Obituaries

Rosamond Hall

Rosamond Cooper Morse Hall, 99, a native of Lenox, died Feb. 1 at the home of her daughter, of Sugar Hill, N.H. Born on July 27, 1902, daughter of Thomas S. and Jessie Cooper Morse, she was a 1920...

Raymond Warner

Raymond Jay Warner, 73, of 41 New Hampshire Ave. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on May 3, 1928, son of Arthur Parsons Warner and Rose LaFleur Warner Hunt, he...

Margaret Rich

Margaret Rich, 90, of Connecticut Avenue died Thursday at home. Born in White Creek, N.Y., on April 19, 1911, daughter of Charles L. and Sylvia Green Warren, she graduated from Pittsfield High...

Donna M. Rossi, 48

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Donna M. Rossi, 48, of 24 Stratford Ave. died Thursday evening, Feb. 7, 2002, at home after losing her struggle with leukemia. Born in Westfield on Sept. 17, 1953,...

Catherine Cusson

Catherine Frances Cusson, 91, formerly of 53 Donna Ave., died Thursday evening at Berkshire Place, where she had resided for six years. Born in Hoosick Falls, N.Y., on May 13, 1910, daughter of...

Anisa M. Abdallah

Anisa Margaret Abdallah, 52, of Marbleton, Ga., formerly of Pittsfield, died Tuesday after a brief illness. Born in Boston on May 27, 1949, daughter of Dorothy Badir Ameen Ali and the late Hajj...

Sheila Lyons

Sheila Lyons, 81, formerly of 242 Appleton Ave., died Tuesday at Berkshire Place. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 15, 1920, daughter of John F. and Margaret I. Leahey Collins, she was a 1937 graduate...

Richard Wallace Sr.

Richard E. Wallace Sr., 75, of Centerville, formerly of Pittsfield, died Jan. 27 at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. Born in Boston on Aug. 3, 1926, son of Richard C. and Anna Kirby Wallace, he...

James B. Hayes

James Bernard Hayes, 78, of 24 Imperial Ave. died Sunday while visiting his daughter, Bernadine Helen Hayes, in Houston. Born in Great Barrington on Feb. 4, 1923, son of William F. and Helen E....

Nancy Jane Moore

Nancy Jane Moore, 77, of 26 Hazelwood Terrace died Monday at home. Born in Burlington, Vt., on July 3, 1924, daughter of Fred W. and Marion R. Besett Ruble, she graduated from Washington Irving...

Eugene M. Russell

Eugene M. Russell, 91, of 36 Lucia Drive died Monday at home. Born in Oswego, Pa., on Oct. 30, 1910, son of Richard J. and Dottie Crittenden Russell, he had resided in Pittsfield most of his life...

Emilia G. Boino

Emilia G. Boino, 94, of 20 Silver St. died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Yvonne DeSanty of 10 Adams St., North Adams. Born in Arcozelo, Portugal, on March 10, 1907, daughter of Joaquim...

Donald D. DeFino

Donald D. DeFino, 66, of 78 Northumberland Road died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 3, 1936, son of Nicholas and Olive Dufraine DeFino, he was a 1955 graduate of...

Wallace Johnson

Wallace M. Johnson, 90, of Baver Drive died Sunday at Springside of Pittsfield, where he had resided for 10 weeks. Born in Woodstock, Ill., on Oct. 24, 1911, son of Alfred E. and Flora Longanecker...

Mildred Bourquard

Mildred Laurin Bourquard, 84, of 12 Reed St., Goffstown, N.H., formerly of 27 Adams St. in Pittsfield, died Sunday at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 28,...

Marion F. Wright

Marion F. Wright, 87, of 169 Valentine Road, formerly of 245 Cheshire Road, died Saturday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in West Lebanon, N.H., on April 14, 1914, daughter of George B....

Joan C. Cheevers

Joan C. Cheevers, 69, of 301 Birch Bluff Drive, Westfield, formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday at Western Massachusetts Hospital in Westfield. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 9, 1932, daughter of the...

Robert McAvoy

Robert W. McAvoy, 59, of Sunrise Village died Saturday morning at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield following an auto accident in which his vehicle hit a tree on Old Dalton Road in Hinsdale. He...

Janet Sugden

Janet Sugden, 68, of Lynchburg, Va., died Wednesday at Lynchburg General Hospital after a five-year battle with cancer. Born in Pittsfield on June 17, 1933, she was the daughter of Dean W. and...

Dario J. DiVirgilio

Dario J. DiVirgilio, 85, formerly of Miami Beach, a native of Florida, died Jan. 18 at Gulf Crest Nursing Home in Hollywood, Fla., where he was admitted Aug. 30, 2000. Born in Pittsfield on Dec....

Roderick Bates Sr.

Roderick L. Bates Sr., Navy retired, 76, of Route 20, Nassau, N.Y., formerly of Dalton, died yesterday at the Stratton Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Albany, N.Y. Born in Dalton on April 17,...

Leona M. Audette

Leona M. Audette, 82, of 145 West Housatonic St. died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on May 19, 1919, daughter of Joseph and Irene Packard Levitre, she was a graduate of...

Helene Whitehead

Helene "Sandy" Whitehead, 76, of 235 Walker St. died yesterday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. She had resided at Kimball Farms for two years. Born in Newton on July 26, 1925, daughter of...

Charles E. Stone

Charles Edward Stone, 76, of Melbourne Place, 140 Melbourne Road, died yesterday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility, where he had resided for two weeks. Born in Pittsfield on March 30, 1925,...

Albert D'Ilio

Albert D'Ilio, 84, of 76 Elaine Drive died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in San Giovanni Teatino, province of Chieti, Italy, on Jan. 10, 1918, son of Livino and Anna DiNicola D'Ilio,...