Obituaries

Catherine Lombardi

Catherine Mary Lombardi, 89, formerly of 44 Third St., died yesterday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided for more than a year. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 31, 1912, daughter of Rosario and...

Richard T. Kelly

Richard T. "Dick" Kelly, 59, of Waterbury, Conn., a Pittsfield native, died Monday evening at St. Mary's Hospital in Waterbury. Born in Pittsfield on March 10, 1942, son of John P. "Red" and...

Constance Tompkins

Constance P. Tompkins, 82, of Beckett Road, Bridgewater, Conn., former resident of Pittsfield, died yesterday at Hartford Hospital. She moved to Bridgewater in 1995. Born in Hudson Falls, N.Y., on...

Norman Frederick Hoch

Norman Frederick Hoch, formerly of Osceola Road, Richmond, died peacefully in Oshawa, Ontario, on Sept. 8, 2001, in his 90th year. Beloved husband of the former Laura Foy of Oshawa. Father of Janet...

Ethel Richardson

Ethel Richardson, 78, of 99 Windsor Ave., died Sunday at home of lung cancer. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 30, 1923, daughter of Harry and Norma Winston Kane, she attended New York City schools....

Mildred McCarty

Mildred Waite McCarty of Kimball Farms, who was associated with Girls Incorporated of Pittsfield in various capacities for more than 65 years, died yesterday after a series of illnesses. She was...

Ramona Weeks

Ramona Phipps Weeks, 54, of Pilot Mountain, N.C., died Wednesday at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., of cancer. She was the daughter-in-law of Arthur Weeks of Peru. Born in Lannett,...

Paul E. Williams

Paul E. Williams, 61, of 33 Howe Road died yesterday morning at Hillcrest Commons of cancer. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 29, 1939, son of Francis S. and Emily Breault Williams, he attended local...

Mary E. McGovern

Mary E. McGovern, 84, of 30 Westwood Road died Thursday afternoon at home after a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on April 15, 1917, daughter of Joseph and Catherine Moynihan Sheerin, she was a...

John Lizak

John Lizak, 77, of 16 Dalton Ave. died Wednesday morning at home. Born in East Hartford, Conn., on July 21, 1924, son of George and Frances Skoczylas Lizak, he attended Springfield schools and...

Margaret Wilson

Margaret E. Wilson, 75, of 304 OId Spring Hill Lane, Fuquay-Varina, N.C., formerly of 39 Wahconah Heights, Pittsfield, died Monday at Western Wake Medical Center in Cary, N.C. She moved to North...

Lydia Decker

Lydia Decker, 82, of 25 B West Street died Sunday at home. Born in Great Barrington on Aug. 6, 1919, daughter of Byron and Lydia Kinne Decker, she spent most of her childhood in Housatonic, and...

John Cummings

John W. Cummings, 88, formerly of 370 West St., died yesterday at Fairview Commons in Great Barrington. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 2, 1913, son of John and Emily Walsh Cummings, he attended local...

Frances Lerner

Frances Lerner, 73, of 32 Dodge Ave. died Saturday at Kimball Farms in Lenox after a long battle with cancer. Born in Paterson, N.J., on Nov. 13, 1927, daughter of Louis and Sadie Taback Leblang,...

Evelyn Stucklen

Evelyn M. Stucklen, 80, formerly of Hinsdale, died Friday at home in North Eastham after a long battle with cancer. From 1947 to 1981, she resided in Hinsdale and North Eastham, moving to North...

Charles Schaefer

Charles J. Schaefer, 73, of 6 East Alford St. died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on April 30, 1928, son of Jacob and Catherine Zawasky Schaefer, he attended schools...

Lucille M. Binder

Lucille M. Binder, 68, of 618 Osceola Road died Saturday evening at Wesson Women's Hospital in Springfield. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Nov. 19, 1932, daughter of Solomon and Pearl Moskowitz...

Leona T. Carter

Leona T. Carter, 93, of Riverside Avenue, Rensselaer, N.Y., a former resident of Dalton, died Sunday at St. Peter's Hospital in Albany, N.Y., after a brief illness. Born in Schenectady, N.Y., on...

Laura E. Killeen

Laura E. Killeen, 89, of 28 New Hampshire Ave. died yesterday at home after a brief illness. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 19, 1912, daughter of Charles and Eva Koscher, she was a 1929 graduate of...

Karen Gebauer

Karen Gebauer, 59, of 1450 North St. died of cancer yesterday morning at Laurel Lake Center for Health and Rehabilitation, where she had resided for two months. Born in Bremervorde, Germany, on...

Helen L. Rose

Helen L. "Babe" Rose, 76, of Undermountain Road died yesterday afternoon at Berkshire Medical Center shortly after being stricken with a heart attack. Born in Lenox on Jan. 30, 1925, daughter of...

Roy F. Brown

Roy F. Brown, 88, of Palo Alto, Calif., a former Pittsfield city councilman, died Wednesday in Palo Alto. Born in Arlington on March 11, 1913, son of Solomon and Isabele Benson Brown, he graduated...

Kathleen T. Bell

Kathleen T. Bell, 83, of Bisselville, Hinsdale and East Bradenton, Fla., died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in West Springfield on Oct. 20, 1917, daughter of Francis and Ellen Halladay...

Homer L. Kurjan

Homer "Joe" Lewis Kurjan, 83, of Kimball Farms died Tuesday at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center. He was a former resident of Le Roi Drive in Pittsfield for 36 years. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, on...

Barbara Pickett

Barbara Pickett, 81, of 230 Hubbard Ave. and Northwest Harbor, Deer Island, New Brunswick, Canada, died Monday at home in Lenox. Born in Paris on May 9, 1920, daughter of Kenneth Proctor and Helen...