Obituaries

John Church

Former General Electric engineer and hobbyist John Church, 77, of Lee Road died March 11 at home. Throughout his career at GE, Church was known to examine the clash between the electric power...

Jeannette Ouellette

Jeannette Ouellette, 90, of 255 Robert St., Torrington, Conn., a native of Adams, died Saturday evening at Richfield Health Care Center in Torrington. Born Dec. 19, 1910, daughter of Charles and...

Helen E. Payne

Helen E. Payne, 87, of Alford Road died yesterday at Berkshire Place in Pittsfield, where she had resided since 1999. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on April 26, 1913, daughter of Garret H. Payne Sr. and...

Elmer Williams Jr.,

Elmer Charles "Bud" Williams Jr., 72, of Lebanon, N.H., formerly of Windsor, died Saturday at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon after a long illness. He was a member of the Windsor Board...

Dr. Frederick Foster

Dr. Frederick S. "Bucko" Foster, 79, of 35 Gilead St. died yesterday at home. Born in Worcester on Oct. 10, 1921, son of Frederick J. and Rhea Desautels Foster, he moved to Adams at the age of 3....

Alma A. Kent

Alma Antoinette Kent, 87, of 37 Lois St. died yesterday at Sweet Brook Health Care Center in Williamstown. Born in Arco, province of Trento, Austria, on April 23, 1913, daughter of Pietro Bertoldi...

Frances Louise (Ayers) Miller

Frances Louise (Ayers) Miller, 91, formerly of 140 Cliff Street, North Adams, MA, died Thursday, March 15, 2001 at the Willowood Health Care Center, 25 Adams Road, Williamstown,MA, where she had...

Helen (Davis) Garner

Helen (Davis) Garner, 84 of 136 North St. North Adams,Mass died Friday evening March 16, 2001 at the Willowood Health Care Center in Williamstown. She was born in North Adams, MA on October 12,...

Eleanor M. DeSanty, 82

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Eleanor Marie DeSanty, 82, of 23 Harris St. died Friday, March 16,200l at Willowood of North Adams. Born in North Adams on June 18,1918, one of 13 children of Vincent...

Robert W. Curtiss

Robert Wells Curtiss, 76, of Mount Washington Road died Sunday at home. Born in Egremont on April 6, 1924, son of William and Bessie Chase Curtiss, he was a 1942 graduate of the former Searles...

Mabel L. Bennett

Mabel L. Bennett, 96, formerly of Cove Meadow Road, Northampton, died Thursday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had been a patient since September 1996. Born in Peru on Aug. 25, 1904, daughter of...

Doris A. Porter

Doris A. Porter, 92, formerly of 55 West Union St., died Sunday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had been a patient for three years. Born in Great Barrington on Feb. 5, 1909, daughter of Egbert V....

Phyllis Spadafora

Phyllis L. Spadafora, 84, of 420 Monroe Ave., Cape Canaveral, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died March 6 at home. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 17, 1917, she was the daughter of Biago and Carmella...

Lauretta F. Moore

Lauretta F. Moore, 92, of Santa Fe, N.M., formerly of Williamstown, died March 9 at home. Born in North Adams on July 17, 1908, daughter of William G. and Odna G. Hamel Frenier, she graduated from...

Josephine Nigrelli

Josephine Rose Nigrelli, 95, of 16 Marcella Ave. died Wednesday evening at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on May 23, 1905, daughter of Santo and Josephine Spadaro Nigrelli, she...

John C. White Jr.

John C. White Jr., 70, of Washington Township, Ohio, died March 8 at Dayton Hospice in Dayton, Ohio. Born in Stockbridge on Oct. 19, 1930, son of John C. White Sr. and Catherine Drake White, he...

Helen Lippman

Helen M. Lippman, 77, formerly of East Otis, died Wednesday at Fairview Hospital. She had resided at Great Barrington Nursing and Rehab Center for the past two years. Born in Bronx, N.Y., on Nov....

Charles Silvernail

Charles R. Silvernail Jr., 85, of Baldwin Hill Road died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Dalton on Jan. 16, 1916, son of Charles R. Silvernail Sr. and Mable Maude Moore Silvernail,...

Cecile Carberry

Cecile M. Carberry, 83, of Delmar, N.Y., formerly of Great Barrington and Wynantskill, N.Y., died Wednesday at St. Peter's Community Hospice Inn in Albany, N.Y. Born in Cohoes, N.Y., on Aug. 7,...

Barbara Lee

Barbara Lee, 59, of Boston, died Wednesday of ovarian cancer. She was the daughter of Ruth Lee of Pittsfield. Born in St. Paul, Minn., on July 19, 1941, daughter of Ruth Lee and the late Raymond...

Rose Nero

Rose Nero, 93, of Hudson, N.Y., recently of Barnwell Nursing Home in Valatie, N.Y., died yesterday at Barnwell Nursing Home. She was the mother of Katherine Jane Torchia of Pittsfield. Born in...

Nelson O. Bushaw

Nelson O. Bushaw, 75, of 44 Columbia St. died Sunday at home of an apparent heart attack. Born in Charlestown, Vt., on Jan. 1, 1926, son of Ora and Mae Sanborne Bushaw, he attended schools...

Nancy Ann LeBeau

Nancy Ann LeBeau, 82, of 5006 Western Ave., Omaha, Neb., formerly of North Adams, died Monday at St. Joseph Villa Nursing Home in Omaha. Born in Utica, N.Y., on Feb. 13, 1919, daughter of Guiseppe...

Dorothy H. Vose

Dorothy Helen Vose, 95, a resident of the Issaquah Care Center, Issaquah, Wash., formerly of Pittsfield, Dalton and Windsor, died Monday at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, Wash. Born in Walpole on...

Bessie E. Pupo

Bessie E. Pupo, 90, of Underhill Place died March 7 at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on June 25, 1910, daughter of Henry C. and Martha S. Langer Stache, she attended local...