Obituaries

Olisse John Pellegrini

Olisse John Pellegrini, 73, of VanDeusenville Road, Housatonic, died Saturday at Fairview Hospital. Born in Great Barrington on Dec. 16, 1932, son of Olise and Freda Springstube Pellegrini, he...

Geraldine Lillian McGowan

Geraldine Lillian McGowan, 91, of 193 North St. died yesterday at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in North Adams on May 15, 1914, daughter of Henry E. and Ora Anderson Arnold, she attended...

Harriet Welch

Harriet Welch, 98, of 40 Laurie Dr. died Thursday at her home. Born in North Adams on June 27, 1907, daughter of George B. and Marian Gallup Flood, she attended schools in North Adams and...

Henrietta Ryan

Henrietta Ryan, 85, of the Holly House Apartments died Thursday morning at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born Oct. 31, 1920, in Ridgewood, Queens, N.Y., daughter of Otto and Emma Fluhr...

Robert G. Berkel

Robert G. Berkel, 83, of Lee Road died yesterday at home. Born in Mineola, N.Y., on Jan. 25, 1923, son of Gustav and Jennie Rein Berkel, he was educated in Freeport, N.Y., schools and was a 1941...

Jerry Allen Whitney Jr.

Jerry Allen Whitney Jr., 64, of 61 Chase Ave. died Monday morning at the North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in Edinburgh, N.Y. on Dec. 7, 1941, son of the late Henry J. Whitney Sr. and Anna Ruth...

James H. Urquhart Jr.

James H. Urquhart Jr., 78, of Gator Trace Avenue, Fort Pierce, died Monday at home. He was a native of Adams, formerly residing on Richmond Lane. Born in Adams on June 20, 1927, son of James...

Wilson Hopper Kierstead

Wilson Hopper Kierstead, 88, of New York City and Jerusalem Road in Tyringham died at his home in New York on Sunday, April 2, of a thoracic aneurysm. Born on March 6, 1918, son of Wilson Hopper...

Anna E. Berte

Anna E. Berte, 89, of 74 Perrine Ave. died Saturday afternoon at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Cheshire on Sept. 17, 1916, daughter of John E. and Mary Ann Buckley Berte, she was a 1933...

Edker Austin

Edker Austin, 83, of 30 Prospect St. died Sunday evening at Springside of Pittsfield, where he had been a patient for the past two months. Mr. Austin moved to Pittsfield from Chapel Hill, N.C., in...

Edward A. Shook

Edward A. Shook, 75, of Martinsburg, Blair Co., Pa., formerly of Pittsfield, died Monday morning, at the Village at Morrisons Cove, Martinsburg after a brief illness. Born in Pittsfield on Oct....

Eva Crocini

Eva Crocini, 101, of 23 Great Barrington Road died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in the providence of Arrezzo, Monte's Savinon, Italy, on July 7, 1904, daughter of...

Richard Gamache

Richard Gamache, 42, of 28 Valley St. died Saturday morning at Hillcrest Commons in Pittsfield after a long illness. Born in Adams on July 29, 1963, son of the late Donald L. and Adella Rogowski...

James M. Cheney Sr.

James M. Cheney Sr., 47, of High Street, died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield after a short illness. Born in Springfield on April 19, 1958, son of James E. Cheney and Barbara...

Marie Florence Trudeau

Marie Florence Trudeau, 87, of 45 Spring St. died Thursday at Sweet Brook Transitional Care & Health Care Centers in Williamstown. Born in Albany, N.Y., on March 8, 1919, daughter of Louis and...

Catherine Partenope

Catherine Partenope, 100, of 10 Hospital Ave. died Thursday at Sweet Brook Transitional Care & Health Centers in Williamstown. Born in North Adams on Feb. 12, 1906, daughter of Vincenzo and...

Shirley M. Hamilton

Shirley M. Hamilton, 78, of Hillcrest Commons, formerly of 107 Robbins Ave., died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in New Haven, Conn., on March 28, 1928, daughter of Claudius and Edith...

Roland L. Daigneault

Roland L. Daigneault 67, of 64 Musterfield Heights died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Cohoes, N.Y., on Oct. 6, 1938, son of the late Alfred and Hortense Landgoc...

Adelbert W. Sharp

Adelbert W. Sharp, 90, died Saturday at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center in Lenox. Born in Hancock on Jan. 7, 1916, son of Winfred and Pearl Maynard Sharp, he was a lifelong resident of Hancock...

Edward J. Ostrowski Jr.

Edward J. Ostrowski Jr., 52, of 41 Willow St. died yesterday morning at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in Adams on Nov. 19, 1953, son of Edward J. Ostrowski and the late Geraldine Towsley...

Robert L. Field

Robert L. Field, 80, of 51 Pines Lodge Park died Saturday at Williamstown Commons. Born in Williamstown on Nov. 19, 1925, son of Harold and Alta Lee Field, he graduated in 1943 from the former...

Richard David Powers

Richard David Powers, 66, of 81 Maple St. died at home Monday night. Born in Pittsfield on March 25, 1940, son of Joseph R. and Dolores H. LaMudge Powers, he was a 1957 graduate of St. Joseph...

Roland F. Mahoney

Roland F. Mahoney, 86, of North Main Road died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Holyoke on Jan. 5, 1920, son of Frank and Frieda Loescher Mahoney, he attended Holyoke...

Brett Christopher Jackson

Brett Christopher Jackson, 43, of 3706 Farr Ave., Fairfax, Va., formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Fall Church, Va. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 22, 1962, son of Horace...

Ellen Erwin

Ellen Erwin, 89, of Summit Avenue, Albany, N.Y, died Wednesday at St. Peter's Hospital in Albany. Born in Pittsfield on June 11, 1916, daughter of John and Frieda Mauersberger Gardner, she was a...