Obituaries

Loretta Monteleone

Loretta M. Monteleone, 91, of 80 Elizabeth St. died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 10, 1909, daughter of Joseph and Mary Talarico Teti, she attended local...

Judith Ann Farley

Judith Ann Farley, 59, of 22 Meadow Drive died yesterday at home of cancer. Born in Arlington on June 22, 1942, daughter of Virginia Holton Rodriguez Medeiros and the late Benjamin Rodriguez, she...

Valdemar Pecholes

Valdemar Pecholes, 66, of 127 Daniels Ave. died Wednesday evening after suffering an apparent heart attack. Born in Latvia on Feb. 10, 1935, son of Jonathon W. and Olivia Pecholes, he attended...

Mary C. Judd

Mary C. Judd, 94, formerly of 379 East St., died Thursday morning at Springside of Pittsfield Health Care Facility, where she had resided for the past eight years. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Aug....

T. Franklin Jones

T. Franklin Jones, 93, formerly of 113 Benedict Road, died Tuesday at Hillcrest Commons, where he had been a resident since 1997. Born in Cohoes, N.Y., on Sept. 9, 1907, son of Charles L. and...

Jessie Wrzesinski-Brunell

Jessie Barbara Wrzesinski-Brunell, 85, formerly of Main Street, died Tuesday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided for the past two years. Born in Adams on Jan. 3, 1916, daughter of John and...

Edward F. Lavelle

Edward F. Lavelle, 86, of 50-A Highview Drive died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on May 20, 1915, son of Joseph E. and Laura M. Boyer Lavelle, he was a graduate of...

Henrietta S. Wooliver

Henrietta Schaefer Wooliver, 101, of 1000 North St., formerly of Lakeway Drive, died Monday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility. Born in Lowell on June 10, 1900, daughter of George W. and...

Alexys MacKensie Lopez

Alexys MacKensie Lopez, infant daughter of Bobby Lopez and Dimarys Aponte of Pittsfield, was stillborn at Berkshire Medical Center on Friday. Besides her parents, she leaves a brother, Alex...

Virginia Orazio

Virginia Orazio, 73, of 12 Robbins Ave. died yesterday morning at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility. Born in Pittsfield on April 25, 1928, daughter of Ephrian and Dorothy Ellis Provencher, she...

Michael A. Bush

Michael A. Bush, 43, of 289 Springside Ave. died Sunday afternoon as a result of a motor vehicle accident in Great Barrington. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 26, 1957, son of Barbara Siegmund Bush...

Ferdinand Campana

Ferdinand Campana, 74, of 130 Morningview Drive died Sunday at home. Born in Curtina, Switzerland, on Oct. 9, 1926, son of Cesare and Amallia Campana Campana, he attended schools there, including...

George A. Terek

George A. Terek, 75, of Stratford, Conn., died yesterday at home. He was the brother of Ann Massery of Pittsfield. Born in Bridgeport, Conn., son of Albert and Catherine Farah Terek, he attended...

William J. White

William J. White, 75, of 11 Elmvale Place died yesterday at the Berkshire Medical Center skilled nursing unit. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 28, 1925, son of Archie and Rose Flanagan White, he was a...

Margaret Ploughman

Margaret L. Ploughman, 82, of 245 Cheshire Road died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Millbury on Feb. 22, 1919, daughter of Martin and Jane Sheehan Mahan, she moved to Lee as a child...

Dorothy Casucci

Dorothy T. Casucci, 86, of 8 Oak Lane, Brookfield, Conn., a native and former resident of Pittsfield, died Tuesday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility, where she had been admitted July...

Ruth L. Torrey

Ruth L. Torrey, 84, of 144 East Windsor Road died yesterday at home. Born in Dalton on Nov. 17, 1916, daughter of Leon C. and Harriet Webster Furnald, she graduated from Dalton High...

Patricia Sterling

Patricia P. Sterling, 78, of Concord, formerly of Pittsfield, died July 8 at the Life Care Center of Nashoba Valley in Littleton. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 16, 1923, daughter of Thomas F. and...

John J. Kenney Jr.

John J. Kenney Jr., 61, of 65 Columbus Ave. died Monday at home. Born in Worcester on July 1, 1940, son of John J. Kenney Sr. and Dorothy Beaudreau Kenney, he attended schools there. He served...

Linda A. Gardner

Linda A. Gardner, 52, of Fort Worth, Texas, a native of Pittsfield and Cheshire, died yesterday at home. Born June 14, 1949, daughter of Napoleon and Shirley Lewis Levesque, she attended local...

John W. Frick

John W. Frick, 85, of Charlottesville, Va., formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday at the Colonnades Assisted Living complex in Charlottesville. Born in St. Cloud, Minn., on June 11, 1916, son of...

Elsie Moynihan

Elsie Moynihan, 95, formerly of 296 Hancock Road, died Sunday night at Craneville Place in Dalton. Born in Pittsfield on May 22, 1906, daughter of David and Isabella MacDonald MacWhinnie, she...

Edna H. Best, 96

LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — Edna Hannah "Mammy" Best, 96, formerly of 35 Glassworks Road, Berkshire Village, died Sunday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility in Pittsfield. She was the...

Edith Henry

Edith Henry, 95, formerly of Appleton Avenue, died Saturday at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Raynham Center on Aug. 26, 1905, daughter of Frank D. and Olive Ely Allen Washburn, she was a...

Carlton D. Lockenwitz

Carlton D. "Butch" Lockenwitz, 61, of 28 Clinton Ave. died yesterday morning from injuries suffered in an auto accident late Sunday night in Lenox. Born in South Lee on Oct. 30, 1939, son of...