Obituaries

Helen Y. Long

Helen Y. Long, 89, of 235 Walker St., Kimball Farms Retirement Community, died Tuesday at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center. She moved to Kimball Farms in 1989. Born in Pittsburgh on Feb. 8, 1912,...

Francis E. Palmer

Francis E. Palmer, 78, of North Port, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died Nov. 22 at Pinebrook Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Venice, Fla. Born in Lee on June 28, 1923, son of Oren and Minnie...

Emily M. Kulis

Emily M. Kulis, 82, of 119 Memorial Drive died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on April 19, 1919, daughter of Joseph and Concetta Talarico Canino, she attended local...

Barbara R. Jones

Barbara R. Jones, 66, of 53 Third St. died yesterday at home. Born in Great Barrington on July 17, 1935, daughter of Alton F. and Georgia Stevens Bennett, she attended Averill Park (N.Y.) High...

Winifred Green

Winifred "Winnie" Green, 89, of St. Petersburg, Fla., formerly of Ashuelot Street in Dalton, died Friday in New York City after a short illness. Born in Pittsfield on May 31, 1912, daughter of...

Margaret Spence

Margaret M. Spence, 83, of 247 Springside Ave. died Monday at home. Born in Pittsfield on June 30, 1918, daughter of John and Sarah Murphy Flynn, she attended local schools and was a 1936 graduate...

Ida R. Bedell

Ida R. Bedell, 89, of 89 South St., Berkshire Place, died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Jan. 20, 1912, daughter of Raymond and Florence Rico Suarez, she...

Harold C. Bornak

Harold C. Bornak, 80, of 99 Second St. died Monday at Hillcrest Commons, where he had been a resident since March. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 24, 1920, son of Gustav and Natalie Reiner Bornak, he...

Elizabeth A. Beals

Elizabeth Alexander Beals, 66, of 96 Fourth St. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center after a long battle with cancer. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 14, 1935, daughter of Leon and Elizabeth...

Dr. Frank Archibald

Dr. Frank W. Archibald, 84, of 108 New Lenox Road, a longtime Pittsfield dentist, died Monday at the Providence Care Center of Lenox. Born in Cheshire, son of Dr. Harry N. Archibald and Julia...

Robert L. Maynard Sr.

Robert Leon Maynard Sr., 77, of 245 Cheshire Road died Sunday afternoon at home. Born in Lanesboro on May 15, 1924, son of Wyatt L. and Helena Mickle Maynard, he attended schools in Lanesboro and...

Robert B. Rivel

Robert Bradin Rivel, 80, formerly of 2 Juliana Drive, died Friday at the Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington, where he had resided since December 1994. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Feb. 13, 1921,...

Henry D. Farias

Henry D. "Rick" Farias, 77, formerly of Pittsfield, died Saturday at Prince George Healthcare in Georgetown, S.C. Born March 17, 1924 in East Falmouth, he was the son of Manuel D. and Adelaide...

Frances H. Bruno

Frances Helen Bruno, 64, of 315 Hungerford St. died yesterday morning shortly after being admitted to Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Adams on Jan. 29, 1937, daughter of Febronia Koza Andrus and...

Edward McDonald

Edward J. McDonald, 88, of 471 Wauregan Road, Killingly, Conn., died Saturday at home. He was elected a Pittsfield councilor at large in 1945 and served as president of the council from 1947 to 1948....

Edward M. Moyer

Edward M. Moyer, 83, of Onset, formerly of 75 Wealthy Ave., died Friday at Tobey Hospital in Wareham. Born in Rochester, N.Y., on Jan. 29, 1918, son of Oliver and Cecilia Hunt Moyer, he attended...

Wilson Aponte

Wilson Aponte, 44, formerly of 36 Springside Ave., died Nov. 15 of lung cancer at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in West Haven, Conn. Born in Pounce, Puerto Rico, on Jan. 17, 1957, son...

Martin Wojick Jr.

Martin J. Wojick Jr., 72, of 971 West St. died Saturday as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident in York, Maine. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 6, 1929, son of Martin J. Wojick Sr....

Francis C. Bashara

Francis Charles Bashara, 79, of 20 West Housatonic St. died Monday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility. Born in Adams on April 24, 1922, son of Charles and Christine Mekedeci Bashara, he...

DeEtte Catherine Fyfe

DeEtte Catherine Fyfe, 86, of 54 Williamsburg Terrace died Monday at Craneville Place of Dalton, where she had been a patient since June 1. Born in Albany, N.Y., on April 28, 1915, daughter of...

Charlotte Morris

Charlotte M. Morris, 74, of 3115B Colonial Way, Chamblee, Ga., formerly of Pittsfield, died Nov. 16 at Peachtree Christian Hospice in Duluth, Ga., of cancer. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 26, 1926,...

William Mahanna

William E. Mahanna, 80, of Santa Barbara, Calif., formerly of Lenox, died Wednesday at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara. Born in Lenox on Nov. 22, 1920, son of John and Helen LaBrode Mahanna, he...

Kenneth Sullivan

Kenneth Hayes Sullivan, 50, of Starboard Lane, York Harbor, Maine, formerly of Pittsfield, died Saturday at York Hospital from injuries he received in an automobile accident earlier in the...

Phyllis Mettifogo

Phyllis M. Mettifogo, 83, formerly of 43 Edward Ave., died Saturday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided for six years. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 11, 1918, daughter of Felix and Antoinette...

Margaret L. Malatesta

Margaret L. Malatesta, 65, of 71 Bishop Parkway died Saturday afternoon at home. Born in Norwich, Conn., on Nov. 18, 1936, daughter of John and Alicia Bellows Aubrey, she was a 1954 graduate of...