Obituaries

Richard J. “Ripper” Olszewski

Richard J. “Ripper” Olszewski, 66, formerly of 3 Hart Street, Housatonic section of Great Barrington, died Saturday at Great Barrington Rehab & Nursing Center after a long illness. Born...

Barbara Boeglin

Barbara Ruth "Bobbi" Boeglin, 59, of Budd House, 185 Marble St. died Thursday morning at home. Born in Newark, N.J., on April 15, 1942, daughter of Mary Barones Boeglin and the late Julius J....

Louise Samboruk

Louise V. Samboruk, 79, of Our Lady of the Meadows at 1 Pinnacle St., Richford, Vt., a former resident of Great Barrington, died Monday at Fletcher Allan Hospital in Burlington. Born in Lee on...

Frederick Besancon Jr.

Frederick J. Besancon Jr., 50, of Ruidoso, N.M., a former resident of Otis, died Monday at home. Born in Great Barrington on March 1, 1951, son of Frederick Besancon Sr. and E. Marie Tracy...

Tyler J. Roberts

Jay Roberts, 20, of 129 Gibbs Road died Thursday in Blandford. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 11, 1980, son of David and Sandy Moyer Roberts, he received his GED in Great Barrington. Mr. Roberts...

Marie A. Shultis

Marie A. Shultis, 94, died Saturday at Timberlyn Heights Nursing Home and Alzheimer's Center in Great Barrington. Born in Lee on June 29, 1906, daughter of Evi and Alma Har-rington Shultis, she...

Eleanor Orzolek Drumm

Eleanor Orzolek Drumm, 74, of 219 Oak St., Housatonic, died suddenly Sunday, April 16, at Bristol Hospital. She was born in Housatonic on March 4, 1927, daughter of the late Stanislaw and Marcianna...

Lewis L. Miner

Lewis L. Miner, 89, of 1031 West Main St., Housatonic, died yesterday at Fairview Hospital. Born in Otis on April 20, 1911, he moved as a foster child to Lee and worked for many years on the farm...

Elaine L. Donsbough

Elaine L. Donsbough, 62, of 122 Cottage Street, Great Barrington, died at her home Wednesday, March 28. Born in Great Barrington June 8, 1938 she was the daughter of William and Virginia Viola...

Florence Buffoni

Florence J. Buffoni, 77, of Marble Street died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Great Barrington on Aug. 10, 1923, daughter of Charles E. and Mary Olaray Sermini, she was a graduate...

Ethel R. Brown

Ethel R. Brown, 95, of East Main St. died yesterday at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington. Born in West Springfield on April 19, 1905, daughter of Frank and Mabel Dale Ruesch, her family moved...

John C. Boomsma

John C. Boomsma, 80, of 620 Laurel St. died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Newbury, England, on March 20, 1921, son of Jon and Ann Farnham Boomsma, he moved to Chester at the age of...

Frances K. Roff

Frances K. "Frankie" Roff, 77, of Main Street died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in New York City on Aug. 5, 1923, daughter of Harold and Esther Lewis Gross, she was a 1941 graduate of...

William Rosenthal

William Rosenthal, 86, of Mystic Isle Way and Pompano Beach, Fla., died Friday in Natick at the home of his son, Steven Rosenthal. He was assistant director of health and physical education for the...

Czeslaw Mysliwy

Czeslaw Mysliwy, 76, of 370 Park St., Housatonic, died yesterday at Fairview Hospital. Born in Lublin, Poland, on July 25, 1924, son of Tony and Tekla Mysliwy, he attended schools in Poland....

Richard. J. Kinne

Richard J. Kinne, 81, of Berkshire Heights, Great Barrington, died Thursday at Fairview Hospital. He was born in Great Barrington, son of the late Roy and Sarah Broderick Kinne on March 20, 1920....

Rita T. Bresmon

Rita Theresa Bresmon, 56, of 24 Silver St. died Friday evening at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Norwalk, Conn., on July 1, 1944, daughter of Ralph and Helen Lussier Robichaud, she attended...

Albert Wellington

Albert J. "Bud" Wellington, 76, of 155 Marble St. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Great Barrington on March 2, 1925, son of Charles and Julia Ferry Wellington, he attended...

Emilio P. Passetto

Emilio P. "Grap" Passetto, 78, of 9 Mountain View Terrace, Housatonic, died Tuesday at Fairview Hospital. Born in Lee on March 9, 1923, son of John and Emilia Scaramuzzi Passetto, he graduated...

Peter C. Dolby

Peter C. Dolby, 55, of Osprey, Fla., a native of Great Barrington, died Saturday at home. Born July 3, 1945, son of the late Warren and Isabell Adams Dolby, he graduated from Springfield College....

John C. White Jr.

John C. White Jr., 70, of Washington Township, Ohio, died March 8 at Dayton Hospice in Dayton, Ohio. Born in Stockbridge on Oct. 19, 1930, son of John C. White Sr. and Catherine Drake White, he...

Helen Lippman

Helen M. Lippman, 77, formerly of East Otis, died Wednesday at Fairview Hospital. She had resided at Great Barrington Nursing and Rehab Center for the past two years. Born in Bronx, N.Y., on Nov....

Cecile Carberry

Cecile M. Carberry, 83, of Delmar, N.Y., formerly of Great Barrington and Wynantskill, N.Y., died Wednesday at St. Peter's Community Hospice Inn in Albany, N.Y. Born in Cohoes, N.Y., on Aug. 7,...

Nancy S. Robie

Nancy Stewart Robie, 49, of Riverbrook Residence, 4 Ice Glen Road, died Sunday evening at Laurel Lake Center for Health and Rehabilitation after a brief illness. Born in Boston on July 19, 1951,...

Robert A. Bertelli

Robert A. Bertelli, 67, of 200 Prospect St. died Wednesday at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. Born in Lee on April 12, 1933, son of Aldo and Loretta Chaloux Bertelli,...