Obituaries

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,...

Donald Carmel Sr.

Donald Lewis Carmel Sr., 79, of 8 Old Mill Drive, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., died yesterday at Vassar Brothers Hospital in Poughkeepsie. Born in Dalton on May 28, 1921, son of William and Catherine...

Rose M. Burns

Rose M. Burns, 76, of 2 School St., Hatfield, a former resident of Pittsfield, died Sunday at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton. Born in Siderno, Italy, on May 27, 1924, daughter of...

Richard E. Gould

Richard E. Gould, 73, of 2507 Berwick Court, Henderson, Nev., died Monday of pulmonary failure. He was the husband of the former Elda Ricalzone, a native of Pittsfield. Born in Newark, N.J., on...

Jennie Calderella

Jennie L. Calderella, 96, formerly of 236 Connecticut Ave., died Monday at Craneville Place in Dalton, where she had resided since 1997. Born in Easton, Pa., on Sept. 8, 1904, daughter of Giuseppe...

Herbert Harrison

Herbert E. Harrison, 102, formerly of 50 East Housatonic St., died Monday at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Fall River on Jan. 19, 1899, son of Albert and Elizabeth Oldham Harrison, he began...

Herman C. Brown

Herman C. Brown, 86, of 109 Housatonic St. died Saturday at Laurel Lake Center in Lee, where he had resided for two years. Born in Waterford, N.Y., on Sept. 20, 1914, son of Richard and Lorena...

Carol A. Pacheco

Carol A. Pacheco, 58, of 94 B Pomeroy Ave. died Sunday afternoon at Berkshire Medical Center after a long battle with cancer. Born in Putnam, Conn., on Dec. 25, 1942, daughter of Aurore Benac...

Audrey Turner

Audrey Turner, 79, of Port St. Lucie, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday at Martin Memorial Medical Center in Stuart, Fla. Born in Carnforth, Lancashire, England, on May 29, 1921, daughter...

Mary E. Gore

Mary E. Gore, 84, formerly of 105 Livingston Ave., died yesterday morning at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on July 29, 1916, daughter of John and Helen Kretchmer Gore, she was...

Jason Kirshen

Jason Kirshen, 75, of 145 East New Lenox Road died yesterday at home. Born in Boston on Dec. 5, 1925, son of Simon and Frances Menkes Kirshen, he attended schools there and was a graduate of...

Grace McLaughlin

Grace K. McLaughlin, 94, of Lenoir, N.C., formerly of 45 Bel Air Ave., died Tuesday at Caldwell Memorial Hospital in Lenoir. She moved to North Carolina in 1994. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 13,...

Denise E. Filkins

Denise E. Filkins, 42, of 150 Barton Hill Road died Wednesday at home. Born in Dalton on March 3, 1959, daughter of Bernice Mongue Filkins and the late Ronald C. Filkins, she was a 1977 graduate...

Beverly Ann Carpenter

Beverly Ann Carpenter, 65, of Mount Vernon, Ind., formerly of Pittsfield, died March 22 at her winter home in Haines City, Fla. Born Oct. 31, 1935, in Crossville, Ill., daughter of Cyril J. and...

Benjamin Virgilio

Benjamin N. Virgilio, 84, of 66 Winesap Road died Wednesday at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. Born in Pittsfield on May 18, 1916, son of Bernardino and Maria DiPaola Virgilio, he...

Anne W. Dawson

Anne W. Dawson, 84, of 195 Elberon Ave. died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on May 19, 1916, daughter of Peter and Mary Woloshyn Yarmey, she attended local schools and...

Joseph F. Chucka

Joseph F. Chucka, 66, of Cochran Street, West Warwick, R.I., died Monday at Kent Hospital in Warwick. He was the father of Joyce A. Amuso of Pittsfield. Born in Old Town, Maine, son of Joseph A....

Harold Korn

Harold Korn, 71, of 20 Nielsen Lane and 160 E. 65th St., New York City, died Tuesday at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City. He was born on June 25, 1929, son of Jack and Nettie Korn....

Alvia F. Diamond

Alvia F. Diamond, 79, of Madden Road died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Dalton, Mass., on Jan. 18, 1922, son of Martin E. and Madeline M. Hart Diamond, he resided in the...

Sally W. Walker

Sally W. Walker, 89, of Canaan, N.Y., died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Mass. Born in Albany on Dec. 25, 1911, daughter of Howard G. and Mary Louise Davis Wild, she attended...

Robert T. Howard

Robert T. Howard, 73, of Murrells Inlet, S.C., formerly of Pittsfield and a former president of NBC Television, died March 11 in New York City. Born in Red Bank, N.J., on June 18, 1927, he...