Obituaries

Melvin Band

Melvin Band, 58, of 290 Luce Road, longtime mathematics professor at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, died Tuesday at North Adams Regional Hospital after being stricken earlier...

Marcel Meunier

Marcel Meunier, 78, of 12080 Southwest Highway 484, Dunnellon, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died Saturday at Sunshine Gardens nursing home in Dunnellon. Born in Burlington, Vt., on March 12,...

Lawrence E. Stannard

Lawrence E. Stannard, 102, formerly of Maple Street in the Risingdale section of Great Barrington, died yesterday at Fairview Commons. Born in Chester on May 9, 1899, son of Ernest and Bertha...

Irma A. Angell

Irma A. Angell, 86, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Patricia A. Barbalunga, in Pittsfield. Born in Mascoutah, Ill., on May 2, 1915, daughter of Arthur and Anna Haas Friederich, she...

Frederick Holzman

Frederick Christian Holzman, 89, of Round Hill Road died yesterday at Fairview Hospital. Born in Good Ground, N.Y., on March 31, 1912, son of Christian Frederick and Edith Hubbard Holzman, he...

Walter F. Juras

Walter F. Juras, 83, of 3 Marshall Ave. died yesterday at Williamstown Commons, where he was admitted in September. Born in Adams on March 11, 1918, son of Peter and Hedwig Cynar Juras, he...

Joan L. Obremski

Joan L. Obremski, 44, of Amesbury, formerly of Hinsdale, died Saturday at Salem Hospital after a long battle with cancer. Born in Hinsdale on Oct. 1, 1956, she was the daughter of Georgette...

Eva S. Morrison

Eva Spadaccini Morrison, 83, of Main Street, formerly of Fairview Terrace, died yesterday at Timberlyn Heights Nursing Home in Great Barrington. Born in Mill River on Nov. 15, 1917, daughter of...

Eileen M. Healey

Eileen M. Healey, 90, of Epoch Assisted Living at Melbourne died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Lee on June 6, 1911, daughter of William H. and Mary McGowen Healey, she moved to...

Eileen M. Forrest

Eileen M. Forrest, 81, of 80 Windsor Ave. died Monday at home. Born in Pittsfield on May 26, 1920, daughter of Patrick E. and Mary Hughes Callaghan, she was a 1938 graduate of Pittsfield High...

Anthony St. Georgio

Anthony St. Georgio, 81, formerly of 909 Main St., died Sunday at Timberlyn Heights Nursing Home. Born in Monteodorisio, Italy, on March 16, 1920, son of Salustiano and Maria DiGiamo St. Georgio,...

Annette M. Doran

Annette Marie Doran, 32, of 316 North St. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Middletown, Conn., on April 16, 1969, daughter of Wallace Doran and Marguerite Greenberg Doran Tackett,...

Sophie L. Ziter

Sophie L. Ziter, 88, of 33 Washington St., Brattleboro, Vt.., a former Pittsfield resident, died Sunday evening at Thompson House Nursing Home in Brattleboro. Born in Barre, Vt., on Sept. 15,...

Natalie J. Bierwith

Natalie J. Bierwith, 99, of 600 East New Lenox Road died Sunday at Hillcrest Commons. Born in Stratford, Conn., on Oct. 11, 1901, daughter of John and Clara Goodwing Wells, she was a graduate of...

Mary de Beaumont

Mary Deland Kelley de Beaumont, 87, of Manchester, formerly of Richmond, died Friday at Beverly Hospital. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 16, 1913, daughter of Loring G. and Josephine Colwell Robbins,...

Louise M. Crane

Louise M. Crane, 83, of 83 Curtis Ave. died Friday at Curtis Manor Rest Home in Dalton. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 25, 1918, daughter of Earl and Marie Blain Crane, she had been disabled all her...

James A. Viele

James A. Viele, 91, formerly of 25 Putnam Ave., died Sunday at North Adams Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, where he was admitted May 7. Born in Lexington, Ky., on Jan. 6, 1910, adopted...

Helen L. Sharkey

Helen L. Sharkey, 81, of 67 Sea St., Hyannis, formerly of Pittsfield, died yesterday at Pavilion Rehabilitation Nursing Care Center in Hyannis. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 11, 1919, daughter of...

Christine Palmer

Christine V. Palmer, 76, of 60 East Silver St., Westfield, formerly of Pittsfield, died Friday at the Center for Optimum Care in Westfield. Born in Rochester, N.Y., on April 23, 1925, daughter of...

Christine G. Busse

Christine G. Busse, 92, of Quiet Knoll Road died Sunday at Laurel Lake Health and Rehabilitation Center in Lee. Born in Essen, Germany, on Jan. 16, 1909, daughter of Ludger and Dorothea Plankert...

Viola Mary (Capella) Richardello

Viola Mary (Capella) Richardello, 87, formerly of 186 Shadowland Cove, Cheshire, MA died Thursday June 14, 2001 at the North Adams Commons, 175 Franklin Street North Adams, MA. She had resided there...

Pauline E. Flowers

Pauline E. Flowers, 85, formerly of 169 Kittredge Road and Curtis Manor, died Friday at Craneville Place. Born in Dubois, Pa., on Dec. 17, 1915, daughter of John and Josephine Zelinski Urbanowicz,...

M. Connie Iorio

M. Connie Iorio, 74, of Providence Court died Saturday evening at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided for 2 1/2 years. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 15, 1927, daughter of Nicholas and Carmella...

Elizabeth Kordek

Elizabeth Rose Kordek, 87, of 19 1/2 Spring Street Extension died Saturday at North Adams Regional Hospital shortly after being admitted. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 11, 1913, daughter of Frank...

Joseph DeAngelus

Joseph A. DeAngelus, 55, of 28 Beverly St. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on May 12, 1946, son of Eugenia Costello DeAngelus and the late Angelo F. DeAngelus, he...