Obituaries

Claire E. LaCasse, 71

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Claire Emma LaCasse, 71, of 557 Church St. died Sunday morning, March 3, 2002, at North Adams Commons. Born in Pittsfield on April 14, 1930, son of John and Constance...

Winifred Tassone

Winifred J. Tassone, 82, of Millhouse Apartments, 75 Commercial St., died Wednesday evening at Williamstown Commons. Born in Adams on April 3, 1919, daughter of William and Ora McConnell Edwards,...

Evannah Donovan

Evannah Lee Donovan, 96, formerly of Kirchner Road, died Wednesday evening at Providence Care Center of Lenox. Born in Adams on Aug. 30, 1905, daughter of John A. and Mary Harrington O'Brien, she...

William J. Kinsella

William J. Kinsella, 84, of 80 Maple Grove Drive died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 4, 1917, son of Charles and Florence Trainor Kinsella, he was a 1935...

Rev. Peter Hickey

The Rev. Peter D. Hickey, 63, a Jesuit and a teacher at Boston College High School, died Monday just before classes. Born in Great Barrington, he graduated from Boston College in 1960. He worked...

James E. Holcomb

James E. Holcomb, 89, of Melbourne Place died Tuesday at the Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility, where he had resided for more than three years. Born in Rogers, Ark., on Aug. 11, 1912, son of...

F. Russell Lyons II

F. Russell Lyons II, 75, of School Street, Ashley Falls, died Feb. 18 at home. Born in New York City on June 23, 1926, son of F. Russell Lyons and Murray Celeste Bartlett Lyons, he attended...

Billy Madewell Jr.

Billy Dean Madewell Jr., 53, of 45 Spring St. died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Prior to moving to North Adams a year ago, he had resided in Adams and Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on...

Anne H. Moore

Anne H. Moore, 70, of Spring Arbor, Mich., formerly of Sandisfield, died Feb. 18, at home after a two-year battle with ovarian cancer. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 23, 1931, daughter of Willard...

Martha Patton

Martha Frances Adele Patton, 67, of Sudbury, formerly of Cheshire, died Feb. 20 at Wayside Hospice in Wayland. Born in Pittsfield on July 6, 1934, daughter of Kenneth D. and Hope H. Negus, she...

Catherine Morrison

Catherine "Kitty" Morrison, 93, of 118 Church St., Proprietors Field, died yesterday at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in Boston on Dec. 18, 1907, daughter of Robert and Mary Gunn Dowling,...

Anna Jablonski

Anna H. Jablonski, 85, 46 Stratford Ave. died Sunday at home. Born in Schenectady, N.Y., on Dec. 16, 1916, daughter of John M. and Sophie Raczkowski Jablonski, she moved to Pittsfield as a young...

Aline J. Love

Aline Josephine Love, 83, of Providence Court, Apt. 401, 379 East St., died Monday at Laurel Lake Center for Health and Rehabilitation Center in Lee, where she had resided for a week. Born in...

Alexis Moka

Alexis Moka, 78, of 4668 Cates Avenue, Jacksonville, Fla., a native of Pittsfield, died Monday at Memorial Medical Center in Jacksonville. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 16, 1923, son of Stephen and...

Alan James Gay

Alan James Gay, 49, of 74 Porter St. died Monday at North Adams Regional Hospital after being stricken earlier at home. Born in North Adams on June 16, 1952, son of Lois Gay Roy of North Adams, he...

Vivian E. Wallach

Vivian Esner Wallach, 89, of New York City, mother of Laurence Wallach of Great Barrington, died Friday at Noble Horizons in Salisbury, Conn. Born in New York City on July 9, 1912, daughter of...

Ray D. Cowell

Ray D. Cowell, 84, of 168 Tolland Road died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. He served as a selectman from 1974 to 1980. Born in East Otis on Jan. 5, 1918, son of Robert and Mary...

Gary J. Skubel

Gary J. Skubel, 49, of 39 Wells Road died early Sunday morning at home, following a long illness. Born in Adams on Jan. 6, 1953, son of Thaddeus and Elaine Noel Skubel, he attended the former...

Franklin R. Scace

Franklin R. Scace, 90, formerly of 1150 Barker Road, died Saturday at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 14, 1912, son of Frank and Hanna Tierney Scace, he was a 1930 graduate of...

Donald J. Smith

Donald J. Smith, 70, of 24 Silver St. died Monday, Feb. 18, at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Conn., after a long illness. Born in Glen Ridge, N.J., on Nov. 9, 1931,...

David C. Walker

David Charles Walker, 33, of 55 High St. died Sunday at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, where he was airlifted earlier in the day following a brief illness. Born in...

Artso J. Bormolini

Artso John "Pat" Bormolini, 90, formerly of 42 Northern Lights Ave. and longtime resident of Ashland Street, died yesterday morning at Hillcrest Commons in Pittsfield. Born in West Stockbridge on...

Agnes Helen Tatro

Agnes H. Tatro, 83, of 4 Pines Lodge Park, died yesterday at Sweet Brook Care Center. Born in North Adams on March 24, 1918, daughter of John and Sadie Simon Tash, she moved to Williamstown as a...

Theresa Cahalan

Theresa A. Cahalan, 37, of 670 Cape St. died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield after suffering a heart attack. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 13, 1964, daughter of Robert Lorette and...

Rose A. Harrison

Rose A. Harrison, 74, of 25 Woodbine Ave. died yesterday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Great Barrington on April 24, 1927, daughter of Joseph T. and Nora Foley Rooney, she was a...