Obituaries

Catherine C. DeCoster

Catherine C. DeCoster, 90, died yesterday at Hillcrest Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center after a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 3, 1916, daughter of Charles J. and Mary Mooney...

Ronnie Lynn Russo

Ronnie Lynn Russo, 63, of 16 Whitehead Place died Tuesday at home from complications resulting from diabetes. Born in New York on Aug. 30, 1943, daughter of Emil and Amelia Kusoff Revyuk, she...

Paul David Ranzoni

Paul David Ranzoni, 49, of 26 Second St. died Thursday at home. Born in North Adams on Oct. 24, 1956, son of Raymond P. and Barbara West Ranzoni, he graduated from Drury High School in 1975 and...

Mary Virginia "Ginny" Ramsay

Mary Virginia "Ginny" Ramsay, 85, of Camelot Drive, Nokomis, Fla., a former longtime resident of Lenox, died Wednesday at Tidewell Hospice in Sarasota, Fla.. Born in Frankfort, Ky., on Sept. 4,...

George A. Brunelle

George A. Brunelle, 47, of 72 Kittredge Road died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center. He had been paralyzed since the age of 2 because of illness. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 27, 1958, son...

Stella W. Russo

Stella W. Russo, 81, of 49 Peck's Road died Friday at home after a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 16, 1925, daughter of Konstanty "Gus" and Pauline Koziol Gromacki, she attended local...

Michael Slosky

Michael Slosky, 76, of 176 Columbus Ave. died Thursday at Williamstown Commons in Williamstown. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 31, 1930, son of Nicholas and Mary Souwich Sokolowski, his original...

Alyse Marie Rose

Alyse Marie Rose, 86, of 20 Stockbridge Ave. died Saturday at home. Born in Lenox Dale on June 21, 1920, daughter of James A. and Katherine Feeney Farrington, she was a 1936 graduate of Lenox...

William Frances Garneau

William Frances Garneau, 92, formerly of Colonial Gardens, and a longtime resident of Wellington Avenue, died Thursday at Westview Nursing Home in Dayville, Conn. Born in Adams on July 16, 1914,...

Jacqueline C. Powers

Jacqueline C. Powers, 52, of Kenwood Street died Monday evening at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield after a short illness. Born on May 14, 1954, in Great Barrington, daughter of the former...

Mary D. Handley

Mary D. Handley, 94, formerly of Berkeley, Calif., died Monday at Sugar Hill Senior Living Community, where she had resided for the past year and a half. Born in Middletown, Ohio, on Aug. 7,...

Irma M. Derivan

Irma M. Derivan, 95, formerly of Highview Drive, died Saturday at Hillcrest Commons, where she has resided since August 1996. Born in the town of Florida on Dec. 15, 1910, daughter of Joseph and...

Bernice C. Skiba

Bernice C. Skiba, 93, of Providence Care Center, formerly of Troy, N.Y., died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center. She moved to Pittsfield with her daughter, Gina McGovern, and then to the...

Daniel "Dan" Christopolis

Daniel "Dan" Christopolis, 84, of 38 Livingston Ave. died yesterday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility. Born in Newark, N.J., on Aug. 5, 1922, son of Constantine and Theodora Karatzia...

Virginia Beatrice Sacco

Virginia Beatrice Sacco, 89, formerly of 76 Turner Ave., died Wednesday at the home of her niece, Judith Sacco-Coleman of Overlook Drive in Sandwich, where she had resided for the past year. Born...

Eileen E. Rozon

Eileen E. Rozon, 78, of 625 Lakeway Drive died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Rochester, N.Y., on April 4, 1928, daughter of William and Evelyn Campbell Carrigan, she moved to...

Bernice C. Skiba

Bernice C. Skiba, 93, of Providence Care Center, formerly of Troy, N.Y., died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center. She moved to Pittsfield with her daughter, Gina McGovern, and then to the...

May M. Thayer

May M. Thayer, 85, of 395 West Housatonic St. died Monday at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center, where she had resided since July 2005. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 29, 1920, daughter of Allan J....

Nizio Nugai

Nizio Nugai, 75, formerly of 348 Newell St., died Tuesday at Hillcrest Commons, where he resided since September 2004. Born in Pittsfield on April 23, 1921, son of Sebastian and Adelaide Vittina...

Donna M. Adams

Donna M. Adams, 58, of 20 Riverview Homes died Tuesday of a stroke at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on May 30, 1948, daughter of Reno N. and Grace Tassone Pellegrino, she attended...

Esther Luddy Tilton

Esther Luddy Tilton, 84, of Mountain View Apartments in Hadley, died Saturday at the Calvin Coolidge Nursing Home in Northampton. Her daughter, Judith Rennie, lived in Pittsfield. Born on July...

Rebecca Cady Lowell Paquette

Rebecca Cady Lowell Paquette, 66, of 57 Apple Tree Lane died Monday morning at her home of pheochromocytoma. Born in Oneida, N.Y., on Jan. 4, 1940, daughter of Beecher and Clara Leaf Cady, she...

Teresa Simoneau

Teresa Simoneau, 79, of 115 Memorial Drive died late Sunday evening at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in Amherst, on Feb. 3, 1927, daughter of Andrew and Anna Pleppo, she graduated from...

Viva Dexter Baumann

Viva Dexter Baumann, 92, formerly of East Windsor Road, died yesterday morning at Hillcrest Commons. Born in New Bedford on Dec. 8, 1913, daughter of the late Richard Williamson and Elise Leary...

Clara A. Pictrowski

Clara A. Pictrowski, 81, of 31 Wellesley St. died Wednesday at home after a short illness. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 25, 1924, daughter of Luigi and Luisa Altobelli Arpante, she was a 1943...