Obituaries

Paul Michael Roemelt

Paul Michael Roemelt, 47, of Paradowski Road, Glenville, N.Y., died Monday at Our Lady of Mercy Life Center in Guilderland, N.Y. Born in Adams on Nov. 14, 1956, son of Herbert R. and Helen...

Stuart Irving Pead

Stuart Irving Pead, 80, formerly of 72 Hathaway St., died yesterday at the East Longmeadow Health Care Center, where he had been admitted in 1997. Born in North Adams on June 1, 1923, son of...

Selma L. Cohn

Selma L. Cohn, 77, of 10941 Lake Front Place, Boca Raton, Fla., mother of Dr. Michael Cohn of Pittsfield, died Tuesday at West Boca Medical Center in Boca Raton. Born in Winthrop on Jan. 11,...

Lucy F. Savage

Lucy F. Savage, 83, of 105 Christopher Drive, Westfield, formerly of Pittsfield, died yesterday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 13, 1920, daughter of Joseph A. and Mary E. Stellatano Russo,...

George C. Potter

George C. Potter, 91, of 163 Bull Hill Road died Sunday at home. Born in Pittsfield on March 2, 1913, son of William and Mary Dougharty Potter, he attended local schools. A decorated Navy...

Richard M. Hunsicker

Richard M. Hunsicker, 59, of Mandalay Road died Monday evening at home after a long illness. Born in Jersey City, N.J., on Sept. 11, 1944, son of Earl and Martha Green Hunsicker, he attended...

Benjamin Jay Decker

Benjamin Jay Decker, 74, of 222 Buck Island Road, West Yarmouth, formerly of Dalton, died April 17 at home. Mr. Decker was a longtime teacher, assistant principal and principal at Wahconah...

Jeffrey Ellison Bruce

Jeffrey Ellison Bruce, 60, of Walker Street died yesterday at home. Born in Cleveland on Aug. 18, 1943, son of William Charles Bruce II and Mary Caroline Austin Bruce Bosworth Gepfert, he...

Robert E. Bailot

Robert E. Bailot, 74, of 3 Myrtle St. died Sunday of lung cancer at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, where he was admitted April 6. Born in Adams on Oct. 3, 1929, son of Alfred F. and...

Mary Jean O'Gara

Mary Jean O'Gara, 86, of 21 Kensington Ave. died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 17, 1917, daughter of Michael E. and Letitia V. Krommes O'Gara, she was a 1935...

James F. Louison Jr

James F. Louison Jr., 81, of 82 Lime St. died Sunday in a garage fire at his home. Born in Adams on May 24, 1922, son of James F. Louison Sr. and Ethel Heap Louison, he graduated from the former...

Catherine B. Hallock

Catherine B. Hallock, 91, of 16 Prichard St., Fitchburg, formerly of Dalton, died Thursday at home. Born in Dalton on July 5, 1912, daughter of Buel and Celia Gaddis Silliman, she graduated from...

Raymond S. Winters

Raymond S. Winters, 92, of 48 Hale St. died Thursday at home. Born in Pittsfield on April 22, 1912, son of William E. and Sarah Savage Winters, he was educated in Pittsfield schools. He moved...

Pearl P. Schreck

Pearl P. Schreck, 89, formerly of 46 Walchenbach Circle, died Friday at Bridgeport (Conn.) Hospital. She had resided in Fairfield, Conn., for the past eight years with her daughter, Linda...

Stephen J. Patterson

Stephen J. Patterson, 62, of 350 West St., Epworth Arms Apartments, died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on June 10, 1941, son of the late Lloyd R. and Gladys Hunt...

Henry Melideo

Henry Melideo, 79, of 24 Fairview Ave. died Thursday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 17, 1924, son of Adamo and Maria Petrella Melideo, he attended Pittsfield schools. He was a Navy...

Marion I. "Mazie" MacGregor

Marion I. "Mazie" MacGregor, 99, formerly of 160 Montgomery Ave., died Thursday at Springside of Pittsfield, where she had resided for six years. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 16, 1905, daughter of...

Roberta Mary Kirchner

Roberta Mary Kirchner, 68, of 23 Second St. died Wednesday at North Adams Regional Hospital, where she was admitted April 20. Death followed a long and courageous fight with cancer. She was a...

James R. Durant

James R. Durant, 62, of 202 Dewey Ave. died Tuesday at home. Born in Pittsfield on June 16, 1941, son of Harold R. and Mary E. Doran Durant, he graduated from Pittsfield High School in 1959....

Josephine E. Zopf

Josephine E. Zopf, 90, formerly of 42 Foote Ave., died yesterday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility. Born in Albany, N.Y., on April 13, 1914, the daughter of Charles and Emma Talasco, she...

Jeannette Lewis Galvin

Jeannette Lewis Galvin 94, of 273 North St. died Saturday at Sweet Brook Care Center. Born in Williamstown on July 24, 1909, daughter of William R. and Lillian Grace Porter Chadwell, she attended...

Margaret Svea Brown

Margaret Svea Brown, 91, of 70 Oleson Road died yesterday at Winchester Nursing Center in Winchester, where she was admitted in 2003. Born in Westfield on Aug. 18, 1912, the daughter of Olaf S....

Patricia J. Bouton

Patricia J. Bouton, 64, of 535 Onota St. died Friday at Providence Care Center in Lenox after a long struggle with cancer. Born in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on Oct. 7, 1939, daughter of Arnold and...

Edward John McKenna

Edward John McKenna, 57, of Brewster died Tuesday of heart failure in Hyannis. He had lived in Pittsfield from 1946 to 1977, in Sheffield from 1980 to 2000, and in Brewster since then. Born...

Charles Edward Hoppin

Charles Edward Hoppin, 85, of 1611 Cold Spring Road, formerly of Summit, N.J., died Wednesday at North Adams Regional Hospital. He moved to Williamstown last year. He was the father of Meredith C....