Obituaries

Francis M. Legge

Francis Michael "Bud" Legge, 74, of 1331 Southpalm Way, Lake Worth, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died Saturday at home. He had resided in Lake Worth for many years. He moved to Florida in the late...

Zigmond Murawski

Zigmond M. Murawski, 89, of 5 Pacific St. died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. He had been a resident of Hillcrest Commons for two years. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 11, 1913, son of Michael...

Edward Szakal

Edward Szakal, 80, of 111 Pleasant St. died Saturday morning at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Akron, Ohio, on May 18, 1921, son of Paul and Helen Farkas Szakal, he attended...

Ruth E. Popovich

Ruth Emerson Popovich, 80, of 25615 Troon Ave., Mount Plymouth, Fla., formerly of Dalton, died April 5. Born in Dalton on Jan. 2, 1922, daughter of Philip H. and Alberta Price Emerson, she...

James Litourneau

James H. Litourneau Jr., 31, of 313 Tyler St. died Wednesday in Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 4, 1970, son of Elaine Kickery Litourneau Bigelow and the late James H. Litourneau Sr., he...

Alice A. Liccardi

Alice Ann Liccardi, 65, of 60 Dutchess Ave. died Wednesday in Stamford, Vt., at the home of her brother, Frank Alfonso. Born in Pittsfield on April 10, 1937, daughter of Frank and Domenica Lapi...

Thomas A. Simon

Thomas A. Simon, 82, of 65 Columbus Ave., formerly of 42 Doreen St., died Tuesday evening at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Fall River on June 7, 1919, son of Ferris and Jamily Coury Simon, he...

Patricia McHugh

Patricia C. McHugh, 67, of 100 Inverness Place, Syracuse, N.Y., a native of Pittsfield, died Monday at James Square Nursing Home. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 14, 1934, daughter of Cora Harder...

F. Richard Drennan

F. Richard Drennan, 80, of 59 Holmes Road died Monday evening in Hartford, Conn., following an auto accident. Born in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 16, 1922, son of Richard Patrick and Margaret G....

Cecelia D. Dondi

Cecelia D. Dondi, 102, of Buena Park, Calif., formerly of Pittsfield, died April 14 at home. Born June 1, 1899, in Curigula, Italy, daughter of Constantine and Rosa Rossi Dellea, she attended...

Carolyn 'Carrie' Bak

Carolyn "Carrie" Bak, 90, formerly of 287 Dewey Ave., died yesterday at Hillcrest Commons. Born in Ludlow on Feb. 24, 1912, daughter of Louis and Aniela Obozut Neils, she attended Immaculate...

Wilfred Lee West

Wilfred Lee "Jed" West, 58, of Summerville, S.C., formerly of Pittsfield, died March 31 at Medical University of South Carolina after a long illness. Born in Summerville on Sept. 6, 1943, son of...

Mary Ann Bulsa

Mary Ann Bulsa, 70, of 3 Cutler Road, Hudson, N.H., formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center in Nashua, N.H. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 19, 1931, daughter of...

Kathleen Graffagnino-Sawyer

Kathleen A. Graffagnino-Sawyer, 43, of Buena Vista St., Unionville, Conn., formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday at John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington, Conn., after losing a two-year battle with...

Isabel R. O'Hearn

Isabel R. O'Hearn, 93, formerly of 38 Wahconah Heights, died yesterday at Hillcrest Commons. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 15, 1908, daughter of Neil and Henriette Zwingelstein Newton, she spent her...

Helen M. Koenig

Helen M. Koenig, 77, of Rose Manor Apartments, 195 Elberon Ave., died Saturday evening at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Hoosick Falls, N.Y., on March 2, 1925, daughter of Arthur and Hazel...

Frank M. Pupo

Frank M. Pupo, 86, of 66 Circular Ave., former councilor at large, three-term Ward 6 councilor, School Committee chairman and member of the Pittsfield Housing Authority, died Saturday at Hillcrest...

Mary P. Cardozo

Mary P. Cardozo, 85, of 2000 Knoxville Drive, Bedford, Texas, a former resident of Pittsfield, died Friday at home. Born in Lisbon, Portugal, on Dec. 15, 1916, daughter of John and Lucinda...

William F. Ellis

William F. Ellis, 70, of Bradford, Vt., formerly of Pittsfield, died April 3 at Brookside Nursing Home in Bradford after a long illness. Born Sept. 5, 1931, in Peabody, son of Delma W. and Eunice...

Grace Hatt

Grace Hatt, 89, of 151 Sleepy Hollow Drive died Wednesday at home. Born in Edmeston, N.Y., on May 3, 1912, daughter of Bert A. and Leta Cummings VanVant, she was a graduate of Sidney (N.Y.) High...

Emma Wert

Emma Wert, 90, died Wednesday at Laurel Lake Center in Lee, where she had resided since February 2000. She was the mother of the Rev. Arthur Kaufman of Sheffield. Born in Roslyn, N.Y., on July 13,...

Patricia Verchot

Patricia Frances Verchot, 77, formerly of Rose Manor, died Tuesday at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Newark, N.J., on Jan 11, 1925, daughter of Patrick Doyle and Martha Doyle Mulvihill, she...

Loretta Marchetti

Loretta Marchetti, 86, of 200 Benedict Road died Tuesday at Springside of Pittsfield, where she had been admitted March 3, 2000. Born in Pico, Province of Frosinone, Italy, on Dec. 28, 1915,...

Leona E. Lussier

Leona Elizabeth Lussier, 75, of 15 Kirkwood Drive died yesterday morning at home following a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on June 9, 1926, daughter of Frederick and Catherine Eagan Poopor, she...

Shirley A. Bell

Shirley A. Bell, 64, of Winter Haven, Fla., a native of Pittsfield, died Friday at Good Shepherd Hospice in Auburndale, Fla. Born Feb. 6, 1938, daughter of Raymond and Orette Duchesneau Mayo, she...