Obituaries

Alvah J. Rawling

Alvah J. "Peanut" Rawling, 86, of Woodstock, Ga., died Friday at Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, Ga. Born in Pittsfield on July 28, 1914, son of Tracey and Alice O'Brien Rawling, he attended...

Donald F. Nelligan

Donald F. Nelligan, 80, of 218 Allengate Ave. died Saturday evening at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Northampton on March 29, 1921, son of William J. and Grace Smith Nelligan, he came to...

Robert Grunow

Robert William Grunow, 64, of 230 Shore Road died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 14, 1936, son of the late Otto and Jessie M. Smith Grunow, he was a graduate...

John W. Bergen

John William Bergen, 91, of 2425 Ashdale Drive, Austin, Texas, a former resident of Pittsfield, died Wednesday at Christopher House Hospice in Austin. Born in Patterson, N.J., on March 29, 1910,...

Helen E. Dean

Helen E. Dean, 76, formerly of Curtis Manor, died yesterday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Haverhill on Sept. 14, 1924, daughter of William L. and Elizabeth Cahill Phair, she was a...

Ann F. Hoffman

Ann F. Hoffman, 73, of 35 Delancy Ave. died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 1, 1927, daughter of L. Hobart and F. Ethel Martin Merritt, she was a 1944 graduate of...

Louis F. Decker

Louis Francis Decker, 65, of Atlantic Beach, Fla., formerly of Lenox, died Sunday at Baptist Medical Center-Beaches in Jacksonville, Fla. Born in Lenox on Sept. 15, 1935, son of Frank and Helen...

Aldo L. Galvagni

Aldo L. Galvagni, 82, of 332 Merrill Road died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on March 14, 1919, son of Giovanni and Rosa Galvagni Galvagni, he attended local...

William J. Newell

William J. Newell Sr., 75, formerly of 40 Willard Place, died yesterday at Hillcrest Commons. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 19, 1925, son of George and Marie Vanderlee Newell, he was educated in...

Rose L. Cianfarini

Rose L. Cianfarini, 85, formerly of 98 Cromwell Ave., died Thursday, April 12, at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility, where she had resided since 1994. Before entering the nursing home, she had...

Lucia R. Johnson

Lucia R. "Lucy" Johnson, 91, of 66 Roselyn Drive died Thursday at Hillcrest Commons. Born in Bromptonville, Quebec, Canada, on Sept. 21, 1909, one of 17 children born to Napoleon J. and Rose D....

Lawrence G. Botto

Lawrence G. "Sonny" Botto, 60, of 24 Ventura Ave. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center of lung cancer. Born in Hinsdale on Sept. 14, 1940, son of the late Lawrence and Edna Grover Botto, he...

Joseph Carmody

Joseph Edward Carmody, 75, of 1009 Peck's Road died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on July 12, 1925, son of John T. and Elise B. Bourquin Carmody, he was a 1943 graduate of...

Evelyn B. Cahalan

Evelyn B. Cahalan, 90, formerly of 23 East Alford St., died Saturday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided since 1999. Born in South Lee on May 16, 1910, daughter of Michael and Mary Coles...

Dorothy Rudisill

Dorothy Kay Rudisill, 60, of 170 Old Stockbridge Road, and Houston, died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center after a 30-year battle with multiple sclerosis. Born on San Banard, Texas, on Dec. 18,...

Dorino B. Blasioli

Dorino B. "Tony" Blasioli, 81, of Waltham died Sunday in Deaconess-Waltham Hospital. Born in Italy, son of Dominic and Mamie DeSantis Blasioli, he emigrated to the United States at a young age...

Irmgard B. Waller

Irmgard B. Waller, 82, of Devonshire Estates died yesterday at Kimball Farms Nursing Center. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, on May 20, 1918, daughter of Wilhelm and Lilly Engel Brill, she attended...

Ginger Rogers

Ginger Rogers, 81, of Melbourne, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died April 8 at Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 17, 1919, daughter of Ralph and Rose Teti...

Catherine Taylor

Catherine Taylor, 93, of Agney Avenue, Terryville, Conn., died Monday at Shady Oaks Retirement Center in Bristol, Conn. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 26, 1907, daughter of James and Mary Farrell...

Carol E. Battistoni

Carol Elizabeth Battistoni, 86, of 95 Cheshire Road died Saturday at Brightview of Avon in Avon, Conn., where she had resided since December. Born in Salisbury, Vt., on Dec. 25, 1914, daughter of...

Fred E. Strelin

Fred E. Strelin, 79, of 286 Onota St. died April 9 at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on March 15, 1922, son of Karol and Rose Rosenburg Strelin, he was a 1940 graduate of Pittsfield...

Fred P. Johnson

Fred P. Johnson, 74, of 56 Michael Drive died Sunday at home. Born in Austin, Texas, on Sept. 14, 1926, son of John H. and Louise Parmele Johnson, he attended schools there and received two...

David A. Vincent

David A. Vincent, 48, of 28 Thomas Island Road died Sunday at home after a six-month battle with cancer. Born in Pittsfield on May 22, 1952, son of Donald and Josephine Kelley Vincent, he was a...

Anna Thompson

Anna D. Thompson, 91, a longtime resident of North Pownal, Vt., died yesterday at Hillcrest Commons Nursing Home. Born in Hoosick Falls, N.Y., on Sept. 17, 1909, daughter of Joseph P. and Mary...

Virginia Hannigan

Virginia M. Hannigan, 78, of 53 Winship Ave. died Saturday afternoon at Blake Memorial Hospital in Bradenton, Fla. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 28, 1922, daughter of Frank and Lucy Driscoll Weir,...