Obituaries

Timothy M. Sheldon

Timothy M. Sheldon, 65, of 46 Bartlett Ave. and Tophill Farm, Devon Road, Lee, died Sunday while undergoing surgery at Berkshire Medical Center. He had been selected as Pittsfield’s poet...

Grace G. Jakacky

Grace G. Jakacky, 78, of 35 Wagner Drive, Orono, Maine, formerly of North Street, died Monday morning at Ross Manor in Bangor, Maine. Born in Kingman, Maine, on Oct. 2, 1924, daughter of Joseph...

Mabel E. Gilardi

Mabel E. Gilardi, 89, died yesterday morning at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided for two years. Born in Pittsfield on March 25, 1914, daughter of Anton B. and Martha M. Olsen Olsen, she...

Stephen Peter Naprava

Stephen Peter Naprava, 90, of 310 Lenox Ave. died Friday evening at Craneville Place of Dalton, where he had resided since October 1999. Born in Adams on May 17, 1913, son of Stanislaw and...

Edna A. Mills

Edna A. Mills, 86, died Saturday evening at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility in Pittsfield, where she had resided since April 2002. Born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., on June 4, 1917, daughter of...

Lori Jean Killmaier

Lori Jean Killmaier, 45, of Altamonte Springs, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died Saturday after being stricken at home. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 6, 1957, the daughter of Jeanne Vincent...

Concetta Mary Kellar, 87

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Concetta Mary "Connie" Kellar, 87, of 52 Burke Ave. died June 23, 2003, at Berkshire Place on South Street, where she had resided since January 2002. Born in Pittsfield...

Peregrina “Tina” Garcia

Peregrina “Tina” Garcia, 83, of 162 Bull Hill Road died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, following a brief illness. Born in Samiera, province of Gallicia, Spain, on...

Nancy Ann Daniels, 63

FLORIDA, Mass. — Nancy Ann Daniels, 63, of 28 North County Road died Sunday, June 22, 2003, at Cobleskill (N.Y.) Hospital, where she was taken shortly after being stricken with an apparent...

Paul Joseph Capitanio Jr

Paul Joseph Capitanio Jr., 21, of 106 Parkside Ave. died Sunday at home. Born in Pittsfield on March 23, 1982, son of Paul J. Capitanio Sr. and Beth E. Taylor Capitanio, he was a 2000 graduate of...

Mary Slupinski

Mary Slupinski, 82, of 22 Kirk St., Housatonic, died Saturday evening at home. Born in Skurkowice, Poland, on July 4, 1920, daughter of Valentino and Aniela Wronczyk Jonczyk, she attended schools...

Anne D. Roche

Anne D. Roche, 85, of Housatonic Street died yesterday afternoon at Providence Care Center, where she had resided since January. Born in Nashua, N.H., on Oct. 5, 1917, daughter of Bartholomew and...

Laura H. Duryea

Laura H. Duryea, 83, of Tyrell Road died yesterday at home. Born in Copake, N.Y., on Feb. 27, 1920, daughter of Avery and Ina Vosburgh Hawver, she attended schools there. She worked for many...

Olive Marion Clark

Olive Marion Clark, 80, of Westminster Road died Saturday afternoon at home. Born in New York City on April 25, 1923, daughter of Earle B. and Mildred Ziegler Roberts, she was a 1939 graduate of...

Alice Gertrude Suthers

Alice Gertrude Suthers, 97, of 73 Meade Ave. died early yesterday morning at North Adams Regional Hospital, where she was admitted Friday evening. Born in North Adams on July 18, 1905, daughter...

Margaret H. “Peggy” Stracuzzi

Margaret H. “Peggy” Stracuzzi, 67, of 15 Zoar St. died Friday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 14, 1935, daughter of John Frederick Lummus Sr. and...

Lonnie Wayne King

Lonnie Wayne King, 52, of 240 Francis Ave. died Thursday morning at home after a long illness. Born in Lexington, Va., on Nov. 10, 1950, son of Myrtle M. Bannister King and the late Lloyd L. King...

Joseph Anthony Falbo Jr

Joseph Anthony Falbo Jr., 67, of 13 Pinnacle Drive died yesterday morning at Williamstown Commons in Williamstown after a short illness. Born in North Adams on Feb. 17, 1936, son of Joseph A....

Ralph L. Lavigne, 62

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Ralph Louis Lavigne, 62, of 4 Walker St., died Thursday, June 19, 2003, at North Adams Regional Hospital, where he was admitted on June 8. Born in North Adams on July...

William D. Frommer

William D. Frommer, 49, of 185 Blue Heron Drive, Portsmouth, N.H., died Thursday, June 19, at the Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine, as the result of an accident on a construction project....

J. Player Crosby

J. Player Crosby, 61, of 137 Jerusalem Road died Thursday of an apparent heart attack as he was flying his single-engine airplane. He was the president of Lenox Capital, an international...

Hazel A. Wells

Hazel A. Wells, 86, a longtime resident of Williamstown, died Wednesday at North Adams Regional Hospital following a long illness. Born in Montague on April 19, 1917, daughter of Cyrus and Clara...

Lena Agnes Testa

Lena Agnes Testa, 86, of 58 Salisbury Court, died Wednesday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility, where she had resided since August 2000. Born in Pittsfield on March 23, 1917, daughter of...

Stanley M. Shapiro

Stanley M. Shapiro, 88, of 81 Appleton Ave., died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in North Adams on Nov. 5, 1914, son of Samuel and Annie Kronick Shapiro, he was educated in North...

Jerry Rufo

Jerry Rufo, 89, a resident of the Village at Laurel Lake in Lee, died Wednesday at its Center for Health and Rehabilitation. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 5, 1913, son of Antonio and Carmella Desena...