Obituaries

Pilune BozBeckian

Pilune BozBeckian, 90, of 74 Welland Road, Springfield, and Lenox, died Saturday at the home of her daughter, Deborah Raptopoulos of Brookline. Born in Hartford, Conn., on April 2, 1911, daughter...

Elizabeth Polk

Elizabeth Polk, 99, of New York City, a summer resident of Peru for the past 20 years, died Oct. 29 at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan, N.Y. Born in Vienna, Austria, on March 23, 1902, daughter...

Charles D. Skilton

Charles David Skilton, 80, of 24 Mystic St. died yesterday at home. Born in Priest River, Idaho, on Nov. 7, 1920, son of Joseph R. and Lillian Herley Skilton, he attended New York City schools. He...

Joseph D. Hashim Sr.

Joseph D. Hashim Sr., 96, of 139 West Housatonic St., owner and operator of Hashim's Market from 1929 to 1970 at the same address, died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. He also was co-owner of...

David C. Wood Sr.

David C. Wood Sr., 53, of 28 Oak St., formerly of 14 Glassworks Road, Berkshire, died Saturday morning at Farren Care Center in Greenfield, where he had resided for five years. Born in Lanesboro...

Harry E. Morgan

Harry E. Morgan, 83, of 5270 Riverdale Court, Pleasanton, Calif., a native of Hinsdale, died Saturday at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Walnut Creek, Calif. Born Aug. 2, 1918, son of William and...

Francis L. Harris

Francis Leslie Harris, 85, of 22 Holmes Road died yesterday morning at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility, where he had resided for six weeks. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 14, 1916, son of...

Elizabeth Burns

Elizabeth Theresa Burns, 73, of Hemet, Calif., formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday at Ramona Manor in Hemet. Born in Pittsfield on March 4, 1928, daughter of William P. and Lillian Ann Blowe...

Cody Joseph Russell

Cody Joseph Russell, infant son of Geoffrey M. and Stephanie Kuster Russell of 240 Parliament Circle, Topsham, Maine, died at birth Saturday at Maine Medical Center in Portland. He was the grandson...

Rosemary Testa

Rosemary Theresa Testa, 79, of 75 Curtis Terrace died Monday at home. Born in Great Barrington on June 24, 1922, daughter of Michael J. and Anna Hartnett McHugh, she graduated from Pittsfield High...

Robert C. Dunn

Robert C. Dunn, 81, of Port Orange, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died Sunday at home. Born in Norwalk, Conn., on Oct. 31, 1919, he was the son of Albert L. and Clarissa B. Reardon Dunn. He had...

Pauline E. Parker

Pauline E. Parker, 85, of 239 Lenox Ave. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Adams on Sept. 23, 1916, daughter of Frank and Veronica Sadowski Gritz, she moved to Pittsfield as a child...

Mary A. Thebodo

Mary A. Thebodo, 97, formerly of Rose Manor Apartments, Apt. 1B, 195 Elberon Ave., died Monday at Hillcrest Commons. Born in Pittsfield on May 21, 1904, daughter of Jeremiah and Margaret Meehan...

Joseph P. Amerio

Joseph Peter Amerio, 81, of 271 Barker Road died Sunday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 25, 1920, son of Peter M. and Lena Airoldi Amerio, he graduated from St. Joseph's High School and was a...

Frank F. Connelly

Frank F. Connelly, 59, of 479 Elm St. died Monday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 19, 1942, son of Arthur and Marion Ford Connelly, he was a 1962 graduate of St. Joseph's High School. He...

Doris J. St. Pierre

Doris J. St. Pierre, 80, of 71 Paine St., Worcester, and the Knollwood Nursing Center in Worcester, died Sunday in St. Vincent Hospital at the Worcester Medical Center. She was the mother of Donald...

Catherine Kenyon

Catherine T. "Kati" Kenyon, 82, of Englewood, Fla., a native of Pittsfield, died Saturday at Bon Secours/Venice Hospital in Venice, Fla. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 24, 1919, she was the daughter...

Mary A. Walsh

Mary A. "Molly" Walsh, 93, formerly of 40 Hamlin St., died Sunday morning at Providence Care Facility in Lenox, where she had been a patient for three weeks. Born in Pittsfield on June 24, 1908,...

John Dudley

John "Jack" Dudley, 75, of Stuart, Fla., a native of Lenox, died Tuesday at home. Born in Lenox on Dec. 17, 1925, son of John R. and Marie Mahoney Dudley, he graduated magna cum laude in 1950 from...

Joan M. Henwood

Joan M. Henwood, 71, of 6 Main St. died Wednesday at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center. Born in New York City on April 2, 1930, daughter of Thomas and Jane Spenser Brown, she was a 1948 graduate...

David Zwerner

David Zwerner, 79, of 278 Appleton Ave. and St. Petersburg, Fla., died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Tarrytown, N.Y., on July 7, 1922, son of Aaron and Lotte Zwerner, he was...

Bruno A. Galvagni

Bruno A. Galvagni, 79, of 75 Newell St. died yesterday at Hillcrest Commons, where he had resided since Feb. 25, 1997. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 11, 1922, son of Giovanni and Rosa Galvagni...

Joseph Baldessarini

Joseph "Joe" Louis Baldessarini, 84, of 20 Dorchester Ave. died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center after a long illness. Born in North Adams on June 23, 1917, son of John and Catherine Fachini...

Elvira A. Spagnola

Elvira Ann Spagnola, 81, of Champagne Circle, Orlando, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died Monday at Orlando Regional Medical Center. Born in Farnums on June 24, 1920, daughter of Peter and...

Agnes E. Wentzell

Agnes E. Higgins Wentzell, 91, of 265 Main St., formerly of Truro, Nova Scotia, died yesterday morning at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Truro on April 23, 1910, daughter of Thomas H.L. and...