Obituaries

Joan C. Sockey

Joan C. Sockey, 79, of 30 Buel St. died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Newport, R.I., on May 25, 1924, daughter of Harry H. and Mary A. Fitzgerald Gear, she was a 1941 graduate of...

Helen E. Sadlo

Helen E. Sadlo, 92, of 116 North Summer St. died Thursday evening at Sweet Brook Care Center in Williamstown. Born in Windber, Pa., on April 5, 1911, daughter of Anthony and Katherine Leja Balut,...

Velma V. Lincoln

Velma V. Lincoln, 100, of Village East died Thursday at the Sweet Brook Care Centers in Williamstown, where she was admitted Feb. 26, 2003. Born in Fall River on Dec. 6, 1903, daughter of Herbert...

Doris Lamb Friedel

Doris Lamb Friedel, 78, of Lockcrest Drive, Cincinnati, formerly of Williamstown, died at Hospice of Cincinnati on Feb. 9 from complications of Alzheimer's disease. She spent her last year in the...

Donald Dewey Tanner

Donald Dewey Tanner, 81, of 27 Watson St. died yesterday at North Adams Regional Hospital, where he was admitted Feb. 2. Born in North Adams on Oct. 30, 1922, son of Dewey S. and Beatrice A....

Emil J. Rist

Emil J. Rist, 78, of 237 Wahconah St. died Thursday at home following a long illness. Born in Guilford, Vt., on Dec. 23, 1925, son of Harry and Cassie Williams Rist, he attended schools there and...

Donald R. Dubree

Donald R. Dubree, 70, of 60 Eleanor Road died Friday at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston after a long illness. Born in Overton, Texas, on March 2, 1933, son of Louis C. and Minnie M....

Ronald Joseph Collins

Ronald Joseph Collins, 50, of Flatland Trail, Converse, Texas, a native of Pittsfield, died Wednesday at home after a long illness. Born Feb. 7, 1954, son of Deolinda Alice Ferreira Collins of...

Jacquelyn Cobden

Jacquelyn Cobden, 69, of Sheffield Road, South Egremont, died Friday at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington. Born in New York City on April 6, 1934, daughter of Aloysious J. and Jeannette Adams...

Rodney J. Ruane, 60

SHEFFIELD, Mass. — Rodney J. Ruane, 60, of 82 West Stahl Road, Ashley Falls, died Friday, Feb. 13, 2004, at home after a brief illness. Born in Pittsfield on July 28, 1943, son of Etta...

Peter P. Pulasky

Peter P. Pulasky, 63, of 341 West St. died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on March 17, 1940, son of Elizabeth Collins Pulasky Niarchos of Pittsfield and the late Peter G....

Martin L. Lasker

Martin L. Lasker, 72, of Iroquois Avenue and Sarasota, Fla., died Feb. 12 at the Moffitt Cancer Center Hospital in Tampa, Fla. Born in New York City on Jan. 26, 1932, son of Abraham and Fannie...

Sister Mary L. Carr

Sister Mary L. Carr, also known as Sister Elizabeth Therese, 81, formerly of Pittsfield, died Saturday at Mont Marie Health Care Center in Holyoke, where she had resided for a short time. She...

Joseph Justyn Zieba Sr

Joseph Justyn Zieba Sr., 65, of 14 Murray St. died yesterday morning at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in Adams on July 1, 1938, son of Mildred M. Zieba of Adams and the late Henry J. Zieba,...

James Norris Ward

James Norris Ward, 64, of 6 Claremont Road died yesterday morning at his home from leukemia. Born Dec. 15, 1939, in Altoona, Pa., son of James Albert and Mary Edna Norris Ward, he was a 1957...

Linda K. Mann

Linda K. Mann, 45, of 187 Church St. died after a long illness Wednesday morning at North Adams Regional Hospital, where she had been admitted Saturday. Born in Lima, Ohio, on Dec. 12, 1958,...

Charles T. Gibson

Charles T. Gibson, 68, of Milton, N.C., a former resident of Pittsfield, died Feb. 3 in a work-related accident in Danville, Va. Born in Schenectady, N.Y., on Aug. 30, 1935, son of Robert and...

Laverne L. Marier DeFazio

Laverne L. Marier DeFazio, 92, formerly of 65 Cherry St., died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. She had resided at Hillcrest Commons since May 2002 and before that resided at the former Center...

Kenneth R. Suprenant

Kenneth R. Suprenant, 77, of 233 Columbia St. died Monday at Sweet Brook Care Centers in Williamstown. Born in North Adams on Sept. 6, 1926, son of Henry and Edna Ouimette Suprenant, he attended...

Wilma Nicholson

Wilma Nicholson, 84, of Mountain View Terrace, died Friday at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. Born in Lynn on April 13, 1919, daughter of Frank A. and Edith T. Haines Legro, she attended...

Henry Walter Marcisz

Henry Walter Marcisz, 54, of 19 Grant St., Easthampton, formerly of Pittsfield, died Saturday at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton after an eight-month battle with cancer. Born in...

Herbert John Lewis Jr.

Herbert John Lewis Jr., 76, of 55 High St. died Monday morning at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield after suffering an apparent heart attack. Born in Pittsfield on July 2, 1927, son of...

Constance Winifred Voltoline

Constance Winifred Voltoline, 91, formerly of 39 Day St., died Saturday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided since July 25, 1999. Born in Adams on June 11, 1912, daughter of Richard and...

Robert B. Rogers

Robert B. Rogers, 65, of 840 East St. died Friday evening at home. Born in Springfield on July 21, 1938, son of Charles L. and Gladys E. Wylie Rogers, he was a 1957 graduate of Holyoke High...

Marsilia Lucille Pasquini

Marsilia Lucille Pasquini, 84, formerly of 54 Furnace Hill, died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. She had resided at Sugar Hill in Dalton for a month. Born in Gambellara,...