Obituaries

Maurice E. Rice Sr.

Maurice E. Rice Sr., 70, of Benton Hill Road, died Tuesday at home. He was a former volunteer Becket firefighter. Born in Becket on July 13, 1936, son of Arthur E. and Ethel Ransom Rice, he...

Elizabeth Dennis

Elizabeth Dennis, 90, of Chapel Street, died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Ms. Dennis served as head librarian of Lee Library from 1942 to 1987. In 1978, the Betty Dennis...

Gwen Berla

Gwen Berla, 85, of 21 Crossway Village, died Friday at the home of her daughter, Lin Schreiber of 48 Pomeroy Ave. in Pittsfield. Born in Munger, Mo., on Sept. 30, 1921, daughter of George W. and...

Elizabeth A. Holcomb

Elizabeth A. Holcomb, 59, of Christian Hill Road, died Sunday at Fairview Hospital. Born in Burlington, Vt., on May 5, 1947, daughter of Clarence L. and Elsie G. Hill Fleming, the family moved to...

Elizabeth C. Ryan

Elizabeth C. Ryan, 88, of 420 Greylock St. died Sunday at home. Born in Airde, Scotland, on Dec. 2, 1918, daughter of Daniel and Susan McMahon Christie, she moved to New York as a child and...

George C. Runz

George C. Runz, 94, of 15 Mallard Drive, died Tuesday at his home. Born in Long Island City, N.Y., on April 19, 1913, son of Martin and Emma Roughley Runz, he moved to Berkshire Village in...

Donald S. "Hoppy" Hopkins Sr.

Donald S. "Hoppy" Hopkins Sr., 75, of 105 West Road, died Tuesday at home. Born in Great Barrington on Nov. 29, 1931, son of Seth and Marion Miles Hopkins, he moved to Lee and graduated from Lee...

Jacqueline J. Schutt Zanin

Jacqueline J. Schutt Zanin, 79, of 6 Mountain St., Housatonic, died Monday at Fairview Hospital. Born in Housatonic on Aug. 27, 1927, daughter of Richard and Marion Schutt Gibbons, she attended...

Mary Harbach Ivory

Mary Harbach Ivory, 89, formerly of Heaton Court, died yesterday at Laurel Lake Center in Lee, where she had resided since May 2004. Born in Syracuse, N.Y., on Sept. 6, 1917, daughter of Paul and...

Jane C. Santos

Jane C. Santos, 87, of 304 Stockbridge Road, died Sunday at Fairview Hospital. She and her husband built and managed the Briar Cliff Motel on Stockbridge Road until 1976. Born in Mineola,...

Halina H. Sobczak

Halina H. Sobczak, 80, of High Street, Housatonic, died Tuesday at Fairview Hospital. Born in Poland on May 8, 1926, daughter of Stanislaus and Karolina Lorens, she was raised in Kroscienko...

Helen Ann Bolduc

Helen Ann Bolduc, 64, a 16-year resident of 50 Maple St., died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Chicopee on Sept. 29, 1942, daughter of Kenneth M. and May Slattery Boyce, she was...

Gloria A. Ruef

Gloria A. Ruef, 79, of 345 Marble St. in Lee and Shaw Pond in Becket, died Monday at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, with whom she resided. Gloria was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Oct. 8,...

Florence Gartner

Florence Gartner, 91, of Lebanon, Mo., a Housatonic native, died Sunday in Christian Health Care South in Lebanon. Born in Housatonic on March 9, 1916, daughter of Peter and Helena Mariani Storti,...

Linda S. Eichstedt

Linda S. Eichstedt, 60, of Christian Hill Road, died Tuesday morning at her home following a long illness. A native and lifelong resident of Berkshire County, Linda was born in Egremont on March...

Mildred (Jill) Weaver

Mildred (Jill) Weaver, 93, of 95 West Avenue, Great Barrington, died Thursday April 5, 2007 at home. She was born March 26, 1914 in Brooklyn, N.Y. daughter of Abraham and Fanny Fukshananu Stier. A...

Bertha E. Franklin

Bertha E. Franklin, 91, of 148 Maple St., formerly of Hewins Street in Ashley Falls, died yesterday -- her birthday -- at Great Barrington Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, where she had resided...

Jocelyn Nichols

Jocelyn Nichols, 77, of Ramsdell Road, died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., on Dec. 1, 1929, daughter of George and Guiseppa Valvo Foster, she grew up in New York City...

Heide Jill Curtis

Heide Jill Curtis, 48, of Laurel Street, died Friday at home. Before moving to Lee in October 2005, she lived on Elm Street in Pittsfield for more than 20 years. Born in Sharon, Conn., on...

Nechama "Nettie" G. Baum

Nechama "Nettie" G. Baum, 90, of Hollenbeck Avenue, died at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center in Lenox yesterday. Born in New York City on Sept. 26, 1916, daughter of Max and Fannie Oster...

Eleanor Koncelik Curtiss

Eleanor Koncelik Curtiss, 82, formerly of State Road, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Helen Moening, of Ridgeway Avenue in Pittsfield, where she had resided for the past year. Born in...

James Babcock Fales

James Babcock Fales, 90, of Southbury, Conn., formerly of Otis and Venice, Fla., died Tuesday at Danbury (Conn.) Hospital after suffering a stroke. Born in West Medway on Oct. 28, 1916, son of...

Mary E. Shalley

Mary E. Shalley, 74, of 149 Monument Valley Road, died Tuesday at Fairview Hospital. Born in Great Barrington on May 6, 1932, daughter of William and Ruth Snow Rowley, she attended schools in...

Irene K. Palmer

Irene K. Palmer, 81, of 17 Browns Road, Stephentown, N.Y., died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Lee on Feb. 22, 1926, daughter of John W. and Lena Lasher Wheeler, she attended Lee High...

Anna Mae Fuller

Anna Mae Fuller, 66, died Friday at the Governor's Center in Westfield after a long illness. She was the mother of Michael Fuller of Lee. Born in Westfield on June 28, 1940, daughter of...