Obituaries

Margaretta C. duPont

Margaretta C. duPont, 55, of Delafield Drive died Tuesday at the home of her sister, Mary C. Melanson of Park Drive in Lanesborough, after a long battle with cancer. Born in Pittsfield on May 5,...

Scott Michael Danford

Scott Michael Danford, 38, of 178 1/2 Second St., died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center of natural causes. Born in Pittsfield on July 11, 1969, son of Gary W. Danford and Donna LeVardi Danford...

Elizabeth Ann Chapman

Elizabeth Ann Chapman, 78, of 35 Adams Road died yesterday at Sweet Brook Health Care Center. Born in Williamstown on June 27, 1929, daughter of Charles E. and Minnie Hunter Garrison, she was a...

Dale "Tom" Roberts

Dale "Tom" Roberts, 61, of 131 Stoddard Ave. died Sunday at Hillcrest Commons, where he had spent the past two days. Born in Pittsfield on March 30, 1946, son of Charles and Lillian Arthur...

Alice R. Lesnick, 77

ADAMS, Mass. — Alice Roberta Lesnick, 77, of 114 Upper E. Hoosac St. died Monday, Sept. 24, 2007, at home. Born in North Adams on Jan. 10, 1930, daughter of Eugene and Alice Benoit Bellows,...

Peter T. Brett

Peter T. Brett, 70, of 146 Bartlett Ave. died Sunday at home. Born in Pittsfield on April 19, 1937, son of George and Evelyn Kelly Brett, he was a 1955 graduate of St. Joseph's High School. Mr....

Jody Ann Bauer

Jody Ann Bauer, 45, of 20 Cobb Road died Thursday at home of cancer. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 30, 1961, daughter of the late Ralph C. and Rita Book Bauer, she attended local schools and was a...

Albert Kenneth Haswell

Albert Kenneth Haswell, 84, of 3321 Chatford Drive, Holiday, Fla., a former longtime resident of Pittsfield, died Thursday at Community Hospital in New Port Richey, Fla., after a brief...

Roger Garcia Jr.

Roger Garcia Jr., 77, of 50 Shetland Drive died Saturday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility after a long battle with cancer. Born in Jersey City, N.J., on Jan. 11, 1930, son of Roger and...

Priscilla L. O'Neil, 56

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Priscilla Louise O'Neil, 56, of 312 Walnut St. died Saturday morning, Sept. 22, 2007, at home of natural causes. Born in North Adams on March 12, 1951, daughter of...

Jeffrey A. Newman

Jeffrey A. Newman, 61, of 261 Green River Road and 1609 East 55th St., Brooklyn, N.Y., died of a massive heart attack Friday at Beth Israel Hospital on Kings Highway in Brooklyn, N.Y. Born in...

Irene M. Kane

Irene M. Kane, 93, a former longtime resident of Melbourne Road, died Sunday at Springside of Pittsfield, where she had resided for five years. Born in Tonypandy Rhondda, South Wales, United...

Henry E. Fresia

Henry E. Fresia, 86, of 64 Kittredge Road died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on April 22, 1921, son of Frank and Irma Quarrello Fresia, he was a 1940 graduate of...

Susan C. Rovins

Susan C. Rovins, 56, of 295 Pomeroy Ave. died Wednesday at home after a long battle with cancer. Born in Philadelphia on Jan. 14, 1951, daughter of Reuben and Henrietta Cohen Rovins, she graduated...

Orlina M. Demary

Orlina M. Demary, 81, of 6 Main St. died Wednesday at Fairview Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Great Barrington after a long battle with breast and ovarian cancer. Born in Pittsfield...

Mary Ann Brett

Mary Ann Brett, 93, of 68 South St. and Wellfleet died Wednesday at Providence Care Center of Lenox, where she had resided the past month. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 29, 1914, daughter of Carmelo...

Joyce Whalen

Joyce Whalen, 75, of Egrement Road died Sunday at Fairview Hospital. Born in Great Barrington on July 16, 1932, daughter of James and Gertrude Tower Wylie, she attended the former Bryant School...

Gerald George "Jed" Smith

Gerald George "Jed" Smith, 75, of 118 Broadview Terrace died Monday at home after a long battle with cancer. Born in Kingsbury, London, on May 22, 1932, son of George F. and Nellie Hubbard Smith,...

Jean M. Mayhew

Jean M. Mayhew, 80, formerly of 109 Housatonic St., Lenox, died Monday at Hillcrest Commons after a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 3, 1927, daughter of Walter E. and Cora Perry Beebe,...

Janice Shotwell

Janice Shotwell, 58, of 772 North Hoosac Road, died at Sweet Brook Continuing Care Center on Monday following a long battle with cancer. She moved to Williamstown in 1994 after living in...

Robert Raymond Secord

Robert Raymond Secord, 81, of 155 First St., died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Stoneham on March 3, 1926, son of Medrick and Leda Pratte Secord, he was a 1946 graduate of...

Kathleen Mangold

Kathleen Mangold, 90, of Fiske Hill Road, Sturbridge, died Monday at Harrington Memorial Hospitalin Sturbridge She lived in Pittsfield from 1954 to 1960. Born in Sturbridge on Jan. 15, 1917,...

Samuel Vincent

Samuel Vincent, 92, of Boca Raton, Fla., died there Sunday at Hospice by the Sea Care Center. Mr. Vincent operated Sammy Vincent's music store in Pittsfield for many years until relocating to Boca...

Carmela M. McLean

Carmela M. McLean, 86, of Firetown Road, Simsbury, Conn., died Sunday at McLean Nursing Home in Simsbury, Conn. She was the mother of John L. McLean of Pittsfield. Born in Springfield on April...

Sarah V. Kacensky

Sarah V. Kacensky, 89, of 5 Taconic Island Road died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 12, 1918, one of 14 children of William E. and Sarah Savage Winters, she...