Obituaries

Frances R. Goetze

Frances R. Goetze, 79, of 40 Old Stockbridge Road died Saturday evening at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Deskford, County Banffshire, Scotland, on March 21, 1924, daughter of Alexander and...

Rita T. Dupee

Rita T. Dupee, 75, of 434 Barbour St. died yesterday at home. Born in Adams on Sept. 6, 1927, daughter of Henri and Eva Royal Dargie, she attended local schools, including the former Notre Dame...

Sophie A. Woitkowski

Sophie A. Woitkowski, 90, of 11 Elmvale Place died Saturday at home. Born in Housatonic on Aug. 3, 1913, daughter of Joseph and Virginia Zdun Lis, she attended schools in Great Barrington....

Adam Joseph Skowronski

Adam Joseph Skowronski, 80, of 1 Wilfred Ave. died Saturday at home after a long struggle with cancer. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 17, 1922, son of Casimer and Tekla Lepak Skowronski, he graduated...

Elimar Peters

Elimar Peters, 91, of Boice Road died early Saturday morning at Hillcrest Commons in Pittsfield, where he had resided for a month. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Dec. 15, 1911, son of Charles Adolph...

Bette Stephanie Gusmerini

Bette Stephanie Gusmerini, 67, of 71 Howland Ave. died yesterday morning at home after a battle with cancer. Born in Adams on May 9, 1936, daughter of Elizabeth Smachetti Volpi of Adams and the...

Carol J. Green, 66

RICHMOND, Mass. — Carol J. Green, 66, of 15 Beech Road died Saturday, Aug. 30, 2003, at home. Born in Winsted, Conn., on May 2, 1937, daughter of Charles and Ellia Mott Bennett, she was a...

April Beattie Farrell

April Beattie Farrell, 26, of 12 Chestnut St., Westfield, died Friday of an aneurism at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. She was a volunteer at the senior center in Lee, where she played...

Dorothy L. Skorupski, 82

ADAMS, Mass. - Dorothy L. Skorupski, 82, of 65 Melrose St. died Friday, Aug. 29, 2003, at Williamstown Commons after a long illness. Born in North Adams on Sept. 20, 1920, daughter of Joseph I....

David R. Quenneville Sr

David R. Quenneville Sr., 57, of East Main Street died Thursday at home. Born April 2, 1946, in Salisbury, Vt., son of Raymond and Loretta Gibeault Quenneville, he attended the former Sheffield...

Anne Bernadette Tracy

Anne Bernadette Tracy, 69, of 30 Glassworks Road, Berkshire, died yesterday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. She had been a resident of Berkshire Village for the past 50 years, prior to which...

George Francis Moore

George Francis Moore, 76, of 41 Navajo Drive died yesterday at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in Branchville, N.J., on Aug. 2, 1927, son of George H. and Bertha Williams Moore, he attended...

Dennis Ralph Demary Sr

Dennis Ralph Demary Sr., 60, of 124 B Candlewood Road, Groton, Conn., died yesterday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 27, 1943, son of William E. Demary Sr. and Eva M. Hoisington Demary, he...

Lawrence Howard Kickery Sr

Lawrence Howard Kickery Sr., 71, of 32 Hurley Drive died yesterday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 14, 1932, son of Catherine Shaw Kickery of Pittsfield and the...

Dennis Ralph Demary Sr

Dennis Ralph Demary Sr., 60, of 124 B Candlewood Road, Groton, Conn., died yesterday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 27, 1943, son of William E. Demary Sr. and Eva M. Hoisington Demary, he...

Leonard J. Murphy

Leonard J. Murphy, 84, of 44 Anita Drive died Tuesday at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center in Lenox, where he had resided for six weeks. Born in Pittsfield on July 9, 1919, son of Dennis and Mary...

Dennis P. Filiault, 55

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Dennis Peter Filiault, 55, of 442 Notch Road died Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2003, at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield after being stricken at Six Flags in Agawam, where he...

Homer R. Boucher

Homer R. Boucher, 82, of 118 Church St., formerly of Maple Street, died yesterday at home. Born in North Adams on Aug. 14, 1921, son of George T. and Corinne Cote Boucher, he attended schools...

Stephanie Barber

Stephanie Barber, 84, of Hawthorne Street and New York City died Tuesday morning at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, shortly after being stricken with a heart attack. Born in Jamaica,...

Esther Springstube O’Neil

Esther Springstube O’Neil, 89, died yesterday at Timberlyn Heights Nursing Home. Born in Housatonic on May 27, 1914, daughter of Frederick and Edith Cobb Springstube, she attended local...

Mary L. Maselli, 84

CLARKSBURG, Mass. - Mary Louise Maselli, 84, of 361 Cross Road died Tuesday afternoon, Agu. 26, 2003, at North Adams Regional Hospital, where she had been admitted Monday. Born in North Adams on...

Gertrude Ann Beaupre

Gertrude Ann Beaupre, 99, of 4 Columbia St. died yesterday morning at North Adams Regional Hospital after being admitted on Monday. Born in North Adams on June 4, 1904, daughter of Frank and...

Dorothea B. Beardsley

Dorothea B. Beardsley, 97, died Tuesday at Berkshire Retirement Home, where she had resided since November 2000. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 27, 1905, daughter of George S. and Clara J. Mugler...

Ferman Leroy Turner Jr

Ferman Leroy Turner Jr., 83, formerly of Williamstown, died Saturday at Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington, where he had resided for several years. Born in Boston on Jan. 2, 1920, son of Ferman...

Erich J. Strobl

Erich J. Strobl, 93, of 45 Walchenbach Circle, Salisbury Estates, died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Vienna, Austria, on Jan. 20, 1910, son of Richard and Leonie Schnabl Strobl,...