Obituaries

Hazel St. John

Hazel St. John, 93, formerly of 9 Park St., died Saturday afternoon at the Center for Optimum Care. Born in St. Albans, Vt., on March 13, 1908, daughter of Arthur and Ella Mossey Bonyea, she was...

V. Carmello Stracuzzi

V. Carmello F. Stracuzzi, 82, of 111 Stearns Ave. died yesterday at home. Born in Taormina, province of Messina, Sicily, on Oct. 3, 1918, son of Rosario and Carmella Stracuzzi Stracuzzi, he...

M.M. Ellsworth-Durant

Margaret M. "Peggy" Ellsworth-Durant, 60, of 202 Dewey Ave. died Wednesday at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield because of complications from surgery. Born in Pittsfield on March 27, 1941,...

Matilda Villanova

Matilda I. Main Villanova, 81, formerly of 10 Union Court Apartments, 10 Union St., died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center. She had resided at Laurel Lake Assisted Living in Lee for a year and a...

John F. Daly

John F. "Jack" Daly, 64, of 31 Henry Ave., owner and operator of Rita Marie's restaurant on Route 7 in Lanesboro, died yesterday morning at home after a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on July 4,...

Frank C. Pullaro

Frank C. Pullaro, 87, of 176 Columbus Ave., Apartment 112 B, Berkshiretown Apartments, died Wednesday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility. He was admitted May 17. Born in Pittsfield on Aug....

Benjamin F. Bates

Benjamin F. Bates, 78, formerly of 35 Linden St., died Tuesday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility, where he had resided for three years. Born in Holyoke on May 28, 1923, son of Thomas E.W....

Vincent E. Welch

Vincent E. Welch, 82, of 68 Chickering St. died Tuesday at home. Born in Great Barrington on March 13, 1919, son of Patrick and Anna Geraghty Welch, he was a 1937 graduate of the former Searles...

Peter N. Amandos

Peter Nick Amandos, 75, of 56 Maplewood Ave. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 11, 1926, son of Nick and Lopa Giftos Amandos, he attended local schools and...

Isabella Goodair

Isabella Goodair, 100, of 253 Dawes Ave. died Monday at home. Born in Rickmansworth, England, on April 1, 1901, daughter of Hugh W. and Isabella Southall Goodair, she attended schools in England....

Edmund Mercier

Edmund William Mercier, 85, formerly of 33 Walnut St., died Tuesday at Sweet Brook Nursing Home in Williamstown, where he had resided for a year and a half. Born in Pittsfield on July 17, 1915,...

Bessie A. Fillion

Bessie A. Cerveny Fillion, 65, of 48 Fourth St., formerly of Springfield and West Springfield, died yesterday at home. Born in Westfield on April 6, 1936, daughter of the late Ralph L. and Betsy...

Santina M. Walto

Santina M. Walto, 76, of 454 Hubbard Ave. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 4, 1924, daughter of Dominick and Carmella Martini Palano, she graduated from...

Henry C. Hyde Sr.

Henry C. Hyde Sr., 90, formerly of 306 Dalton Division Road, died Wednesday at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 19, 1910, son of Charles E. and Margaret Colt Hyde, he attended...

Alice Reddington

Alice Julie Reddington, 81, of Lakeside, Calif., formerly of Pittsfield, died May 11 at San Diego Hospice in San Diego, where she had resided for six days. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 20, 1920,...

Irving Wolfe

Irving Wolfe, 86, of 22 Meleca Ave. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 6, 1914, son of Morris and Rebecca Taichkofsky Wolfe, he attended local schools and was a...

Eunice P. Bruyn

Eunice P. Bruyn, 88, of 385 South Main St., Colchester, Conn., formerly of Pittsfield, died Friday at W.W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn. Born in Pittsfield on May 1, 1913, daughter of Lester...

Edith J. Nicoll

Edith J. Nicoll, 86, of 30 Thomson Place died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 26, 1914, daughter of Henry C. and H. Elizabeth Polly Rickheit, she was a 1932...

Stephen Schreyack

Stephen J. Schreyack, 81, of 10 Union St. died Sunday at the Center for Optimum Care. He owned and operated the former Country Style Motel in Lanesboro from 1962 to 1975. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y.,...

Sheila A. Cannon

Sheila A. Cannon, 71, of 582 Pleasant St., Holyoke, a native of Pittsfield, died Sunday morning at Holyoke Hospital. Born Dec. 13, 1929, daughter of Melvin and Mary Wallace Fassell, she was a 1948...

Madeline C. Avery

Madeline C. Avery, 93, of 145 South Road died Sunday at Craneville Place of Dalton, where she had resided for three weeks. She was a former member of the Peru School and Building Committee and served...

Edward C. Perkett

Edward Charles Perkett, 61, of 833 Old Kings Road South in Jacksonville, Fla., a native of Pittsfield, died May 7 of a heart attack in Jacksonville. Born April 8, 1940, son of Joseph F. and...

Joseph Shurkus Sr.

Joseph P. Shurkus Sr., 73, of 3 May St. died Saturday at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. Born in Cambridge on April 29, 1928, son of Dominic and Domincella Winchus...

Alexander Carney

Alexander Gelan Carney, 8, of 519 Kirchner Road died Friday as a result of an all-terrain vehicle accident at his home. Born in Tver, Russia, on Sept. 13, 1992, son of Dennis H. and Alyce Kendrick...

Ralph Zimmerman

Ralph W. Zimmerman Sr., 85, of Yonkers, N.Y., died Wednesday in Yonkers. He was the father of Ronald G. Zimmerman of Richmond. Born in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on Aug. 23, 1915, he was the son of...