Obituaries

Esther Luddy Tilton

Esther Luddy Tilton, 84, of Mountain View Apartments in Hadley, died Saturday at the Calvin Coolidge Nursing Home in Northampton. Her daughter, Judith Rennie, lived in Pittsfield. Born on July...

Robert Ralph Pitoniak

Robert Ralph Pitoniak, 73, of 125 Friend St. died Tuesday morning at his home. Born in Adams on Sept. 30, 1932, son of the late John and Margaret Blasczak Pitoniak, he graduated from the former...

Rebecca Cady Lowell Paquette

Rebecca Cady Lowell Paquette, 66, of 57 Apple Tree Lane died Monday morning at her home of pheochromocytoma. Born in Oneida, N.Y., on Jan. 4, 1940, daughter of Beecher and Clara Leaf Cady, she...

Helen Mary Osterhout

Helen Mary Osterhout, 67, of 2 Woodruff Road died Sunday at Fairview Commons in Great Barrington. Born in Pittsfield on May 3, 1939, daughter of Charles M. and Helen Ring Magner, she was a...

Teresa Simoneau

Teresa Simoneau, 79, of 115 Memorial Drive died late Sunday evening at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in Amherst, on Feb. 3, 1927, daughter of Andrew and Anna Pleppo, she graduated from...

Michael Robert Gagne

Michael Robert Gagne, 59, of 70 Mohawk Forest Blvd. died Sunday morning at the emergency room of the North Adams Regional Hospital, where he was taken after being stricken at home. Born in North...

Viva Dexter Baumann

Viva Dexter Baumann, 92, formerly of East Windsor Road, died yesterday morning at Hillcrest Commons. Born in New Bedford on Dec. 8, 1913, daughter of the late Richard Williamson and Elise Leary...

Clara A. Pictrowski

Clara A. Pictrowski, 81, of 31 Wellesley St. died Wednesday at home after a short illness. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 25, 1924, daughter of Luigi and Luisa Altobelli Arpante, she was a 1943...

Carter Brown Owen

Carter Brown Owen, 45, of 20 Miner St. died Friday at home of natural causes. Born in Cumberland, Md., on Aug. 8, 1961, son of Glenn Brown Owen Dobbs and the late Archibald A. Owen III, he moved...

Joseph W. Izzo

Joseph W. Izzo, 49, of 360 West Housatonic St. died Thursdayat home. Born in Pittsfield on May 4, 1957, son of Joseph A. and Anne Mullen Izzo, he was a 1975 graduate of Taconic High School, where...

Catherine Marie Foreman

Catherine Marie Foreman, 85, of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, formerly of Housatonic, died Friday at Wyandot Memorial Hospital in Upper Sandusky. She recently moved from Morral, Ohio, to Upper Sandusky....

George Bernard Benner Jr.

George Bernard Benner Jr., 47, of Park Street, Housatonic, died Thursday at Fairview Hospital. Born in Port Jefferson, N.Y., on Nov. 26, 1958, son of George Bernard Benner Sr. and Florence...

Marceline T. Lanoue

Marceline T. Lanoue, 78, of 14 Joan Drive died Saturday at home. Born in Rensselaer, N.Y., on Oct. 11, 1927, daughter of Edward and Albina Soulier West, she lived in Cummington as a child, and...

Sharleen T. Kotski

Sharleen T. Kotski, 55, of 63 Plymouth St. died Sunday at her home. Born in Pittsfield on July 30, 1951, daughter of Marie Massacani Kucka of Pittsfield and the late Charles A. Kucka, she was...

Nathan Kaplan

Nathan Kaplan, 95, of 10 Taconic St., a longtime resident of New York City, died at home on Sunday after a brief illness. Born in Shenandoah, Pa., on Nov. 20, 1910, son of Isaac and Anna Mednick...

Mary Margaret Wheeler

Mary Margaret Wheeler, 81, of 63 Middlefield Road, formerly of Alford and Egremont, died Wednesday at her home. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 2, 1925, daughter of Arthur and Elizabeth Williams...

Thelma P. Wells

Thelma P. Wells, 89, a resident of 445 Frost Road for the past 46 years, died Wednesday at her home. Born in Williamstown on Aug. 26, 1917, daughter of Charles and Addie Haley Leonard, she was...

William Purcell

William Purcell, 69, of 343 Main Road died Tuesday at home of lung cancer. Born in the Bronx, N.Y., on Feb. 19, 1937, son of William and Mary Ellen McCaffrey Purcell, he attended schools there....

Dorothy K. O'Neill

Dorothy K. O'Neill, 87, of 1000 North St. died yesterday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility, where she had resided for 14 months. Born in Sheffield on Sept. 24, 1918, daughter of Frank F....

Leslie D. Kirchner

Leslie D. Kirchner, 50, of 2566 East 3750 North, Layton, Utah, formerly of Pomeroy Avenue, died Aug. 23 while fishing in Layton. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 19, 1955, son of Nicholas and Jeanne...

Viola Grace "Mim" Guachione

Viola Grace "Mim" Guachione, 84, of 573 Peck's Road died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center after a short illness. Born in Pittsfield on May 25, 1922, daughter of Luigi and Luisa Altobelli...

Pauline Greene

Pauline Greene, 79, formerly of Friedel Street, Worcester, died Tuesday at Craneville Place nursing facility. Born in Ludlow on Jan. 14, 1927, daughter of Andrew and Catherine Duff Campsie, she...

Margaret M. Miller

Margaret M. Miller, 61, of 105 Underwood Road died Sunday at home. Born in Pawtucket, R.I., on Jan. 26, 1945, daughter of the late Joseph and Sara Desjardins Mongeau, she was a 1962 graduate of...

Milton A. Kolodkin

Milton A. Kolodkin, 82, of 340 Red Barn Road died Monday at home following a long illness. Born in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Feb. 16, 1924, son of Alex M. and Sarah Baron Kolodkin, he attended the...

Robert Beals

Robert Beals, 62, of 92-31 57th Ave., Elmhurst, N.Y., formerly of Pittsfield, died of cancer on Sunday at the Margaret Tietz Hospice in Jamaica, N.Y. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 16, 1943, son of...