Obituaries

Richard T. "Stitch" Stachura

Richard T. "Stitch" Stachura, 66, of 16 Dubis St. died Friday at his home. Born in Adams on Jan. 2, 1938, son of Theodore and Irene Styczynski Stachura, he attended St. Stanislaus Elementary...

Roberta Sisson

Roberta Sisson, 86, of 6 Dodge Ave. died Thursday at Laurel Lake Center for Health and Rehabilitation, where she had been a resident since January. Born in Pittsfield on May 10, 1917, daughter of...

Eugene Russell "Gene" Hendrix

Eugene Russell "Gene" Hendrix, 76, of Hill Road, Interlaken, died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. He moved to Berkshire County in 1966 and had been an Interlaken resident...

Jack W. Browne I

Jack W. Browne I, 80, of 25 Britton St. died Tuesday at Orlando South Seminole Hospital in Longwood, Fla. Born in Pittsfield on July 30, 1923, son of Herbert H. and Elizabeth Cotton Browne, he...

Mary L. Turner Touponce

Mary L. Turner Touponce, 88, of 30 Dewey Ave. died Thursday at Springside of Pittsfield, where she had resided for several months. Born in Scituate, R.I., on Oct. 15, 1915, daughter of Oliver and...

Julia Rita Armstrong

Julia Rita Armstrong, 91, formerly of 42 Linden St., Michelle Manor, died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center. She had resided at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility since Aug. 5, 2003....

Kathleen A. Zaccari

Kathleen A. Zaccari, 55, of Providence Care Center of Lenox died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. She had resided at the nursing facility for seven years. Born in Pittsfield on June 24,...

Francis E. Winters

Francis E. Winters, 50, of 87 Greenwich St. died Friday at home. Born in Pittsfield on April 21, 1953, son of Alice M. Sible Winters and the late Joseph P. Winters, he was a 1972 graduate of...

Steven G. Rocheleau

Steven G. Rocheleau, 46, of 98 Wade Inn Road died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on March 5, 1958, son of Maurice and Jennie Tallman Rocheleau, he was educated in...

Florence E. Radisson, 102

CHESHIRE, Mass. — Florence Elizabeth Radisson, 102, of 27 Richmond St. died Saturday, April 17, 2004, at Providence Care Center of Lenox. Born in Readsboro, Vt., on Dec. 16, 1901, daughter...

Betty K. Morelli

Betty K. Morelli, 76, of 44 Avery Lane died Saturday at Fairview Hospital. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 7, 1927, daughter of Francis W. and Edna Louise Hawley Keefe, she graduated from the former...

Isidore D. Leibowitz

Isidore D. Leibowitz, 90, of 25 Witter Road died Saturday at the home of his daughter, Diane Dyer, on South Main Street. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Aug. 22, 1913, son of Leo and Sadie Locke...

Gail McKenna

Gail McKenna, 58, of 27 Eagle Wing Lane died April 9 at home of heart failure. Born in Pittsfield on March 24, 1946, daughter of Ghislaine Durivahee Brogan of Stratford, Conn., and the late...

Julie R. Macchi, 51

PITTSFIELD, Mass. â€' Julie Rae Macchi, 51, of 44 Maplewood Ave. died Wednesday, April 14, 2004, at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on June 14, 1952, daughter of John J. Macchi...

Jerome A. LaRoche

Jerome A. LaRoche, 83, of 8 First Ave., a native and longtime resident of Adams, died Wednesday evening at Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington, Vt. Born in Adams on Dec. 9, 1920, son of Delphis...

Kevin L. Boland, 39

NORTH ADAMS, Mass.— Kevin Leo Boland, 39, of 21 Sunset Road, Key Largo, Fla., formerly of North Adams, died April 9, 2004, of injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Key Largo. Born...

Madeline W. Gleason VanBramer

Madeline W. Gleason VanBramer, 95, a formerly of Pittsfield, died Saturday at East Pasco Medical Center in Zephyrhills, Fla. Born in Philmont, N.Y., on Feb. 10, 1909, daughter of Harry and...

Robert S. Townend

Robert S. Townend, 83, died Thursday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. He had resided at Melbourne Place for two years. Born in Providence, R.I., on March 21, 1921, son of Daniel and Mabel...

Carrie C. Todd, 68

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Carrie Carolyn Todd, 68, of 45 Spring St. died Saturday, April 10, 2004, at St. Peter's Hospital in Albany, N.Y., where she was admitted April 4. Born in North Adams on...

Joyce A. Stolfo

Joyce A. Stolfo, 58, of 27 Abbott St. died Sunday at home after a long illness. Born in Akron, Ohio, on Nov. 6, 1945, daughter of Fred Carpenter and Marie Gardner Carpenter Boykin, she was...

Ruth May Packard

Ruth May Packard, 76, of 139 Hubbard Ave. died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pownal, Vt., on Oct. 22, 1927, daughter of George P. and Bertha "Agnes" Jones Kenyon, she was a 1947...

Esther Edith Moulthrop

Esther Edith Moulthrop, 94, of the Old Homestead, 486 Bancroft Road, died Saturday at Calvin Coolidge Extended Care Facility in Northampton. Born in Becket on March 30, 1910, daughter of James B....

Dorothy Marie LeMire

Dorothy Marie LeMire, 81, of Holy Family Terrace died yesterday at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in Shushan, N.Y., on April 23, 1922, daughter of Ernest and Elizabeth Thomas Gibbons, she...

Justine E. Callaghan

Justine E. Callaghan, 77, of 41 Livingston Ave. died Saturday at home. Born in Pittsfield on June 10, 1926, daughter of William H. and Doris Brown Cooney, she was a 1943 graduate of Pittsfield...

Elizabeth W. Valenti

Elizabeth W. Valenti, 94, of 1382 Memorial Ave., West Springfield, died Monday at the home of her daughter, Christine Rathbun, in Stockbridge. Born in Holyoke on March 2, 1910, daughter of Joseph...