Obituaries

Leo H. Bedard

Leo H. Bedard, 87, of 15 Forest Park Ave., a longtime area automobile dealer and civic leader, died Thursday morning at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Adams on Sept. 2, 1916, son...

Stacia J. Ouellette

Stacia J. Ouellette, 94, of Holyoke died Friday, Dec. 19, at Mont Marie Health Care Center. She was the sister of Frank Kurpaska, and had lived in Holyoke for 60 years. Born in Adams on Sept....

Anthony Charles Liporace

Anthony Charles Liporace, 71, of 265 Reservoir Road died Wednesday, Dec. 24, at the University of Massachusetts Medical Health Center in Worcester, where he was admitted on Dec. 3. Born in...

John Francis Baumann

John Francis Baumann, 74, of Division Street died Tuesday, Dec. 23, at Fairview Hospital. Born Jan. 1, 1929, in Pittsfield, son of George and Louise Maier Baumann, he attended local schools and...

Richard David Vallin

Richard David Vallin, 76, of 404 Bay Hill Court, New Bern, N.C., formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday at home. Born in Pittsfield on April 3, 1927, son of Daniel and Dora Halperin Vallin, he was a...

Susan Touponce

Susan Touponce, 57, of North Main Road died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born Sept. 29, 1946, in Hartford, Conn., daughter of Russell Looby of Steinhatchee, Fla., and the...

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Cushing Bosworth Snider

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Cushing Bosworth Snider, 92, of 300 Hot Spring Road, Montecito, Calif., formerly of South Egremont, died yesterday in Santa Barbara, Calif. Born in New York City on...

Dorothy J. Siok

Dorothy J. Siok, 91, formerly of 8 Waubeck St., died Monday at Timberlyn Heights, where she had resided for seven years. Born in Housatonic on June 27, 1912, daughter of Alexander and Rozalia...

Warren Wayne Root

Warren Wayne Root, 75, of Normandie Ridge retirement community, York, Pa., died Monday evening at home. Born in Pittsfield on April 14, 1928, son of Wilfred H. and Elsie I. Shepherd Root, he was...

Ethel Mae Racicot

Ethel Mae Racicot, 71, of 68 Daniels Ave. died yesterday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 6, 1932, daughter of Loyd and Philominia Roberts Banister, she attended...

Debra Windon Luckey

Debra Windon Luckey, 47, of 38 Euclid Ave. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Saginaw, Mich., on June 27, 1956, daughter of Louis and Julia Wilder Steward of Aliceville, Ala., she...

Heide E. Hazzard

Heide E. Hazzard, 64, of Belford, N.J., died Friday at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, N.J. She had lived in Massachusetts and moved to Belford 24 years ago. Born on April 6, 1939, in...

Evelyn Dietrich

Evelyn Dietrich, 88, of 4 Goodrich St. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Aug. 29, 1915, daughter of Paul and Sophia Matoska Krajchy, she was...

Sgt. Glenn Richard Allison

Sgt. Glenn Richard Allison, 24, formerly of 60 Edward Ave., died Thursday in Baghdad, Iraq, after being stricken during a military drill. Born in Boston on Sept. 12, 1979, son of Kenneth Beatty...

George E. Kingsley

George E. Kingsley, 72, of 730 East Road died yesterday at home. Born in Pittsfield on May 16, 1931, son of George H. and Elizabeth Allen Kingsley, he was a 1949 graduate of Pittsfield High...

Elizabeth Jean Kanerva

Elizabeth Jean Kanerva, 60, of Morgan Street died Saturday evening at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield after a brief illness. Born in Plattsburgh, N.Y., on March 20, 1943, daughter of...

Nesta Veronica Hamelin

Nesta Veronica Hamelin, 87, of 62 Carson Ave. died Sunday, Dec. 21, at North Adams Regional Hospital, where she was admitted earlier in the day. Born in North Adams on Feb. 20, 1916, daughter of...

Martin H. Glynn

Martin H. Glynn, 86, of Route 23, Craryville, N.Y., died Saturday afternoon at the Community House at Columbia Memorial Hospital in Hudson, N.Y. He was the stepfather of Charlotte Owens of...

Hollis T. Galley

Hollis T. Galley, 90, of Aston Gardens, Naples, Fla., died Sunday afternoon in Naples. He was the father of Sandra Kleiner of Adams. Born in Hereford, Texas, on Nov. 29, 1913, son of Hollisand...

Ruth Case

Ruth Case, 86, of 57 Donna Ave. died Sunday at home. Born in Pittsfield on May 26, 1917, daughter of William and Harriet Sanford Turner, she was a graduate of the former Dalton High School....

Baby girl Olivia Rose Virgilio

Baby girl Olivia Rose Virgilio, seven days old, of 8 Lake St. died Monday at Bay State Medical Center in Springfield. Born Dec. 8, 2003, she was the daughter of JoAnne L. Virgilio and Raymond V....

Marion A. Haley

Marion A. Haley, 86, of Center Street, Pownal, Vt., died Thursday at the home of her daughter, Susan Rebideau, where she had resided for eight months. Born in Petersburgh, N.Y., on Nov. 15, 1917,...

Marie Wilmer Bradford

Marie Wilmer Bradford, 87, died Thursday at the Sweet Brook Care Center, where she had lived for the past nine years. She formerly lived at 47 Highland Ave. in Adams. Born in Pittsfield on...

Edna Raker

Edna Raker, 92, of Cold Spring Road died Friday at Sweet Brook Care Centers. Born in Scranton, PA., on May 17, 1911, daughter of Harry and Rose Roth Solomon, she was educated there. She had...

Craig Seagrave Kelly

Craig Seagrave Kelly, 56, of 5 Ascot Ridge Court, Irmo, S.C., formerly of Dalton, died Friday at Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia, S.C., after a brief illness. Born in Pittsfield on...