Obituaries

Dena Escudero

Dena Escudero, 81, of 5 Pine St., Heaton Court, died Wednesday at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington. Born in New York City on Feb. 8, 1920, daughter of Hugh and Anna Strandquist Gilleece, she...

Alan E. Whitaker

Alan E. Whitaker, 59, of 25 Elm St. died Wednesday evening at home. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 17, 1942, son of Roy C. and Marie Dodge Whitaker, he attended Dalton schools. Mr. Whitaker was...

William S. Knight

William S. Knight, 88, of St. Augustine, Fla., formerly of Sheffield Street, died Dec. 27, 2001, at home. Born in Great Barrington on Dec. 5, 1913, son of Clark H. and Estella Drum Knight, he...

Viola E. Gore

Viola E. Gore, 81, of Cherry Street died Tuesday at home. Born in Estelline, South Dakota, on July 10, 1920, daughter of Matthew and Ida Josephine Kangas Seppanen, she attended schools...

Normand LaFlamme

Normand LaFlamme, 55, of 121 Bracewell Ave. died Jan. 17 at North Adams Commons. Born in Ludlow on Jan. 28, 1946, son of the late Ernest and Freida Vincelette LaFlamme, he attended schools in...

Lillian M. Talbot

Lillian M. Talbot, 88, of 1000 North St., formerly of 43 Cummings Ave., died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Binghamton, N.Y., on April 22, 1913, daughter of Homer and Florence Pond...

LeRoy Hare, 84

STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — LeRoy "Roy" Hare, 84, formerly of Cherry Hill Road, died Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2002, at Fairview Commons Nursing Home in Great Barrington. Born on Sept. 2, 1917, in...

Laura M. West

Laura M. West, 81, of 254 Notch Road died Tuesday at North Adams Regional Hospital, where she was admitted Jan. 8. Born in North Adams on May 8, 1920, daughter of Alfred and Anne Hollis Davison,...

John G. Phillips

John G. Phillips, 82, of 64 East St. died Tuesday at the home of his daughter, Carol Darby in Peru. Born in Dalton on Feb. 25, 1919, son of John H. and Margaret M. Weinhofer Phillips, he graduated...

Edith Leavenworth

Edith I. Leavenworth, 97, of 32 McAllister St. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Riders Mill, N.Y., on June 10, 1904, daughter of John and Mame Holbert Holt, she attended local...

Anna Polchlopek

Anna E. Polchlopek, 89, of 12 Springside Ave. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on April 11, 1912, daughter of Michael and Julia Leskow Horbul, she attended local...

Vivian Gibbs Bail

Vivian Mae Gibbs Bail, 90, a resident of Sweet Brook Health Care Center, formerly of 76 Fullerton Ave., Whitman, died Jan. 16 at Sweet Brook Health Care Center. Born in Whitman on Sept. 3, 1911,...

Theresa Robert

Theresa H. Robert, 77, formerly of 59 Park St. died Monday at Williamstown Commons Health Care Center in Williamstown. Born in St. Leon, Canada, on Nov. 6, 1924, daughter of Fortuna and Rose Alma...

Patricia Driscoll

Patricia H. Driscoll, 68, of 82 Lenox Ave. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on July 10, 1933, daughter of Wilfred and Mary Ryder Langlois, she attended local schools and...

Patricia Cornock

Patricia Cornock, 69, of Millrace Point, Longwood, Fla., formerly of Lee, died Saturday at home. Born in Pittsfield on April 9, 1932, daughter of the late Edward and Ruth Dunham Hiser, she...

Louise E. Meaney

Louise Elizabeth Meaney, 88, of 2310 North Lumina Ave., Wrightsville Beach, N.C., formerly of 100 Furnace St., died yesterday at home. Born in North Adams on Nov. 26, 1913, daughter of Robert P....

Joan Schnelle

Joan Schnelle, 86, of Westport, Conn., died Jan. 8 at home. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 22, 1915, daughter of Michael H. and Elizabeth Spaniol Roberts, she graduated from Dean Junior College in...

Helen J. Leary

Helen J. Leary, 87, of North Plain Road died yesterday at Fairview Hospital. Born in Great Barrington on Sept. 2, 1914, daughter of Wright and Mary Touponce Seward, she attended local...

Evelyn Gaudette

Evelyn Margaret Gaudette, 83, of 41 Patricia Ave. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Easthampton on April 13, 1918, daughter of Neopolitan and Minnie LeClair Provost, she attended...

Diane Scott Upton

Diane Scott Upton, 57, of 75 Nutmeg Lane died Sunday at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. Born in Holyoke on Aug. 29, 1944, daughter of the late Richard and Clara Stalker Scott, she attended...

Theodore Uyrus

Theodore Uyrus, 86, of 24 Water St. died Sunday afternoon at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in Adams on Sept. 16, 1915, son of Joseph and Victoria Ruscdova Uyrus, he attended Adams...

Marie A. Wood

Marie A. Wood, 88, of Leesburg, Fla., formerly of Hurlburt Road, died Sunday at Leesburg Regional Medical Center. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Jan. 29, 1913, daughter of Albert and Mary Klarman...

Marcella R. Plante

Marcella Roxie Plante, 88, of 8 Highland Ave. died Sunday at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in Adams on Oct. 19, 1913, daughter of Elrich D. and Emma Rabsal Gaines, she was a 1931 graduate of...

Louise A. Roche

Louise A. Roche, 83, formerly of 600 Main St., died Sunday at Craneville Place of Dalton, where she had resided since 1998. Born in Smithburg, Md., on Feb. 10, 1918, daughter of John E. and...

John R. Law

John Robert Law, 66, of 44 Bradford St. died yesterday at North Adams Regional Hospital, where he was admitted earlier in the day. Born in North Adams on Nov. 17, 1935, son of the late John A. and...