Obituaries

Mandell L. Smith

Mandell L. Smith, 67, of 90 Windigo Road died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Orange, Fla., on Feb. 1, 1939, son of MacDonald and Norma Hinds Smith, he attended Williamsburg schools...

Virginia P. Moore

Virginia P. Moore, 87, of Cooper Town Road, Tyringham, died yesterday at Fairview Commons. Born in Housatonic on Nov. 10, 1918, the daughter of John and Louise Minor Post, she moved to Pittsfield...

Bernice "Betty" Elizabeth Lawrence

Bernice "Betty" Elizabeth Lawrence, 86, formerly of 12 Pleasant St., died yesterday at Craneville Place, where she had been a resident since January. Born Feb. 15, 1920, in Pittsfield, the...

Michael C. Kuzara

Michael C. Kuzara, 92, formerly of 147 Dalton Ave., died Monday afternoon at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center in Lenox. He resided at Kimball Farms, 235 Walker St., for the past two and a half...

Ursula K. Krueger Godyn

Ursula K. Krueger Godyn, 84, of 44 Arnold Place, died Sunday evening at North Adams Commons, where she was admitted on Feb. 6. Born in Elmshorn, Germany, on Oct. 26, 1921, she was a daughter of...

Carl J. Fenner Jr.

Carl J. Fenner Jr., 91, of East Otis and, more recently, of Devonshire Estates died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. He was born in Pittsfield on Nov. 12, 1914, son of Carl J. and Margaret...

Joan J. Boutin

Joan J. Boutin, 75, formerly of Melbourne Place, died Monday afternoon at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility. She had been a patient there since December. For the past 10 years, she resided in...

Iris Bertha Bland

Iris Bertha Bland, infant daughter of Tasha A. Persip of 55 John St., died at birth on Saturday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Besides her mother, she leaves her maternal grandparents, Earl...

Lawrence G. "Pete" Vieau

Lawrence G. "Pete" Vieau, 61, of Chicopee died Sunday at Heritage Hall Nursing Home in Agawam from heart and kidney disease. His sister, Nancy Devane, lives in Becket. Born in Tupper Lake,...

Ruth M. Simon

Ruth M. Simon, 87, of 329 Pittsfield Road, Devonshire Estates, died Saturday at home. Born in Bronx, N.Y., on Aug. 16, 1918, daughter of Aaron and Dora Siegel Moskowitz, she graduated from Evander...

Christine M. Schutz

Christine M. Schutz, 79, of 57 Summer St. died Saturday at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in Cape Charles, Va., on Feb. 1, 1927, daughter of Joseph and Barbara Frank Etz, she attended schools...

Antoinette Marie "Nini" Sacco

Antoinette Marie "Nini" Sacco, 92, formerly of St. Joseph's Court, Apartment D-8, 85 Eagle St., died Sunday at Sweet Brook Care Centers, 1561 Cold Spring Road, Williamstown. Born in North Adams on...

Genevieve "Jean" Koldys

Genevieve "Jean" Koldys, 87, of Pittsfield died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in New Britain, Conn., on May 16, 1918, daughter of Alexander and Katherine Sondej Sierputowski, she...

Pastor Milford H. Knights

Pastor Milford H. Knights, 80, of 1100 Mohawk Trail died Thursday at home. An ordained minister, he was pastor of the Florida and Savoy Baptist churches, retiring in 1986. Born in North Adams...

Nancy Warden

Nancy Warden, 72, of the Teresian House in Albany, N.Y., died there Thursday. She was a former resident of Lee. Born in Feeding Hills, she was the daughter of Honore and Frances Roberts...

Grace Maffuccio

Grace Maffuccio, 81, of 579 East St. died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 16, 1924, daughter of Philip and Luigia Litano Polidoro, she was a 1942 graduate of...

Robert Hall

Robert Hall, 99, of Balance Rock Road died Thursday of pneumonia at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Sentobia, Miss., on April 25, 1906, he was the son of the Rev. Wilson Allen Hall and Olympia...

Bernice A. Squires

Bernice A. Squires, 67, of Abbott Street died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on June 13, 1938, daughter of Anna Fitch Croughwell and the late Arthur Croughwell, she...

Amelia Walsh Paris

Amelia Walsh Paris, 91, of 87 Highland Ave. died Saturday at Hillcrest Commons Health Care Facility, where she had resided for nine months. Born in Lee on June 23, 1914, daughter of Amedeo and...

Andre E. Martell Sr.

Andre E. Martell Sr., 62, of 504 North Hoosac Road died Saturday at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in North Adams on Dec. 3, 1943, son of the late Edward P. and Aldea Beauvais Martell, he...

Mary E. LaFontana

Mary E. LaFontana, 52, of 235 North Plain Road, Housatonic, died Saturday at Fairview Hospital. Born in Springfield on Feb. 24, 1953, daughter of Bertha Magdalenski LaFontana and the late Leo J....

Allan E. Kelly

Allan E. Kelly, 75, of 32 Broadway St. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on July 22, 1930, son of George T. Kelly Sr. and Daisy Wixon Kelly, he was a 1948 graduate of...

David Keefner

David Keefner, 63, of Berkshire School Road died Saturday at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington. Born in Great Barrington on July 7, 1942, son of Benjamin and Dora Race Keefner, he attended...

Dorothy M. DeSanty, 78

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Dorothy M. DeSanty, 78, formerly of 78 Richview Ave., died Sunday, Feb. 19, 2006, at Williamstown Commons. Born in Adams on May 30, 1927, daughter of Antonio W. Bellard...

Sophie T. Bombardier

Sophie T. Bombardier, 82, of 31 Lanesborough Road died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 27, 1923, daughter of Stanley and Josephine Kacensky Stodulski, she was a...