Obituaries

Alan E. Whitaker

Alan E. Whitaker, 59, of 25 Elm St. died Wednesday evening at home. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 17, 1942, son of Roy C. and Marie Dodge Whitaker, he attended Dalton schools. Mr. Whitaker was...

William S. Knight

William S. Knight, 88, of St. Augustine, Fla., formerly of Sheffield Street, died Dec. 27, 2001, at home. Born in Great Barrington on Dec. 5, 1913, son of Clark H. and Estella Drum Knight, he...

Viola E. Gore

Viola E. Gore, 81, of Cherry Street died Tuesday at home. Born in Estelline, South Dakota, on July 10, 1920, daughter of Matthew and Ida Josephine Kangas Seppanen, she attended schools...

Lillian M. Talbot

Lillian M. Talbot, 88, of 1000 North St., formerly of 43 Cummings Ave., died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Binghamton, N.Y., on April 22, 1913, daughter of Homer and Florence Pond...

John G. Phillips

John G. Phillips, 82, of 64 East St. died Tuesday at the home of his daughter, Carol Darby in Peru. Born in Dalton on Feb. 25, 1919, son of John H. and Margaret M. Weinhofer Phillips, he graduated...

Edith Leavenworth

Edith I. Leavenworth, 97, of 32 McAllister St. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Riders Mill, N.Y., on June 10, 1904, daughter of John and Mame Holbert Holt, she attended local...

Anna Polchlopek

Anna E. Polchlopek, 89, of 12 Springside Ave. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on April 11, 1912, daughter of Michael and Julia Leskow Horbul, she attended local...

Patricia Driscoll

Patricia H. Driscoll, 68, of 82 Lenox Ave. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on July 10, 1933, daughter of Wilfred and Mary Ryder Langlois, she attended local schools and...

Joan Schnelle

Joan Schnelle, 86, of Westport, Conn., died Jan. 8 at home. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 22, 1915, daughter of Michael H. and Elizabeth Spaniol Roberts, she graduated from Dean Junior College in...

Evelyn Gaudette

Evelyn Margaret Gaudette, 83, of 41 Patricia Ave. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Easthampton on April 13, 1918, daughter of Neopolitan and Minnie LeClair Provost, she attended...

Louise A. Roche

Louise A. Roche, 83, formerly of 600 Main St., died Sunday at Craneville Place of Dalton, where she had resided since 1998. Born in Smithburg, Md., on Feb. 10, 1918, daughter of John E. and...

Armand Demers

Armand N. Demers, 94, of 22 Cedar Drive, North Stonington, Conn., formerly of 53 Springside Ave., died Sunday at home. Born in Winooski, Vt., on Dec. 25, 1907, son of Olivera and Cora Monet...

Lillian M. Savoy

Lillian M. Savoy, 99, formerly of Wahconah Heights, died yesterday morning at Hillcrest Commons. Born in Bennington, Vt., on Jan. 20, 1902, daughter of John and Mary English Fox, she attended...

Bondi J. Comalli

Bondi John Comalli, 88, of 119 Danforth Ave. died Wednesday evening at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Lee on March 1, 1913, son of Elio and Rosa Assunta Ebioni Comalli, he attended schools...

Joan A. Munger

Joan Agnes Munger, 68, of 170 Windsor Ave. died Friday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had been a patient for the past four years. Born in Pittsfield on April 22, 1933, daughter of William J. and...

Everett Kappenman

Everett A. "Kappy" Kappenman, 79, of 25 Darlene Ave. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born May 1, 1922, in Burlingame, Calif., son of Everett A. and Mary A. Cohen Kappenman, he was a...

Wynne Monterosso

Wynne Arlene Monterosso, 66, of River Run Apartments died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on July 17, 1935, daughter of Edward and Virginia Sweener Brockway, she was a...

Mary A. Pratt

Mary A. Pratt, 83, of 400 Washington Road died Monday at Hillcrest Commons. Born in County Leitrium, Ireland, on Dec. 24, 1918, daughter of John and Levera Gunshunan Slevin, she attended schools...

Louis J. Gilardi

Louis J. Gilardi, 87, of 329 Pittsfield Road, Devonshire Estates, Lenox, and formerly of Elberon Avenue, died Tuesday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility in Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield on...

Ida M. Lusignan

Ida M. Lusignan, 95, of 101 Lebanon Ave. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Salem on April 7, 1906, daughter of Achille and Diane Pradet Gagne, she attended Pittsfield...

Edward J. Stanton

Edward J. Stanton, 88, of Colchester, Conn., formerly of Pittsfield, died Monday in Marlboro, Conn. Born in West Stockbridge on July 20, 1913, son of William and Anna Noonan Stanton, he attended...

Earl W. Pelkey

Earl William Pelkey, 78, of 31 Pomeroy Ave. died Monday at Craneville Place, where he had been a resident for two weeks. He had lived in Dalton since 1966. Born in Dalton on Feb. 9, 1923, son of...

Adelaide Tessier

Adelaide C. "Tottie" Tessier, 90, formerly of Salisbury Estates, died Monday evening at her daughter's home on North Plain Road, Housatonic, following a brief illness. Born in Cohoes, N.Y., on...

Saul Hofstein

Saul Hofstein, 85, of 17 Walden Lane died yesterday morning at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami while on vacation. Born in New York City on Feb. 20, 1916, son of Morris and Rose Schectman Hofstein,...

Judith E. Lyon

Judith E. Lyon, 56, of 51 Leona Drive died yesterday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 26, 1945, daughter of Baptiste and Lucy Bettega Nolli, she attended local schools. She was employed at...