Obituaries

Dannie Wright, 62

DALTON, Mass. — Dannie Wright, 62, of 255 Grange Hall Road died Thursday, Dec. 25, 2003, at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Herrin, Ill., on May 16, 1941, son of Hermon F....

Claudette M. Wotkowicz

Claudette M. Wotkowicz, 54, of 15 Enterprise St. died of cancer Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center. She had been there since Dec. 21. Born in Adams on July 2, 1949, daughter of Cauldon...

Roger Michael Vincelette

Roger Michael Vincelette, 80, of 1 Higgins Court died Thursday at the Williamstown Commons, where he had been admitted Oct. 24. Born in North Adams on Oct. 26, 1923, son of Ernest and Rosalie...

Robert W. "Bud" Tucker

Robert W. "Bud" Tucker, 90, of 176 Columbus Ave., Berkshiretown, died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on April 4, 1913, son of Raymond L. and Anna Condron Tucker, he...

Albert N. Soucie, 66

ADAMS, Mass. — Albert N. Soucie, 66, of 81 Commercial St. died Wednesday in the emergency room of Berkshire Medical Center following an auto accident in Adams. Born in Middleboro on Feb. 28,...

Ruth E. Thompson Sondrini

Ruth E. Thompson Sondrini, 71, of 126 Winesap Road died Wednesday at home. Born in Pittsfield on July 14, 1932, daughter of Charles and Ethel Murray Thompson, she was educated in local schools...

William B. Salinetti

William B. Salinetti, 88, of 275 Fairview St. died Thursday at the Village at Laurel Lake, where he had resided for three years. Born in Lee on Oct. 30, 1915, son of Abbondio and Angelina Bartini...

Madeline P. Wesley Nonken

Madeline P. Wesley Nonken, 93, died Wednesday at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center. Born in Pittsfield on April 19, 1910, daughter of Matthew H. and Etta May Akers Powell, she was a 1928 graduate...

Trude R. Geismar

Trude R. Geismar, 96, a resident of Kimball Farms Retirement Community at 235 Walker St. for eight years, died Thursday at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. Born in Bretten, Germany, on Sept. 19,...

Cherilyn C. Branton

Cherilyn C. Branton, 50, of 225 Linden St. died at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worester on Wednesday. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 12, 1953, daughter of Ernest M. and...

Leo H. Bedard

Leo H. Bedard, 87, of 15 Forest Park Ave., a longtime area automobile dealer and civic leader, died Thursday morning at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Adams on Sept. 2, 1916, son...

Stacia J. Ouellette

Stacia J. Ouellette, 94, of Holyoke died Friday, Dec. 19, at Mont Marie Health Care Center. She was the sister of Frank Kurpaska, and had lived in Holyoke for 60 years. Born in Adams on Sept....

Anthony Charles Liporace

Anthony Charles Liporace, 71, of 265 Reservoir Road died Wednesday, Dec. 24, at the University of Massachusetts Medical Health Center in Worcester, where he was admitted on Dec. 3. Born in...

John Francis Baumann

John Francis Baumann, 74, of Division Street died Tuesday, Dec. 23, at Fairview Hospital. Born Jan. 1, 1929, in Pittsfield, son of George and Louise Maier Baumann, he attended local schools and...

Richard David Vallin

Richard David Vallin, 76, of 404 Bay Hill Court, New Bern, N.C., formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday at home. Born in Pittsfield on April 3, 1927, son of Daniel and Dora Halperin Vallin, he was a...

Susan Touponce

Susan Touponce, 57, of North Main Road died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born Sept. 29, 1946, in Hartford, Conn., daughter of Russell Looby of Steinhatchee, Fla., and the...

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Cushing Bosworth Snider

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Cushing Bosworth Snider, 92, of 300 Hot Spring Road, Montecito, Calif., formerly of South Egremont, died yesterday in Santa Barbara, Calif. Born in New York City on...

Dorothy J. Siok

Dorothy J. Siok, 91, formerly of 8 Waubeck St., died Monday at Timberlyn Heights, where she had resided for seven years. Born in Housatonic on June 27, 1912, daughter of Alexander and Rozalia...

Warren Wayne Root

Warren Wayne Root, 75, of Normandie Ridge retirement community, York, Pa., died Monday evening at home. Born in Pittsfield on April 14, 1928, son of Wilfred H. and Elsie I. Shepherd Root, he was...

Ethel Mae Racicot

Ethel Mae Racicot, 71, of 68 Daniels Ave. died yesterday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 6, 1932, daughter of Loyd and Philominia Roberts Banister, she attended...

Debra Windon Luckey

Debra Windon Luckey, 47, of 38 Euclid Ave. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Saginaw, Mich., on June 27, 1956, daughter of Louis and Julia Wilder Steward of Aliceville, Ala., she...

Heide E. Hazzard

Heide E. Hazzard, 64, of Belford, N.J., died Friday at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, N.J. She had lived in Massachusetts and moved to Belford 24 years ago. Born on April 6, 1939, in...

Evelyn Dietrich

Evelyn Dietrich, 88, of 4 Goodrich St. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Aug. 29, 1915, daughter of Paul and Sophia Matoska Krajchy, she was...

Sgt. Glenn Richard Allison

Sgt. Glenn Richard Allison, 24, formerly of 60 Edward Ave., died Thursday in Baghdad, Iraq, after being stricken during a military drill. Born in Boston on Sept. 12, 1979, son of Kenneth Beatty...

George E. Kingsley

George E. Kingsley, 72, of 730 East Road died yesterday at home. Born in Pittsfield on May 16, 1931, son of George H. and Elizabeth Allen Kingsley, he was a 1949 graduate of Pittsfield High...