Obituaries

Claire Blair, 79

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - Claire (Arnold) Blair, 79, of North Adams, Mass., died Sunday, November 24, 2019, at Berkshire Medical Center. She was born in Stamford, Vt., on September 23, 1940, daughter...

Ralph Frieri, 93

ADAMS, Mass. — Mr. Ralph J. Frieri, 93, of Adams, died on Tuesday, November 19, 2019, at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. He was born in Pittsfield on December 13, 1925, son of the...

Andrew Assante, 85

ADAMS, Mass. - Andrew Assante, 85, of Adams, Mass., died Tuesday, November 19, 2019, at Williamstown Commons. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on July 21, 1934, son of John and...

Kevin M. Miller, 30

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Kevin Michael Miller, 30, of Williamstown passed on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, at Lahey Clinic in Burlington with his family by his side. Born in North Adams on...

JoAnne Upton, 81

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - JoAnne Camilla (Bettis) Upton, 81, of North Adams, Mass., died on Tuesday, November 12, 2019, at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Mass. She was born in Great...

David A. LaValley, 65

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - David Anthony LaValley, 65, of North Adams, Mass., died Saturday November 9, 2019, at Berkshire Medical Center. Born October 1, 1954, to the late Leo W. LaValley and the late...

Martha E. Stewart, 66

ADAMS, Mass. —  Martha E. (Ciuk) Stewart, 66, of Holyoke, formerly of Adams, died on Saturday, November 9, 2019, at the Hospice of the Fisher Home in Amherst. She was born in Adams on...

Dorothy Howcroft, 92

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - Dorothy Winifred (Johnson) Howcroft, 92, of Williamstown, Mass., died on Saturday, November 9, 2019, at Williamstown Commons. She was born in Adams on April 7, 1927 a...

Mary Bellonger, 77

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - Elizabeth (Darling) Bellonger, 77, of Sioux Falls, S.D., and formerly of Williamstown, Mass., passed away surrounded by loved ones on Friday, November 8, 2019, at the...

Arlene Zappone, 85

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - Arlene Amelia (Raina) Zappone of North Adams, Mass., passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, November 6, 2019, at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington, Vt., at 3...

Pamela Fortin, 69

ADAMS, Mass. —  Pamela T. Fortin, 69, of Adams, died on Friday, November 1, 2019, at Williamstown Commons. She was born in Adams on March 22, 1950, a daughter of the late Albert and...

Warren Wood, 93

CLARKSBURG, Mass. - Warren E. Wood, 93, of Clarksburg passed away on Sunday, November 3, 2019, surrounded by his family at Williamstown Commons. He was born in North Adams on January 12,...

Eusebio 'Pete' Serrano, 85

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - Eusebio "Pete" Serrano, 85, of North Adams, Mass., died Saturday November 2, 2019, at Berkshire Medical Center. He was born in Barranquitas, Puerto...

Douglas M. Queen, 82

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - Douglas Murray Queen of Williamstown, Mass., passed away October 31, 2019, at Cascade House, Pittsfield, Mass., after a decade of declining health. The son of the late...

Karen F. Briggs, 79

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - Karen F. Briggs, 79, of North Adams, died Sunday, October 20, 2019. She was born to the late Arthur and Rose Lorraine (Murray) VanSteemburg, on January 27, 1940, in...

Anthony Mendel, 82

ADAMS, Mass. — Anthony G. Mendel, 82, of Adams, died on Tuesday, October 29, 2019, following a brief illness. At the time of his passing, Mr. Mendel was a patient at Salem Hospital in...

Julian Lipinski, 92

ADAMS, Mass. — Julian F. Lipinski, 92, of Adams passed away on Wednesday, October 30, 2019, at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, where he had been admitted a week earlier. He...

James B. Dean, 82

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — James B. "Jimmy" Dean, 82, of North Adams, died Tuesday morning, Oct. 29, 2019, at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. He was born in Adams on...

Mary A. Murray, 58

CHESHIRE, Mass. — Mary Anne Murray, 58, of Cheshire, Mass., passed away October 27, 2019, at Berkshire Medical Center.  She was born in Pittsfield on April 9, 1961 to Ed and Anne...

Ruth Giroux, 94

BENNINGTON, Vt. - Ruth Rose (Brooks) Giroux, 94 of Bennington, Vt., and formerly of North Adams, Mass., died Monday October 28, 2019, at Crescent Manor in Bennington. She was born in...

James Carlow, 85

ADAMS, Mass. — Mr. James Carlow, 85, of Adams, died on Friday, October 25, 2019 at Williamstown Commons with his loving daughter Kim by his side. He was born in Adams on October 10, 1934, a...

Weston Zarek, 23

CHESHIRE, Mass. —  Weston Leigh Zarek, 23, of 113 Church Street, Cheshire, died unexpectedly October 23, 2019. He was born July 5, 1996 in North Adams, Massachusetts. Weston was a...

Jeffrey Wilkinson, 41

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - Jeffrey Michael Wilkinson, 41, of North Adams, Mass., died on October 22, 2019, at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Mass., after a brief illness. He was born in North...

Denise Mekdeci, 62

ADAMS, Mass. —  Denise Marie (Rolland) Mekdeci, 62, of Adams, died on Wednesday, October 23, 2019, at Berkshire Medical Center in North Adams. She was born in Adams on November 22,...

Joseph Dragotta, 99

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Joseph John Dragotta, 99, of North Adams, Mass., died on Thursday, October 24, 2019, at the Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington, Vt. He was born in North Adams,...