Obituaries

I. Freeda Simon

I. Freeda Simon, 84, of 174 Benedict Road died Wednesday evening at home following a short illness. She had lived in Pittsfield since 1938. Born in North Adams on Sept. 6, 1919, daughter of...

Genevieve Quinn

Genevieve Quinn, 80, of Housatonic Street died yesterday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Harbor Main, Newfoundland, on Dec. 6, 1923, the daughter of Thomas P. and Camilla Sullivan...

Raymond Stanley Chojnowski

Raymond Stanley Chojnowski, 75, of 204 Linden St. died Monday evening at home. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 23, 1929, son of Anthony and Mary Zarzucka Chojnowski, he was a 1947 graduate of...

Joseph J. Barry Jr

Joseph J. Barry Jr., 82, of 44 Dan Ave. died Monday at Hillcrest Commons after a short illness. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 23, 1921, son of Joseph J. Barry Sr. and Anna Ryan Barry, he was a 1940...

Nancy E. Pelkey

Nancy E. Pelkey, 71, formerly of 31 Pomeroy Ave., died yesterday at Craneville Place, where she had resided since Jan. 26, 2001. Born in Mallory, N.Y., on Sept. 5, 1932, daughter of Raymond and...

Eleanor Page

Eleanor Page, 98, of Berkshire Place died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 21, 1905, daughter of Joseph and Mabel Brockway Ressler, she was a 1923 graduate of...

Aileen Marie McPhillips

Aileen Marie McPhillips, 88, of Melbourne Place retirement community died Sunday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pawtucket, R.I., on Nov. 17, 1915, daughter of Dr. James F. McGinn...

Grace Arthur

Grace Arthur, 105, died Sunday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided for five years. Born in Pittsfield on July 21, 1898, daughter of Leander and Paulina Budlong Hall, she was a 1917...

Donald Eugene Wilker

Donald Eugene Wilker, 93, formerly a longtime resident of 39 Forest Place and later of Rose Manor, died Thursday at Hillcrest Commons, where he had been a resident since January. Born in...

Kathleen E. Daoust

Kathleen E. Daoust, 61, of 76 Winnicut Road, North Hampton, N.H., died yesterday at her home after a lengthy illness. She is the daughter of Evelyn D. Maces of Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield...

Harold Jacob Linker Jr

Harold Jacob Linker Jr., 73, of 1029 South St. died Friday evening at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield after a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 28, 1930, son of Harold J. Linker Sr....

Hugh Daniel Gardner

Hugh Daniel Gardner, 73, of Harding Street, Milford, formerly of Lenox, died Friday morning at the Geriatric Authority in Milford. Born in Cambridge on Jan. 27, 1931, son of John E. and Mary E....

Paul E. Hebert

Paul E. Hebert, 86, of 330 Kirchner Road died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in St. John, Quebec, Canada, on April 9, 1918, son of Wilfred and Bernadette Laurin Hebert,...

Rocco DiNicola

Rocco DiNicola, 53, of 8 Spring St. died yesterday at home. Born in Sambuceto, province of Chieti, Abruzzi, Italy, on Oct. 11, 1950, son of Marianna Spelorzi DiNicola of Sambuceto and the late...

Donna Ruth Spitzer

Donna Ruth Spitzer, 53, of 103 Lincoln St. died Wednesday evening at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 25, 1951, daughter of Mary Monroe Rider Brasie of Pittsfield and the late...

Rose Mary Tristany Condron

Rose Mary Tristany Condron, 94, of 169 Valentine Road died Monday evening at Hillcrest Commons. Born in Pennsylvania on April 28, 1910, daughter of Dominic and Katherine Melfi Gigliotti, she came...

Jeanette G. Tallman

Jeanette G. Tallman, 86, of 101 Orlando Ave. died Thursday at home. Born in Pittsfield on March 2, 1918, daughter of Philip and Natalie Rimbold Gelinas, she was a 1936 graduate of the former...

Edwina McNeil Scribner

Edwina McNeil Scribner, 74, of 40 Edward Ave. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Bridgeport, Conn., on Feb. 23, 1930, daughter of Edward A. Dush Sr. and Gladys Controy Dush, she...

Stephen P. Mozden Sr

Stephen P. Mozden Sr., 88, of 23 Baldwin Ave. died yesterday at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center. He had spent summers at the Shorelands in Becket since 1955. Born in Woronoco on May 8, 1915, son...

Mary E. Thompson

Mary E. Thompson, 76, of 577 Elm St. died early yesterday morning at Providence Care Center in Lenox. Born in Newton on Feb. 25, 1928, daughter of Henry and Mary Melanson Herlihy, she was a...

Kathrine M. O'Brien

Kathrine M. O'Brien, 89, of 379 East St. died Friday afternoon at Hillcrest Commons. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 18, 1914, daughter of Patrick and Alice Kelly Londergan, she was a 1932 graduate of...

Caroline E. Morse

Caroline E. Morse, 84, of Springfield died yesterday at Riverdale Gardens Nursing Home in West Springfield. She was the mother of Charles Morse of Richmond. Born in Holyoke on April 21, 1920,...

Elizabeth A. Houghtling

Elizabeth A. Houghtling, 92, died Friday at Craneville Place. Born in New Lebanon, N.Y., on Aug. 25, 1911, daughter of Alexander H. and Gracia A. Hassan Williams, she was educated there. She...

Yvette L. Faucher

Yvette L. Faucher, 94, a former longtime resident of Pittsfield, died Thursday at Marist Hill Nursing Center in Waltham after a long illness. Born in Berlin, N.H., on Aug. 6, 1909, she was the...

Emile Julien Deuss

Emile Julien Deuss, 85, of 5 Wallace Place died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Charleroi, Belgium, on July 7, 1918, son of Leon and Coralie Dumery Deuss, he was educated there and...