Obituaries

Anisa M. Abdallah

Anisa Margaret Abdallah, 52, of Marbleton, Ga., formerly of Pittsfield, died Tuesday after a brief illness. Born in Boston on May 27, 1949, daughter of Dorothy Badir Ameen Ali and the late Hajj...

Sheila Lyons

Sheila Lyons, 81, formerly of 242 Appleton Ave., died Tuesday at Berkshire Place. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 15, 1920, daughter of John F. and Margaret I. Leahey Collins, she was a 1937 graduate...

Richard Wallace Sr.

Richard E. Wallace Sr., 75, of Centerville, formerly of Pittsfield, died Jan. 27 at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. Born in Boston on Aug. 3, 1926, son of Richard C. and Anna Kirby Wallace, he...

James B. Hayes

James Bernard Hayes, 78, of 24 Imperial Ave. died Sunday while visiting his daughter, Bernadine Helen Hayes, in Houston. Born in Great Barrington on Feb. 4, 1923, son of William F. and Helen E....

Nancy Jane Moore

Nancy Jane Moore, 77, of 26 Hazelwood Terrace died Monday at home. Born in Burlington, Vt., on July 3, 1924, daughter of Fred W. and Marion R. Besett Ruble, she graduated from Washington Irving...

Eugene M. Russell

Eugene M. Russell, 91, of 36 Lucia Drive died Monday at home. Born in Oswego, Pa., on Oct. 30, 1910, son of Richard J. and Dottie Crittenden Russell, he had resided in Pittsfield most of his life...

Emilia G. Boino

Emilia G. Boino, 94, of 20 Silver St. died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Yvonne DeSanty of 10 Adams St., North Adams. Born in Arcozelo, Portugal, on March 10, 1907, daughter of Joaquim...

Donald D. DeFino

Donald D. DeFino, 66, of 78 Northumberland Road died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 3, 1936, son of Nicholas and Olive Dufraine DeFino, he was a 1955 graduate of...

Wallace Johnson

Wallace M. Johnson, 90, of Baver Drive died Sunday at Springside of Pittsfield, where he had resided for 10 weeks. Born in Woodstock, Ill., on Oct. 24, 1911, son of Alfred E. and Flora Longanecker...

Mildred Bourquard

Mildred Laurin Bourquard, 84, of 12 Reed St., Goffstown, N.H., formerly of 27 Adams St. in Pittsfield, died Sunday at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 28,...

Marion F. Wright

Marion F. Wright, 87, of 169 Valentine Road, formerly of 245 Cheshire Road, died Saturday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in West Lebanon, N.H., on April 14, 1914, daughter of George B....

Joan C. Cheevers

Joan C. Cheevers, 69, of 301 Birch Bluff Drive, Westfield, formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday at Western Massachusetts Hospital in Westfield. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 9, 1932, daughter of the...

Robert McAvoy

Robert W. McAvoy, 59, of Sunrise Village died Saturday morning at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield following an auto accident in which his vehicle hit a tree on Old Dalton Road in Hinsdale. He...

Janet Sugden

Janet Sugden, 68, of Lynchburg, Va., died Wednesday at Lynchburg General Hospital after a five-year battle with cancer. Born in Pittsfield on June 17, 1933, she was the daughter of Dean W. and...

Dario J. DiVirgilio

Dario J. DiVirgilio, 85, formerly of Miami Beach, a native of Florida, died Jan. 18 at Gulf Crest Nursing Home in Hollywood, Fla., where he was admitted Aug. 30, 2000. Born in Pittsfield on Dec....

Roderick Bates Sr.

Roderick L. Bates Sr., Navy retired, 76, of Route 20, Nassau, N.Y., formerly of Dalton, died yesterday at the Stratton Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Albany, N.Y. Born in Dalton on April 17,...

Leona M. Audette

Leona M. Audette, 82, of 145 West Housatonic St. died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on May 19, 1919, daughter of Joseph and Irene Packard Levitre, she was a graduate of...

Helene Whitehead

Helene "Sandy" Whitehead, 76, of 235 Walker St. died yesterday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. She had resided at Kimball Farms for two years. Born in Newton on July 26, 1925, daughter of...

Charles E. Stone

Charles Edward Stone, 76, of Melbourne Place, 140 Melbourne Road, died yesterday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility, where he had resided for two weeks. Born in Pittsfield on March 30, 1925,...

Albert D'Ilio

Albert D'Ilio, 84, of 76 Elaine Drive died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in San Giovanni Teatino, province of Chieti, Italy, on Jan. 10, 1918, son of Livino and Anna DiNicola D'Ilio,...

Patricia Monahan

Patricia M. Monahan, 62, of 463 Crane Ave. died Sunday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on July 30, 1939, daughter of Maurice F. and Elsie Duclos Gero, she moved to North...

Mary M. Palucci

Mary Margaret Palucci, 85, of Rutland, Vt., died Saturday morning at Providence Care Center. Born in Proctor, Vt., on June 16, 1916, daughter of Charles and Mary Kulya Belock, she attended Mount...

Colwyn H. Hurst

Colwyn H. Hurst, 81, of St. Ann's Ave. died Saturday at Curtis Manor in Dalton. Born in Lenox on April 24, 1920, son of Herbert F. and Mary Ann Radley Hurst, he was a 1938 graduate of Lenox High...

Marie Dean

Marie "Connie" Dean, 80, of 14 Brombach St. died yesterday at home. Born in Pittsfield on April 8, 1921, daughter of Joseph and Dolores Lamudge Powers, she was a 1938 graduate of St. Joseph's High...

Lillian M. Evans

Lillian M. Evans, 92, of Craneville Place of Dalton, formerly of Rose Manor, died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. She had resided in Dalton for two years. Born in Bay St. Paul, Quebec, on...