Obituaries

Joseph W. Budz Sr.

Joseph W. Budz Sr., 95, of 4 Maple St., formerly of Commonwealth Avenue, died Saturday at Great Barrington Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Born in Housatonic on July 17, 1910, son of George and...

Joan Kennedy Taylor

Joan Kennedy Taylor, 78, of New York City and Stockbridge died Saturday at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York. Born in New York City on Dec. 21, 1926, daughter of music critic and radio...

George Herbert Epps

George Herbert Epps, 80, of 331 Bradley St. died Friday morning at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington. Born in Belton, S.C., on July 26, 1925, son of George and Myra Ingram Epps, he was...

Roman Joseph Fedoryka

Roman Joseph Fedoryka, 53, of East Street, died Tuesday at home after a brief illness. Born in Suffern, N.Y., on Nov. 5, 1951, son of Joseph and Stephanie Tysovich Fedoryka, he graduated from Don...

Guy F. Drumm Jr.

Guy F. Drumm Jr., 86, of Lyman Street, Westborough, formerly of Great Barrington, died Tuesday afternoon at Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Centers in Westborough. Born in Sharon,...

Nellie L. Pultorak

Nellie L. Pultorak, 84, of 11 Fairview Road, Housatonic, died Sunday at Great Barrington Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. Born in Great Barrington on Dec. 16, 1920, daughter of Louis and Louise...

JoAnn M. Aloisi

JoAnn M. Aloisi, 67, of 16 Highland Drive died Sunday at home. Born in Great Barrington on Aug. 17, 1938, daughter of Harland B. and Marsella McCormick Foster, she graduated in 1956 from the...

Joseph J. Laflamme

Joseph J. Laflamme, 19, of 510 East St. died Thursday as the result of an auto accident in Schodack, N.Y. A first-year student at Maryland Bible College and Seminary in Baltimore, he was heading...

Elizabeth L. Karl

Elizabeth L. Karl, 82, of 45 Church St. died Tuesday at her home. Born in Amsterdam, N.Y., on Oct. 29, 1922, daughter of Charles and Anna Bender Blinzinger, she was educated in Albany, N.Y.,...

Wilma M. Cherry

Wilma M. Cherry, 83, of 10 Bartow Drive died Sunday at home. She moved to Otis in 1992. At one time, she and her husband owned a summer home in Chesterfield. Born in Point Pleasant Beach,...

Jacob "Jack" Pevzner

Jacob "Jack" Pevzner, 83, of South Street and Lakeworth, Fla., died Friday evening at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center in Boston after a brief illness. In 1954, Mr. Pevzner and his wife, the...

Helen M. Halsted

Helen M. Halsted, 77, of Marion Avenue, Torrington, Conn., formerly of Great Barrington, died Friday at the University of Connecticut Medical Center in Farmington. Born in Amesville, Conn., on...

Leo J. LaFontana

Leo J. LaFontana, 92, of 235 North Plain Road, Housatonic, died Sunday at Fairview Commons Nursing Center. He was a former Great Barrington selectman. Born in Peekskill, N.Y., on Sept. 12,...

Jean Grant Dick

Jean Grant Dick, 88, of South Main Street, died Friday morning at Great Barrington Health Care, where she had resided for a few months. Born in New Rochelle, N.Y., on March 28, 1917, daughter of...

Walter C. Keefner

Walter C. Keefner, 84, of Christian Hill Road died Saturday at Fairview Commons Nursing Center. Born in Great Barrington on April 3, 1921, son of John and Carrie Race Keefner, he attended the...

Ralph E. Gleason

Ralph E. Gleason, 95, of 367 West Center Road died Sunday at Great Barrington Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Great Barrington. Born in Durham, Maine, on May 29, 1910, son of Ralph and...

Elsie Carpenter Turner

Elsie Carpenter Turner, 96, of Maple Ave. died Sunday at Great Barrington Rehabilitation and Nursing Center where she had been a resident for the last 8 years. Born in Austerlitz, N.Y., March 23,...

Mary Ford Broderick

Mary Ford Broderick, 80, of 25 Cliffwood St. died yesterday at the Laurel Lake Center. Born in Pittsfield on May 20, 1925, daughter of William A. and Veronica Fogarty Ford, she was a 1943...

L. Blanche Goss

L. Blanche Goss, 103, died yesterday at Timberlyn Heights Nursing Home. Born in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada, on Sept. 3, 1902, daughter of John and Susanna Smith Tucker, she attended...

Arvid H. Anderson Jr.

Arvid H. Anderson Jr., 79, of East Otis, formerly of Bristol, Conn., died Wednesday at John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington, Conn. Born in Bristol on June 13, 1926, son of Arvid H. Anderson Sr....

Alice Cora Fox

Alice Cora Fox, 86, of 610 Laurel St., formerly of 84 Sheffield St., Pittsfield, died Sunday at Laurel Lake Center. Born in Countess, Alberta, Canada, on Aug. 3, 1919, daughter of Joseph and...

William Clark Vreeland

William Clark Vreeland, 89, died Thursday at Timberlyn Heights Nursing Home after an extended illness. Born in Bronx, N.Y., on Feb. 20, 1916, son of Techumsah Sherman and Ella Hayes Vreeland, he...

Lillian P. LaRose

Lillian P. LaRose, 78, of Randolph, Vt., a former resident of Great Barrington, died Sunday at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. Born in Hartland, Vt., on Feb. 15, 1827,...

Edward Marcus

Edward Marcus, 67, of Pleasant Street, Manchester, formerly of Lee, died Sept. 6 at Massachusetts General Hospital. Born in Ashland on Dec. 18, 1937, son of Harry Marcus and Mary Kilham Marcus,...

Carolyn H. Houghtaling

Carolyn H. Houghtaling, 89, died yesterday morning at her home at 45 Birch St. Born in PIttsfield on Aug. 9, 1916, she was the daughter of Allen and Verda Burdick Wood. She attended local...