Obituaries

Edward E. "Red" Veazie, Jr.

Edward E. "Red" Veazie, Jr., 78, of 18 Summit Ave., died Monday at his home. Born June 30, 1928, in North Adams, son of the late Edward E. and Hester Turrell Veazie, he attended North Adams...

Genevieve E. Beauchemin

Genevieve E. Beauchemin, 95, of 1275 Massachusetts Ave. died Monday at Williamstown Commons. Born in North Adams on Aug. 19, 1911, daughter of the late Mark E. and Eliza M. Caron Lord, she...

Robert M. Hicks

Robert M. Hicks, 76, of Westford, a native of North Adams, died Saturday at Emerson Hospital in Concord after a brief illness. Born on Aug. 17, 1930, son of Murray and Doris Hall Hicks, he...

William Edward Danaher Jr.

William Edward Danaher Jr., 78, of 37 Main St. died Wednesday at Williamstown Commons. Born in Williamstown on Feb. 19, 1928, son of William E. Danaher Sr. and Helen Wandrei Danaher, he was a...

Franklin Alan Baker

Franklin Alan Baker, 55, of 64 Pines Lodge Park died of cancer Wednesday at Williamstown Commons Care Center. Born in Adams on Oct. 30, 1950, son of Franklin A. and Irene LaBelle Baker, he...

Susan Caven

Susan Caven, 98, of 765 South Church St. died yesterday at North Adams Commons. Born in Scotland on July 31, 1908, daughter of Robert and Susan Morgan Stalker, she emigrated to Clarksburg as a...

Gerald Donald Brassard

Gerald Donald Brassard, 68, of 1 Nelson St. died Wednesday evening at his home. Born in North Adams on Dec. 25, 1937, son of the late Gerald T. Brassard and Laura Scarbo Brassard Wilton, he...

Maurice Shapiro

Maurice Shapiro, 94, of 20379 West Country Club Road, Aventura, Fla., formerly of North Adams, died yesterday at the Regent Park Care Center in North Miami Beach. Born in North Adams on Oct. 8,...

Joyce Boschen

Joyce Boschen, 78, of Shaw Road died Oct. 14 at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, where she had been in a coma since Aug. 29 following surgery for a heart attack. Born in New London, Conn.,...

Fern Margaret Giroux Piske

Fern Margaret Giroux Piske, 97, of 1014 Lincoln St., Hollywood, Fla., died Tuesday at her home. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on March 10, 1909, the daughter of the late Frederick Giroux and...

Ruth Laidlaw

Ruth Laidlaw, 96, of Sweetwood, 1611 Cold Spring Road, died Friday at home. Born in Dedham, on Oct. 16, 1910, daughter of Francis W. and Ruth Hayes Welch, she attended schools in New York City and...

Norris Anthony Phelps Sr.

Norris Anthony Phelps Sr., 86, of 207 Woodcock Road died yesterday at the home of his son, Peter David Phelps, of 580 Oblong Road. He served three terms on the Board of Selectmen and was its...

Elaine McDonald

Elaine McDonald, 75, of Paxton died Saturday, Oct. 7, at home. She was the mother of Sue McDonald Budz of Williamstown. Born in Floral Park, N.Y., on Nov. 25, 1930, daughter of Everett and...

Raymond L. Cutler Jr., 84

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Raymond Lewis Cutler Jr., 84, of 26 Mohawk Forest Blvd. died Friday, Oct. 6, 2006, at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in North Adams on May 10, 1922, son of Raymond...

Veronica Jane Kus

Veronica Jane Kus, 86, of 7 Fryc Lane died Saturday at home. Born in Adams on Sept. 3, 1920, daughter of John and Anna Flaga Fryc, she attended local schools. Mrs. Kus was employed by General...

Marguerite Alicia Sinclitico

Marguerite Alicia Sinclitico, 91, of 48 East Ave. died Wednesday in the emergency room at North Adams Regional Hospital, where she was taken after being stricken earlier at home. Born in North...

Rita L. Zoito

Rita L. Zoito, 79, of 33 Forrest St. died yesterday at North Adams Commons. Born in Williamstown on Nov. 29, 1926, daughter of Albert R. and Bertha Burgess Raymond, she attended schools in...

Gertrude Malvina Serre

Gertrude Malvina Serre, 99, formerly of 28 Sperry Ave. died yesterday at Sweetbrook Transitional Care and Living Centers in Williamstown. Born in North Adams on July 2, 1907, daughter of...

Lois B. Lepicier

Lois B. Lepicier, 75, of 533 Cold Spring Road died Tuesday at home. Prior to moving to Williamstown in 1968, she had lived in Cheshire. Born in Bennington, Vt., on Aug. 7, 1931, daughter of...

Susan E. Donelan, Ph.D.

Susan E. Donelan, Ph.D., 51, of Wayand, died Sunday at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston following a three-year battle with inflammatory breast cancer. Born in Dorchester on June 11,...

Grace Hakes

Grace Hakes, 78, of 3 Myrtle St. died Saturday at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. Born in Wilmington, Vt., on Sept. 18, 1928, daughter of Henry P. and Isabella Cardinal Arigoni, she...

Raymond L. Garand, 71

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Raymond Lionel Garand, 71, of 1175 Main St. died Friday, Sept. 29, 2006, at North Adams Regional Hospital after a long illness. Born in North Adams on Sept. 27, 1935,...

Michael M. Ferris, 86

NORTH ADAMS,Mass. - Michael M. Ferris, 86, of 26 Chase Ave. died Monday, Oct. 2, 2006, at his home. Born in Danbury, Conn., on Sept. 27, 1920, son of George and Sadie Matney Ferris, he moved to...

Walter Bieniek

Walter Bieniek, 88, formerly of 66 Park St., died Saturday at Sweet Brook Care Centers in Williamstown. Born in Savoy on Oct. 1, 1917, son of Kazimierz and Katarzyna Glowacki Bieniek, he moved to...

Lino E. Piantoni

Lino E. Piantoni, 74, of 40 Richmond Lane died yesteday at his home. Born in North Adams on Sept. 16, 1932, son of Erminio and Lucy Cattaneo Piantoni, he was educated there and graduated from...