Obituaries

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...

Donald S. Smith

Donald Spencer Smith, 74, of Barre, formerly of Pittsfield, died April 26 at Mary Lane Hospital in Ware. He was executive director of the Berkshire County Historical Society from 1967 to...

David A. Chapman

David A. Chapman, 62, of 161 Madison Ave. died Wednesday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 27, 1939, son of Merritt E. and Margaret Winters Chapman, he attended local schools. He served in...

Ruth A. Denton

Ruth A. Denton, 82, of Rosewood Gardens, Troy, N.Y., formerly of Pittsfield, died Tuesday at Samaritan Hospital in Troy. Born in Pittsfield on March 12, 1919, daughter of Valentine and Emma Kaspar...

Robert J. Fitch

Robert J. Fitch, 67, of 490 West Housatonic St. died Tuesday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 2, 1934, son of Major F. and Catherine M. Potash Fitch, he was a 1952 graduate of Pittsfield High...

Muriel L. Kushi

Muriel L. Kushi, 85, of 74 Maryland Ave. died Monday at home. Born in St. Francis, Ontario, Canada, on Dec. 22, 1915, daughter of James and Mary Terresen Donnell, she graduated from London...

Lawrence Fleming

Lawrence E. Fleming, 84, formerly of Connecticut Avenue, died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. He had resided at Hillcrest Commons for six years. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 10, 1916, son of...

Josephine Talarico

Josephine Talarico, 94, a native of Pittsfield, died April 30 at the Santa Teresita Nursing Home in Duarte, Calif., where she had resided for 10 years. Born in Pittsfield on July 21, 1906,...

Francis X. O'Neil

Francis X. O'Neil, 77, of 61 1/2 Orchard St. died Monday evening at home. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 2, 1923, son of Thomas F. and Jennie Burns O'Neil, he attended local schools, including St....