Obituaries

Joseph J. "Ooper" Miraglia

Joseph J. "Ooper" Miraglia, 74, of 66 Ontario St. died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 9, 1932, son of John and Grace McNamara Miraglia, he was a lifelong resident...

Maurice R. Bushee, 57

NORTH ADAMS, Mass, — Maurice Raymond "Cricket" Bushee, 57, of 40 Chase Ave. died Tuesday evening, July 18, 20116, at the emergency room of North Adams Regional Hospital, where he was taken...

Lois Marie Schopp Emberlin Bradford

Lois Marie Schopp Emberlin Bradford, 80, of Main Street, a longtime Sheffield resident, died Sunday at her summer residence in Taconic, Conn. Born in Miami on July 4, 1926, daughter of Arthur and...

Lee Cawood Townsend Sr.

Lee Cawood Townsend Sr., 73, a retired print and television journalist who served 14 years as news editor of the CBS Evening News under Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather, died of liver disease at DeWitt...

Thelma Stark

Thelma Stark, 76, of Fox Farm Road, New Ipswich, NH., formerly of West Stockbridge, died Sunday at Harborside Pheasantwood in Peterborough, N.H., following a lengthy illness. Born Aug. 13, 1929,...

Joseph G. Larrivee

Joseph G. Larrivee, 81, of 8 Elm St. died Saturday at his home. Born in Housatonic on Oct. 30, 1924, son of the late Ulric Larrivee and Rosanna Mercier Larrivee, he was a 1942 graduate of Lee...

Philip Cook

Philip Cook, 95, formerly of Liberty, N.Y., died on Sunday at his home at Devonshire Estates. Born in Bronx, N.Y., on April 23, 1911, son of Lena and Isaac Cook, he attended local schools and...

James Joseph "Doc" Soluri

James Joseph "Doc" Soluri, 72, of Becket died Monday, July 10, at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Born in Niagara Falls, N.Y., on Aug. 10, 1933, son of Joseph and Margaret Morasco Soluri,...

Alice W. Bergan

Alice W. Bergan, 88, of 1395 Massachusetts Ave., Arlington, formerly of Lenox, died Monday in Arlington. Born in New York City on May 17, 1918, daughter of Frederick J. and Mabel Dickerson...

Alejandro Villarroel

Alejandro Villarroel, 44, of San Francisco died Monday after a three-year battle with colon cancer. His wife, the former Wanda Nichols, was born and raised in Pittsfield. Born in Caracas,...

Ann H. Ryan

Ann H. Ryan, 92, of Berkshiretown Apartments died Saturday at Providence Health Care Facility in Lenox, where she had resided for a year. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 26, 1913, daughter of Louis...

Joy W. Gottlieb

Joy W. Gottlieb, 81, of Salisbury Road died Tuesday at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington. She spent winters in West Palm Beach, Fla. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Nov. 12, 1924, daughter of...

Dr. George Grossman

Dr. George Grossman, 83, of 94 Sampson Parkway died Friday at Hillcrest Commons. Born in Boston on Aug. 10, 1922, son of Richard and Jennie Freedman Grossman, he moved to Pittsfield at the age of...

Ellwood F. DeCoster

Ellwood F. DeCoster, 94, of Devonshire Estates died yesterday at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center, where he had resided for the past month. Born on the family farm in Buckfield, Maine, on Sept....

Mary A. Salvaggio

Mary A. Salvaggio, 84, of Syracuse, N.Y., formerly of Pittsfield, died yesterday at St. Camillus Health Center in Syracuse. Born in Syracuse on July 19, 1921, daughter of John and Angeline...

Joseph Reilly

Joseph Reilly, 65, of 22 Baglee Ave. died Tuesday at home of an apparent heart attack. He was the owner of Matt Reilly's Restaurant. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 22, 1941, son of the late...

Florence Isabel Macdonald

Florence Isabel Macdonald, 95, died Sunday at Kimball Farms, where she had resided since 1993. Born in Boston on July 17, 1910, daughter of John A. and Jean Ferguson Macdonald, she grew up in...

Charles J. "Moose" Koloski

Charles J. "Moose" Koloski, 89, of Glendale Middle Road died Wednesday at home. Born in the village of Glendale on Dec. 19, 1916, son of Frank and Frances Dombrowski Koloski, he attended schools...

Bruno Raymond Dubis

Bruno Raymond Dubis, 93, of 22 Belvedere Terrace, Yarmouth Port, a native of Adams, died Wednesday at Mayflower Place Nursing Center in West Yarmouth after a battle with cancer. Born on June 1,...

Henry F. Dimouro

Henry F. Dimouro, 54, of 169 Valentine Road, formerly of Hudson and of Jay, Maine, died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Marlborough, son of Mary Odiorne Dimouro and the late Samuel...

Lorraine Rose Anderson

Lorraine Rose Anderson, 68, of Lynn, formerly of Pittsfield, died Wednesday at the Jewish Rehab Center in Swampscott after a battle with cancer. Born in Pittsfield, daughter of Hilda Palardy...

Mrs. Joan Patricia ( Nichols) Bushika

Mrs. Joan Patricia ( Nichols) Bushika, 77, of 23 Goodrich Street, North Adams, Mass died Sunday July 9, 2006 at the North Adams Regional Hospital. She was born in North Adams, Mass on February 25,...

George Michel

George Michel, 75, of Lenox Road died yesterday morning at Berkshire Medical Center after a long illness. Born in Worms, Germany, on Feb. 26, 1931, son of Karl and Carry Sommer Michel, he came to...

Miles R. McCarry

Miles R. McCarry, 89, of Deltona, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, a leading figure in the dairy cattle industry and a former Berkshire County agricultural agent, died July 11 at Hospice of...

Arlene Josephine Kendrick

Arlene Josephine Kendrick, 95, of 86 Cleveland Ave. died early yesterday morning at the Mt. Greylock Extended Care Facility in Pittsfield. Born in Readsboro, Vt., on Dec. 24, 1910, daughter of...