Obituaries

Julia Elizabeth Filip

Julia Elizabeth Filip, 90, of 14 Hoosac St. died yesterday at Williamstown Commons. Born in Adams on Sept. 25, 1913, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Kluska Filip, she graduated from the former...

Wayne Upton Bidwell

Wayne Upton Bidwell, 85, of 245 Cheshire Road died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in St. Albans, Vt., on Jan. 29, 1919, son of Ernest and Katie Loveland Bidwell, he attended schools in...

Anna Mordia Benco

Anna Mordia Benco, 92, formerly of 50 Hollenbeck Ave., died Sunday at Fairview Hospital. She had resided at Laurel Lake in Lee since August 2000. Born in New York City on June 14, 1911,...

Dorothy E. Leab

Dorothy E. Leab, 84, of 59 Carson Ave. died yesterday at Craneville Place. Born in Dalton on Jan. 4, 1920, daughter of Charles D. and Carrie J. Rarick Zink, she was a 1937 graduate of the former...

Richard Franklin Lacatell

Richard Franklin Lacatell, 85, of EPOCH Assisted Living, 140 Melbourne Road, died Monday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility, where he was admitted two weeks ago. Born in Pittsfield on Feb....

Cecilia "Sissy" Gaudet

Cecilia "Sissy" Gaudet, 47, of 8 Lower Linden St. died March 9 at University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center in Worcester following a short illness. Born in Marion, S.C., on March 9,...

Faith A. Trepania

Faith A. Trepania, 62, of Berkshiretown Apartments, 176 Columbus Ave., died Saturday at home following a long illness. Born in Albany, N.Y., on June 9, 1941, daughter of Grayce Laramee Rogers,...

Lois Wheeler Spring

Lois Wheeler Spring, 90, of Ashley Falls Road died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Boston on April 13, 1913, daughter of Miles Washburn Weeks and Lois Richards Frost...

Edna Lee Gregalis

Edna Lee Gregalis, 93, of formerly 75 Commercial St., Mill Houses, died Sunday at Sweet Brook Care Centers, where she had lived for several years. Born in Adams on Oct. 11, 1910, daughter of...

Merle Niles Bottum

Merle Niles Bottum, 73, of 101 Willow Cove and Davie, Fla., died Saturday at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital in Weston, Fla. Born in Williamstown on April 12, 1930, son of Norman D. and Mildred...

Sally S. Bergmans

Sally S. Bergmans, 76, of East Main Street died Sunday at home. Born in Larchmont, N.Y., on Nov. 5, 1927, daughter of Kenneth H. and Adelaide Wright Stevens, she attended schools in Pelham Manor,...

John A. Zaloga

John A. Zaloga, 79, of 85 Pine St., Frostburg, Md., a native and longtime resident of Adams, died March 2 at his home. Born in Adams on March 12, 1924, son of Caroline Janik Zaloga of...

Anna Elizabeth Sukanek

Anna Elizabeth Sukanek, 90, formerly of 22 Wood Lane, died yesterday at Williamstown Commons in Williamstown, where she had resided since 1999. Born in Cheshire on Oct. 2, 1913, daughter of John...

Lillian V. Schwarzer

Lillian V. Schwarzer, 90, formerly of 72 Richardson St. and formerly of Adams, died Thursday at the Sweet Brook Care Centers in Williamstown, where she had resided since August 1996. Born in...

Mary T. Melle

Mary T. Melle, 84, of Maple Street, a native of Lenox, died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center, where she had been a patient for a week. Born in Lenox on Aug. 26, 1919, daughter of Giuseppe...

Clara Mandel

Clara Mandel, 88, of 349 Haydenville Road, Leeds, died Thursday at Linda Manor Extended Care Facility following a long illness. Born in Turok, Russia, on March 15, 1915, daughter of Benzion and...

Elizabeth M. Gaylord

Elizabeth M. Gaylord, 88, formerly of 696 Cheshire Road, died Thursday at Hillcrest Commons. Born in the Berkshire section of Lanesboro on July 1, 1915, daughter of Arthur W. and Lillie Carrow...

Edna M. Blanchard

Edna M. Blanchard, 99, of North Falmouth and formerly of Pittsfield, died Thursday at Harborside Healthcare of Falmouth. She was the sister of Lillian Anderson of Pittsfield. Born in...

Lewis M. Smith Jr

Lewis M. Smith Jr., 82, of 3 Whitcomb Hill Road died yesterday at North Adams Regional Hospital, where he was admitted Thursday. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., on Feb. 11, 1922, son of Lewis M. Smith Sr....

Eleanor Frances McCarthy Horton

Eleanor Frances McCarthy Horton, 85, formerly of 62 Bachand Ave., died Friday evening at Sweetbrook Care Centers, where she had resided since March 1995. Born in Haverhill on Jan. 17, 1919,...

William Charles Hanke

William Charles Hanke, 73, of 213 East Road died early yesterday morning at home. Born in Adams on Sept. 11, 1930, son of Walter and Eva Perreault Hanke, he attended schools there. An Army...

Robert D. Goff

Robert D. Goff, 70, of 24 Monroe St. died Friday at home after a courageous battle with cancer. Born in North Adams on Dec. 13, 1933, son of Edward James Goff Sr. and Lillian Brosseau Goff, he...

Sears Roy Van Alstyne Jr

Sears Roy Van Alstyne Jr., 58, of Sherwood Drive died Saturday at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 5, 1945, son of Sears R. Van Alstyne Sr. and Mary Una Barnes...

Mario H. Scapin

Mario H. Scapin, 65, of 25 School St. died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on July 25, 1938, son of Eugenio and Angelina Maule Scapin, he was a graduate of...

Herman G. Morelli

Herman G. Morelli, 85, of 28 Gilmore Ave., and a winter resident of Venice, Fla., died Friday at Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Hospital. He was a former chairman of the Board of Selectmen. Born in...