Obituaries

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...

Joseph W. Izzo

Joseph W. Izzo, 49, of 360 West Housatonic St. died Thursdayat home. Born in Pittsfield on May 4, 1957, son of Joseph A. and Anne Mullen Izzo, he was a 1975 graduate of Taconic High School, where...

Marceline T. Lanoue

Marceline T. Lanoue, 78, of 14 Joan Drive died Saturday at home. Born in Rensselaer, N.Y., on Oct. 11, 1927, daughter of Edward and Albina Soulier West, she lived in Cummington as a child, and...

Sharleen T. Kotski

Sharleen T. Kotski, 55, of 63 Plymouth St. died Sunday at her home. Born in Pittsfield on July 30, 1951, daughter of Marie Massacani Kucka of Pittsfield and the late Charles A. Kucka, she was...

Nathan Kaplan

Nathan Kaplan, 95, of 10 Taconic St., a longtime resident of New York City, died at home on Sunday after a brief illness. Born in Shenandoah, Pa., on Nov. 20, 1910, son of Isaac and Anna Mednick...

Mary Margaret Wheeler

Mary Margaret Wheeler, 81, of 63 Middlefield Road, formerly of Alford and Egremont, died Wednesday at her home. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 2, 1925, daughter of Arthur and Elizabeth Williams...

Dorothy K. O'Neill

Dorothy K. O'Neill, 87, of 1000 North St. died yesterday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility, where she had resided for 14 months. Born in Sheffield on Sept. 24, 1918, daughter of Frank F....

Leslie D. Kirchner

Leslie D. Kirchner, 50, of 2566 East 3750 North, Layton, Utah, formerly of Pomeroy Avenue, died Aug. 23 while fishing in Layton. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 19, 1955, son of Nicholas and Jeanne...

Viola Grace "Mim" Guachione

Viola Grace "Mim" Guachione, 84, of 573 Peck's Road died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center after a short illness. Born in Pittsfield on May 25, 1922, daughter of Luigi and Luisa Altobelli...

Pauline Greene

Pauline Greene, 79, formerly of Friedel Street, Worcester, died Tuesday at Craneville Place nursing facility. Born in Ludlow on Jan. 14, 1927, daughter of Andrew and Catherine Duff Campsie, she...

Milton A. Kolodkin

Milton A. Kolodkin, 82, of 340 Red Barn Road died Monday at home following a long illness. Born in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Feb. 16, 1924, son of Alex M. and Sarah Baron Kolodkin, he attended the...

Robert Beals

Robert Beals, 62, of 92-31 57th Ave., Elmhurst, N.Y., formerly of Pittsfield, died of cancer on Sunday at the Margaret Tietz Hospice in Jamaica, N.Y. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 16, 1943, son of...

Mary K. Lusignan

Mary K. Lusignan, 87, of Chestnut Hill Road, Montpelier, Vt., a native and longtime resident of Pittsfield, died Sunday evening at Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin, Vt. Born in Pittsfield...

Thomas A. Sacchetti

Thomas A. Sacchetti, 88, of 52 McKinley Terrace died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center after a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 2, 1918, son of Anthony M. Sacchetti Sr. and Amelia...

Phalice A. Jenks

Phalice A. Jenks, 77, of 27 Franklin St. died Friday at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 19, 1928, daughter of Clymer and Anna McCarty Dunbar, she was a 1946...

Barbara A. McMahon

Barbara A. McMahon, 73, of 186 Lebanon Ave., died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center following a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on May 22, 1933, daughter of Frederick and Evelyn Daigle...

Patrick H. Mathews

Patrick H. Mathews, 82, of Fabiano Boulevard in Greensport, formerly of Pittsfield, died Thursday at Community Hospice Memorial Hospital in Hudson. Born in Pittsfield on March 17, 1924, son of...

Eugene T. McCarthy

Eugene T. McCarthy, 80, of 76 Baldwin Ave., died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center after a brief illness. Born in Pittsfield on June 5, 1926, son of Thomas and Pauline Labrode McCarthy, he...

Stephen Raymond Kelly

Stephen Raymond Kelly, 39, of 71 Doreen St. died at home on Sunday of heart failure. He came to Pittsfield in 2002 from Overland Park, Kan. Born in Kansas City, Miss., on May 5, 1967, son of...

Irene Theresa Wojtkowski

Irene Theresa Wojtkowski, 75, of 1565 West Housatonic St. died yesterday at Springside of Pittsfield, where she had resided since December. Born in Adams on July 5, 1931, daughter of Albert and...

Benjamin Rosen

Benjamin Rosen, 87, of 144 Francis Ave., died yesterday at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. Born in Pittsfield on June 24, 1919, son of Abraham and Annie Fatt Rosen, he was a graduate of...

John Walter "Obie" O'Bryan

John Walter "Obie" O'Bryan, 63, a 30-year resident of 53 E. Main St. and formerly of Cheshire, died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center after a short illness. Born in West Rutland, Vt., on Jan....