Obituaries

Rev. Ronald Lussier

The Rev. Ronald P. Lussier, 74, pastor of St. George Church in the Chicopee Falls section of Chicopee, died Monday. He was a former pastor of Holy Family Church in North Adams. Born in Chicopee on...

Paul Rapkowicz

Paul H. Rapkowicz, 75, of 125 Euclid Ave. died Monday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 2, 1926, son of Harry and Rose Sidak Rapkowicz, he attended local schools...

Jean Rufo

Jean Rufo, 71, of Agawam, formerly of Pittsfield, died Thursday at home. Born Jan. 21, 1931, in Pittsfield, daughter of Leon and Anna Tarantino Dragone, she was a 1948 graduate of Pittsfield High...

Edward J. Bishop

Edward J. Bishop, 77, of Bourg, La., a native of Hinsdale, died July 31. Born on Feb. 13, 1925, son of Thomas and Clara Briggs Bishop, he attended local schools. An Army veteran of World War...

Rosa P. Maurer

Rosa P. Maurer, 84, of 59 Circular Ave. died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on March 17, 1918, daughter of Antonio and Virginia Curcio Parisi, she attended local...

James C. Allen

James C. Allen, 70, of 305 Fenn St. died Saturday afternoon at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Adams on Aug. 29, 1931, son of Clifford E. and Mary Louise Lecuyer Allen, he attended local...

William Nacorchuk

William Nacorchuk, 83, of 68B Highview Drive died Friday evening at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on March 29, 1919, son of Anthony and Anastasia Kowchuk Nykorchuk, he was a 1938...

Jeannine A. Macchi, 72

PITTSFIELD, Mass. â€' Jeannine A. Macchi, 72, of 48 Adam St. died Saturday, Aug. 10, 2002, at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 7, 1929, daughter of Anthony and Roseanna...

Alwina Wood

Alwina Wood, 102, of Providence Care Center, formerly of Northfield and Shelburne Falls, died early Saturday morning at the nursing facility. She was the mother of Helen McCarthy of Lenox. Born in...

Nicholas Mounsey

Nicholas David Mounsey, 18, of Castle Rock, Colo., formerly of Hazelwood Terrace, Pittsfield, died July 27 in Englewood, Colo., in a rock-climbing accident. Born in North Charleston, S.C., on...

Mary I. Tobin

Mary I. Tobin, 87, of 209 Housatonic St., Lenox, a former resident of 92 Seymour St., died yesterday morning at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 27, 1914,...

Marie Lafayette

Marie "Marion" Lafayette, 84, of Burlington, Vt., died Saturday at the Starr Farm Nursing Care Center in Burlington. She had suffered a stroke in January 2001 from which she never fully recovered....

John C. Prenguber, 77

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — John C. Prenguber, 77, of 62 Sadler Ave. died Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2002, at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility, where he had been admitted July 25. Born in North Adams on...

Allison M. Kittler

Alison M. Kittler, 76, of 77 Partridge Road died Monday at Craneville Place in Dalton. Born in Deolali, India, on Jan. 12, 1926, daughter of Arthur and Alison McMorran Jones, she moved to Scotland...

Robert P. Fyler

Robert P. Fyler, 76, of Brea, Calif., a former Pittsfield resident, died July 12 at home of lung cancer. Born in New Haven, Conn., on July 21, 1925, son of Lane K. and Elsie Parmalee Fyler, he...

Ruth E. Salvini

Ruth E. Salvini, 95, formerly of School Street, Chester, died Thursday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility. Born in Chester on June 10, 1907, daughter of Eugene J. and Edna Soule Besancon,...

Kevin J. Brennan

Kevin James Brennan, 53, of 192 Holmes Road died yesterday morning at home of cancer. Born in Troy, N.Y., on Nov. 28, 1948, son of James F. and Thelma Cunningham Brennan, he graduated from State...

Georgiana Spellios

Georgiana Spellios, 80, of 654 Dalton Division Road died Thursday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided since March. Born in Greenfield on Aug. 27, 1921, daughter of Thomas and Penelope...

John F. Bacon

John Francis Bacon, 77, of 75 Wendell Ave. died yesterday morning at home. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 11, 1924, son of Francis Bacon Sr. and Julia Nelligan Bacon, he was a 1943 graduate of...

David R. Whitman

David Richard Whitman, 68, of 108 Bryant St. died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center after a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 25, 1934, son of Charles and Olive Snell Whitman, he was a...

Ronald Lapin

Ronald Lapin, 70, of 7754 Glendevon Lane, Delray Beach, Fla., died Tuesday of heart failure at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. He was a summer resident of Richmond since 1985. Born in...

Paul S. Campbell

Paul S. Campbell, 86, of 22 County Road died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. He moved to Hinsdale in 1991. Born in Cambridge on Aug. 18, 1915, son of Walter M. and Esther O'Neil...

Cortland Heath Jr.

Cortland Floyde Heath Jr., 60, of 17 Middleton Road, New Durham, N.H., died Sunday at Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.H., of heart disease. Born May 14, 1942, in Pittsfield, son of the...

Trude Dominguez

Trude Dominguez, 74, of 162 Tower Road died Sunday at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. Born in Altena, Germany, on Sept. 24, 1927, daughter of Karl Hugo and Elfriede...

Joseph Lysonski

Joseph C. Lysonski, 85, of 15 Weller Ave. died Sunday of a heart attack. Born in Pittsfield on May 10, 1917, son of Charles and Mary Dubiski Lysonski, he was a 1935 graduate of Pittsfield High...