Obituaries

Allan J. Hoskeer

Allan J. Hoskeer, 70, of 68 Burke Ave. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center after a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on May 28, 1935, son of Irving and Viola Pelkey Hoskeer, he was a 1954...

Catherine A. Cooney

Catherine A. Cooney, 94, formerly of 12 Maple St., died Sunday evening at Springside of Pittsfield, where she had resided for four years. Born in Lenox on Oct. 19, 1911, daughter of John J. and...

Alice Cecelia Carrigan

Alice Cecelia Carrigan, 82, of 584 East St. died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on May 15, 1923, daughter of Francis and Mary Grace Pelissier Carrigan, she was a graduate...

Laura Alexander

Laura Alexander, 96, of Paisley Terrace died Saturday at home. Born in New York City on Oct. 28, 1909, daughter of Israel and Frieda Linder, she was educated and attended design schools in New...

Barbara Ellen Sedgwick

Barbara Ellen Sedgwick, 75, of 109 Housatonic St. died Saturday at home. Born in Pittsfield on May 12, 1930, daughter of Allen J. and Olla Graham McIntyre, she was a 1947 graduate of Pittsfield...

Richard John Masefield

Richard John Masefield, 50, of 11 Cardinal St. died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 13, 1955, son of Gladys Westover Masefield Frank and the late John A....

Richard R. "Rip" Vanasse Jr.

Richard R. "Rip" Vanasse Jr., 59, of Furnace Colony Drive, Pembroke, a native of Pittsfield, died yesterday at Tufts-NEMC Hospital after a long illness. Born on Dec. 25, 1946, son of Richard R....

Barbara A. Soule

Barbara A. Soule, 72, of 46 Merriam St. died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 10, 1933, daughter of Francis and Laura Fiehrer Duggan, she was a 1951 graduate of...

Joan A. Phelan

Joan A. Phelan, 62, of 6 Bow Center Road, Bow, N.H., died Friday at Kindred Hospital of Boston/Northshore in Peabody, following a long illness. She left the Berkshires in 2002. Born in...

Margaret T. McKeever

Margaret T. McKeever, 94, of 379 East St. died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 26, 1911, daughter of John and Agnes Tully Fitzgerald, she graduated in 1928 from St....

Charles John "Jack" Quinlan

Charles John "Jack" Quinlan, 57, of 30193 Destiny Drive, Murrieta, Calif., died Monday at Scripps Hospital in Encinitas, Calif. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 14, 1948, son of the late John F. and...

Emily B. Olsen

Emily B. Olsen, 97, formerly of 54 Alden Ave., died Friday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided since July 2002. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 21, 1908, daughter of Irving and Ellen Morris...

Kenneth E. Murrell

Kenneth E. Murrell, 66, of 81 Appletree Lane died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Carthage, Mo., on April 14, 1939, son of Mildred Edmondson Murrell and the late Keith A. Murrell, he...

Guido R. "Guy" Masiero

Guido R. "Guy" Masiero, 81, of 45 Taconic Ave. died Friday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 30, 1924, son of Dominico and Antonia Guarda Masiero, he grew up...

Charlotte R. Gardner

Charlotte R. Gardner, 77, of 39 Gale Ave. died Friday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided since April 2005. Born in Canaan, Conn., on March 26, 1928, daughter of Ellen Drumm VandeBogart...

The Rev. Stephen Ward Turrell

The Rev. Stephen Ward Turrell, 87, of Duxbury, formerly of Pittsfield, died yesterday at the Radius Health Care Center in Plymouth after a long illness. Born in Hempstead, N.Y., on Aug. 15, 1918,...

Eloise Maloney

Eloise Maloney, 94, of Lenox, formerly of Charlestown, Scituate and Cohasset, died Monday at the Providence Care Center in Lenox. Born Dec. 10, 1911, in Charlestown, daughter of James Peter and...

Margaret Elizabeth Marshall

Margaret Elizabeth Marshall, 79, of 49 Putnam Ave. and a longtime summer resident of Pontoosuc Lake, died Sunday evening at her home. Born in Pittsfield, Dec. 11, 1926, daughter of Thomas J. and...

Dr. Richard J. Lynch

Dr. Richard J. Lynch, 71, died on Sunday at Brigham and Woman's Hospital in Boston, following a brief illness. Born in Rome, N.Y., on June 29, 1934, son of William and Anna Lynch, he graduated...

Kathleen R. Dudziak

Kathleen R. Dudziak, 55, of 592 Peru Road died at her home on Monday. Born in Manchester, N.H., on Nov. 1, 1950, daughter of the former Shirley MacPherson Huot of Dalton and the late Joseph Huot,...

Kenneth H. Tuttle

Kenneth H. Tuttle, 79, of 892 Southbridge Road, Warren, died Thursday at Harrington Memorial Hospital. His daughter, Kathleen Cota, lives in Pittsfield. Born 1926 in Warren, son of Kenneth W....

Harold Joseph Sweeney

Harold Joseph Sweeney, 82, of 105 Lenox Ave., and longtime former resident of Tucker St. in Lenox, died Friday at Springside of Pittsfield, where he had resided since March, 2005. Born on Feb. 2,...

Franklin Wilson Ragsdale Jr.

Franklin Wilson Ragsdale Jr., 72, of 261 Dewey Ave. died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Hudson, N.Y., on March 17, 1933, son of Franklin W. Ragsdale Sr. and Sarah Porter Ragsdale,...

Claire Woods

Claire Woods, 85, of 40 Sunset Ave. died Monday morning at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center. Born in New York City on Aug. 29, 1920, daughter of Edward and Charlotte Warren Streeter, she...

Robert Louis Hunt

Robert Louis Hunt, 58, of 45 Plunkett Reservoir Road died yesterday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 8, 1947, son of Gladys Smith Hunt Lennon and the late Robert E. Hunt, he was educated in...