Obituaries

Mary E. Sawyer

Mary Elizabeth Sawyer, 90, of Jerome Drive died Saturday at Williamstown Commons. Born in North Adams on May 17, 1911, daughter of Henry H. and Mary Elizabeth Williams Spencer, she attended St....

Kevin J. Hirt

Kevin J. Hirt, 10, of 33 Brookside Drive died Saturday morning at home after a long battle with neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer he was diagnosed with in 1995. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 24,...

Gladys M. Allard, 78

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Gladys Markland Allard, 78, of 390 Walker St. died Monday, Dec. 10, 2001, at Sweet Brook Care Centers in Williamstown. Born in Westhoughton, England, on July 5, 1923,...

Clara L. Scherer

Clara Legg Scherer, 92, a summer resident of Sheffield since 1941, died yesterday at Equinox Terrace, a residential care center in Manchester, Vt. Born in New York City on April 10, 1909, daughter...

Alphonse Marchand

Alphonse Joseph Marchand, 93, of Kimball Farms Retirement Community, died Friday evening at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center. He had resided at Kimball Farms for four years. He was a former member...

Raymond Dulye Jr.

Raymond J. Dulye Jr., 52, of Rocklin, Calif., son of Ann Vuolo Dulye of Richmond, died Thursday at home after a long illness. Born in Middletown, N.Y., on Aug. 5, 1949, he was also the son the...

Palmira J. Bennett

Palmira J. Bennett, 91, of Hyde Place died Friday at Fairview Commons Nursing Center in Great Barrington, where she had resided since 1994. Born in West Stockbridge on March 20, 1910, daughter of...

Nicola DiNicola

Nicola DiNicola, 98, of 74 Dickinson Ave. died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in San Buceto, province of Chieti, Italy, on June 5, 1903, son of Antonio and Maria DiPalma DiNicola, he...

Marie C. LeBlanc

Marie Catherine "Bella" LeBlanc, 97, of 95 Lakeway Drive and Cap Pele, New Brunswick, died Friday at her home in Pittsfield. Born in New Brunswick on Aug. 6, 1904, daughter of Jeffrey and...

Helen Y. Long

Helen Y. Long, 89, of 235 Walker St., Kimball Farms Retirement Community, died Tuesday at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center. She moved to Kimball Farms in 1989. Born in Pittsburgh on Feb. 8, 1912,...

Francis E. Palmer

Francis E. Palmer, 78, of North Port, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died Nov. 22 at Pinebrook Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Venice, Fla. Born in Lee on June 28, 1923, son of Oren and Minnie...

Emily M. Kulis

Emily M. Kulis, 82, of 119 Memorial Drive died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on April 19, 1919, daughter of Joseph and Concetta Talarico Canino, she attended local...

Camile G. Ford

Camile G. Ford, 98, of Miami Lakes, Fla., died Thursday at Heart Land Health Care Center in Miami Lakes. Her husband, attorney J. Francis Ford, was a former resident of Lee. He died April 3,...

Barbara R. Jones

Barbara R. Jones, 66, of 53 Third St. died yesterday at home. Born in Great Barrington on July 17, 1935, daughter of Alton F. and Georgia Stevens Bennett, she attended Averill Park (N.Y.) High...

Jacob Penziner

Jacob Penziner, 87, of West Road died Tuesday at Willowood Nursing Home. Born in Sandisfield on April 14, 1914, son of Ellis and Rose Penziner, he attended local schools and graduated from the...

Anna Tatsapaugh

Anna Tatsapaugh, 90, of Canaan-Clayton Road died Tuesday at Great Barrington Healthcare and Nursing Center, where she had been a resident since October. Born in Garfield, N.J., on May 7, 1911,...

Anna Lashoones

Anna Belle Lashoones, 83, a former Southern Berkshire County resident, more recently of Marshfield, Vt., died Nov. 21 in Montepelier, Vt. Born in Ashley Falls on Jan. 29, 1918, daughter of Frank...

Winifred Green

Winifred "Winnie" Green, 89, of St. Petersburg, Fla., formerly of Ashuelot Street in Dalton, died Friday in New York City after a short illness. Born in Pittsfield on May 31, 1912, daughter of...

Margaret Spence

Margaret M. Spence, 83, of 247 Springside Ave. died Monday at home. Born in Pittsfield on June 30, 1918, daughter of John and Sarah Murphy Flynn, she attended local schools and was a 1936 graduate...

Margaret M. McDarby

Margaret M. McDarby, 93, of 415 Marble St. died yesterday at Fairview Commons in Great Barrington. Born in Lee on July 4, 1908, daughter of William and Mary Ann McHugo O'Brien, she graduated from...

Ida R. Bedell

Ida R. Bedell, 89, of 89 South St., Berkshire Place, died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Jan. 20, 1912, daughter of Raymond and Florence Rico Suarez, she...

Harold C. Bornak

Harold C. Bornak, 80, of 99 Second St. died Monday at Hillcrest Commons, where he had been a resident since March. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 24, 1920, son of Gustav and Natalie Reiner Bornak, he...

Elizabeth A. Beals

Elizabeth Alexander Beals, 66, of 96 Fourth St. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center after a long battle with cancer. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 14, 1935, daughter of Leon and Elizabeth...

Dr. Frank Archibald

Dr. Frank W. Archibald, 84, of 108 New Lenox Road, a longtime Pittsfield dentist, died Monday at the Providence Care Center of Lenox. Born in Cheshire, son of Dr. Harry N. Archibald and Julia...

Paul Cherney

Paul Cherney, 94, died Monday morning at Kimball Farms in Lenox. Born in Budpest, Hungary, sone of Adele Kohn-Cola and Edward Cserneyei, he grew up in Vienna, where he received his education and...