Obituaries

Lester Thompson

Lester John Thompson, 88, of 38 Hosford Road, formerly of 19 Crandall St., Adams, died yesterday morning at home. Born in Plainville, Conn., on Feb. 16, 1913, son of Howard and Udel Busher...

George A. Terek

George A. Terek, 75, of Stratford, Conn., died yesterday at home. He was the brother of Ann Massery of Pittsfield. Born in Bridgeport, Conn., son of Albert and Catherine Farah Terek, he attended...

William J. White

William J. White, 75, of 11 Elmvale Place died yesterday at the Berkshire Medical Center skilled nursing unit. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 28, 1925, son of Archie and Rose Flanagan White, he was a...

Wayne B. DeRose, 55

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Wayne Bruce DeRose, 55, of 334 Union St. died Wednesday morning, July 18, 2001, at home after a long illness. Born in North Adams on April 18, 1946, son of Joseph and...

Robert G. Burdick

Robert George Burdick, 73, of 224 Shadowland Cove died yesterday at home. He was a longtime North Adams teacher and businessman. Born in North Adams on March 24, 1928, son of Lawrence E. and...

Michael F. Cirullo, 88

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - Michael F. Cirullo, 88, of 78 Lincoln St. died Tuesday, July 17, 2001, at North Adams Regional Hospital, where he had been admitted Sunday. Born in North Adams on Feb. 12,...

Margaret Ploughman

Margaret L. Ploughman, 82, of 245 Cheshire Road died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Millbury on Feb. 22, 1919, daughter of Martin and Jane Sheehan Mahan, she moved to Lee as a child...

Laretta M. Czapla

Laretta M. Czapla, 83, of 4 Beech St. died yesterday at home. Born in Adams on Aug. 22, 1917, daughter of William and Emma Norman Brassard, she attended Adams schools. Mrs. Czapla was employed...

Dorothy Casucci

Dorothy T. Casucci, 86, of 8 Oak Lane, Brookfield, Conn., a native and former resident of Pittsfield, died Tuesday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility, where she had been admitted July...

Ruth L. Torrey

Ruth L. Torrey, 84, of 144 East Windsor Road died yesterday at home. Born in Dalton on Nov. 17, 1916, daughter of Leon C. and Harriet Webster Furnald, she graduated from Dalton High...

Rita P. Pedrin

Rita Pauline Pedrin, 85, of 85 Eagle St., St. Joseph's Court, died Monday at Williamstown Commons. Born in North Adams on Feb. 1, 1916, daughter of Frank and Pauline LeGrand Fortini, she attended...

Patricia Sterling

Patricia P. Sterling, 78, of Concord, formerly of Pittsfield, died July 8 at the Life Care Center of Nashoba Valley in Littleton. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 16, 1923, daughter of Thomas F. and...

John J. Kenney Jr.

John J. Kenney Jr., 61, of 65 Columbus Ave. died Monday at home. Born in Worcester on July 1, 1940, son of John J. Kenney Sr. and Dorothy Beaudreau Kenney, he attended schools there. He served...

Isabelle Kierstead

D. Isabelle Kierstead, 77, of 800 Windsor Bush Road, Windsor, and 2504 15th St., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, died Thursday at her home in Windsor. Born in Pittsfield on July 4, 1924, daughter of...

Grace Cardimino

Grace M. Cardimino, 73, of Lake Tarpon, Fla., a native of Adams, died Friday in Woodside Hospice, North Panellas Park., Fla., where she had resided since May. Born in Adams on Dec. 20, 1927,...

Sylvia Costigan

Sylvia S. Costigan, 93, of Stonehenge Road died Sunday evening at home. Born in N.J., on Dec, 27, 1907, daughter of Gustav and Hulda Heinisiltaa Eskola, she graduated from New Jersey...

Roberta Lemaire

Roberta Anne Lemaire, 48, of 81 Commercial St. died of a heart attack yesterday morning at home. Born in Hartford, Conn., on June 2, 1953, daughter of Burton and Theresa Bonett Frazier, she...

Philip J. Burro, 52

CLARKSBURG, Mass. — Philip Jerome Burro, 52, died Saturday, July 14, 2001, at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield shortly after being admitted. He was a former longtime resident of...

Linda A. Gardner

Linda A. Gardner, 52, of Fort Worth, Texas, a native of Pittsfield and Cheshire, died yesterday at home. Born June 14, 1949, daughter of Napoleon and Shirley Lewis Levesque, she attended local...

John W. Frick

John W. Frick, 85, of Charlottesville, Va., formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday at the Colonnades Assisted Living complex in Charlottesville. Born in St. Cloud, Minn., on June 11, 1916, son of...

Elsie Moynihan

Elsie Moynihan, 95, formerly of 296 Hancock Road, died Sunday night at Craneville Place in Dalton. Born in Pittsfield on May 22, 1906, daughter of David and Isabella MacDonald MacWhinnie, she...

Edna H. Best, 96

LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — Edna Hannah "Mammy" Best, 96, formerly of 35 Glassworks Road, Berkshire Village, died Sunday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility in Pittsfield. She was the...

Edith Henry

Edith Henry, 95, formerly of Appleton Avenue, died Saturday at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Raynham Center on Aug. 26, 1905, daughter of Frank D. and Olive Ely Allen Washburn, she was a...

Carlton D. Lockenwitz

Carlton D. "Butch" Lockenwitz, 61, of 28 Clinton Ave. died yesterday morning from injuries suffered in an auto accident late Sunday night in Lenox. Born in South Lee on Oct. 30, 1939, son of...

Norman Singer

Norman Singer, 80, of Norfolk Road died Saturday morning at Fairview Commons Nursing Facility in Great Barrington. Born in Rockaway Beach, N.Y., on April 16, 1921, son of Julius and Rose Weiner...