Obituaries

Sarah Rocca

Sarah Rocca, 78, of 72 Washington Mountain Road died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 8, 1923, daughter of John and Rose Valverde Martino, she attended local...

Nathan Suckman

Nathan L. Suckman, 71, of Majesty Circle, Boynton Beach, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday at Delray Hospital in Delray Beach, Fla. Born in Glens Falls, N.Y., on Oct. 14, 1930, son of...

Arlene J. Norton

Arlene J. Norton, 69, of 2 Post Road died yesterday morning at the home of her daughter in Stockbridge. Born in Jersey City, N.J., on June 30, 1932, daughter of Alfred K. and Jessie M. Kalbfleisch...

Joaquin A. Boino

Joaquin Augusto "Jack" Boino, 71, of 55 Eleanor Road died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 2, 1930, son of Thomas A. and Emilia do Ceu Gomes Cabral Boino, he was a...

Eleanor Charland

Eleanor Elaine Charland, 87, of 24 Dartmouth St. died Monday at the Center for Optimum Care, where she had resided since April 7. Born in Bingham, Maine, on May 31, 1914, daughter of Adelard and...

Laura M. Schilling

Laura May Schilling, 81, formerly of 12 Bushey Road, died Friday at Linda Manor Nursing Home in Leeds, where she had resided since last October. Born in Pittsfield on July 11, 1920, daughter of...

Julia A. Casella

Julia A. Casella, 88, formerly of Rose Manor Apartments, died Sunday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided for seven years. Born in Huntington on June 25, 1913, daughter of Joseph and Mary...

Delia Hatch

Delia Hatch, 88, of 31 Bradford St. died yesterday morning at Springside of Pittsfield, where she had resided for one day. Born in Claremont, N.H., on May 26, 1913, daughter of Joseph and...

William A. Lindsay

William A. Lindsay, 77, of 11 Wahconah Heights died Thursday at the Center for Optimum Care, where he had resided since June 2000. Born in Detroit on Oct. 31, 1924, son of William and Vera Allen...

Thomas Goyette

Thomas M. Goyette, 50, of Panama, Okla., a native of Pittsfield, died Monday at home of heart failure. Born Sept. 3, 1951, son of Gaston R. and Helen Benson Goyette, he attended Notre Dame...

Pierena Gardino

Pierena "Rena" Gardino, 93, formerly of The Curtis, 6 Main St., died Tuesday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided since May 1998. Born in Nizza, Province of Monferato, Italy, on Jan. 7,...

Phyllis Nadelmann

Phyllis Nadelmann, 91, of 88 Notch Hill Road, North Branford, Conn., died Sunday. She was the mother of Stephanie Beling of Richmond. Born Sept. 14, 1910, in Brooklyn, N.Y., daughter of Morris...

Mary Rixse

Mary Rixse, 86, of 75 Bellmore Drive died yesterday at Hillcrest Commons. Born in Pittsfield on March 17, 1916, daughter of John and Justine Iwanyczak Olekson, she attended Pittsfield High...

Mary L. Roberts

Mary L. Roberts, 97, formerly of 226 Lenox Ave., died Monday at Craneville Place of Dalton, where she resided for four years. Born in Pittsfield on May 16, 1904, daughter of Leon and Emilie...

Donna M. Ruhl

Donna M. Ruhl, 71, of 1913 Sylvan Park Drive, Burlington, N.J., died yesterday at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Hospital in Worcester. She was the mother of Jean E. Thompson of...

C. Bruce Lepisto

C. Bruce Lepisto, 57, of 1008 Jennifer Lane, Falls Church, Va., formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday at home of an apparent heart attack. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 28, 1944, son of Karl O....

Francis C. Tetlow

Francis C. Tetlow, 64, of 175 Elm St. died Monday afternoon at Springside of Pittsfield, where he had resided since 1999. Born in Pittsfield on April 11, 1938, son of George and Margaret Shea...

Bruce E. Coe

Bruce E. Coe, 52, of Lutz, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died April 24 at home. Born May 6, 1949, in Pittsfield, son of Vera C. Bemis Coe of Pitts-field and the late George E. Coe, he graduated...

Virginia Fielding

Virginia B. Fielding, 98, formerly of Morgan Manor, died Sunday morning at Laurel Lake Center in Lee, where she had resided since 1998. Born in Stockbridge on Feb. 4, 1904, daughter of Harry and...

Rose M. Ross

Rose M. Ross, 94, formerly of 379 East St., Providence Court Apartments, died yesterday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility, where she had resided since June 14, 1990. Born in Pittsfield on...

Ronald Greenleaf

Ronald L. Greenleaf Sr., 68, of 360 Onota St. died Saturday evening at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on April 29, 1933, son of Louis A. and Cora Blake Greenleaf, he attended local...

Robert A. Yerkes

Robert A. Yerkes, 54, of 272 View Drive died Saturday at Cooley-Dickinson Hospital in Northampton. An active member of the community, he was a former president of the Richmond Civic Association...

Lois E. Gian

Lois E. Gian, 70, of 11 South Carolina Ave. died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 14, 1931, daughter of Leon and Mildred Crocker Pike, she was a 1949 graduate of...

June E. Henault

June E. Henault, 84, formerly of 69 Perrine Ave., died Sunday evening at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided since January. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 26, 1917, daughter of John and Madeline...

Janet L. Beaman, 86

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Janet Lamont Beaman, 86, of 11 Michael Drive died Monday, April 29, 2002, at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 9, 1916, daughter of Alfred V. and Annie...