Obituaries

Mary-Lynn E. LaBonte, 79

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Mary-Lynn E. LaBonte, 79, of 45 Albro Street, Pittsfield, passed away August 14, 2018. Born March 24, 1939, in Sanford, Dade County, Florida, to Alexander and...

Chester A. Chojnowski, 86

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Chester Anthony Chojnowski, 86, of 107 Birch Grove Drive passed away August 11, 2018, at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on April 12, 1932, he was the...

Florence E. DelSignore, 83

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Florence Elizabeth DelSignore, 83, of 101 Burke Avenue, Pittsfield, died Monday, August 6, 2018, at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in North Adams on August 16, 1934,...

Rose P. Huban, 91

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Rose P. Huban, 91, a resident of Springside Nursing Facility, passed away August 6, 2018. Born in Boston on November 25, 1926, she was a daughter of the late Edmund...

Christopher W. Daly, 74

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Christopher W. Daly, 74, passed away August 13, 2018, at his home in Richmond after several years of declining health. Born in 1943 and brought up in Pittsfield, he...

John Bove, 59

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — John Anthony Bove, 59, of Pittsfield died unexpectedly on Friday, August 10, 2018, at Berkshire Medical Center.  He was born in Hazelton, Pa., on May 4, 1959,...

David J. Riddell, 42

DALTON, Mass. — David Joseph Riddell, 42, of 30 Elaine Avenue, Dalton, passed away Saturday, August 4, 2018, as a result of a motorcycle accident. Born on September 8, 1975, the son of...

Frank C. Igo, 88

LENOX DALE, Mass. — Frank C. Igo, 88, of Lenox Dale died Wednesday, August 8, 2018, at Albany Medical Center after a brief illness. Born on March 29, 1930, in New Haven, Conn., he was...

Steven J. Monterosso, 60

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Steven J. Monterosso, 60, of Pittsfield, Mass., died Friday, August 3, 2018, following a battle with pancreatic cancer. Steve was born in Pittsfield to Helen Lesniak...

Geraldine Fallon, 90

DALTON, Mass. — Geraldine H. Fallon died Saturday, July 28, 2018. Born on November 16, 1927 in Pittsfield, she was the daughter of the late James and Lillian Akroyd Thomson. A former...

Bridget A. Brown, 58

LENOX, Mass. — Bridget Anne Brown, 58, of Lenox died Monday morning, July 30, 2018, after a brief illness at her childhood home in Dalton. Born in Pittsfield November 6, 1959, the...

Tryntje Shapli, 79

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Tryntje Shapli, 79, died peacefully on Saturday, July 28, 2018, at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 15, 1939, as Margot Tryntje Ostrander,...

Martha L. Nelligan, 75

LENOX, Mass. — Martha Lorraine (Gaylord) Nelligan died peacefully at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center in Lenox surrounded by her loving family on Friday July 27, 2018. Born in...

Nancy J. Hamilton, 59

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Nancy Jean Hamilton, 59, of 18 Cromwell Ave., Pittsfield, Mass., passed away July 27, 2018, at Berkshire Medical Center. Born on February 19, 1959, the daughter of...

Paula M. Dillon, 63

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Paula M. Dillon, 63, quietly passed away in the early evening of July 28, 2018, following a long struggle with cancer.  She leaves behind her husband Patrick; a...

Christopher K. Unsworth, 48

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Christopher Kiejna Unsworth died, too young, on July 27, 2018, at the family home in Lee after an extended battle with cancer.  The beloved son of Thomas E....

Fredrick J. Mastrogiovanni Sr., 77

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Mr. Fredrick J. Mastrogiovanni Sr., 77, of 63 Scammell Ave., Pittsfield, died Friday morning, July 27, 2018, at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston after a lengthy...

Rose Nary, 92

DALTON, Mass. — Rose M. Nary, 92, of 100 Patricia Ave., Dalton, passed away July 23, 2018, at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on July 24, 1925, to the late Carlo and...

Mary K. Porter, 94

LENOX, Mass. — Mary Kilby Porter (Polly), 94, died peacefully on July 21, 2018, at her summer home on Under Mountain Road in Lenox, Mass. Born in Lake Forest, Ill., on April 12, 1924,...

Patricia E. Brundage, 68

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Patricia Ellen Brundage, 68, of Vero Beach, Florida, passed away on Friday, June 29, 2018.  The daughter of the late Ernest and Helen Prendergast Brundage, she...

Akeem LeClair, 24

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Akeem Z. LeClair, 24, of Pittsfield, Mass., passed away unexpectedly on July 18, 2018.  He was predeceased by his mother, Stacy Mensah-Green, in December...

Bryan McClellan, 56

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Bryan L. McClellan, 56, of Pittsfield, Mass., passed away July 17, 2018. Born December 16, 1961, he was a son of Patricia Dupont Fitch and the late Gerald McClellan...

Joan Blakesley, 86

DALTON, Mass. — Joan M. Blakesley, 86, of Old Windsor Road, Dalton, Mass., passed away July 16, 2018, at Berkshire Medical Center.  Born on December 5, 1931, to the late Ralph and...

Beth A. Fuller, 74

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Beth Ann Fuller, 74, of Pittsfield, formerly of Becket, died Saturday, July 7, 2018, at Berkshire Medical Center. Beth was born December 31, 1943, the daughter of...

William A. Gibney

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Ret. Cpt. William (Bill) Alfred Gibney, USMC, died unexpectedly on July 12, 2018.  William joined the USMC at age 17 and retired after 20 years of service in...