet Brook Care Centers in Williamstown, where she had resided for seven years. Born in North Adams on June 27, 1907, daughter...

John Walter "Obie" O'Bryan

John Walter "Obie" O'Bryan, 63, a 30-year resident of 53 E. Main St., Cheshire, died Monday, Aug. 21, at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield after a short illness. Born in West Rutland, Vt.,...

Bertha M. Malally

Bertha M. Malally, 89, of Valatie, N.Y., formerly of Great Barrington and Hillsdale, N.Y., died Monday at Albany Memorial Hospital. Born in Great Barrington on Oct. 19, 1916, she was the daughter...

John N. Mach Sr., 81

ADAMS, Mass. - John Nathan Mach Sr., 81, of 10 Manners Ave. died Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006, at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. Born in Adams on Aug. 17, 1925, son of Paul and Josephine...

Carleigha "Pumpkin" Lichaa

Carleigha "Pumpkin" Lichaa, 25, of 17 Murray St. died Tuesday at North Adams Regional Hospital after a short illness. Born in New York on Aug. 4, 1981, daughter of Louis and Paula Smith Kelsey,...

Anne Marie DeMartino

Anne Marie DeMartino, 39, of 103 Mill St., Amherst, died Tuesday at 31 Gulf Road, the home of her father, Mario J. DeMartino. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 2, 1966, also the daughter of Phyllis...