Obituaries

Henrietta Elder

Henrietta "Etta" Elder, 91, of 218 Franklin St. died Tuesday at home. Born in Adams on June 26, 1911, daughter of Robert and Mary Fischer Joppich, she attended Adams schools, including the former...

Alberta Normandeau

Alberta B. "Bert" Normandeau, 71, of 21 Harwood St. died yesterday at home. Born in Readsboro, Vt., on Nov. 23, 1930, daughter of Benjamin and Rachel Bishop Butterfield, she attended schools in...

Phalice O'Brien Jr.

Phalice E. O'Brien Jr., 75, formerly of 99 Second St., died Monday at Hillcrest Commons Nursing Care Facility, where she had resided for four years. She had previously resided at the former Edgecomb...

Louis W. Robesch

Louis W. Robesch, 79, of 963 North Parker Terrace, Olathe, Kan., formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday at home. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Aug. 3, 1922, son of Louis A. and Catherine Cavanogh...

Leonard Spencer

Leonard Rudd Spencer, 85, of High Street died yesterday at Providence Care Center in Lenox, where he had been a resident since 1999. He was a descendant of one of Becket's founders, Jonathan...

Juanita Terry

Juanita Terry, 95, of Spring Street, died Sunday at Springside of Pittsfield. Born July 25, 1906, in Evangeline, La., daughter of William Ernest Terry Sr. and Marie Effie Boudreaux, she graduated...

William E. Laston

William E. Laston, 23, of 700 N. Main St. died early Sunday morning as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 16, 1978, son of William L. Laston and...

Ruth H. Tolvo

Ruth H. Tolvo, 78, of Leesburg, Fla., formerly of Lenox and South Egremont, died July 15 at Leesburg Regional Medical Center in Florida. Born in Holden on Nov. 2, 1923, daughter of Ludovic and...

Ronda M. North

Ronda M. North, 63, of Rome, Ga., died Sunday afternoon at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided for five weeks. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 6, 1938, daughter of Louis G. Thomas Sr. and Mary...

Roland J. Pratt Jr.

Roland J. Pratt Jr., 65, of Tremont Street, Taunton, a native of Pittsfield, died Sunday at West Roxbury Veterans Hospital after a long illness. Born on Sept. 16, 1936, son of Roland J. Pratt Sr....

Lloyd L. King

Lloyd Livingston King, 70, of 76 Bossidy Drive died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. He had resided in Pittsfield since 1968. Born in Lexington, Va., on Dec. 30, 1931, son of Howard and...

Herbert T. Armitt

Herbert Thomas Armitt, 92, of 235 Walker St., Kimball Farms Retirement Community, died Sunday evening at Hillcrest Commons in Pittsfield, where he had resided for a month. Born in Paterson, N.J.,...

Clarence Bugbee

Clarence E. "Sport" Bugbee Jr., 83, of 719 Main Road died Saturday evening at Berkshire Medical Center. He was town building inspector and, from 1972 to 1998, the Board of Health agent. Born in...

Donald LaMudge

Donald H. LaMudge, 86, of Cameron House, 109 Housatonic St., died Friday at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 31, 1915, son of Arthur and Margaret Higgins LaMudge,...

Grace Patenaude

Grace Rose Patenaude, 83, of St. Joseph's Court, 85 Eagle St., died Friday at home. Born in North Adams on July 21, 1918, daughter of Dominic and Maria Colucci Benincasa, she attended North Adams...

Sr. Mary Cartier

Sister Mary Pauline Cartier, 92, of the Sisters of the Visitation Monastery died Saturday at the monastery in Tyringham. Born Louise Cartier in Kusnacht-Zurich, Switzerland, on July 19, 1910,...

Mary G. Rollin

Mary Gladys Rollin, 92, of 21 Putnam Ave. died Saturday at home. Born in Pittsfield on June 3, 1910, daughter of Santo and Josephine Spadaro Nigrelli, she attended schools in Pittsfield. A...

Laura A. Beverly

Laura Amelia Beverly, 94, a former resident of Pine Lodge Park, died Friday at North Adams Commons. Born in Williamstown on Feb. 24, 1908, daughter of Frank and Florence Lee Godfrey, she was...

Hazel A. Bellows

Hazel Ann Hurley Bellows, 75, formerly of 121 River St., died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, where she was admitted June 27. She had been a resident of Hillcrest Commons in...

Edna N. Kittler

Edna Norma Kittler, 93, formerly of 65 Valley St., died yesterday at Sweet Brook Care Center in Williamstown, where she had resided for two years. Born in Adams on July 21, 1909, daughter of E....

Donald Rancourt

Donald C. Rancourt, 67, of 66 Bull Hill Road died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 21, 1934, son of Lawrence C. and Geraldine Chase Rancourt, he attended schools in...

Anna M. Pianpiano

Anna M. Honiker Pianpiano, 82, of 329 Pittsfield Road, Devonshire Estates, died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on April 4, 1920, daughter of Lawrence and Elizabeth Glennon...

William Urquhart

William J. Urquhart, 40, of 265 North St. died Wednesday morning at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield after a long illness. Born in Adams on March 9, 1962, son of James H. and Nancy Walker...

Margaret E. Drake

Margaret E. Drake, 85, of 1 Maple St. died Wednesday at Laurel Lake Center in Lee. Born in Pittsfield on April 23, 1917, daughter of Francis and Ruby Farley Curley, she attended local schools and...

M. Louise Moser

M. Louise Moser, 98, formerly of 52 Edward Ave., died Wednesday at Sweet Brook Care Center in Williamstown. Born in Appenzell, Switzerland, on July 6, 1904, daughter of Pius and Lydia Halter...