Obituaries

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...

Robert McNinch, 76

LENOX, Mass. — Bob McNinch, co-owner and operator of Eastover Resort from 1983-2000, died early Wednesday morning, July 18, 2018, at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, surrounded by his...

Judith M. Whitney, 70

DALTON, Mass. — Judith “Judy” Marie Whitney, 70, of East Housatonic Street, Dalton, entered into eternal rest on Tuesday, July 10, 2018, at Baystate Medical Center. She was...

Ashley M. Benlien, 24

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Ashley Marie Benlien, 24, of Pittsfield passed away July 9, 2018, after a battle with addiction. She was born on December 14, 1993, a daughter of James Benlien and...

Valerie O. Hamilton, 61

PITTSFIELD, Mass. - Valerie Orean Elizabeth Hamilton, 61, of 19 South John St., Pittsfield, Mass., passed away early Saturday morning, July 7, 2018, after a short illness.  Valerie was...

John D. Sondrini, 82

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — John Daniel Sondrini, 82, resident of Melbourne Place, died peacefully on July 3, 2018, at Hillcrest Commons surrounded by his children after a long...

Nettie A. Sarro, 93

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Miss Nettie A. Sarro, 93, of 198 Blythewood Drive and most recently residing at Wingate Assisted Living, 140 Melbourne Road, both of Pittsfield, Mass., passed away...

Laura Eva Drummond, 95

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Laura Eva Drummond, 95, of Pittsfield passed away June 28, 2018, at Berkshire Medical Center. She was born in Pittsfield on August 8, 1922, the daughter of the late...

Martha Ann Dowling, 83

HINSDALE, Mass. — Martha Ann Dowling of Hinsdale died Saturday, June 30, 2018, after a long illness. She was surrounded by her family when she took her last breath. She was born July...

Margaret M. McBurney

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Margaret M. McBurney died Saturday, June 30, 2018. Born in Tillicoultry, Scotland, the daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Cook) Fisher, she was educated here and was...