Obituaries

Arthur E. Peltosalo

Arthur Everitt Peltosalo, 80, of Gibson Island, Md., a former resident of Pittsfield, died Friday at home after a lengthy battle with prostate cancer. He was a former GE vice president and head of...

Julia M. Kolano

Julia M. Kolano, 88, of Davis Street, Ludlow, died Saturday at HealthSouth Hospital in Ludlow. She was the mother of Patricia E. Brien of Pittsfield. Born in Wilbraham on Nov. 1, 1913, she was the...

Eleanor M. Bryan

Eleanor M. Bryan, 93, of 52 Wahconah Heights died Saturday afternoon at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Middlefield on Oct. 14, 1908, daughter of George W. and Mary Agnes Cody Bryan, she...

Lina Elizabeth Drake

Lina Elizabeth Nason Drake, 83, of Columbia Arms, 65 Columbus Ave., died yesterday at home. Born in Dover, N.Y., on Sept. 5, 1918, daughter of Harry and Blanche Hufcut Winship, she graduated from...

Kenneth L. Hart

Kenneth L. Hart, 43, of Dalton Avenue died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center following a long illness. Born in Great Barrington on Jan. 29, 1959, son of Edith Pixley Hart of Pittsfield and the...

David R. Rehbein

David R. Rehbein, 66, of 79 Lakeshore Drive, West Brookfield, formerly of Pittsfield and Lenox, died Wednesday at Mercy Hospital in Springfield. Born in Springfield on Feb. 24, 1936, son of Edwin...

Angelina Carnevale

Angelina Carnevale, 93, of 152 Cole Ave. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Canton, N.Y., on Oct. 8, 1908, daughter of James and Marie Concolina Russo, she attended schools there...

Robert B. Hover

Robert B. Hover, 76, of 8 Lucille St. died Tuesday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 31, 1925, son of Burton A. and Beatrice E. Slighter Hover, he attended local schools. He was a member of...

Norma R. Aldrich

Norma R. Aldrich, 86, of Gloucester died Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Norma Morhead of Lenox. Born in Springfield on Sept. 13, 1915, she was the daughter of Carlo and Maria Tosi...

Charlotte Beaton

Charlotte Hazel Ingram Beaton, 84, of Center Sandwich, N.H., and Sun Lakes, Ariz., a native of Dalton, died April 16 at Desert Samaritan Care Center in Mesa, Ariz. Born in Dalton on Feb. 28, 1918,...

Felicitas Trzepacz

Felicitas "Fay" Trzepacz, 66, of 11 Andes Road died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Hamburg, Germany, on March 3, 1936, daughter of Kate Krohn Ahlff and the late Gerd Ahlff, she...

Theodore Cahill

Theodore J. Cahill Jr., 78, of 14 Howard St. died Sunday at home. Born in Pittsfield on April 7, 1924, son of Theodore J. Cahill Sr. and Nora Greenwood Cahill, he was a 1942 graduate of St....

Edward J. Barscz

Edward J. Barscz, 65, of 21 Highlawn Drive died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on July 21, 1936, son of John and Stella Stark Barscz, he graduated from Pittsfield High...

Dolores Saydlowski

Dolores Stella Saydlowski, 72, of 48 Doreen St. died Thursday evening at home. Born in Northampton on April 22, 1930, daughter of Constanti and Mary Regula Pronowicz, she graduated from...

Leonard Koscielniak

Leonard Koscielniak, 62, of Palm Harbor, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died Tuesday at Countryside Mease Hospital in Safety Harbor, Fla. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 13, 1939, son of Stanley and...

Irene Kelly

Irene Kelly, 100, of Berkshire Retirement Home died there Wednesday evening. She had been a longtime resident of 181 Elm St. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 16, 1901, daughter of William R. and Bridget...

Helen V. Petell

Helen Virginia Petell, 79, of Roanoke, Va., formerly of Lenox, died Wednesday at Lewis Gale Hospital in Roanoke. Born in Lenox on May 13, 1923, daughter of Maurice and Alice Hall Weiss, she...

Natale Cancilla

Natale "Nat" Cancilla, 93, of Alexandria, Va., died May 8 at Mount Vernon Nursing Center in Alexandria. Born Dec. 25, 1908, in Isnello, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, son of Mariano and Angela Mazzola...

Margaret E. Coyne

Margaret Eileen Coyne, 95, formerly of 91 Harvard St. and Melbourne Place died Tuesday afternoon at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on May 12, 1907, daughter of John T. and Margaret...

Elizabeth McGrath

Elizabeth E. McGrath, 82, of 43 Wahconah Heights died Sunday at the Great Barrington Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 24, 1920, daughter of Mortimer and Ora Hotailing...

Daniel F. Brophy

Daniel Francis Brophy, 69, of 67 Oak Street Ext. died Monday at Fairview Commons in Great Barrington, where he had resided since September 1998. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 3, 1932, son of John and...

William Hurt Jr.

William Coates Hurt Jr., 94, of Lenox died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Tuskegee, Ala., on Dec. 27, 1907, son of William C. Hurt Sr. and Vernon Hurt, he attended schools in...

Stella K. Wilk

Stella K. Wilk, 77, of 83 Harvard St. died Monday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 6, 1924, daughter of Lawrence and Mary Zaik Malcik, she was a 1942 graduate of Pittsfield High School. She...

Roy W. Schlegel

Roy W. Schlegel, 74, of 277 Bradford St. died Sunday at Kimball Farms in Lenox. Born in Worcester on Nov. 27, 1927, son of Joseph and Alodia Williams Schlegel, he attended schools there. He...

Georgette LeBeau

Georgette Olive LeBeau, 82, formerly of Longview Avenue, died Friday morning at Hillcrest Commons in Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on March 30, 1920, daughter of George A. and Mary Marcotte...