Obituaries

Sherry Ann Bird

Sherry Ann Bird, 59, of 19 Edgemere Road died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center following a brief illness. Born in Shamokin, Pa., on Sept. 16, 1944, daughter of Oscar and Grace Adams Wallick,...

Joan C. Sockey

Joan C. Sockey, 79, of 30 Buel St. died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Newport, R.I., on May 25, 1924, daughter of Harry H. and Mary A. Fitzgerald Gear, she was a 1941 graduate of...

Emil J. Rist

Emil J. Rist, 78, of 237 Wahconah St. died Thursday at home following a long illness. Born in Guilford, Vt., on Dec. 23, 1925, son of Harry and Cassie Williams Rist, he attended schools there and...

Donald R. Dubree

Donald R. Dubree, 70, of 60 Eleanor Road died Friday at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston after a long illness. Born in Overton, Texas, on March 2, 1933, son of Louis C. and Minnie M....

Ronald Joseph Collins

Ronald Joseph Collins, 50, of Flatland Trail, Converse, Texas, a native of Pittsfield, died Wednesday at home after a long illness. Born Feb. 7, 1954, son of Deolinda Alice Ferreira Collins of...

Peter P. Pulasky

Peter P. Pulasky, 63, of 341 West St. died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on March 17, 1940, son of Elizabeth Collins Pulasky Niarchos of Pittsfield and the late Peter G....

Sister Mary L. Carr

Sister Mary L. Carr, also known as Sister Elizabeth Therese, 81, formerly of Pittsfield, died Saturday at Mont Marie Health Care Center in Holyoke, where she had resided for a short time. She...

James Norris Ward

James Norris Ward, 64, of 6 Claremont Road died yesterday morning at his home from leukemia. Born Dec. 15, 1939, in Altoona, Pa., son of James Albert and Mary Edna Norris Ward, he was a 1957...

Charles T. Gibson

Charles T. Gibson, 68, of Milton, N.C., a former resident of Pittsfield, died Feb. 3 in a work-related accident in Danville, Va. Born in Schenectady, N.Y., on Aug. 30, 1935, son of Robert and...

Laverne L. Marier DeFazio

Laverne L. Marier DeFazio, 92, formerly of 65 Cherry St., died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. She had resided at Hillcrest Commons since May 2002 and before that resided at the former Center...

Henry Walter Marcisz

Henry Walter Marcisz, 54, of 19 Grant St., Easthampton, formerly of Pittsfield, died Saturday at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton after an eight-month battle with cancer. Born in...

Herbert John Lewis Jr.

Herbert John Lewis Jr., 76, of 55 High St. died Monday morning at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield after suffering an apparent heart attack. Born in Pittsfield on July 2, 1927, son of...

Constance Winifred Voltoline

Constance Winifred Voltoline, 91, formerly of 39 Day St., died Saturday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided since July 25, 1999. Born in Adams on June 11, 1912, daughter of Richard and...

Joan J. Hansen

Joan J. Hansen, 73, of 12 Concord Parkway died Sunday at home. Born in Chicago on May 10, 1930, daughter of Lottie Swider Janasky of Chicago and the late Walter Janasky, she attended schools...

Edward Wilson Cowan

Edward Wilson Cowan, 77, formerly of Francis Avenue, died Friday morning at Providence Care Center in Lenox. Born in Jackson, Miss., on Dec. 26, 1926, son of Dallas H. and Gladys Wilson Cowan, he...

Raymond L. Bigler

Raymond L. Bigler, 54, of 152 Gray Station Road, Gray, Tenn., died Thursday at home. He lived in Pittsfield from 2002 until early January 2004. Born in Dunkirk, N.Y., on Jan. 25, 1950, son of...

Adelina "Fern" Peixeiro

Adelina "Fern" Peixeiro, 72, of 90 Harvard St. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center after a brief illness. Born in Adams on Jan. 3, 1932, daughter of Henry and Rose Vogel Dansereau, she...

Sharon L. Herlihy

Sharon L. Herlihy, 36, of Hampstead, N.C., formerly of Pittsfield, died Thursday at her parents' home in Fair Haven, N.Y., after a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on April 3, 1967, daughter of...

Thomas David "Chick" Chiaretto

Thomas David "Chick" Chiaretto, 89, of 7 Delaware Ave. and 820 Barnes Blvd., Rockledge, Fla., died Friday morning at Sunnyside Assisted Living Facility in Rockledge. Born in Pittsfield on Feb....

Marilyn Farnsworth

Marilyn Farnsworth, 84, of 8615 Bayshore Road, Palmetto, Fla., a native of Pittsfield, died Friday at Blake Medical Center in Bradenton, Fla. She and her husband, the late Theodore Farnsworth,...

Michael Dennis Donovan

Michael Dennis Donovan, 22, of 67 Baldwin Ave., a junior at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, died at his apartment in Brighton Friday evening after a brief illness. Born in Pittsfield...

James "Jazz" DiCicco

James "Jazz" DiCicco, 75, formerly of 379 East St., Providence Court Apartments, died yesterday at Hillcrest Commons, where he had resided since July. Born in Pittsfield on March 17, 1928, the...

Madelyn F. Pulver Wessman

Madelyn F. Pulver Wessman, 90, of Keene, N.Y., formerly of Pittsfield, died Wednesday at Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake, N.Y. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 28, 1914, daughter of Henry C....

Jean Elizabeth Torres

Jean Elizabeth Torres, 86, of 77 Otis Ave. died Wednesday at Hillcrest Commons in Pittsfield, where she had resided for the past four weeks. Born in Hillburn, N.Y., on May 31, 1917, daughter of...

Corey J.B. Olsen

Corey J.B. Olsen, 100, formerly of 54 Alden Ave., died Wednesday at Hillcrest Commons, where he had resided since July 2002. Born in New York City on May 24, 1903, son of Anton B. and Martha M....