Obituaries

Lydia E. Russo

Lydia E. Russo, 82, of 250 Dalton Ave. died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center's Skilled Nursing Facility. Born in Biviara, province of Calabria, Italy, on Sept. 17, 1918, daughter of Pasquale and...

Isabel Egan

Isabel Egan, 91, formerly of 176 Columbus Ave., Berkshiretown Apartments, died Sunday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility, where she had resided since Oct. 2, 1998. Born in Cohoes, N.Y., on...

George S. Demos

George S. Demos, 82, of 211 Northside Drive, Torrington, Conn., a native of Pittsfield, died Sunday at Wolcott Hall Nursing Facility after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. Born in...

Esther T. Keegan

Esther Teresa Keegan, 98, formerly of Rose Manor Apartments in Pittsfield, died Sunday at Curtis Manor Rest Home, where she had resided for eight years. Born in Leigh, England, on Aug. 24, 1902,...

Lois S. Exford

Lois S. Exford, 91, of 120 New Lenox Road died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Cummington on May 7, 1909, daughter of Robert and Anna Sears Streeter, she graduated from the former...

Velma G. Sage

Velma G. Sage, 85, of 152 South Mountain Road died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in East Haven, Conn., on Nov. 15, 1915, daughter of Anton and Daisy Knaub Schile, she graduated from...

Charles Strong

Charles Minot Strong, 81, formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday in San Rafael, Calif. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 19, 1919, son of Henry Taft Strong and Isabella Liecty Strong, he attended local...

Hermine Bloniarz

Hermine Carolyn Bloniarz, 89, of 46 Deborah Ave. died Tuesday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility, where she had been a resident since April 1998. Born in Adams on July 20, 1911, daughter of...

Beatrice E. Monte

Beatrice E. Monte, 93, of 18 Lebanon Ave. died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Troy, N.Y., on Aug. 29, 1907, daughter of James and Carrie Hanks Moloney, she moved to Pittsfield at the...

Herbert P. North

Herbert P. North, 80, of 145 New Lenox Road died yesterday at Hillcrest Commons. Born in Pittsfield on April 26, 1920, son of Herbert P. and Mary Babcock North, he was a 1937 graduate of Lenox...

Alfred Gluckin

Alfred Gluckin, 96, of Five Strawberry Landing, Mill Valley, Calif., formerly of Pittsfield, died Feb. 17 at home. Born in Leipzig, Germany, on Oct. 5, 1904, son of Abraham and Mania Gluckin, he...

John Church

Former General Electric engineer and hobbyist John Church, 77, of Lee Road died March 11 at home. Throughout his career at GE, Church was known to examine the clash between the electric power...

Mabel L. Bennett

Mabel L. Bennett, 96, formerly of Cove Meadow Road, Northampton, died Thursday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had been a patient since September 1996. Born in Peru on Aug. 25, 1904, daughter of...

Doris A. Porter

Doris A. Porter, 92, formerly of 55 West Union St., died Sunday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had been a patient for three years. Born in Great Barrington on Feb. 5, 1909, daughter of Egbert V....

Phyllis Spadafora

Phyllis L. Spadafora, 84, of 420 Monroe Ave., Cape Canaveral, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died March 6 at home. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 17, 1917, she was the daughter of Biago and Carmella...

Josephine Nigrelli

Josephine Rose Nigrelli, 95, of 16 Marcella Ave. died Wednesday evening at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on May 23, 1905, daughter of Santo and Josephine Spadaro Nigrelli, she...

Barbara Lee

Barbara Lee, 59, of Boston, died Wednesday of ovarian cancer. She was the daughter of Ruth Lee of Pittsfield. Born in St. Paul, Minn., on July 19, 1941, daughter of Ruth Lee and the late Raymond...

Rose Nero

Rose Nero, 93, of Hudson, N.Y., recently of Barnwell Nursing Home in Valatie, N.Y., died yesterday at Barnwell Nursing Home. She was the mother of Katherine Jane Torchia of Pittsfield. Born in...

Dorothy H. Vose

Dorothy Helen Vose, 95, a resident of the Issaquah Care Center, Issaquah, Wash., formerly of Pittsfield, Dalton and Windsor, died Monday at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, Wash. Born in Walpole on...

Bessie E. Pupo

Bessie E. Pupo, 90, of Underhill Place died March 7 at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on June 25, 1910, daughter of Henry C. and Martha S. Langer Stache, she attended local...

Alfonso Barbarotta

Alfonso F. Barbarotta, 79, of 14 Parker St. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on July 2, 1921, son of Guiseppe F. and Maria Ferrente Barbarotta, he attended local...

George Passenant

George F. Passenant, 86, of 96 B Depot St. died Monday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility in Pittsfield. Born in Astoria, N.Y., on July 7, 1914, son of Louis and Minnie Weiss Passenant, he...

Carl W. Reed

Carl William Reed, 63, of 1 Alice Drive died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 25, 1937, son of Emily White Reed Adams and the late Carlos D. Reed, he had resided in...

Mary R. Best

Mary R. Best, 88, formerly of 600 Main St. died yesterday morning at Springside of Pittsfield, where she had resided for 3 1/2 years. Born in Berkshire on March 3, 1913, daughter of Frank H. and...

Joan Estabrook

Joan Estabrook, 70, of 41 Glory Drive died March 5 at Hoag Memorial Hospital in Newport Beach, Calif., after complications from cardiac arrest. Born in Los Angeles on April 7, 1930, daughter of...