Obituaries

Robert J. Charon

Robert J. Charon, 81, of 101 Connecticut Blvd., East Hartford, Conn., formerly of North Adams, died yesterday at Hartford (Conn.) Hospital. Born in North Adams on May 15, 1922, son of Arthur and...

Roland Bernard Boucher

Roland Bernard Boucher, 73, of 1100 Mohawk Trail died Sunday evening at the Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington, Vt. Born in North Adams on June 11, 1930, son of Armand and Edith LaBombard...

Casimer Jacob Wiater Sr

Casimer Jacob Wiater Sr., 87, of 66 Depot St. died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center. He had resided in Cheshire for most of his life prior to moving to Pittsfield, where he lived with his son,...

Edmund R. St. John Jr

Edmund R. St. John Jr., 83, a respected attorney and former state senator and representative, died Thursday evening at his home at 102 Orchard St. following a lengthy illness. Born in Adams on...

Joseph Robert Salerno Sr

Joseph Robert Salerno Sr., 82, of 120 Chantilly Ave. died Wednesday at his home. He was a well-known area musician and a longtime music teacher in the Adams-Cheshire Regional School District....

Robert F. Provost

Robert F. Provost, 67, of 350 West St. died yesterday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 5, 1937, son of Francis and Hazel Hume Provost Sweeney, he was educated in Pittsfield schools and lived...

Edna Gifford Phillips

Edna Gifford Phillips, 98, formerly of 56 Bachand Ave., died Thursday at the Village of Fillmore Ponds in Bennington, Vt., where she had resided for three years. Born in Middletown, N.Y., on Feb....

Frances Jean Saunders

Frances Jean Saunders, 71, of Greylock Apartments, 3 Myrtle St., died yesterday at North Adams Commons after a brief illness. Born in Adams on Jan. 27, 1933, daughter of Stanley and Marie Vitali...

Bradford O. Smith

Bradford O. Smith, 91, of Reservoir Road died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in New Haven, Vt., on March 27, 1912, son of Bradford J. and Lucy M. Swenor Smith, he was a...

Dominic Pisani

Dominic Pisani, 88, of 193 Elberon Ave. died Saturday at home. Born in the former Mountain Mills, Vt., on Sept. 1, 1915, son of Bruno and Margurite DeBonis Pisani, he attended Pittsfield public...

Hettie M. Diggens

Hettie M. Diggens, 93, formerly of 99 Valentine Road, died Saturday at Springside of Pittsfield, where she had resided since 1992. Born in Greenwich, England, on Dec. 15, 1910, daughter of...

Sophie K. Wilson

Sophie K. Wilson, 83, of 705 New Britain Ave., Hartford, Conn., formerly of Adams, died yesterday morning at the Avery Heights Health Care Center in Hartford. Born in Adams on May 14, 1920,...

Helen G. Towne

Helen G. Towne, 86, of Stratton Road died yesterday at her daughter's home in Williamstown. Born in Williamstown on May 22, 1917, daughter of Ernest and Crescent Goodermote Wright, she attended...

Norman L. Chenail, 87

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. â€' Norman Louis Chenail, 87, of 79 Tremont St. died Thursday morning, March 4, 2004, at North Adams Regional Hospital, where he was admitted Feb. 22. Born in Williamstown...

James H. Ceder

James H. Ceder, 87, of Beecher Lane died Wednesday evening at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center. Born in Moline, Ill., on Feb. 11, 1917, son of Hjalmer and Louise Schmidt Ceder, he attended...

Francis C. Logan

Francis C. Logan, 76, of Williamstown Commons, died Saturday at the nursing home. Born in France on May 22, 1927, son of Robert Dupyre and Harriet R. Wood, he graduated from Stanford University...

Dorothy C. Heidel

Dorothy C. Heidel, 90, of 53 Yorkshire Ave. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Troy, N.Y., on April 13, 1913, daughter of Hans A. and Katharine Rall Wilde, she was a 1931 graduate...

Sister Mary Cecilius

Sister Mary Cecilius, 89, of the Sisters of Providence in Holyoke, died Monday in the Providence Place infirmary. She had served on the faculty of the former St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing...

Martha B. Boos

Martha B. Boos, 92, formerly of 59 Salisbury Court and Berkshire Place, died Feb. 20 at Christian Health Care Center in Wyckoff, N.J. Born in Pittsfield on June 10, 1911, daughter of Paul and...

Stanley E. Stachura

Stanley E. Stachura, 74, of 37 Leonard St. died Sunday evening at home, following a two-year battle with cancer. Born in Adams on May 8, 1929, son of Joseph and Clara Gawron Stachura, he was a...

Lloyd "Bud" Hughes Jr

Lloyd "Bud" Hughes Jr., 77, of 10 Leslie Ave. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Gastonia, N.C., on April 13, 1926, son of Luther and Katie Kaley Hughes, he was educated there....

Everett M. Geno Sr., 82

STAMFORD, Vt. — Everett Michael Geno Sr., 82, of 263 Clough Road died Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004, North Adams (Mass.) Regional Hospital, where he was admitted on Feb. 23. Born in Valley Falls,...

Mary Irene Bolduc

Mary Irene Bolduc, 75, of 46 Alfred Drive died Sunday morning at home. She had been a bacteriologist for the Pittsfield Health Department lab for 31 years. She retired in 1991. Born in...

James William Billings

James William Billings, 83, of 855 Middle Road died Sunday at North Adams Regional Hospital, where he was admitted earlier following a brief illness. Born in North Adams on March 21, 1920, the...

Gail Lynn White

Gail Lynn White, 50, of 45 Spring St. died Thursday at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 13, 1953, daughter of Franklin and Florence Cooke Hutchinson, she attended Lenox...