Obituaries

Daniel P. Mahoney

Daniel P. Mahoney, 62, of 58 Brown St., died Friday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 30, 1945, son of Daniel J. and Gertrude Tyer Mahoney, he was a graduate of St. Mary's Grammar School in Lee...

Dina Costi Gardieff

Dina Costi Gardieff, 90, of 415 East Housatonic St., died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 21, 1917, daughter of Faustino and Lena Volpi Fontana, she lived in the...

William J. Cuthbertson

William J. Cuthbertson, 90, formerly of 31 Donna Ave., died Thursday at Craneville Place in Dalton, where he had resided for a month. Born in Pittsfield on March 15, 1917, son of William and Anna...

Sylvia S. Ayers

Sylvia S. Ayers, 64, of 92D Pomeroy Ave., died Friday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston after a battle with cancer. Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, on April 21, 1943, daughter of Jennie...

Lillian M. Wagner

Lillian M. Wagner, 85, formerly of Benedict Road, died Saturday at Craneville Place in Dalton. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 22, 1921, daughter of Erik and Sarah Kernam Meyer, she was a St. Joseph's...

Alan Lipton

Alan Lipton, 69, of 169 Valentine Road, died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on May 16, 1938, son of Esther Bashevkin Lipton and the late William Lipton, he attended...

Joseph Waszkierscz

Joseph Waszkierscz, 86, of 28 Brooks Ave., died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Fulton, N.Y., on July 22, 1920, son of Michael and Helen Zalenski Bator, he moved to Pittsfield at a...

Ronald Murray Leach

Ronald Murray Leach, 69, of 65 Clydesdale Drive, died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Camden, Maine, on Sept. 16, 1937, son of Lawrence and Isabelle Johnson Leach, he attended...

Robert V. Cowdrey

Robert V. Cowdrey, 83, of 42 Dalton Division Road, died yesterday at Providence Care Center in Lenox, where he had resided since January 2004. Born in Albany, N.Y., on May 27, 1923, son of Leon...

George E. Horner

George E. Horner, 92, of Providence Court died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on April 11, 1915, son of George F. and Katherine Keresey Horner, he attended local schools...

Jacqueline Harrison

Jacqueline Harrison, 87, of 143 Grange Hall Road, died Sunday at home. Born in West Haven, Conn., on March 30, 1920, daughter of James and Clara Harris Malcolm, she was educated in schools there...

Aline D. Deshaies

Aline D. Deshaies, 83, of 89 Asci Drive died Friday at Berkshire Place, where she had resided since January. Born in Leominster on Sept. 23, 1923, daughter of Joseph and Eva Bussiere Tourigny, she...

Robert A. Crewdson

Robert A. Crewdson, 70, of 176 Columbus Ave., died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center after a brief illness. Born in New Brunswick, Canada, on Aug. 24, 1936, son of John E. and Bessie Calhoun...

Lucia Grace Roberts

Lucia Grace Roberts, 82, of Kimball Farms, died May 7 at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in San Diego on March 21, 1925, daughter of Clinton and Dorothy Clarke Abbott, she attended the Francis...

Viola M. Blake

Viola M. Blake, 79, of 16 Pioneer St., died Wednesday at the home of her daughter, Nancy Giardina of 213 Burke Ave. in Pittsfield, after a long illness. Born in North Adams on Jan. 30, 1928,...

Lana M. Recchia

Lana M. Recchia, 66, of 265 Second St., died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on July 19, 1940, daughter of Joseph J. and Rose Canterella Rosso, she attended local...

Nils Guttormsen

Nils Guttormsen, 88, of 53 Pinehurst Ave., died Monday at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center, where he had lived for a short time. Born in Pittsfield on May 30, 1918, son of Nils and Martha Faeste...

James T. Powers

James T. Powers, 63, of 131 Elizabeth St., died Tuesday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 14, 1943, son of Francis J. and Nora Mazzer Powers, he attended local schools and was a 1962 graduate of...

Sylvia Mary Kaufmann

Sylvia Mary Kaufmann, 88, of 15 Weston St., died yesterday at Providence Care Center in Lenox, where she had resided for a short time. Born in Bromley, England, on Aug. 29, 1918, daughter of...

Elaine Frances Bigelow

Elaine Frances Bigelow, 76, of 911 Tyler St., died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 11, 1930, daughter of Roy W. and Dorothy Thomas Kickery, she attended local...

Helen Raczynski

Helen Raczynski, 91, formerly of 379 East St., Providence Court, died yesterday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility, where she had resided since July 2006. Born in Centralia, Pa., on April 4,...

Beverly A. Darrow

Beverly A. Darrow, 69, of 113 Pine St., died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center after a brief illness. Born in Pittsfield on June 6, 1937, daughter of Leonard A. and Irene Murphy Teal, she was...

Dorothy Garity Wilson

Dorothy Garity Wilson, 86, of 5 Cornell Lane, died Friday at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center, where she had resided since September 2006. Born in Westfield on May 3, 1921, daughter of Harold and...

Gerald A. Guild

Gerald A. Guild, 77, of 163 Clevland Road, died Saturday at Beth Israel Hospital in Boson. Born in Wrentham on Nov. 30, 1929, son of William and Myrtle MacInnes Guild, he graduated from Oliver...

James F. Primm II

James F. Primm II, 56, of 6650 West 83rd St., Overland Park, Kan., died Monday at Hillcrest Commons Health Care Facility, where he had resided for two months. Born in New York City on April 13,...