Obituaries

Stella Mateuszyk Duda

Stella Mateuszyk Duda, 82, of 317 Highland Ave., died yesterday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Adams on June 15, 1923, daughter of Frank and Stella Kondej Mateuszyk, she was a...

Robert I. Clark Sr.

Robert I. Clark Sr., 86, of 120 Onota St. died Tuesday at Hillcrest Commons Nursing Home, where he had been a patient for the past nine months. Born in Springfield on Dec. 6, 1919, son of Frank...

Rosemarie Sumner

Rosemarie Sumner, 73, formerly of 600 Main St., died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. She had resided at Hillcrest Commons in Pittsfield since July 2005. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 23,...

Lucille Anita Grandshaw

Lucille Anita Grandshaw, 85, of 62 Demont Ave. died Sunday at home. Born in Winooski, Vt., on Feb. 5, 1921, daughter of Joseph A. and Merelda Campbell Granger, she moved to Pittsfield as a child,...

Gladys Mae Frank

Gladys Mae Frank, 84, of Epworth Arms died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in East Thetford, Vt., on May 23, 1921, daughter of Roger and Lillian Hart Westover, she was a 1938 graduate...

Mary R. Fitzgerald

Mary R. Fitzgerald, 74, of Rockland Street, Springfield, formerly of Pittsfield, died Monday at home. Born in Springfield on Feb. 1, 1932, daughter of Jerry and Rose Derose Chechile, she was a...

Elaine Anne Ellsworth

Elaine Anne Ellsworth, 72, of 241 Mohawk Forest Boulevard died Saturday at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in North Adams on March 24, 1934, daughter of George A. and Sheriban Nahmie Nassif,...

Charles W. Donaldson

Charles W. Donaldson, 79, of Oswald Avenue died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on May 15, 1926, son of Charles R. and Anna Herforth Donaldson, he was a 1944 graduate of...

Sandra K. Clark

Sandra K. Clark, 65, of 132 Cranbrook Blvd., Monroe, Mich., a native of Pittsfield, died Saturday at home. Born on Feb. 23, 1941, daughter of Guy and Ria Brundage Simmons, she was a 1959 graduate...

Rita S. Shorey

Rita S. Shorey, 85, formerly of 42 Scammel Ave., died Saturday at Springside of Pittsfield, where she had resided since April 2004. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 13, 1920, daughter of William and...

Floyd A. Knight

Floyd A. Knight, 86, of Brown Street, Lenox Dale, died Saturday at Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Cherry Hill, N.J., after a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on April 5, 1920, son of Edward C. and...

Elizabeth Sabrina Dodge

Elizabeth Sabrina Dodge, 87, of Hartford, Conn., died Friday at Avery Heights, a skilled-care nursing facility in Hartford. She was the mother of Deborah Dodge of Great Barrington. Born in...

Jennifer M. Brown

Jennifer M. Brown, 45, of 9 Mieczkowski Circle, Whately, a native of Dalton, died Wednesday, at home after a brief illness. Born on March 3, 1961, daughter of Philip G. Brown and the late Roberta...

Maureen S. O'Laughlin

Maureen S. O'Laughlin, 86, of Garfield Town Houses died Friday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility in Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on April 18, 1919, daughter of Fred and Helen Coughlin...

Edith M. Kowalczyk

Edith M. Kowalczyk, 82, of 192 Dalton Division Road died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on March 12, 1924, daughter of Joseph and Frances Leab Latimer, she attended local...

Lucille C. Hanke

Lucille C. Hanke, 85, of 32 Columbia St. died Friday at home. Born in Limekiln, Vt., on Nov. 25, 1920, daughter of Stephen and Katherine Krovack Cravish, she attended Beeman Academy. She moved...

John Emmet Gogan

John Emmet Gogan, 85, of 41 Acorn St. died Friday at home. Born in Pittsfield on July 13, 1920, son of W. Harry and Sarah Farley Gogan, he was educated in Pittsfield schools. A World War II...

Irene M. Correia

Irene M. Correia, 86, of 26 Judith Drive died yesterday at Providence Care Center in Lenox, where she had resided since February. Born in Nizza Monferrato, province of Asti, Italy, on Nov. 8,...

Bruno S. Simonetta

Bruno S. Simonetta, 87, of 32 Farnsworth Terrace died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 13, 1919, son of Raffeale and Raffeala Manella Simonetta, he graduated from...

Catherine M. Dunsmore

Catherine M. Dunsmore, 63, of 26 Lowden St. died Thursday at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center from complications due to an aneurysm. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 12, 1942, daughter of the late James E....

Rhoda Zablow

Rhoda Zablow, 95, of 1611 Cold Spring Road, died Tuesday at her home. Born in Manhattan on Feb. 22, 1911, daughter of Louis Goldshein and Sophie Nizimowitz Goldshein, she attended schools in New...

Thomas Aquinas Kane

Thomas Aquinas Kane, 90, of 235 Walker St., died Wednesday afternoon at Kimball Farms Nursing Care center, where he had been a patient for the past fifteen months. Born in Lenox on March 7, 1916,...

Anna Jaworski

Anna Jaworski, 101, of 5 Cherry St., died Tuesday evening at Williamstown Commons Care Center. Born in Adams on April 18, 1904, daughter of August and Frances Szamanska Wandrei, she attended...

Viola S. Pepperman

Viola S. Pepperman, 80, of 44 Dexter St. died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Adams on April 29, 1925, daughter of Anthony and Mary Orchel Stankiewicz, she moved to Pittsfield at the...

James F. "Harvey" Keenan

James F. "Harvey" Keenan, 59, died yesterday morning at his home on Lasher Lane in Lenox Dale. Born in Pittsfield on March 28, 1947, son of Mary Sorrentino and the late Joseph Keenan, he was...