Obituaries

Marylin F. Kelly

Marylin F. Kelly, 65, of 30 Florence St. died Monday at home. She was the mother of state Rep. Shaun P. Kelly of Dalton. Born in North Adams on Sept. 30, 1936, daughter of Francis and Gladys...

Joan Fisher

Joan Fisher, 70, of Bradford Arms Apartments died Saturday at Optimum Care. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 4, 1931, daughter of Albert C. and Marguerite Leitch Gilligan, she moved to Adams at a...

Dorotha M. Logan

Dorotha M. Logan, 93, of 23 Livingston Ave. died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Saratoga, N.Y., on June 29, 1908, daughter of Thomas H. and Dora Robbins Logan, she was a 1927 graduate...

Betty N. Turetsky

Betty N. Turetsky, 86, of 329 Pittsfield Road died Sunday evening at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sept. 8, 1915, daughter of Joseph and Yetta Wicker Beck, she...

Vincent Sanginetti

Vincent F. "GiGi" Sanginetti, 75, of 325 Fenn St. died Saturday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 1, 1926, son of Dominic and Mary Pullaro Sanginetti, he attended local schools. He graduated...

Mary Shepardson

Mary R. Shepardson, 85, of 8 Lebanon Ave. died yesterday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on May 26, 1916, daughter of John E. and Irene Broderick McDonough, she was a 1934...

Clinton J. Frissell

Clinton J. Frissell, 90, of 40 Bingham St. died yesterday at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Hinsdale on Aug. 18, 1911, son of Thomas A. and Grace Jordan Frissell, he attended schools there and...

Arthur F. Brooks

Arthur F. Brooks, 88, of Pomeroy Manor died Wednesday at Craneville Place in Dalton, where he had resided since January. Born in Lanesboro on Oct. 21, 1913, son of Charles and Alice Beattie...

William E. Fahey

William E. Fahey, 85, of 44 Egremont Ave. died Tuesday at Springside of Pittsfield, where he had resided since October. Born in Pittsfield on April 11, 1916, son of Lawrence and Anna Moynihan...

Janet Cheney

Janet Cheney, 68, of 360 West Housatonic St. died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center, where she was admitted Sunday. She was a former resident of 312 Walnut St., North Adams. Born in Reading, Pa.,...

Edrie G. Russell

Edrie G. Russell, 97, formerly of 179 Curtis Ave., died Sunday at Craneville Place, where she had resided since August 2000. Born in Dalton on Jan. 19, 1905, daughter of Calvin and Rose Goodermote...

Sonya Wessel

Sonya Wessel, 76, of 98 Golden Hill Road died Friday morning at home. Born in New York City on Jan. 27, 1926, daughter of Joseph O. and Ruth Boardman Chassell, she was raised in Rochester, N.Y.,...

Frank Pakiela Jr.

Frank R. Pakiela Jr., 77, of 147 Alfred Drive died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., on April 21, 1924, son of Franciszek and Martha Kacikowska Pakiela, he graduated...

Dr. Christopher Mamonas

Dr. Christopher Mamonas, 87, of Brewster, formerly of Pittsfield, died Wednesday at the home of his caregiver in Hyannis, where he had resided since 1982. Born in Haverhill on June 4, 1914, son of...

Paul F. Smith

Paul F. Smith, 82, of 22 Whittier Ave. died yesterday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 30, 1919, son of Harry A. and Mary Ellis Smith, he graduated in 1937 from...

Bertha Burns

Bertha Burns, 96, formerly of 44 Copley Terrace and 153 South St., and most recently of 99 Second St., died Wednesday afternoon at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in New York, N.Y., on Dec. 22,...

Agnes H. Squires

Agnes Hayes Parslow Squires, 90, formerly of First Street, died Wednesday evening at Springside of Pittsfield, where she had resided since March 17, 2000. She had previously resided at Senior Lodge,...

Louise C. Brower

Louise C. Brower, 77, of 169 Valentine Road died Wednesday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided for more than two years. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 27, 1925, daughter of William and Cora...

John Silen

John Silen, 76, of 94 Cromwell Ave. died Tuesday morning at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Albany, N.Y. Born in Pittsfield on April 5, 1925, son of Kuzma and Mary Kasuba Silen, he...

Gladys R. Bartlett

Gladys Ruth Bartlett, 95, formerly of Jolindy Road, died Tuesday at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 27, 1906, she was one of 14 children born to John Henry and Harriet Hall...

June J. Allison

June Janet Allison, 77, of , formerly of Pittsfield, died March 7 in Reno, Nev. Born in Reading, Pa., on May 11, 1924, daughter of Leroy and Hannah Ruth, she received her nursing degree from the...

James F. Gibbons

James F. Gibbons, 77, of 39 Joan Drive, a longtime school administrator and educator, died Monday morning at his daughter's home in Wayland. Born in Clinton on April 25, 1924, son of James F....

James Duquette

James H. Duquette, 59, of 15 Pine St. died Tuesday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on June 16, 1942, son of John W. and S. Florence Hickey Duquette, he was a 1960 graduate...

Charles H. Vickery

Charles H. Vickery, 96, of North Quidnessett Road, North Kingstown, R.I., formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday at Scalabrini Villa in North Kingston, R.I. Born in Pittsfield on May 17, 1905, son...

John Provencher

John Wallace Provencher Sr., 68, of 66 South John St. died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 9, 1933, son of Ephriam and Dorothy Ellis Provencher, he was a graduate...