Obituaries

William F. Ellis

William F. Ellis, 70, of Bradford, Vt., formerly of Pittsfield, died April 3 at Brookside Nursing Home in Bradford after a long illness. Born Sept. 5, 1931, in Peabody, son of Delma W. and Eunice...

Grace Hatt

Grace Hatt, 89, of 151 Sleepy Hollow Drive died Wednesday at home. Born in Edmeston, N.Y., on May 3, 1912, daughter of Bert A. and Leta Cummings VanVant, she was a graduate of Sidney (N.Y.) High...

Emma Wert

Emma Wert, 90, died Wednesday at Laurel Lake Center in Lee, where she had resided since February 2000. She was the mother of the Rev. Arthur Kaufman of Sheffield. Born in Roslyn, N.Y., on July 13,...

Patricia Verchot

Patricia Frances Verchot, 77, formerly of Rose Manor, died Tuesday at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Newark, N.J., on Jan 11, 1925, daughter of Patrick Doyle and Martha Doyle Mulvihill, she...

Loretta Marchetti

Loretta Marchetti, 86, of 200 Benedict Road died Tuesday at Springside of Pittsfield, where she had been admitted March 3, 2000. Born in Pico, Province of Frosinone, Italy, on Dec. 28, 1915,...

Leona E. Lussier

Leona Elizabeth Lussier, 75, of 15 Kirkwood Drive died yesterday morning at home following a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on June 9, 1926, daughter of Frederick and Catherine Eagan Poopor, she...

Lenore Pinckney

Lenore M. Pinckney, 82, of 12 Alford Road died Wednesday, March 6, at The Village at Laurel Lake in Lee. Born in Mineola, N.Y., on Nov. 3, 1919, daughter of Donald and Helen MacDonald, she...

Iva Smith

Iva Fay Smith, 81, a longtime resident of West Center Road, more recently of Heaton Court in Stockbridge, died Tuesday morning at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in East Fryeburg,...

Sylvia C. Sheehan

Sylvia Carmen Sheehan, 93, of 212 Eagle St. died Sunday at the Glenn Falls (N.Y.) Hospital. Born in North Adams on Nov. 22, 1908, daughter of Stephen and Clementina Gazzaniga Rosasco, she...

Shirley A. Bell

Shirley A. Bell, 64, of Winter Haven, Fla., a native of Pittsfield, died Friday at Good Shepherd Hospice in Auburndale, Fla. Born Feb. 6, 1938, daughter of Raymond and Orette Duchesneau Mayo, she...

Marylin F. Kelly

Marylin F. Kelly, 65, of 30 Florence St. died Monday at home. She was the mother of state Rep. Shaun P. Kelly of Dalton. Born in North Adams on Sept. 30, 1936, daughter of Francis and Gladys...

Mary K. Girard

Mary K. Girard, 83, of 13 Simon Ave. died Friday afternoon at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in Canaan, Conn., on April 8, 1919, daughter of Stefano and Rosa Belini Smachetti, she lived in...

Joan Fisher

Joan Fisher, 70, of Bradford Arms Apartments died Saturday at Optimum Care. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 4, 1931, daughter of Albert C. and Marguerite Leitch Gilligan, she moved to Adams at a...

Felix Lescarbeau

Felix E. "Nookie" Lescarbeau, 67, of 370 Cross Road died Sunday at home. Born in North Adams on May 15, 1934, son of Edward J. and Emaline Lord Lescarbeau, he attended schools there. A Navy...

Elizabeth Adzigian

Elizabeth Gallup Adzigian, 87, of Grove, Okla., died Saturday at Grove Nursing Center. Born in Housatonic on Dec. 20, 1914, daughter of Atwood and Maude Snyder Gallup, she graduated from the...

Dorotha M. Logan

Dorotha M. Logan, 93, of 23 Livingston Ave. died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Saratoga, N.Y., on June 29, 1908, daughter of Thomas H. and Dora Robbins Logan, she was a 1927 graduate...

Charlotte Simmons

Charlotte A. Simmons, 48, of 30 Cone Ave. died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 27, 1953, daughter of Elizabeth O. Ellsworth Furlong and the late...

Betty N. Turetsky

Betty N. Turetsky, 86, of 329 Pittsfield Road died Sunday evening at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sept. 8, 1915, daughter of Joseph and Yetta Wicker Beck, she...

Angela M. Mullen

Angela Marie Mullen, 85, of 81 Wells Ave., a registered nurse, died yesterday at Sweetbrook Health Care Center in Williamstown, where she had resided since June 2001. Born in North Adams on Aug....

Vincent Sanginetti

Vincent F. "GiGi" Sanginetti, 75, of 325 Fenn St. died Saturday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 1, 1926, son of Dominic and Mary Pullaro Sanginetti, he attended local schools. He graduated...

Mary Shepardson

Mary R. Shepardson, 85, of 8 Lebanon Ave. died yesterday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on May 26, 1916, daughter of John E. and Irene Broderick McDonough, she was a 1934...

Marion Tracy

Marion Tracy, 90, of Ashburn, Va., a native of Great Barrington, died Thursday at Gordon House Nursing Home in Gordonsville, Va., where she had resided for one day. Born on July 1, 1911, daughter...

Frank P. Salvan

Frank P. Salvan, 88, of Brewer Hill Road, Mill River, died yesterday at Providence Care Center in Lenox. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Jan. 12, 1914, son of Peter and Maria DellaPorta Salvan, he was...

Clinton J. Frissell

Clinton J. Frissell, 90, of 40 Bingham St. died yesterday at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Hinsdale on Aug. 18, 1911, son of Thomas A. and Grace Jordan Frissell, he attended schools there and...

Arthur O. Teichert

Arthur Otto Teichert, 89, of 1065 Massachusetts Ave. died yesterday at home. Born in North Adams on Nov. 4, 1912, son of Otto and Emma Schantenz Teichert, he was a graduate of Drury High...