Obituaries

Walter V. Sawicki, 90

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Walter V. Sawicki, 90, of Cocoa, Fla., and a longtime resident of 64 College Ave. died Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012, at the Wuesthoff Medical Center in Rockledge, Fla.,...

Ruth O. Bernardo, 92

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - Ruth Olive Bernardo, 92, of 45 Spring St. died Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in North Adams on March 9, 1920, a daughter of Earl Franklin...

Marjorie J. Bump, 80

ADAMS, Mass. — Marjorie J. Bump, 80, of 75 Commercial St. died Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012, at Sweet Brook Care Centers in Williamstown. Born in Thompsonville, Conn., on July 29, 1932, daughter...

Mildred Tatro Bleil Deneault, 94

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Mildred Bernice Tatro Bleil Deneault, 94, of 150 Ashland St. died Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012, at Sweet Brook Care Centers in Williamstown. Born in North Adams on Nov. 17,...

Anthony B. Falco, 80

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Anthony B. Falco, 80, of 19 Apache Drive died Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012, at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in North Adams on Feb. 1, 1932, a son of Donato and...

Patricia Chilson, 76

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Patricia Chilson, 76, of 35 Adams Road, Meadowvale Apt B8, died Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012, at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, surrounded by her loving family....

Henry E. Irace, 91

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - Henry Ernest Irace, 91, of 33 Lyman St. died Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012, at Sweet Brook Care Centers in Williamstown. Born in North Adams on Oct. 17, 1920, son of Luigi and...

Jay L. Strange, 83

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - Jay L. Strange, 83, of College Avenue died peacefully at home, on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, of natural causes, surrounded by his family. Born in North Adams on March 27, 1929,...

Ralph R. Beer, 61

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Ralph Robert Beer, 61, of 34 Greenleaves Drive, Hadley, formerly of North Adams, died Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton. Born in North...

Harriet E. Wetherby, 64

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Harriet E. "Harve" Wetherby, 64, of Colebrook, N.H., died Wednesday morning, July 25, 2012, at Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital in Colebrook after a period of declining...

Leon M. Beverly, 86

STAMFORD, Vt. — Leon Murray Beverly, 86, of Main Road died Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, while doing something he loved - riding his bicycle. Mr. Beverly was a former selectman and School Board...

Robert Wylde, 83

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Robert Wylde, 83, of Morgan Hill, Calif., died on Monday, Sept. 5, 2011. Born in Webster on Jan. 7, 1928, son of Frank and Hazel Ostberg Wylde, he received his...

Wilfred W. Avery, 94

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Wilfred W. Avery, 94, of 225 Adams St., Brooklyn, N.Y., died Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, in Brooklyn. He was the husband of the late Phyllis Burghardt Douglass of...

Anna M. Lafave, 92

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - Anna Margaret Lafave, 92, of 35 Adams Road died Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012, at Williamstown Commons. Born in Williamstown on Feb. 1, 1920, daughter of Alvah and Mary Humphrey...

Nancy L. Carpenter, 61

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Nancy L. Carpenter, 61, of 221 Corinth St. died Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center as the result of an automobile accident the same day in...

Bernard R. Lively, 84

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Bernard Roland Lively, 84, of 19 Danforth St. died Friday, July 27, 2012, at Williamstown Commons. Born in Heath on Dec. 9, 1927, son of Roland A. and Marie-Reine...

Kathleen J. Winters, 67

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - Kathleen Jean Winters, 67, of 150 Ashland St. died Saturday, July 28, 2012, at her home. Born in Peekskill, N.Y., on Jan. 16, 1945, a daughter of Reginald and Emanuela Carano...

Timothy L. Toole, 62

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Timothy Lawrence Toole, 62, of 30 Francis St. died Friday, July 20, 2012, at his home. Born in Oakland, Calif., on April 1, 1950, son of John H. and Lucille Nelson...

Zelda J. Barbuto, 71

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Zelda Jane Barbuto, 71, of 44 B St. died Saturday, July 28, 2012, at Williamstown Commons. Born in North Adams on March 2, 1941, daughter of Robert and Irma Campedelli...

Edward A. Recchia, 93

ADAMS, Mass. — Edward Anthony Recchia, 93, of 18 Edward Ave. died Saturday, July 28, 2012, in Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 28, 1918, a son of Lorenzo and Antoinette D'Arcangelo...

Marion V. Sherman, 92

ADAMS, Mass. — Marion Violet Sherman, 92, of 75 Commercial St. died Monday, July 23, 2012, at Williamstown Commons. Born in Clarksburg on Dec. 22, 1919, a daughter of Bertrand Lionel and...

Geraldine M. Murphy, 89

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Geraldine Mary "Gerry" Murphy, 89, of 282 State Road died Tuesday, July 24, 2012, at North Adams Commons. Born in Clarksburg on Sept. 20, 1922, daughter of Edward and...

John S. Oleson, 62

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - John Sigfried Oleson, 62, of Old Mill Road, died Friday, July 20, 2012, at home. Born in Pittsfield on March 7, 1950, son of John O. and Phyllis Brookman Oleson, he...

Mildred E. Smith, 95

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Mildred Elizabeth Smith, 95, of 85 Eagle St., St. Joseph's Court, beloved matriarch of the Smith and Dowling families, died Saturday, July 21, 2012, at Williamstown...

Steven R. Gagne, 55

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Steven Roland Gagne, 55, of 110 Lakeway Drive died Wednesday, July 18, 2012, at home. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 26, 1957, son of Roland and Jean Crockwell Gagne, he...