Obituaries

Francis P. Rodrigues

Francis P. Rodrigues, 82, of 14 Ensign Ave. died Saturday evening at home. Born in Taunton on Nov. 27, 1921, son of John and Hilda Luz Rodrigues, he was a 1941 graduate of Pittsfield High...

Sophie S. O'Neil

Sophie S. O'Neil, 86, formerly of 29 Crossin Terrace, died yesterday morning at Providence Care Center in Lenox. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 12, 1917, daughter of Gustave and Stella Zaremba...

Leon E. Duval

Leon E. Duval, 66, of 82 Clifton St., Cambridge, a native of Pittsfield, died Friday at home. Born on Aug. 28, 1927, son of Frances Persip Duval and the late Leon Duval, he was a 1955 graduate of...

Gary Allen Tate

Gary Allen Tate, 50, of 10 Poplar Ave., Shalimar, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died June 29 at home after a battle with lung cancer. Born in Pittsfield on March 8, 1954, son of Wade D. and Betty...

Marguerite Marie Rand

Marguerite Marie Rand, 80, of 4 Claire Place died Sunday evening at home. Born in Adams on June 12, 1924, daughter of Alfred and Georgette Marin Mouhat, she was a graduate of the former Adams...

Ethel Rita Kellar

Ethel Rita Kellar, 84, of 36 Sunset St. died yesterday morning at Craneville Place of Dalton, where she had resided for eight months. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 13, 1920, daughter of John P. and...

Elaine Elizabeth Krouse

Elaine Elizabeth Krouse, 84, of the Village at Laurel Lake in Lee died Saturday morning at Laurel Lake Center for Health and Rehabilitation. She was a former resident of Day Street and of...

Edwin W. Kingston Sr

Edwin W. Kingston Sr., 50, of 226 First St. died yesterday at home. Born in Great Barrington on July 24, 1953, son of Arthur J. and Jennie L. Jackson Kingston, he moved to Pittsfield in 1958 and...

Pauline Baldwin

Pauline Baldwin, 87, of North Charleston, S.C., formerly of Pittsfield, died Tuesday at Trident Medical Center in North Charleston. Born July 3, 1917, in Pittsfield, she was the daughter of...

Irving Schechtman

Irving Schechtman, 88, formerly of 318 Onota St., died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. He had resided in Pittsfield since 2000. Born in New York City on March 13, 1916, son of Sam and...

Donald Russell McGown

Donald Russell McGown, 79, of 329 Pittsfield Road, Devonshire Estates, died Tuesday morning at home. He had resided in Lenox for the past six years. Born in Lewiston, Maine, on Dec. 16, 1924,...

Robert Bartlett Burbank

Robert Bartlett Burbank, 67, of 364 Hinsdale Road died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 4, 1937, son of William J. and Thelma M. Bartlett Burbank, he was a 1955...

Constance T. "Connie" Altobelli

Constance T. "Connie" Altobelli, 73, of 79 Velma Ave. died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center following a short illness. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 27, 1930, daughter of John and Maude Beck...

Madelyn May Robertson

Madelyn May Robertson, 92, of Rosewood Assisted Living died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Lee on Jan. 14, 1912, daughter of Carl and Lillian Brush Elsensohn, she attended schools...

Helen B. "Miss Mac" McNaughton

Helen B. "Miss Mac" McNaughton, 96, of 4550 Willow Bend Drive, Melbourne, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died yesterday morning at home. Born in Pittsfield on April 12, 1908, daughter of John D....

Leo R. McFarland

Leo R. McFarland, 81, formerly of Pittsfield, died June 23 at St. Vincent's Hospital in Worcester. He had resided at a nursing home in Worcester for three years. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 19,...

Charles Antoine Laframboise

Charles Antoine Laframboise, 94, of 36 Hamlin St. died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in North Adams on May 22, 1910, son of Francois and Caroline Gregoire Laframboise, his family moved...

Edward D. Sullivan

Edward D. Sullivan, 85, of Hanover, N.H., formerly of Pittsfield, died Monday at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. Born in Boston on May 3, 1919, son of John P. and Ellen T....

Alan B. Stephens

Alan B. Stephens, 94, of Walker Street died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Cranston, R.I., on July 7, 1909, son of Bradford and Annie Bower Stephens, he grew up in...

Lida Spofford

Lida Spofford, 95, of Kimball Farms died Saturday at home. She was a businesswoman, local civic leader and community volunteer for more than 50 years. Born in Lower Montague, Prince Edward...

William Francis Pidgin Jr

William Francis Pidgin Jr., 55, of 235 Eddy St., San Francisco, a native of Pittsfield, died Friday at home, following a long illness. Born June 4, 1949, son of Dorothy A. Brown Pidgin of...

Bertha J. Payne

Bertha J. Payne, 68, of 120 Onota St. died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Orange, Vt., on Oct. 11, 1935, daughter of Wesley and Clara Carleton North, she was educated in schools in...

Louis Menin

Louis Menin, 89, of 26 Allessio St. died yesterday at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 14, 1914, son of Angelo and Rose Tezza Menin, he was a graduate of Pittsfield High...

Lewis E. Knollmeyer

Lewis E. Knollmeyer, 95, of Pocasset, a former resident of Pittsfield, died Friday at Falmouth Hospital. Born in Schenectady, N.Y., in November 1908, son of Louis F. and Kathryn Ryan Knollmeyer,...

Marilyn J. "Lynn" Frongillo

Marilyn J. "Lynn" Frongillo, 71, of 400 Forest Hill Drive, Littleton, N.C., died Wednesday while viewing Lake Irene in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. She had also resided at Sun-N-Fun...