Obituaries

John Schermerhorn

John W. Schermerhorn, 88, of 1629 Blue Heron Lane, Fernandina Beach, Fla., formerly of 176 Columbus Ave., died Thursday at home. Born in Jersey City, N.J., on Oct. 19, 1913, son of William and...

Agnes Plotczyk

Agnes Stanislaus Plotczyk, 88, of 59 Churchill Crest died Monday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided for the past four days. Born in Webster on Jan. 15, 1914, daughter of Andrew and...

Walter A. Britten

Walter A. "Bud" Britten, 62, of 95 Strong Ave. died Saturday evening at Berkshire Medical Center after a long illness. Born in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., on Aug. 9, 1939, son of John H. and Jeanne...

Richard A. Bailey

Richard Albert Bailey, 85, of Columbia, S.C., a native of Pittsfield, died Friday at Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital in Columbia. Born on March 28, 1916, son of Albert C. and Susan Webster...

Lawrence J. Lamy

Lawrence J. Lamy, 97, of 4 Juliana Drive died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 24, 1904, son of George Lamy and Evaline Dery Lamy Archey, he attended local...

James J. Brennan

James Joseph Brennan, 49, of 73 Daly Ave. died Sunday morning at Berkshire Medical Center after being stricken at home. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 31, 1952, son of Donald J. and Mary Miller...

Francis C. Hanny

Francis Carroll Hanny, 83, of 140 Melbourne Road died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center after a short illness. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Feb. 5, 1919, son of Francis J. and Regina Phelan...

Christine Molleur

Christine Alice Molleur, 55, of 423 Hubbard Ave. died yesterday at home after a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 2, 1946, daughter of Charles J. and Alice Brown Grizey, she was a 1965...

Ward Calebaugh

Ward S. Calebaugh, 91, of 53 Elmer Ave. died Wednesday evening at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center in Lenox. Born in Antioch, Ohio, on March 16, 1910, son of David and Rachel Bonar Calebaugh, he...

Walter A. Britten

Walter A. "Bud" Britten, 62, of 95 Strong Ave. died Saturday evening at Berkshire Medical Center after a long illness. Born in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., on Aug. 9, 1939, son of John H. and Jeanne...

Rita M. Parise

Rita M. Parise, 74, of 11 Oriole St. died Saturday at Providence Care Center in Lenox, where she was admitted Jan. 31. Born in North Adams on Oct. 18, 1927, daughter of Frank and Mary Morini...

Richard A. Bailey

Richard Albert Bailey, 85, of Columbia, S.C., a native of Pittsfield, died Friday at Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital in Columbia. Born on March 28, 1916, son of Albert C. and Susan Webster...

George Howland

George W. "Sliver" Howland, 86, died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. He had resided at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility for 1 1/2 years. Born in Stillwater, N.Y., on April 16, 1915, son...

Elizabeth Conry

Elizabeth W. Conry, 89, of 87 Harvard St. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Hoosick Falls, N.Y., on May 16, 1912, daughter of Merrill and Eleanor Humphrey Powell, she moved to...

Normand Marcoux

Normand Edwin Marcoux, 79, of 51 McKinley Terrace died Feb. 22 at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Stoke, Quebec, on April 14, 1922, son of Adelard and Mary Jane Fredette Marcoux, he came to the...

Larry R. Navin

Larry R. Navin, one-month-old son of Robert and Deborah McKinley Navin, died yesterday at Albany Medical Center in Albany, N.Y. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 13, he leaves his parents; a brother,...

Josephine P. Benz

Josephine P. Benz, 91, of 176 Columbus Ave. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center following a short illness. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 26, 1911, daughter of Giacomo and Albina Pia Pia, she...

Joan Marie Myers

Joan Marie Myers, 51, of 353 Cheshire Road died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on July 3, 1950, daughter of Francis P. and Rosella M. Wall McGee of Pittsfield, she was a...

Simeon Decelles

Simeon H. Decelles, 90, of 87 Quirico Drive died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 12, 1912, son of Joseph A.O. and Victoria Rheaume Decelles, he was a 1930 graduate...

Sherry Russell

Sherry Phillips Quick Russell, 53, of 215 Crescent Circle, Cheshire, Conn., formerly of Dalton, died Sunday at home. Born in Charlotte, N.C., on May 9, 1948, daughter of Vanda Phillips Reeb of...

Alfred Schirmer

Alfred N. Schirmer, 88, formerly of Pine Grove Manor, died yesterday at Four Corners Health Care Center in Durango, Colo., where he had resided for more than a year. Born in London on Oct. 29,...

Madeline Dillon

Madeline M. Dillon, 94, of 320 Pittsfield Road died Sunday evening at Providence Care Center of Lenox, where she had resided for 2 1/2 years. Born on May 31, 1907 in Pittsfield, daughter of David...

Gilmore T. Schjeldahl

Gilmore Tilmen "Shelly" Schjeldahl, 89, of Devonshire Estates, 329 Pittsfield Road, died Sunday evening at home. Born in Esmond, N.D., on June 1, 1912, son of Ole C. and Anna Bentley Schjeldahl,...

Evan A. Giaquinta

Evan Arthur Giaquinta, 20, of 5194 Hemingway Circle, Naples, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died March 2 in Naples. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 7, 1981, son of Charles L. and JoAnne Serelis...

Chester Brodalski

Chester John Brodalski, 83, of 117 Meadowview Drive died Sunday afternoon at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Adams on March 15, 1918, son of Joseph and Victoria Belch Brodalski, he was a 1936...