Obituaries

Adele C. Giesen

Adele C. Giesen, 96, of the Village at Laurel Lake, died Tuesday evening at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield after being stricken earlier in the day. Born in Newark, N.J., on Sept. 16,...

Walter D. Fuller

Walter D. Fuller, 63, of 250 Wells Road died yesterday morning at home. Born in Pittsfield on July 6, 1941, he was raised in Canaan, N.Y., by his foster parents, Arthur and Edith Finney. He...

Pauline Sibley Coller

Pauline Sibley Coller, 101, of East Street died Wednesday at Fairview Commons Nursing Home in Great Barrington after a long illness. Born in Springfield on June 1, 1903, daughter of Patrick and...

Dr. Harold Perkel

Dr. Harold Perkel, 86, of North Wynnewood Ave., Wynnewood, Pa., and Stockbridge Bowl, died Tuesday at his home in Wynnewood of lung cancer. Born in Jersey City, N.J., on Jan. 15, 1918, son of...

Ruth Margaret "Pat" Dempsey

Ruth Margaret "Pat" Dempsey, 87, of 11 Fairview Terrace died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on June 29, 1917, daughter of Charles E. and Ruth M. Volk...

John R. Copeland Sr.

John R. Copeland Sr., 78, of Hyde Place died yesterday at Hillcrest Commons in Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 5, 1926, son of Dr. Nathaniel Copeland, chief surgeon and chief of staff at...

George R. Bower Jr.

George R. Bower Jr., 89, formerly of Great Barrington, died yesterday at Woodbriar of Wilmington skilled nursing center, where he had resided for three months. Born in Holyoke on Aug. 7, 1915,...

Alan Russel Stickles

Alan Russel Stickles, 55, of Long Pond Road died Saturday at home after a long illness. Born in Presque Isle, Maine, on Feb. 23, 1949, son of Richard and Florence Jardine Stickles, he moved to...

Caryl M. Adams

Caryl M. Adams, 69, of 564 Wade Inn Road died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Hartford, Conn., on April 20, 1935, daughter of Ruth Coyle Millard Reynolds and the late...

Josephine L. Ragusa

Josephine L. Ragusa, 74, of 22 Little John Road died Sunday at home. Born in Queens, N.Y., on July 1, 1930, daughter of Eugene and Erminia Vairo Bianco, she was a 1948 graduate of Central Needle...

Francis Edward Larkin Jr

Francis Edward Larkin Jr., 71, of 25 Pine St. died Monday evening at Fairview Hospital after an apparent heart attack. Born in Great Barrington on Aug. 24, 1933, son of Francis E. Larkin Sr. and...

Margery A. Murray

Margery A. Murray, 84, of 108 Hardwick Road, Gilbertville, died Sunday at home. She was the sister of Dolores Loring of Lee. Born on Long Island, N.Y., on Aug. 14, 1920, daughter of William...

William S. "Crash" Winn

William S. "Crash" Winn, 51, of Greylock Street died Friday evening at home of pancreatic cancer. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 27, 1953, son of William H. and Dorothy Sturgis Winn, he attended...

William G. Mulroney Jr.

William G. Mulroney Jr., 81, of Stockbridge Bowl and Plymouth Road, Wakefield, died yesterday at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital in Melrose. Born in St. Albans, N.Y., on Dec. 8, 1922, son of William...

V. Marie Soule

V. Marie Soule, 87, of 5 Yale Court died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Utica, N.Y., on June 14, 1917, the daughter of Frederick and Viola Younghanz Latimer, she...

Odo Ploner

Odo Ploner, 69, of Brookman Drive, East Otis, died Friday at Parkview Specialty Hospital in Springfield. Born in Itter Tyrol, Austria, on Feb. 25, 1935, son of Josef and Anna Ploner, he was...

Delmae Ferrelli

Delmae Ferrelli, 71, of Austin Farm Road, Exeter, R.I., formerly of Lee, died Thursday at Miriam Hospital in Providence, R.I. Born in Sault Sainte Marie, Mich., on Nov. 17, 1933, daughter of...

Dorothy May Brazie

Dorothy May Brazie, 92, formerly of 2 Bernard Gibbons Drive and 25 Pleasant St., died Saturday at Great Barrington Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, where she had resided since October 2003....

Katherine T. Viola

2Katherine T. Viola, 90, of 104 Christian Hill Road died Monday at Fairview Hospital. Born at 104 Christian Hill Road on Aug. 17, 1914, daughter of Dominic and Maria Zucco Zucco, she was a 1932...

Charles W. Ambery

Charles W. Ambery, 59, of Beaver Dam Road died Friday at home of prostate cancer. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on March 8, 1945, son of Thomas J. and Mary A. Ambery, he was a graduate of St. Francis'...

Mildred L. Holmes

Mildred L. Holmes, 82, of 465 Chapel St. died Thursday, Nov. 18, at the Laurel Lake Nursing Center. Born in Rockland, Maine, on Oct. 4, 1922, daughter of Fred and Louise Pierson Townsend, she was...

Kenneth S. "Murph" Brown Sr

Kenneth S. "Murph" Brown Sr., 87, of 223 Washington Mountain Road died yesterdayat Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 29, 1916, son of George L. and Katherine G. Doyle Brown, he...

William Winn

William Winn, 79, formerly of Silver Street, died Tuesday at his home in Elizabethtown, N.C., where he had resided for eight years. Born in Great Barrington on Jan. 10, 1925, son of Madeline...

Robert A. Friberg

Robert A. Friberg, 73, of Lake Shore Drive, a former Becket selectman, died Tuesday at Baystate Medical Center. Born in Springfield on May 12, 1931, son of John and Beda Holmberg Friberg, he...

Wilma Theurer

Wilma Theurer, 77, of Hemlock Hill died Friday morning at home. Born in Union City, N.J., on Dec. 9, 1926, daughter of Thomas and Williamina Harvey Stirrat, she attended schools there. She...