Obituaries

Bruno Rufo

Bruno Rufo, 77, of 61 Langlois Ave., a longtime area businessman and entrepreneur, died Saturday at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Feb. 22, 1928, son of Candido...

Charles John "Jack" Quinlan

Charles John "Jack" Quinlan, 57, of 30193 Destiny Drive, Murrieta, Calif., died Monday at Scripps Hospital in Encinitas, Calif. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 14, 1948, son of the late John F. and...

Emily B. Olsen

Emily B. Olsen, 97, formerly of 54 Alden Ave., died Friday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided since July 2002. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 21, 1908, daughter of Irving and Ellen Morris...

Kenneth E. Murrell

Kenneth E. Murrell, 66, of 81 Appletree Lane died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Carthage, Mo., on April 14, 1939, son of Mildred Edmondson Murrell and the late Keith A. Murrell, he...

Guido R. "Guy" Masiero

Guido R. "Guy" Masiero, 81, of 45 Taconic Ave. died Friday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 30, 1924, son of Dominico and Antonia Guarda Masiero, he grew up...

Charlotte R. Gardner

Charlotte R. Gardner, 77, of 39 Gale Ave. died Friday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided since April 2005. Born in Canaan, Conn., on March 26, 1928, daughter of Ellen Drumm VandeBogart...

Virginia Flynn

Virginia Flynn, 83, of 10541 Collinsville-Martin Road, Martin, Miss., died Friday at home. Her late husband, Daniel J. Flynn Jr., was a native of Great Barrington. Born in Meridian, Miss., on...

David E. Finney, 88

STAMFORD, Vt. — David Eugene Finney, 88, of 117 Jepson Road died Friday, Jan. 6, 2006, at Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington, where he had resided since October 2004. Born in Deer Park,...

Veronica C. "Bonnie" Duncan

Veronica C. "Bonnie" Duncan, 77, of 899 South Main St. died Saturday at Fairview Hospital. Born in New York City on May 27, 1928, daughter of Thomas and Mary Hopkins Pickersgill, she moved to...

Phyllis B. Avery, 88

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Phyllis Burghardt Avery, 88, of 225 Adams St., Brooklyn, N.Y., a former resident of Williamstown, died Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006, at home. Born in Bennington, Vt., on July...

Stanley J. "Stash" Sumy

Stanley J. "Stash" Sumy, 77, of 92 Howland Ave. died yesterday at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in Pittsfield on June 10, 1928, son of Anthony and Josephine Juras Sumy, he was a 1946...

Madeline A. Boyer, 86

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Madeline Aleta Boyer, 86, died Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2006, at Sweet Brook Care Centers, where she had resided for three years. Born in Williamstown on Dec. 3, 1919,...

The Rev. Stephen Ward Turrell

The Rev. Stephen Ward Turrell, 87, of Duxbury, formerly of Pittsfield, died yesterday at the Radius Health Care Center in Plymouth after a long illness. Born in Hempstead, N.Y., on Aug. 15, 1918,...

Eloise Maloney

Eloise Maloney, 94, of Lenox, formerly of Charlestown, Scituate and Cohasset, died Monday at the Providence Care Center in Lenox. Born Dec. 10, 1911, in Charlestown, daughter of James Peter and...

Frank W. Bushika, 74

STAMFORD, Vt. - Frank William Bushika, 74, of 85 Bushika Road died Wednesday morning, Jan. 4, 2006, at North Adams (Mass.) Regional Hospital, where he was taken after being stricken earlier in the...

Margaret Elizabeth Marshall

Margaret Elizabeth Marshall, 79, of 49 Putnam Ave. and a longtime summer resident of Pontoosuc Lake, died Sunday evening at her home. Born in Pittsfield, Dec. 11, 1926, daughter of Thomas J. and...

Dr. Richard J. Lynch

Dr. Richard J. Lynch, 71, died on Sunday at Brigham and Woman's Hospital in Boston, following a brief illness. Born in Rome, N.Y., on June 29, 1934, son of William and Anna Lynch, he graduated...

Michael J. Kustra

Michael J. Kustra, 58, formerly of Anthony Street, Adams, and a resident of The Commons of North Adams on Franklin Street died Monday morning in The Commons after a lengthy illness. Born March 21,...

Stephen E. Grande Jr.

Stephen E. Grande Jr., 80, of Sudbury, father of Lorna M. Grande of Stockbridge, died Sunday, Jan. 1, at home. Born in Boston on June 25, 1925, son of Stephen E. and Conchetta Mucci Grande, he was...

Kathleen R. Dudziak

Kathleen R. Dudziak, 55, of 592 Peru Road died at her home on Monday. Born in Manchester, N.H., on Nov. 1, 1950, daughter of the former Shirley MacPherson Huot of Dalton and the late Joseph Huot,...

Kenneth H. Tuttle

Kenneth H. Tuttle, 79, of 892 Southbridge Road, Warren, died Thursday at Harrington Memorial Hospital. His daughter, Kathleen Cota, lives in Pittsfield. Born 1926 in Warren, son of Kenneth W....

Harold Joseph Sweeney

Harold Joseph Sweeney, 82, of 105 Lenox Ave., and longtime former resident of Tucker St. in Lenox, died Friday at Springside of Pittsfield, where he had resided since March, 2005. Born on Feb. 2,...

Marjorie Boucher Wheeler, 77

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Marjorie Rita Boucher Wheeler, 77, of 112 Riverside Drive died Friday, Dec. 30, 2005, at North Adams Regional Hospital, where she was taken after being stricken at...

Anthony F. Scarpitto, 64

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Anthony Francis Scarpitto, 64, of 10 Rand St. died Saturday, Dec. 31, 2005, at the home of his former wife, Elizabeth Sinclair, of 75 Commercial St., Adams, after a long...

Franklin Wilson Ragsdale Jr.

Franklin Wilson Ragsdale Jr., 72, of 261 Dewey Ave. died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Hudson, N.Y., on March 17, 1933, son of Franklin W. Ragsdale Sr. and Sarah Porter Ragsdale,...