Obituaries

Timothy M. Sheldon

Timothy M. Sheldon, 65, of 46 Bartlett Ave. and Tophill Farm, Devon Road, Lee, died Sunday while undergoing surgery at Berkshire Medical Center. He had been selected as Pittsfield’s poet...

Grace G. Jakacky

Grace G. Jakacky, 78, of 35 Wagner Drive, Orono, Maine, formerly of North Street, died Monday morning at Ross Manor in Bangor, Maine. Born in Kingman, Maine, on Oct. 2, 1924, daughter of Joseph...

Mabel E. Gilardi

Mabel E. Gilardi, 89, died yesterday morning at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided for two years. Born in Pittsfield on March 25, 1914, daughter of Anton B. and Martha M. Olsen Olsen, she...

Stephen Peter Naprava

Stephen Peter Naprava, 90, of 310 Lenox Ave. died Friday evening at Craneville Place of Dalton, where he had resided since October 1999. Born in Adams on May 17, 1913, son of Stanislaw and...

Edna A. Mills

Edna A. Mills, 86, died Saturday evening at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility in Pittsfield, where she had resided since April 2002. Born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., on June 4, 1917, daughter of...

Lori Jean Killmaier

Lori Jean Killmaier, 45, of Altamonte Springs, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died Saturday after being stricken at home. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 6, 1957, the daughter of Jeanne Vincent...

Concetta Mary Kellar, 87

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Concetta Mary "Connie" Kellar, 87, of 52 Burke Ave. died June 23, 2003, at Berkshire Place on South Street, where she had resided since January 2002. Born in Pittsfield...

Paul Joseph Capitanio Jr

Paul Joseph Capitanio Jr., 21, of 106 Parkside Ave. died Sunday at home. Born in Pittsfield on March 23, 1982, son of Paul J. Capitanio Sr. and Beth E. Taylor Capitanio, he was a 2000 graduate of...

Anne D. Roche

Anne D. Roche, 85, of Housatonic Street died yesterday afternoon at Providence Care Center, where she had resided since January. Born in Nashua, N.H., on Oct. 5, 1917, daughter of Bartholomew and...

Olive Marion Clark

Olive Marion Clark, 80, of Westminster Road died Saturday afternoon at home. Born in New York City on April 25, 1923, daughter of Earle B. and Mildred Ziegler Roberts, she was a 1939 graduate of...

Margaret H. “Peggy” Stracuzzi

Margaret H. “Peggy” Stracuzzi, 67, of 15 Zoar St. died Friday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 14, 1935, daughter of John Frederick Lummus Sr. and...

Lonnie Wayne King

Lonnie Wayne King, 52, of 240 Francis Ave. died Thursday morning at home after a long illness. Born in Lexington, Va., on Nov. 10, 1950, son of Myrtle M. Bannister King and the late Lloyd L. King...

William D. Frommer

William D. Frommer, 49, of 185 Blue Heron Drive, Portsmouth, N.H., died Thursday, June 19, at the Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine, as the result of an accident on a construction project....

Lena Agnes Testa

Lena Agnes Testa, 86, of 58 Salisbury Court, died Wednesday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility, where she had resided since August 2000. Born in Pittsfield on March 23, 1917, daughter of...

Stanley M. Shapiro

Stanley M. Shapiro, 88, of 81 Appleton Ave., died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in North Adams on Nov. 5, 1914, son of Samuel and Annie Kronick Shapiro, he was educated in North...

James C. Speller

James C. Speller, 68, of 11 Cherry St. died Monday morning at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Windsor, N.C., on Oct. 10, 1934, son of Bradshaw and Ophelia Holley Speller, he attended schools in...

Jane Sokop

Jane Sokop, 88, of Oak Hill Road died yesterday morning at home. Born in Troy, N.Y., on Aug. 28, 1914, daughter of John and Margaret Gilligan Maloney, she was a graduate Catholic Central High...

Ruth R. Malins

Ruth R. Malins, 88, of 52 Spadina Parkway died Tuesday afternoon at home. Born in Norwalk, Conn., on Jan. 27, 1915, daughter of Charles and Clara Johnson Reddy, she was a graduate of schools...

Seigelinde Ingrid Leach

Seigelinde Ingrid Leach, 61, formerly of 44 Yorkshire Ave., died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. She had been a resident of Hillcrest Commons for 2 1/2 years. Born in Aussig, Germany, on...

George J. Quadrozzi

George J. Quadrozzi, 85, of 50 Highview Drive died yesterday at home. Born in Pittsfield on March 17, 1918, son of Joseph and Theresa R. Pullano Quadrozzi, he was a 1936 graduate of Pittsfield...

Thomas D. Wallace

Thomas D. Wallace, 73, of 81 Palomino Drive died Sunday at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. Born in North Bergen, N.J., on Sept. 29, 1929, son of Thomas D. and Mary...

Anthony Joseph Frada

Anthony Joseph Frada, 85, of 159 Union St. died Saturday at Hillcrest Commons, where he had resided for a year. Born in Tripi, Sicily, Italy, on Aug. 25, 1917, son of Joseph and Anna Leto Frada,...

Christopher J. Bernard

Christopher J. Bernard, 42, of 105 Sherwood Drive died Saturday afternoon at Berkshire Medical Center from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident on Merrill Road in Pittsfield. Born in...

Alice Bates

Alice Bates, 86, of 45 Main St. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Websterville, Vt., on Sept. 2, 1916, daughter of Jean Baptiste and Matilda Decoteau Beaulieu, she was educated...

Mary Morton Whitney

Mary Morton Whitney, 81, died Wednesday at Genesis Elder Care in Lebanon, N.H. She and her late husband, Clifford L. Whitney, lived in Dalton for many years. Born in Mechanic Falls, Maine, on...