Obituaries

Althea D. Patrick

Althea D. Patrick, 57, of 9774 High Water Court, Burke, Va., died Sunday at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., after a long illness. She moved to Burke in October 1987. Born in...

Marjorie M. Milne

Marjorie M. Milne, 90, of 350 West Housatonic St. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 12, 1912, daughter of James and Jemina Shearer Milne, she was a graduate...

Joan A. Krezel

Joan A. Krezel, 75, of 18 Morningside Ave. died Sunday evening at the home of her sister, Jean S. Bryce of Stamford, Vt., who was also her caregiver. Death followed a long battle with cancer....

Sylvia D. Kirby

Sylvia D. Kirby, 90, of Kingston, formerly of Adams, died Sunday at Skilled Care Center at Silver Lake in Kingston. She and her late husband, George H. Kirby, owned and operated Kirby’s...

Richard Seymour Jackson Sr

Richard Seymour Jackson Sr., 87, of York Harbor, Maine, former owner of radio station WBEC AM/FM in Pittsfield, died Friday at home. He was a former chairman of the Pittsfield Planning Board,...

Francis A. Gilbert

Francis A. Gilbert, 55, of 93 Lincoln St. died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center after suffering an apparent heart attack earlier in the day. Born on Aug. 27, 1947, he attended local schools....

Rose B. Wnuk, 91

ADAMS, Mass. — Rose B. Wnuk, 91, of 90 Upper East Hoosac St. died Saturday evening, Aug. 16, 2003, at North Adams Regional Hospital after suffering a heart attack at home. Born in Adams on...

George H. McVey

George H. McVey, 94, of 575 Albany Ave., Dominican Village, Amityville, N.Y., a former part-time resident of Monterey, died Saturday at Brunswick Hospital in Amityville. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y.,...

Lillian Lord Kent

Lillian Lord Kent, 95, formerly of 75 Commercial St., died Saturday afternoon at Sweet Brook Care Centers in Williamstown. Born in North Adams on April 18, 1908, daughter of Julius and Agnes...

Wayne W. Mickle

Wayne W. Mickle, 48, of 45 Garland Ave. died Friday at an encampment in Missoula, Mont., of an apparent heart attack. He was working with the Massachusetts Wildfire Crew battling forest fires...

Mary Eurbin, 84

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Mary Eurbin, 84, of Village East, 546 Union St., died Thursday evening, Aug. 14, 2003, at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in North Adams on Sept. 29, 1918, daughter...

Dorothy Matilda Coyle

Dorothy Matilda Coyle, 83, of 21 Eleanor Road died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 11, 1920, daughter of Clarence and Mary Quirk Lyman, she was a 1939 graduate of...

Alice D. Senecal

Alice D. Senecal, 89, formerly of 873 East Road, died Thursday at North Adams Commons, where she had resided since November 2002. Born in Champlain, N.Y., on Oct. 24, 1913, daughter of Napolean...

Louisa Preston

Louisa Preston, 90, of Harborside Nursing Home in Falmouth, formerly of Pittsfield, died July 23 at the nursing home. She was born in Bryn, Lancashire, England, on Jan. 31, 1913. Mrs. Preston...

Sister Carolyn V. King

Sister Carolyn V. King, 77, the former Sister Thomas Maria, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Springfield, died yesterday at Mont Marie Health Care Center in Holyoke. She was a native of...

Annette C. Caffrey

Annette C. Caffrey, 44, of 522 Union St. died Thursday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 4, 1958, daughter of Eugene C. Cuene and the late Mary M. Young Cuene, she attended schools in Lee and...

MaryAnn Wohlfahrt

MaryAnn Wohlfahrt, 60, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., died Tuesday at St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie. She was the mother of Barbara McMahon of Dalton. Born in Poughkeepsie on June 27, 1943,...

Hildegard Bednarz

Hildegard Bednarz, 79, of 37 East Albert St., Torrington, Conn., a former resident, died Wednesday evening at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington. She had resided in Torrington for the...

William Reopell

William Reopell, 67, of 16 Prospect Hill Road, Royalston, N.H., a native of Williamstown, died Sunday at Cheshire Medical Center in Keene, N.H., after being stricken. Born on May 6, 1936, son of...

Esther V. Loucks

Esther V. Loucks, 75, of Allengate Avenue died yesterday morning at home after a yearlong illness. Born in Warren, Pa., on Nov. 10, 1927, daughter of Martin and Ima Larson Anderson, she was...

Velta Kidder

Velta Kidder, 66, of 1100 Mohawk Trail, Lot 21, died yesterday at home. Born in Latvia on July 4, 1937, daughter of Andren and Lucy Anna Paulis Sparins, she emigrated to the United States in 1947...

Richard E. Honiker, 56

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Richard Edward "Stony" Honiker, 56, of 10 Union Court died Tuesday morning, Aug. 12, 2003, at home. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 21, 1947, son of Richard and Dorothy...

Howard Alton Coulter

Howard Alton Coulter, 76, of 1606 Pinehurst Drive, Lady Lake, Fla., a native of Williamstown, died Tuesday at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center. He had been visiting the Berkshires for the summer. He...

Margaret L. Wright

Margaret L. Wright, 83, formerly of Pittsfield, died yesterday at Bedford Village Nursing Home in New Bedford. Born in Malden on Sept. 9, 1919, daughter of Samuel J. and Julia Agnes Foley Gross,...

Eleanor A. Litscher

Eleanor A. Litscher, 80, of Devonshire Estates died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Schenectady, N.Y., on May 10, 1923, daughter of Joseph and Wanda Betlejski Pryba,...