Obituaries

Theodore Cahill

Theodore J. Cahill Jr., 78, of 14 Howard St. died Sunday at home. Born in Pittsfield on April 7, 1924, son of Theodore J. Cahill Sr. and Nora Greenwood Cahill, he was a 1942 graduate of St....

Edward J. Barscz

Edward J. Barscz, 65, of 21 Highlawn Drive died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on July 21, 1936, son of John and Stella Stark Barscz, he graduated from Pittsfield High...

Dolores Saydlowski

Dolores Stella Saydlowski, 72, of 48 Doreen St. died Thursday evening at home. Born in Northampton on April 22, 1930, daughter of Constanti and Mary Regula Pronowicz, she graduated from...

Leonard Koscielniak

Leonard Koscielniak, 62, of Palm Harbor, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died Tuesday at Countryside Mease Hospital in Safety Harbor, Fla. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 13, 1939, son of Stanley and...

Irene Kelly

Irene Kelly, 100, of Berkshire Retirement Home died there Wednesday evening. She had been a longtime resident of 181 Elm St. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 16, 1901, daughter of William R. and Bridget...

Helen V. Petell

Helen Virginia Petell, 79, of Roanoke, Va., formerly of Lenox, died Wednesday at Lewis Gale Hospital in Roanoke. Born in Lenox on May 13, 1923, daughter of Maurice and Alice Hall Weiss, she...

Natale Cancilla

Natale "Nat" Cancilla, 93, of Alexandria, Va., died May 8 at Mount Vernon Nursing Center in Alexandria. Born Dec. 25, 1908, in Isnello, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, son of Mariano and Angela Mazzola...

Margaret E. Coyne

Margaret Eileen Coyne, 95, formerly of 91 Harvard St. and Melbourne Place died Tuesday afternoon at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on May 12, 1907, daughter of John T. and Margaret...

Elizabeth McGrath

Elizabeth E. McGrath, 82, of 43 Wahconah Heights died Sunday at the Great Barrington Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 24, 1920, daughter of Mortimer and Ora Hotailing...

Daniel F. Brophy

Daniel Francis Brophy, 69, of 67 Oak Street Ext. died Monday at Fairview Commons in Great Barrington, where he had resided since September 1998. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 3, 1932, son of John and...

William Hurt Jr.

William Coates Hurt Jr., 94, of Lenox died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Tuskegee, Ala., on Dec. 27, 1907, son of William C. Hurt Sr. and Vernon Hurt, he attended schools in...

Stella K. Wilk

Stella K. Wilk, 77, of 83 Harvard St. died Monday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 6, 1924, daughter of Lawrence and Mary Zaik Malcik, she was a 1942 graduate of Pittsfield High School. She...

Roy W. Schlegel

Roy W. Schlegel, 74, of 277 Bradford St. died Sunday at Kimball Farms in Lenox. Born in Worcester on Nov. 27, 1927, son of Joseph and Alodia Williams Schlegel, he attended schools there. He...

Georgette LeBeau

Georgette Olive LeBeau, 82, formerly of Longview Avenue, died Friday morning at Hillcrest Commons in Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on March 30, 1920, daughter of George A. and Mary Marcotte...

Francis Penna Sr.

Francis R. "Moose" Penna Sr., 74, died Saturday at home. Born in Pittsfield on March 21, 1928, son of Joseph and Elizabeth Sinopoli Penna, he was a graduate of Pittsfield High School. He was a...

Andrew Scherben

Andrew Scherben, 86, of Buffington Street, Taunton, formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday in Taunton. Born in Cornwall, Conn., son of John and Anastasia Sokoleska Scherben, he graduated from...

Richard Tierney

Richard D. Tierney, 65, of 26 Grace Terrace died Monday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 24, 1937, son of Peter W. and Judith E. Drennan Tierney, he was a 1954 graduate of St. Joseph's High...

Eric J. Weeks

Eric Jon Weeks, 54, of 56 Foundry Village Road, Colrain, formerly of Pittsfield, died yesterday morning at home after a short illness. He moved to Colrain in 1999. Born in Toledo, Ohio, on Oct. 7,...

A. Frederick Rohlfs Jr.

A. Frederick Rohlfs Jr., 64, of Monroe, N.J., formerly of Pittsfield, died yesterday at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J. Born in Lancaster, Pa., on June 12, 1937, son...

Esther L. Wilson

Esther L. Wilson, 83, of 82 Fort Hill Ave. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on May 5, 1919, daughter of Angelo and Elvira Lenzi Bondi, she was a graduate of Pittsfield...

William J. Foster

William J. Foster, 80, a resident of Pinehill at Kimball Farms, died Friday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility in Pittsfield, where he had resided for a short time. Born in Bridgeport,...

Walter Guiltinan

Walter "Bud" Guiltinan, 77, of Camarillo, Calif., formerly of Pittsfield, died Friday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 16, 1924, son of Walter Leo Guiltinan Sr. and Alice Purnell Guiltinan, he...

Helen L. Bannick

Helen Louise Bannick, 86, formerly of Rose Manor Apartments, died yesterday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided since 1996. Born in Brockton on Aug. 11, 1915, daughter of Joseph and Amelia...

David A. Connelly

David A. Connelly, 75, of Myrtle Beach, S.C., formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center in Myrtle Beach. Born in Cambridge on June 28, 1926, son of Edwin A. and...

Frederick Butler

Frederick D. Butler, 71, formerly of Francis Plaza, died Wednesday at Springside of Pittsfield, where he had lived for the past year. Born in Pittsfield on May 27, 1930, son of Laura Ethier Butler...