Obituaries

Lillian G. MacWhinnie

Lillian G. MacWhinnie, 96, former resident of Second Street, died Wednesday at the home of her son in Bentley Creek, Pa. Born in Springfield on May 7, 1910, daughter of Otto and Alexina Sawyer...

Elaine Fortier

Elaine Fortier, 71, of 891 North State Road died Wednesday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in North Adams on Nov. 14, 1934, daughter of John N. and Stella Starsiak Decker, she moved to...

Martha B. Beall

Martha B. Beall, 84, of 140 Scott Hill Rd., formerly of Kenilworth and Evanston, Ill., died Tuesday at the Sweetbrook Health Care Centers in Williamstown. She was born in Rochester, N.Y., on Oct....

John Benjamin Howland Sr.

John Benjamin Howland Sr., 80, of 21 Pine Lodge Park died Monday at North Adams Regional Hospital where he was admitted on Friday, June 30. Born in Brandon, Vt. on June 14, 1926, son of Wendell...

Ruby E. Bendross

Ruby E. Bendross, 75, of 393 Washington Mountain Road died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Bainbridge, Ga. on May 3, 1931, daughter of the late Gordie Pugh Sr. and Virgilene Clayton...

Robert M. Southworth Jr.

Robert M. Southworth Jr., 29, of 24 Silver St. died Sunday after being hit by a train while traveling in Surf Beach, Lompuc, Calif. Born in Springfield on June 17, 1977, son of Barbara Ann Riel...

The Rev. John Olland Parker

The Rev. John Olland Parker, 70, of Amherst, former pastor of First United Methodist Church in Pittsfield, died Monday morning at Monte Vista farm, the family homestead in Vershire, Vt. Born in...

Joseph J. "Ooper" Miraglia

Joseph J. "Ooper" Miraglia, 74, of 66 Ontario St. died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 9, 1932, son of John and Grace McNamara Miraglia, he was a lifelong resident...

Maurice R. Bushee, 57

NORTH ADAMS, Mass, — Maurice Raymond "Cricket" Bushee, 57, of 40 Chase Ave. died Tuesday evening, July 18, 20116, at the emergency room of North Adams Regional Hospital, where he was taken...

Lois Marie Schopp Emberlin Bradford

Lois Marie Schopp Emberlin Bradford, 80, of Main Street, a longtime Sheffield resident, died Sunday at her summer residence in Taconic, Conn. Born in Miami on July 4, 1926, daughter of Arthur and...

Lee Cawood Townsend Sr.

Lee Cawood Townsend Sr., 73, a retired print and television journalist who served 14 years as news editor of the CBS Evening News under Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather, died of liver disease at DeWitt...

Thelma Stark

Thelma Stark, 76, of Fox Farm Road, New Ipswich, NH., formerly of West Stockbridge, died Sunday at Harborside Pheasantwood in Peterborough, N.H., following a lengthy illness. Born Aug. 13, 1929,...

Joseph G. Larrivee

Joseph G. Larrivee, 81, of 8 Elm St. died Saturday at his home. Born in Housatonic on Oct. 30, 1924, son of the late Ulric Larrivee and Rosanna Mercier Larrivee, he was a 1942 graduate of Lee...

Philip Cook

Philip Cook, 95, formerly of Liberty, N.Y., died on Sunday at his home at Devonshire Estates. Born in Bronx, N.Y., on April 23, 1911, son of Lena and Isaac Cook, he attended local schools and...

James Joseph "Doc" Soluri

James Joseph "Doc" Soluri, 72, of Becket died Monday, July 10, at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Born in Niagara Falls, N.Y., on Aug. 10, 1933, son of Joseph and Margaret Morasco Soluri,...

Alice W. Bergan

Alice W. Bergan, 88, of 1395 Massachusetts Ave., Arlington, formerly of Lenox, died Monday in Arlington. Born in New York City on May 17, 1918, daughter of Frederick J. and Mabel Dickerson...

Alejandro Villarroel

Alejandro Villarroel, 44, of San Francisco died Monday after a three-year battle with colon cancer. His wife, the former Wanda Nichols, was born and raised in Pittsfield. Born in Caracas,...

Ann H. Ryan

Ann H. Ryan, 92, of Berkshiretown Apartments died Saturday at Providence Health Care Facility in Lenox, where she had resided for a year. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 26, 1913, daughter of Louis...

Joy W. Gottlieb

Joy W. Gottlieb, 81, of Salisbury Road died Tuesday at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington. She spent winters in West Palm Beach, Fla. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Nov. 12, 1924, daughter of...

Dr. George Grossman

Dr. George Grossman, 83, of 94 Sampson Parkway died Friday at Hillcrest Commons. Born in Boston on Aug. 10, 1922, son of Richard and Jennie Freedman Grossman, he moved to Pittsfield at the age of...

Ellwood F. DeCoster

Ellwood F. DeCoster, 94, of Devonshire Estates died yesterday at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center, where he had resided for the past month. Born on the family farm in Buckfield, Maine, on Sept....

Mary A. Salvaggio

Mary A. Salvaggio, 84, of Syracuse, N.Y., formerly of Pittsfield, died yesterday at St. Camillus Health Center in Syracuse. Born in Syracuse on July 19, 1921, daughter of John and Angeline...

Joseph Reilly

Joseph Reilly, 65, of 22 Baglee Ave. died Tuesday at home of an apparent heart attack. He was the owner of Matt Reilly's Restaurant. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 22, 1941, son of the late...

Florence Isabel Macdonald

Florence Isabel Macdonald, 95, died Sunday at Kimball Farms, where she had resided since 1993. Born in Boston on July 17, 1910, daughter of John A. and Jean Ferguson Macdonald, she grew up in...

Charles J. "Moose" Koloski

Charles J. "Moose" Koloski, 89, of Glendale Middle Road died Wednesday at home. Born in the village of Glendale on Dec. 19, 1916, son of Frank and Frances Dombrowski Koloski, he attended schools...