Obituaries

Clara A. Pictrowski

Clara A. Pictrowski, 81, of 31 Wellesley St. died Wednesday at home after a short illness. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 25, 1924, daughter of Luigi and Luisa Altobelli Arpante, she was a 1943...

Carter Brown Owen

Carter Brown Owen, 45, of 20 Miner St. died Friday at home of natural causes. Born in Cumberland, Md., on Aug. 8, 1961, son of Glenn Brown Owen Dobbs and the late Archibald A. Owen III, he moved...

Joseph W. Izzo

Joseph W. Izzo, 49, of 360 West Housatonic St. died Thursdayat home. Born in Pittsfield on May 4, 1957, son of Joseph A. and Anne Mullen Izzo, he was a 1975 graduate of Taconic High School, where...

Catherine Marie Foreman

Catherine Marie Foreman, 85, of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, formerly of Housatonic, died Friday at Wyandot Memorial Hospital in Upper Sandusky. She recently moved from Morral, Ohio, to Upper Sandusky....

George Bernard Benner Jr.

George Bernard Benner Jr., 47, of Park Street, Housatonic, died Thursday at Fairview Hospital. Born in Port Jefferson, N.Y., on Nov. 26, 1958, son of George Bernard Benner Sr. and Florence...

Marceline T. Lanoue

Marceline T. Lanoue, 78, of 14 Joan Drive died Saturday at home. Born in Rensselaer, N.Y., on Oct. 11, 1927, daughter of Edward and Albina Soulier West, she lived in Cummington as a child, and...

Sharleen T. Kotski

Sharleen T. Kotski, 55, of 63 Plymouth St. died Sunday at her home. Born in Pittsfield on July 30, 1951, daughter of Marie Massacani Kucka of Pittsfield and the late Charles A. Kucka, she was...

Nathan Kaplan

Nathan Kaplan, 95, of 10 Taconic St., a longtime resident of New York City, died at home on Sunday after a brief illness. Born in Shenandoah, Pa., on Nov. 20, 1910, son of Isaac and Anna Mednick...

Mary Margaret Wheeler

Mary Margaret Wheeler, 81, of 63 Middlefield Road, formerly of Alford and Egremont, died Wednesday at her home. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 2, 1925, daughter of Arthur and Elizabeth Williams...

Thelma P. Wells

Thelma P. Wells, 89, a resident of 445 Frost Road for the past 46 years, died Wednesday at her home. Born in Williamstown on Aug. 26, 1917, daughter of Charles and Addie Haley Leonard, she was...

William Purcell

William Purcell, 69, of 343 Main Road died Tuesday at home of lung cancer. Born in the Bronx, N.Y., on Feb. 19, 1937, son of William and Mary Ellen McCaffrey Purcell, he attended schools there....

Dorothy K. O'Neill

Dorothy K. O'Neill, 87, of 1000 North St. died yesterday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility, where she had resided for 14 months. Born in Sheffield on Sept. 24, 1918, daughter of Frank F....

Leslie D. Kirchner

Leslie D. Kirchner, 50, of 2566 East 3750 North, Layton, Utah, formerly of Pomeroy Avenue, died Aug. 23 while fishing in Layton. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 19, 1955, son of Nicholas and Jeanne...

Viola Grace "Mim" Guachione

Viola Grace "Mim" Guachione, 84, of 573 Peck's Road died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center after a short illness. Born in Pittsfield on May 25, 1922, daughter of Luigi and Luisa Altobelli...

Pauline Greene

Pauline Greene, 79, formerly of Friedel Street, Worcester, died Tuesday at Craneville Place nursing facility. Born in Ludlow on Jan. 14, 1927, daughter of Andrew and Catherine Duff Campsie, she...

Margaret M. Miller

Margaret M. Miller, 61, of 105 Underwood Road died Sunday at home. Born in Pawtucket, R.I., on Jan. 26, 1945, daughter of the late Joseph and Sara Desjardins Mongeau, she was a 1962 graduate of...

Milton A. Kolodkin

Milton A. Kolodkin, 82, of 340 Red Barn Road died Monday at home following a long illness. Born in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Feb. 16, 1924, son of Alex M. and Sarah Baron Kolodkin, he attended the...

Robert Beals

Robert Beals, 62, of 92-31 57th Ave., Elmhurst, N.Y., formerly of Pittsfield, died of cancer on Sunday at the Margaret Tietz Hospice in Jamaica, N.Y. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 16, 1943, son of...

Emilio Anthony "Slim" Ariazi

Emilio Anthony "Slim" Ariazi, 86, of 352 Houghton St. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center, where he was admitted two weeks ago. Born in North Adams on June 6, 1920, son of the late Joseph...

Nancy Hart Markgraf

Nancy Hart Markgraf, 72, of 104 Forest Road, died at North Adams Regional Hospital on Saturday. Born in West Cornwall, Conn., on March 12, 1934, daughter of C. Whittelsey and Doris Shurtleff...

Mary K. Lusignan

Mary K. Lusignan, 87, of Chestnut Hill Road, Montpelier, Vt., a native and longtime resident of Pittsfield, died Sunday evening at Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin, Vt. Born in Pittsfield...

Gertrude Bowers Burdsall

Gertrude Bowers Burdsall, 99, of Baldwin Hill died Monday at her home. Born Sept. 30, 1906, in Lansdowne, Pa., daughter of Walter and Gertrude Kissick Bowers, she graduated from Lansdowne High...

Orville Clayton Benoit Sr.

Orville Clayton Benoit Sr., 65, of 85 Eagle St., died Saturday at Williamstown Commons following a battle with lung cancer. Born in Florida on Nov. 27, 1940, son of the late Leo Arthur Benoit Sr....

Louise May "Lulu" Webb

Louise May "Lulu" Webb, 90, of 118 Church St. died Saturday at Williamstown Commons. Born in Barre, Vt., on May 18, 1916, daughter of David and Emma Cadwell Vania, she moved to Hartford, Conn.,...

Thomas A. Sacchetti

Thomas A. Sacchetti, 88, of 52 McKinley Terrace died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center after a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 2, 1918, son of Anthony M. Sacchetti Sr. and Amelia...