Obituaries

Sanford Bookless

Sanford Bookless, 84, formerly of Epoch Assisted Living at Melbourne and 267 Linden St., died Tuesday at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Facility in Lenox. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 10, 1916, son of...

Ruth M. McMurtry

Ruth M. McMurtry, 85, of 63 Toronita Ave. died Monday at Hillcrest Commons Nursing Home. Born in Grandville Ferry, Nova Scotia, on Jan. 31, 1916, daughter of George I. and Hattie Mae Robblee...

MaryAnn Phillips

MaryAnn L. Phillips, 62, of 1094 Boiling Springs Road, Spartanburg, S.C., formerly of Pittsfield, died Tuesday at home after a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 19, 1939, daughter of the...

Marion Louise Coan

Marion Louise Coan, 91, of Devonshire Estates, formerly of 27 Pomeroy Ave., Pittsfield, died Wednesday at Sisters of Providence Care Center in Lenox. Born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, on June 14,...

Louise DeGesero

Louise M. DeGesero, 77, of 60 Cheshire Road died Wednesday evening at home. Born in Schenectady, N.Y., on Jan. 23, 1924, daughter of Thomas J. and Margaret Coughlin Charles, she attended schools...

Charlesetta Carpenter

Charlesetta Delia Carpenter, 93, of Garfield Road died yesterday at Springside of Pittsfield, Mass., where she had resided since December. Born in Schodack Landing on Dec. 12, 1907, daughter of...

Mary P. Plankey

Mary P. Plankey, 65, of 25 Westchester Ave. died Monday at home. Born in Stockbridge on Sept. 15, 1935, daughter of the late Louie and Erma Drumm Nicholas, she attended local schools, including...

Karen Brown

Karen Lee Brown, 51, of 10 Union St. died Thursday at home. Born in Newton on May 3, 1949, daughter of the late Horace E. and Norma Kingsbury Dort, she was a graduate of Wellsley High School and...

Sammy Kennedy

Sammy Kennedy, 74, of 166 Chapel St. died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Camden, Ala., on April 15, 1926, son of Sam and Ruth Cannon Kennedy, he attended Alabama schools and had...

Leonard I. Boivin

Leonard I. Boivin, 73, of 74 Maplewood Ave. died Tuesday at home. Born in Pittsfield on March 22, 1927, son of Isadore and Rose Lassor Boivin, he was a 1944 graduate of Pittsfield High...

Florence Pizzuto

Florence M. Pizzuto, 83, of 351 West St. died yesterday at home. Born in Waterbury, Conn., on Nov. 14, 1917, daughter of Peter and Mary Marino Moffie, she moved to Pittsfield as a child and...

Evelyn J. Williams

Evelyn J. Williams, 81, of 360 West Housatonic St. died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 5, 1919, daughter of Samuel and Edna Springstead Williams, she attended...

Roma L. Grace

Roma L. Grace, 88, formerly of 34 Plunkett St., died Monday at Providence Care Center in Lenox, where she had been a patient since last year. Born in Adams on Oct. 16, 1912, daughter of Zenophille...

Robert L. Nolan

Robert L. Nolan, 69, of 152 Linden St. died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in New Haven, Conn., on Dec. 5, 1931, son of the late Claude and Edith Hamilton Nolan, he moved to Pittsfield...

James Weslowski

James Joseph Weslowski, 85, of 2913 Missouri Ave., Bryan, Texas, formerly of Pittsfield and Cheshire, died Sunday at St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan. Born in Adams on Feb. 18, 1916, son...

Gloria A. Barresi

Gloria A. Barresi, 73, of 48 Briggs Ave. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Chicago on April 20, 1927, daughter of Giuseppe and Anna Lupo Caruso, she attended schools there. She...

Robert Montleon

Robert J. Montleon, 77, of 41 Hollister St. died Sunday at home. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Dec. 2, 1923, son of Joseph and Gertrude Vaughan Montleon, he was a 1942 graduate of Brooklyn...

George F. Honiker

George F. Honiker, 85, of 76 Maplewood Ave. died Sunday evening at home. Born in Pittsfield on June 22, 1915, son of George M. and Nellie Gowdy Honiker, he attended local schools. Mr. Honiker...

John J. Vadala

John J. Vadala, 56, of 327 South St. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on June 16, 1944, son of Joseph and Mary Pyrzanowski Vadala, he was a 1963 graduate of...

Mabel L. Mann

Mabel L. Mann, 94, of 67 Otis Ave. died Tuesday at home. Born in North Abington on March 14, 1906, daughter of Arthur G. and Emma Farr Stevens, she attended schools in Easthampton. A homemaker,...

M. June Platt

M. June Platt, 70, of 221 Orlando Ave. died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Abingdon, Va., on Feb. 12, 1931, daughter of Leslie and Mary Grace Lloyd Kestner, she attended schools...

Cecile Fontaine

Cecile Fontaine, 78, of 23 Laurel St. died Tuesday at home. Born in Highgate Springs, Vt., on March 1, 1922, daughter of John and Emma Tatro Fournier, she attended school there and in...

Elizabeth Pellizzaro

Elizabeth Irene Pellizzaro, 93, of Monroeville, Pa., formerly of Pittsfield, died Saturday at Beverly Manor in Monroeville. She and her husband, Oliver O. "Red" Pellizzaro, owned and operated...

Ethel M. Hornyak

Ethel Mae Hornyak, 85, of 43 Vivian Ave. died Sunday at the Center for Optimum Care, where she had resided for four years. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 31, 1915, daughter of Louis and Mabel Schaffer...

Ann E. Crouser

Ann E. Crouser, 71, of 19 Cambridge Ave. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in State College, Pa., on Dec. 30, 1929, daughter of James F. and Jennie Kelley Shigley, she graduated...