Obituaries

David A. Jacobs

David A. Jacobs, 58, of Whittier, Calif., director of athletics and professor of physical education at Whittier College, a native of Pittsfield, died Saturday at home. Born on Feb. 19, 1943, son...

Robert J. Formel

Robert J. Formel, 74, of Peachtree City, Ga., a native of Pittsfield, died Saturday at Fayette Community Hospital in Fayetteville, Ga. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 13, 1927, son of Fernando A. and...

Thomas Tierney

Thomas F. Tierney, 63, of 3906 47th St., Sunnyside, N.Y., a Pittsfield native, died Monday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Astoria, N.Y. Born in Pittsfield on May 25, 1938, son of the late Orville E....

Robert LaBrode

Robert Danis LaBrode, 81, of 109 Euclid Ave. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on July 1, 1920, son of Henry C. and Anna May Danis LaBrode, he was a 1938 graduate of...

George A. DeWitt

George A. DeWitt, 64, of 240 Francis Ave. died Sunday at home. Born in Pittsfield on July 18, 1936, son of the late George A. and Harriet E. Chadwell DeWitt, he attended local schools and was a...

Genevieve Nesbit

Genevieve J. Nesbit, 88, of 350 West St. died July 4 at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 9, 1912, daughter of William and Alice Lawlor Blache, she attended local...

Francis C. Gofton

Francis C. Gofton, 86, of Naples, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday at The Aristocrat in Naples. Born in Providence, R.I., on July 5, 1915, son of Frederick C. and Elizabeth Worthington...

Daniel C. Conley

Daniel C. Conley, 90, of 35 Lowden St. died Monday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 16, 1911, son of Edward and Julia Walsh Conley, he was a 1929 graduate of St. Joseph's High School. He was a...

Mary Archer

Mary Archer, 83, of Bradford Arms died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Stamford, Conn., on Oct. 4, 1917, daughter of John and Xenia Sanik, she graduated from Stamford High...

Dorothy M. Reilly

Dorothy M. Reilly, 87, formerly of 31 Sherrill Ave., died Sunday evening at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Lawrence on Feb. 7, 1914, daughter of Martin F. and Ellen Burke Dowd, she came to...

Donald A. Lafave, 63

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Donald A. Lafave, 63, of Clearwater, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died Friday, June 29, 2001, of natural causes at Morton F. Plant Hospital in Clearwater. Born in...

Harold T. Buxton Jr.

Harold T. "Bucky" Buxton Jr., 77, of 33 Brunell Ave. died Saturday of heart failure at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. He served on the Board of Health for 26 years....

F. William Trautwein

F. William Trautwein, 84, of 490 Williams St. died Saturday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. He and his family owned and operated the Heart of the Berkshires Motel from 1972 until selling it in...

Dorothy Lemieux

Dorothy Lemieux, 93, of Berkshiretown Apartments died Saturday at Providence Care Center of Lenox, where she had resided since March. Born in Winooski, Vt., on Feb. 7, 1908, daughter of William...

Thomas J. Supka

Thomas J. Supka, 88, of 3 Clarendon St. died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Thorndike on July 1, 1913, son of Martin and Katherine Drzal Supka, he moved to Pittsfield in 1918 and...

Raymond Callahan

Raymond F. Callahan Sr., 84, formerly of 93 Edward Ave., died yesterday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. He had been a resident at Providence Care Center in Lenox for a year. Born in...

James W. Collins

James W. Collins, 77, of 82 McArthur St. died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Worcester on July 16, 1923, son of James A. and Helen Coonan Collins, he attended schools there and was...

Donald Cullen Jr.

Donald F. Cullen Jr., 57, of 18 Depot St. died yesterday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 7, 1943, son of Donald F. Cullen Sr. and Katherine Maloney Cullen, he was a 1961 graduate of Pittsfield...

Thomas G. Simken

Thomas G. Simken, 83, of 11 Edgewood Drive died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on June 14, 1918, son of George T. and Barbara Darms Simken, he was a...

Sandra A. Koning

Sandra A. Koning, 58, of Wilmington died of cancer Tuesday at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. She was the sister of Barbara Stringer of Pittsfield. Born in Carlisle on Jan. 27, 1943, daughter of...

Richard Kitterman

Richard J. Kitterman, 49, of 99 Second St. died June 17 at Berkshire Medical Center of heart failure. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 16, 1951, son of Juanita Silvano Kitterman and the late Roy J....

Rachel Douglas

Rachel Douglas, 94, of 89 South St. died Tuesday morning at home. Born in Washington, D.C., on July 18, 1906, daughter of George A. and Rachel R. Hayden Stevens, she graduated from White Memorial...

Gracia M. Brown

Gracia M. Brown, 82, of The Woodner, 3636 16th Street NW., Washington, D.C., a native of Pittsfield, died Monday at the home of a nephew in South Hadley. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 24, 1918,...

Bernice Ericson

Bernice M. Ericson, 87, formerly of 359 Crane Ave., died Tuesday at home at 24770 Lyonia Lane, Bonita Springs, Fla. Born in Pittsfield on May 21, 1914, daughter of John and Martha Hillmer Bence,...

Doris M. Dixon

Doris M. Dixon, 87, of 244 East Windsor Road died Wednesday morning at Hillcrest Commons Nursing Care Facility in Pittsfield. Born in Berlin, N.Y., on Nov. 26, 1913, daughter of Walter A. and...