Obituaries

John A. Garstang

John A. Garstang, 56, of 92 Baker St. died Wednesday at his home. Born in Pittsfield, son of John C. and Ruth K. McNamara Garstang, he attended Pittsfield schools, graduating from Pittsfield High...

Joyce S. Brezniak

Joyce S. Brezniak, 70, of Northborough, formerly of Pittsfield, died yesterday at Whittier Rehabilitation Hospital in Westborough. Born in Webster on June 9, 1935, daughter of Leo and Helen...

Grace Willbrant

Grace Willbrant, 97, formerly of Melbourne Place and 23 Egremont Ave., died Thursday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided for 12 days. Born in Preston, England, on April 20, 1908, daughter...

Pauline T. Raser

Pauline T. Raser, 94, of 40 Sunset Ave. died Saturday, Jan. 14, at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in New Bedford on Feb. 9, 1911, daughter of Agnes Presnel, she was educated at Canton Hospital...

Robert M. "Dutch" DeWinkeleer Sr.

Robert M. "Dutch" DeWinkeleer Sr., 74, of 34 Paula Ave. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in New Brunswick, N.J., on June 20, 1931, son of Alphonse and Frances Uhor...

Thelma H. Smith

Thelma H. Smith, 91, of 792 East St. died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 23, 1914, daughter of William R. and Augusta Adams Eldridge, she was educated in...

Dahlia M. "Dee" Conway

Dahlia M. "Dee" Conway, 99, of Sugar Hill, Main Street, died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center. A former resident of Pittsfield, she had resided at Sugar Hill for four years. Born in New...

Sarah C. Taylor

Sarah C. Taylor, 91, of Melbourne Place Assisted Living Community, 140 Melbourne Road, died at home yesterday morning. Born in Roxbury, MA on Jan. 28, 1914, daughter of Annie Cohen and Simon...

Joseph E. "Ernie" Lanoue

Joseph E. "Ernie" Lanoue, 85, of 14 Joan Drive died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in North Adams on Aug. 8, 1920, son of William and Alvina Girard Lanoue, he attended schools...

Dorothea B. Gary

Dorothea B. Gary, 69, a resident of Hillcrest Commons, died Wednesday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 18, 1936, daughter of the late Ernest and Elizabeth Haumuller...

Janet W. Johnson

Janet W. Johnson, 92, of Melbourne Place died Monday at Providence Care Center in Lenox, where she had resided since November 2005. Born in Schenectady, N.Y., on Aug. 16, 1913, daughter of Edward...

Helen J. Burke

Helen J. Burke, 92, formerly of Deming Street, died Monday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility. Born in Pittsfield on July 21, 1913, she was the daughter of the Charles and Eva Galok Gerwaski...

Irving M. Lazerus

Irving M. Lazerus, 88, formerly of Pittsfield and Boca Raton, Fla., died Sunday at Doctors Health Center in Dallas, where he had resided for 10 years. Born in Springfield on Aug. 2, 1917, son of...

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...