Obituaries

Lucille R. Pellows

Lucille R. Burke Pellows, 81, of 1101 West St. died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Limoges, Ontario, Canada, on July 26, 1920, daughter of Fred and Eva Lajeunesse Desabrais, she...

Lillian K. Healy

Lillian K. Healy, 94, formerly of Main Street, died Saturday at Hillcrest Commons in Pittsfield. Born in Dalton on Jan. 3, 1907, daughter of Henry V. and Lucy Gorman Kirchner, she was a 1923...

Colleen Garrity-Prudente

Colleen Marie Garrity-Prudente, 44, of 1 Michael Road, Berkley, a native of Lenox, died Thursday as a result of injuries sustained that day in a motor vehicle accident in Norton. Born in...

Carol L. Wechter

Carol Lynn Wechter, 54, of 81 Caroline St. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 22, 1947, daughter of Caroline Ryczek Hermanski of Pittsfield and the late Majek...

Anthony D. Melillo

Anthony Dominick Melillo, 74, of 20 Bradley St. died Friday at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston after a brief illness. Born in North Adams on May 20, 1927, son of Anthony J. and Anna DeMarco...

Doris Crown

Doris Crown, 86, of Elgin Drive, Winter Springs, Fla., a former resident of Pittsfield and Lanesboro, died yesterday at home from cancer. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 9, 1914, daughter of Frank and...

William G. Keser

William G. Keser, 51, of 3759 Route 9 died yesterday at the home of his parents and sister, who cared for him during his long illness. Born in Pittsfield on April 2, 1950, son of Joanne M. Griffin...

John N. Callahan

John N. "Jack" Callahan, 67, of Stamford, Conn., a native of Dalton, died Tuesday at Courtland Gardens in Stamford. Born in Dalton on Aug. 26, 1934, he was the son of John J. Callahan and Mary...

John Beauchamp

John Richard Beauchamp, 34, of 91 Appleton Ave. died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center after being stricken earlier that evening. Born in Pittsfield on May 28, 1967, son of Antoinette Andrews...

Hilda Haskins

Hilda Marie Allen Haskins, 95, of 308 Leyden Road, Greenfield, died Monday at Berkshire Place in Pittsfield, where she had resided since last November. She was the mother of Ruth Haskins Bass of...

Gerald J. Appleby

Gerald John Appleby, 40, of 225 East Main St. died yesterday at North Adams Regional Hospital after a long illness. Born in Manchester, Conn., on Aug. 4, 1961, son of Gloria Bieu Appleby-Johnston...

Edith I. Stewart

Edith I. Stewart, 83, of 27 Partridge Road, formerly of Sutton, died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Worcester on Sept. 26, 1917, daughter of Albert and Christina Bengston Hall, she...

Douglas J. Stone

Douglas J. Stone, 54, of Dover, N.H., died Sept. 11. He was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 11, which crashed into the World Trade Center in New York. Mr. Stone leaves several siblings in...

Alan DuBois Vaber

Alan DuBois Vaber, 74, of 185 George St. died Monday at home after a year-long battle with cancer. Born in Great Barrington on Feb. 9, 1927, son of Louis F. and Mildred DuBois Vaber, he grew up in...

Yvonne Castegnaro

Yvonne L. Castegnaro, 61, of 361 Bradley St. died Sunday morning at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield after a long battle with Crohn's disease. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 28, 1939, daughter...

Thomas O'Malley

Thomas Everett O'Malley Jr., 57, of Coconut Creek, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died Thursday at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Fla. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 22,...

Martha Schecter

Martha N. Schecter, 77, of 64 Lake Drive and 1060 North Northlake Drive, Hollywood, Fla., died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Bridgeport, Conn., on Oct. 19, 1923,...

John Pierson

John H.G. Pierson, 95, of Kimball Farms died Saturday evening at home. Born in New York City on March 28, 1906, son of Charles Wheeler and Elizabeth Groesbeck Pierson, he was a 1927 graduate of...

John Ameresekere

John N. Ameresekere, 54, of 85 Linden St. died Sept. 1 at home. Born on Aug. 24, 1947, son of the late Flavia Ameresekere, he attended schools in Sri Lanka. He came to the United States in his...

Edward Forfa

Edward Forfa, 81, of Englewood, Fla., formerly of Lee, died Sept. 13 at Beverly Health and Rehabilitation Center in Englewood. Born in Housatonic on Dec. 28, 1919, son of Walter and Helen Kopacz...

E. Lahey-Chevalier

Elizabeth V. Lahey-Chevalier, 87, a resident of North Adams Commons, formerly of 3 Myrtle St., died yesterday morning at home. Born in Adams on April 2, 1914, daughter of William Henry Hakes and...

Regina D'Amore

Regina D'Amore, 88, of 47 Pomeroy Ave. died Saturday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 17, 1913, daughter of Antonio and Concetta Federico Pascetta, she attended schools in Pittsfield until...

Peter Goodrich

Peter Morgan Goodrich, 33, a resident of Sudbury, formerly of Williamstown, died Tuesday on board United Airlines Flight 175, which was crashed by terrorists into the south tower of the World Trade...

Mary Ellen Dunham

Mary Ellen "Bee" Dunham, 66, of 46 Cleveland Road died Friday at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. Born in Pittsfield on May 22, 1935, daughter of F. Emmett and Helen...

Mary Alice Lefebvre, 68

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Mary Alice Lefebvre, 68, of 45 Central Ave. died Sunday, Sept. 16, 2001, at North Adams Regional Hospital, where she was admitted Sept. 7. Mrs. Lefebvre was a recent...