Obituaries

Santina M. Walto

Santina M. Walto, 76, of 454 Hubbard Ave. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 4, 1924, daughter of Dominick and Carmella Martini Palano, she graduated from...

Henry C. Hyde Sr.

Henry C. Hyde Sr., 90, formerly of 306 Dalton Division Road, died Wednesday at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 19, 1910, son of Charles E. and Margaret Colt Hyde, he attended...

Alice Reddington

Alice Julie Reddington, 81, of Lakeside, Calif., formerly of Pittsfield, died May 11 at San Diego Hospice in San Diego, where she had resided for six days. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 20, 1920,...

Lorraine Reardon

Lorraine A. "Nannie" Reardon, 79, of 17 Bridge St. died Monday at home. Born in Pittsfield on July 22, 1921, daughter of George W. and Alice Seckington Sawyer, she was a 1939 graduate of...

Joseph A. Bernier

Joseph Armand Bernier, 82, of 54 Alger St. died Monday at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in St. Eugene, Canada, on Aug. 4, 1918, son of Joseph Ernest and Blanche Tanguay Bernier, he attended...

Irving Wolfe

Irving Wolfe, 86, of 22 Meleca Ave. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 6, 1914, son of Morris and Rebecca Taichkofsky Wolfe, he attended local schools and was a...

Florence I. Lapin

Florence I. Lapin, 94, of Main Street died Monday at her daughter's home in Lee. Born in New York City on Sept. 4, 1906, daughter of Louis and Esther Tucker Eisenberg, she was educated in schools...

Florence Haigh

Florence Mary Haigh, 93, formerly of 1398 Massachusetts Ave., died yesterday at North Adams Regional Hospital, where she was admitted a week ago. She had resided at Willowood nursing home in...

Eunice P. Bruyn

Eunice P. Bruyn, 88, of 385 South Main St., Colchester, Conn., formerly of Pittsfield, died Friday at W.W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn. Born in Pittsfield on May 1, 1913, daughter of Lester...

Edith J. Nicoll

Edith J. Nicoll, 86, of 30 Thomson Place died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 26, 1914, daughter of Henry C. and H. Elizabeth Polly Rickheit, she was a 1932...

Charles L. Vigeant

Charles L. Vigeant, 84, of 30 Fourth St. died Monday at home. Born in Adams on Feb. 5, 1917, son of Delphis and Georgiana Molleur Vigeant, he graduated from the former Adams High School. Mr....

Anna F. Holian

Anna F. Holian, 93, formerly of Great Barrington, died May 8 at Brookview Nursing Home in West Hartford, Conn. Born in Great Barrington on Aug. 22, 1907, daughter of George and Mary Shaughnessy...

Dorothy R. Marcil, 77

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Dorothy Rose Marcil, 77, of 17 Meade Ave. died Monday evening, May 14, 2001, at home. She had been in failing health since January. Born in Burlington, Vt., on Dec. 26,...

Stephen Schreyack

Stephen J. Schreyack, 81, of 10 Union St. died Sunday at the Center for Optimum Care. He owned and operated the former Country Style Motel in Lanesboro from 1962 to 1975. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y.,...

Sheila A. Cannon

Sheila A. Cannon, 71, of 582 Pleasant St., Holyoke, a native of Pittsfield, died Sunday morning at Holyoke Hospital. Born Dec. 13, 1929, daughter of Melvin and Mary Wallace Fassell, she was a 1948...

Madeline C. Avery

Madeline C. Avery, 93, of 145 South Road died Sunday at Craneville Place of Dalton, where she had resided for three weeks. She was a former member of the Peru School and Building Committee and served...

Leo Ladouceur

Leo Ladouceur, 76, of 7 Longview Road died Sunday at home. He was a former Lanesboro volunteer fireman. Born in Albany, N.Y., on Nov. 15, 1924, son of Leopold and Camille Bourverette Ladouceur, he...

Edward C. Perkett

Edward Charles Perkett, 61, of 833 Old Kings Road South in Jacksonville, Fla., a native of Pittsfield, died May 7 of a heart attack in Jacksonville. Born April 8, 1940, son of Joseph F. and...

Arthur Seidman

Arthur Seidman, 78, of County Road died yesterday at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington. Born in Manhattan, N.Y., on Jan. 7, 1923, son of Jack and Frances Caesar Seidman, he graduated from...

William Morrisey

William J. Morrisey Jr., 84, of 4363 Minerva Drive, Green Acres, Lake Worth, Fla., formerly of North Adams, died Friday at Integrated Health Services in Lake Worth. Born in Arlington, Vt., on July...

Ruth E. Miller

Ruth Evelyn "Tootie" Miller, 78, died yesterday at North Adams Regional Hospital after a long illness. Born in North Adams on May 20, 1922, daughter of William J. and Martha Bostwick Wilson, she...

Laura E. Fortin

Laura E. Fortin, 92, of Gilroy, Calif., formerly of 7 Kerr Ave., died Saturday in Gilroy. She moved to Gilroy some years ago. Born in Adams on Jan. 2, 1909, daughter of Arthur and Mary Beaudin...

Joseph Shurkus Sr.

Joseph P. Shurkus Sr., 73, of 3 May St. died Saturday at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. Born in Cambridge on April 29, 1928, son of Dominic and Domincella Winchus...

Charlotte Williams

Charlotte R. Williams, 73, of 104 Beach Road, a former member of the Washington Democratic Committee, died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. She had been a patient at Mount Greylock...

Alexander Carney

Alexander Gelan Carney, 8, of 519 Kirchner Road died Friday as a result of an all-terrain vehicle accident at his home. Born in Tver, Russia, on Sept. 13, 1992, son of Dennis H. and Alyce Kendrick...