Obituaries

Joseph Borelli

Joseph Borelli, 82, of 65 Columbus Ave., formerly of 717 Tyler St., died Tuesday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 20, 1918, son of Antonio and Cora Minicello Borelli, he attended local...

Harold Munson Sr.

Harold I. Munson Sr., 88, of 70 Pleasant St. died yesterday at Craneville Place, where he had resided for one month. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 12, 1912, son of George and Isadora Belknapp...

Frederick Chichester

Frederick Chichester, 72, of 11548 Hollyridge Drive, Tyler, Texas, died May 25 at home. He was the husband of the former Neoma A. Joppich of Adams. Born in New Haven, Conn., on April 28, 1929, son...

Dwight Martin

Dwight Martin, 65, of 53 Chase Ave., formerly of Worcester, died yesterday at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in North Adams on June 9, 1936, son of William Martin and Marion Hazel Martin...

Donna L. Marsh

Donna L. Marsh, 36, of 405 Pittsfield Road died Tuesday at home after a long illness. Born in San Bernardino, Calif., on Feb. 20, 1965, daughter of Irene Morin Colbert and the late Walter Colbert,...

Charles R. Palmer

Charles Raymond Palmer, 90, of 5 Melrose St. died yesterday at North Adams Regional Hospital, where he was admitted Saturday. Born in Adams on April 29, 1911, son of Charles E. and Margaret...

Donald Holcomb Otis

Donald M. Holcomb, 60, of 70 Leonard Road died Saturday at home. Born in Springfield on March 4, 1941, son of George and Virginia Marsh Holcomb, he was a 1959 graduate of Westfield High School. He...

Catherine Simpkins Great Barrington

Catherine Simpkins, 74, formerly of Great Barrington, died Friday at her home in Sebastian, Fla. She was the mother of Andrew Moro of Housatonic. Born in Alford on Dec. 13, 1926, daughter of...

Lillian R. Ritcher, 65

CLARKSBURG, Mass. — Lillian Rita Ritcher, 65, of 35 Jordan Ave. died Sunday, June 10, 2001, at North Adams Regional Hospital after a 10-year battle with cancer. Born in North Adams on Jan....

Rose Ann Roe

Rose Ann Roe, 67, of Sun City, Ariz., formerly of Pittsfield, died June 7 at home. Born in Lansingburgh, N.Y., on March 31, 1934, daughter of Fred and Anna Cleary Phelan, she attended Russell Sage...

Roderick Pidgeon

Roderick W. "Pidge" Pidgeon, 90, formerly of 43 Harris St., died Saturday at the Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington, Vt., where he had resided since 1997. Born in Fitchburg on Oct. 5, 1910, son...

Othell Marcus Jones

Othell Marcus Jones, infant son of Marcus O. Jones and Julie N. Polanski of 97 April Lane, was stillborn Friday at Berkshire Medical Center. Besides his parents, he leaves two sisters, Mya-Jay...

Louis F.V. Mercier

Louis Francois Valliot Mercier, 86, of Long Lots Road, Westport, Conn., father of Jean Evangeline Whitehead of Great Barrington, died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Washington,...

Irene F. Leitch

Irene Frances Leitch, 82, of 39 Morningside Ave. died Sunday afternoon at Williamstown Commons. Born in West Warren on Aug. 20, 1918, daughter of Ladislaw and Alexandria Ziak Lemanski, she moved...

Helen C. Snyder

Helen C. Snyder, 90, of Kimball Farms Retirement Community, 235 Walker St., died Wednesday afternoon at home. Born in Boston on Nov. 26, 1910, daughter of William and Florence Paterson Stowell,...

Helen Brazee

Helen Brazee, 97, formerly of Marjorie Street, died Saturday at Laurel Lake Center for Health and Rehabilitation in Lee. Born in Bridgeport, Conn., on Feb. 10, 1904, daughter of Andrew and...

Nancy Pshenishny

Nancy Marie Pshenishny, 49, of West Center Road died Saturday at Rutland (Vt.) Regional Medical Center as a result of a motorcycle accident in Wallingford, Vt.An emergency medical technician for more...

Margaret Evangelisto

Margaret A. Evangelisto, 89, formerly of 176 Columbus Ave., Berkshiretown Apartments, died yesterday at Hillcrest Commons, where she was admitted March 11, 1999. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 8,...

James J. Toole Sr.

James J. Toole Sr., 90, formerly of 11 Brown St., died yesterday at Hillcrest Commons in Pittsfield. Born in Lenox Dale on Nov. 9, 1910, son of Thomas A. and Nora Keagan Toole, he attended local...

Sylvia Paradis

Sylvia Paradis, 93, of 17 Forest Park Ave. died Wednesday evening at the Sweet Brook Care Center in Williamstown. Born in Adams on July 6, 1907, daughter of William H. and Mary L. Seymour Paradis,...

Rev. Milton Rohane, 78

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Rev. Milton Alan Rohane, 78, of San Diego, Calif., formerly of North Adams, died May 28, 2001, in London, England, while on his annual trip to Europe. Born in North...

Ralph E. Howard

Ralph E. Howard, 81, of 33600 Calimesa Blvd., Hillcrest Mobile Estates, Yucaipa, Calif., formerly of Pittsfield, died May 22 at Veterans Hospital in Redlands, Calif. Born in Pittsfield on Feb....

John F. Hanson

John Franklin Hanson, 78, of 6 Main St. died Tuesday evening at Williamstown Commons in Williamstown. Born in Wellesley on Feb. 20, 1923, son of Winland and Grace Henderson Hanson, he attended...

Germaine Blanchette

Germaine Blanchette, 96, of 4 Columbia St. died yesterday at the Williamstown Commons Health Care Center in Williamstown. Born in Adams on July 4, 1905, daughter of Hilaire and Eugenie La Belle...

Emma M. Gilbert

Emma M. Gilbert, 84, a resident of Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility and a former resident of Columbia Arms, died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Bayonne, N.J., on Oct. 12,...