Obituaries

Romana Spazioso

Romana Spazioso, 93, formerly of Highview Drive, Colonial Gardens, and a longtime resident of 63 Reuter Ave., died Thursday at Palms Rehabilitation Center in Palm Bay, Fla., where she had resided for...

Theresa E. McCluskey

Theresa E. McCluskey, 89, formerly of Wahconah Heights, died Friday evening at Springside of Pittsfield Health Care Facility, where she had resided for 1 1/2 years. Born in Housatonic on March...

Florence Teresa Lee

Florence Teresa Lee, 81, formerly of 31 Bradford St., died Dec. 17 at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided since June 2002. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. LeGrys, she was a...

Dannie Wright, 62

DALTON, Mass. — Dannie Wright, 62, of 255 Grange Hall Road died Thursday, Dec. 25, 2003, at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Herrin, Ill., on May 16, 1941, son of Hermon F....

Robert W. "Bud" Tucker

Robert W. "Bud" Tucker, 90, of 176 Columbus Ave., Berkshiretown, died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on April 4, 1913, son of Raymond L. and Anna Condron Tucker, he...

Ruth E. Thompson Sondrini

Ruth E. Thompson Sondrini, 71, of 126 Winesap Road died Wednesday at home. Born in Pittsfield on July 14, 1932, daughter of Charles and Ethel Murray Thompson, she was educated in local schools...

Madeline P. Wesley Nonken

Madeline P. Wesley Nonken, 93, died Wednesday at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center. Born in Pittsfield on April 19, 1910, daughter of Matthew H. and Etta May Akers Powell, she was a 1928 graduate...

Trude R. Geismar

Trude R. Geismar, 96, a resident of Kimball Farms Retirement Community at 235 Walker St. for eight years, died Thursday at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. Born in Bretten, Germany, on Sept. 19,...

Cherilyn C. Branton

Cherilyn C. Branton, 50, of 225 Linden St. died at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worester on Wednesday. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 12, 1953, daughter of Ernest M. and...

Richard David Vallin

Richard David Vallin, 76, of 404 Bay Hill Court, New Bern, N.C., formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday at home. Born in Pittsfield on April 3, 1927, son of Daniel and Dora Halperin Vallin, he was a...

Warren Wayne Root

Warren Wayne Root, 75, of Normandie Ridge retirement community, York, Pa., died Monday evening at home. Born in Pittsfield on April 14, 1928, son of Wilfred H. and Elsie I. Shepherd Root, he was...

Ethel Mae Racicot

Ethel Mae Racicot, 71, of 68 Daniels Ave. died yesterday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 6, 1932, daughter of Loyd and Philominia Roberts Banister, she attended...

Debra Windon Luckey

Debra Windon Luckey, 47, of 38 Euclid Ave. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Saginaw, Mich., on June 27, 1956, daughter of Louis and Julia Wilder Steward of Aliceville, Ala., she...

Sgt. Glenn Richard Allison

Sgt. Glenn Richard Allison, 24, formerly of 60 Edward Ave., died Thursday in Baghdad, Iraq, after being stricken during a military drill. Born in Boston on Sept. 12, 1979, son of Kenneth Beatty...

George E. Kingsley

George E. Kingsley, 72, of 730 East Road died yesterday at home. Born in Pittsfield on May 16, 1931, son of George H. and Elizabeth Allen Kingsley, he was a 1949 graduate of Pittsfield High...

Elizabeth Jean Kanerva

Elizabeth Jean Kanerva, 60, of Morgan Street died Saturday evening at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield after a brief illness. Born in Plattsburgh, N.Y., on March 20, 1943, daughter of...

Ruth Case

Ruth Case, 86, of 57 Donna Ave. died Sunday at home. Born in Pittsfield on May 26, 1917, daughter of William and Harriet Sanford Turner, she was a graduate of the former Dalton High School....

Baby girl Olivia Rose Virgilio

Baby girl Olivia Rose Virgilio, seven days old, of 8 Lake St. died Monday at Bay State Medical Center in Springfield. Born Dec. 8, 2003, she was the daughter of JoAnne L. Virgilio and Raymond V....

Craig Seagrave Kelly

Craig Seagrave Kelly, 56, of 5 Ascot Ridge Court, Irmo, S.C., formerly of Dalton, died Friday at Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia, S.C., after a brief illness. Born in Pittsfield on...

The Rev. Eugene C. Archey

The Rev. Eugene C. Archey, 89, a retired Roman Catholic priest, formerly of 54 Dickinson Ave., died Saturday at Providence Care Center of Lenox, where he had resided since June 23, 2000. Born in...

Paul Armand Lauzon

Paul Armand Lauzon, 78, of Pollock Avenue died Wednesday at home, following a brief illness. Born in Lynn on Oct. 13, 1925, youngest of 11 children of Alfred and Arthemise Lauzon, who emigrated...

Beatrice J. "Shannie" Haswell

Beatrice J. "Shannie" Haswell, 78, of 88 Greenrich St. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Minneapolis, on Jan. 6, 1925, daughter of David L. and Pauline Krob Shane, shewas a 1943...

Olga B. Gleason

Olga B. Gleason, 94, formerly of Rose Manor, died Tuesday at Springside of Pittsfield, where she had resided for the past two months. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 13, 1909, daughter of Gustav and...

Gladys Dana

Gladys Dana, 82, of Main Street, Marion, and Lenox died Tuesday at Tobey Hospital in Wareham. Born in Fitchburg on Oct. 13, 1921, daughter of Samuel E.M. and Gladys Thomas Crocker, she attended...

Mae June Adams

Mae June Adams, 89, of 727 Old Windsor Road died yesterday morning at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on June 3, 1914, daughter of Vernon and Nora Alice Bird Rose, she...