Obituaries

Janet L. Acorn

Janet L. Acorn, 78, of 140 Melbourne Road died yesterday morning at home. Born in Springfield on Feb. 8, 1923, daughter of Paul and Catherine MacLaren Langlois, she was a graduate of Classical...

Josephine Mauro

Josephine Mauro, 85, formerly of Churchill Crest, died Tuesday at Hillcrest Commons. Born in Dalton on Aug. 30, 1915, daughter of Caesar and Giovina Palma Contenta, she graduated from the former...

Frank J. Zak

Frank J. Zak, 89, of 29 Union St. died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Sunderland on Jan. 8, 1912, son of John and Mary Swaluk Zak, he attended schools there and...

Thomas J. Wright

Thomas J. Wright, 82, of 50 Westminster St. died yesterday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 19, 1918, son of Thomas S. and Nellie Brown Wright, he was a 1937 graduate of Pittsfield High School....

Sherry S. Lobel

Sherry S. Lobel, 82, of 235 Walker St., formerly of New York City, died yesterday at Kimball Farms Lifecare in Lenox. Born in New York City on June 5, 1919, daughter of Mano and Henriette Nussbaum...

Richard J. Corseri

Richard J. Corseri, 79, of 40 Cecelia Terrace died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 31, 1921, son of Vincenzo and Guiseppena Cuva Corseri, he graduated from the...

Thomas J. Henry

Thomas J. Henry, 79, of Milton died Monday at home after a short illness. He was the father of Thomas J. Henry of Pittsfield. Born in Boston on Jan 25, 1922, son of Thomas J. and Ellen Leonard...

Rev. Rinaldo A. Ribezzi

The Rev. Rinaldo A. Ribezzi, 86, of the Stigmatine Congregation died Sunday at Mont Marie Health Care Center in Holyoke, where he resided since 1998. Born in Udine, Italy, on Feb. 18, 1915, son of...

Harold Pierce Jr.

Harold C. Pierce Jr., 82, of 32 Old Stockbridge Road died Saturday at Laurel Lake Center in Lee. Born in Philadelphia on March 29, 1919, son of Harold and Lillian Peirce Pierce, he was a 1937...

Edward J. Spiewak

Edward J. Spiewak, 89, of 22 Essex St. died Monday evening at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 23, 1911, son of Joseph and Katherine Koneve Spiewak, he graduated from...

Janet S. Herrick

Janet S. Herrick, 88, formerly of 293 High St., died Sunday at Craneville Place. Born in Dalton on Feb. 27, 1913, daughter of Roswell W. Smith Sr. and Ida Gardner Smith, she was a graduate of the...

Carol A. Supinski

Carol A. Supinski, 64, of South Hadley died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. She was the mother of Cheryl A. Beattie of Lenox. Born in Holyoke on April 21, 1937, daughter of Frank Powers and...

Anthony Adorno

Anthony "Bill" Adorno, 32, of Stuart, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died Saturday at home of complications from multiple sclerosis. Born in Pittsfield on July 15, 1968, son of Marcelino "Mike" and...

Harriet F. Dymek

Harriet F. Marshall Dymek, 86, formerly of Riverwest Apartments, died Friday morning at the Center for Optimum Care-Pittsfield. Born in North Adams on Oct. 24, 1914, daughter of John B. and...

Thomas Mathews

Thomas R. "Ricky" Mathews, 37, of 1156 West State Line Road, Rossville, Ga., formerly of Dalton, died yesterday at Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga, Tenn., after a short illness. Born in...

Nicholas Dorochin

Nicholas Dorochin, 81, of Kimball Farms Retirement Community, 235 Walker St., died Wednesday afternoon at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center. Born in Hartford, Conn., on Oct. 11, 1919, son of...

George E. Pixley

George Edward Pixley, 81, formerly of 19 Virginia Ave., died yesterday afternoon at Hillcrest Commons, where he had resided since December. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 6, 1920, son of Dewey and...

Albert O. Hubbard

Albert O. Hubbard, 90, of 373 North St. died Wednesday at home from complications of diabetes. Born in Windsor on Oct. 4, 1910, son of Eli and Joanna Stearns Hubbard, he graduated from the former...

William F. Ouilette

William F. Ouilette, 72, of 2 Thomas Road died Tuesday at home. Born in Northampton on Dec. 5, 1928, son of Frederick and Eva Meunier Ouilette, he was a 1948 graduate of Pittsfield High...

Marcel Meunier

Marcel Meunier, 78, of 12080 Southwest Highway 484, Dunnellon, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died Saturday at Sunshine Gardens nursing home in Dunnellon. Born in Burlington, Vt., on March 12,...

Irma A. Angell

Irma A. Angell, 86, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Patricia A. Barbalunga, in Pittsfield. Born in Mascoutah, Ill., on May 2, 1915, daughter of Arthur and Anna Haas Friederich, she...

Joan L. Obremski

Joan L. Obremski, 44, of Amesbury, formerly of Hinsdale, died Saturday at Salem Hospital after a long battle with cancer. Born in Hinsdale on Oct. 1, 1956, she was the daughter of Georgette...

Eileen M. Healey

Eileen M. Healey, 90, of Epoch Assisted Living at Melbourne died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Lee on June 6, 1911, daughter of William H. and Mary McGowen Healey, she moved to...

Eileen M. Forrest

Eileen M. Forrest, 81, of 80 Windsor Ave. died Monday at home. Born in Pittsfield on May 26, 1920, daughter of Patrick E. and Mary Hughes Callaghan, she was a 1938 graduate of Pittsfield High...

Annette M. Doran

Annette Marie Doran, 32, of 316 North St. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Middletown, Conn., on April 16, 1969, daughter of Wallace Doran and Marguerite Greenberg Doran Tackett,...