Obituaries

Casimer Jacob "Sonny" Wiater Jr.

Casimer Jacob "Sonny" Wiater Jr., 62, of 220 East Windsor Road died Sunday at home. He was a former longtime resident of Cheshire, where he lived with his late parents. Born in Adams on June...

Leora M. Smith

Leora M. Smith, 74, of Wareham, formerly of Becket, died Saturday at Tobey Hospital in Wareham. Born in West Springfield on Dec. 20, 1931, daughter of Ralph R. and Leora Williams Johnson, she...

Sophie H. Olsiewski

Sophie H. Olsiewski, 78, formerly of Boardman Street, died yesterday at Great Barrington Healthcare Facility. Born in Hartford, Conn., on Aug. 26, 1917, daughter of Stanley and Anna Raskeimich...

Norma Louise Lembcke

Norma Louise Lembcke, 93, died Friday at Kimball Farms. Born in Collamer, N.Y., on Oct. 8, 1912, daughter of Reuben and Susan Temple, she attended schools in East Syracuse and received her...

Robert Gordon Fleury Jr.

Robert Gordon Fleury Jr., 79, of Sisson Hill Road, Mill River, died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Nov. 29, 1926, son of Robert Gordon Fleury Sr. and...

Neal Anthony Bombardier

Neal Anthony Bombardier, 67, of 1087 Tucker Road, North Dartmouth, died Friday at home after a long illness. Born in North Adams on Feb. 8, 1939, son of the late N. Valmore Bombardier and A. Edna...

Erwin A. Kuni

Erwin A. Kuni, 75, of 253 Lebanon Ave. died yesterday at home. Born in Sugarloaf Township, Ill., on Aug. 31, 1930, son of Charles G. and Edna Schlimmer Kuni, he was educated in Illinois schools....

Andrew Wowk

Andrew Wowk, 86, of 196 Highland Ave. died at home yesterday. Born on March 2, 1920, in Pittsfield, son of Ignaz Wowk of Ukraine and Josephine Duplak Wowk of Austria, he was educated in...

Joan R. Olshansky

Joan R. Olshansky, 73, of Squaw Peak Road died late Friday evening at her home following a brief illness. Born March 11, 1933, in New York, daughter of the late Benjamin and Sylvia Scheiner...

Margaret M. Kidney

Margaret M. Kidney, 87, of Lakewood Dr. died Friday evening at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 17, 1918, daughter of Frank and Anna Deitz Yost, she was a 1936 graduate of...

William C. Hendricks

William C. Hendricks, 55, of 444 Dalton Ave. died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center after a long illness. Born Jan. 12, 1951, in Pittsfield, son of William G. and Sarah Finizola Hendricks, he...

Rocco Ronald Errichetto Sr.

Rocco Ronald Errichetto Sr., 64, of 31 Perrine Ave. died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center after an 11-year battle with cancer. Born in North Adams on March 6, 1942, son of the late William...

Rita S. Drake

Rita S. Drake, 87, of Meadow Street died yesterday at her home. Born in Stockbridge on June 19, 1918, daughter of Mark and Harrier Schilling Drumm, she was a 1935 graduate of Williams High...

Arlene Hazel Rondeau

Arlene Hazel Rondeau, 57, of 137 Bushika Road, Stamford, Vt., died Wednesday at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., of cancer. Born in North Adams on May 27, 1949, daughter...

Richard Douglas Haley

Richard Douglas Haley, 43, of Tamarack Road died June 3 at Flagstaff Medical Center in Flagstaff, Ariz., following a car accident. Born in Springfield on Sept. 8, 1962, son of Edward James Haley...

Eileen Frances Alderman

Eileen Frances Alderman, 59, of 271 New Windsor Road died yesterday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born on July 27, 1946, in Pittsfield, daughter of the late Ralph and Ethelyn Miner...

Madonna Rita Warren Webster

Madonna Rita Warren Webster, 90, of Capitol Square Apartments died Tuesday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided since June 2. Born in Torrington, Conn., on June 11, 1916, daughter of...

Samuel J. Quadrozzi

Samuel J. Quadrozzi, 86, of 55 Gamwell Ave. died Tuesday at home. He was active in local politics and community affairs, serving two terms as Ward 5 city councilor, from 1958 to 1962. Born in...

Charlotte C. Mountain

Charlotte C. Mountain, 89, of 55 East Center St. died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on March 29, 1917, daughter of Clifton and Rose Hebert Coons, she was a 1934 graduate...

Lucy Evelyn Leary

Lucy Evelyn Leary, 84, of 83 Highview Drive, Colonial Gardens, died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Holyoke on Nov. 23, 1921, daughter of George and Mabel Cunningham Bork, she was...

Stanley Gardner "Cash" Phelps

Stanley Gardner "Cash" Phelps, 81, of Louisville, Miss., a native and longtime resident of Lenox Dale, died June 5 at Baptist Hospital in Columbus, Miss. Born Feb. 27, 1925, son of Cassius and...

Charles F. Hall Jr.

Charles F. Hall Jr., 66, of 50 New Hampshire Ave. died yesterday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Ghent, N.Y., on April 14, 1940, son of the late Charles F. Hall Sr. and Gladys Deamer...

Alexander V. Garcia

Alexander V. Garcia, 86, of 40 Walchenbach Circle and a resident of Housatonic from 1971-1996, died Monday at Hillcrest Commons in Pittsfield. Born in Tequila, Jaslico, Mexico on Oct. 26, 1919,...

Marie A. Cox

Marie A. Cox, 90, of St. Charles, Mo., formerly of Pittsfield, died Monday at Charlevoix Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in St. Charles. Born Jan. 17, 1916, in St. John, Quebec, Canada,...

Josephine B. Ciavarella, 82

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Josephine Beatrice Ciavarella, 82, of 59 George Ave. died Tuesday, June 13, 2006, at North Adams Regional Hospital following a brief illness. Born in North Adams on...