Obituaries

Phyllis Spadafora

Phyllis L. Spadafora, 84, of 420 Monroe Ave., Cape Canaveral, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, died March 6 at home. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 17, 1917, she was the daughter of Biago and Carmella...

Josephine Nigrelli

Josephine Rose Nigrelli, 95, of 16 Marcella Ave. died Wednesday evening at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on May 23, 1905, daughter of Santo and Josephine Spadaro Nigrelli, she...

Barbara Lee

Barbara Lee, 59, of Boston, died Wednesday of ovarian cancer. She was the daughter of Ruth Lee of Pittsfield. Born in St. Paul, Minn., on July 19, 1941, daughter of Ruth Lee and the late Raymond...

Rose Nero

Rose Nero, 93, of Hudson, N.Y., recently of Barnwell Nursing Home in Valatie, N.Y., died yesterday at Barnwell Nursing Home. She was the mother of Katherine Jane Torchia of Pittsfield. Born in...

Dorothy H. Vose

Dorothy Helen Vose, 95, a resident of the Issaquah Care Center, Issaquah, Wash., formerly of Pittsfield, Dalton and Windsor, died Monday at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, Wash. Born in Walpole on...

Bessie E. Pupo

Bessie E. Pupo, 90, of Underhill Place died March 7 at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on June 25, 1910, daughter of Henry C. and Martha S. Langer Stache, she attended local...

Alfonso Barbarotta

Alfonso F. Barbarotta, 79, of 14 Parker St. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on July 2, 1921, son of Guiseppe F. and Maria Ferrente Barbarotta, he attended local...

George Passenant

George F. Passenant, 86, of 96 B Depot St. died Monday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility in Pittsfield. Born in Astoria, N.Y., on July 7, 1914, son of Louis and Minnie Weiss Passenant, he...

Carl W. Reed

Carl William Reed, 63, of 1 Alice Drive died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 25, 1937, son of Emily White Reed Adams and the late Carlos D. Reed, he had resided in...

Mary R. Best

Mary R. Best, 88, formerly of 600 Main St. died yesterday morning at Springside of Pittsfield, where she had resided for 3 1/2 years. Born in Berkshire on March 3, 1913, daughter of Frank H. and...

Joan Estabrook

Joan Estabrook, 70, of 41 Glory Drive died March 5 at Hoag Memorial Hospital in Newport Beach, Calif., after complications from cardiac arrest. Born in Los Angeles on April 7, 1930, daughter of...

Sanford Bookless

Sanford Bookless, 84, formerly of Epoch Assisted Living at Melbourne and 267 Linden St., died Tuesday at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Facility in Lenox. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 10, 1916, son of...

Ruth M. McMurtry

Ruth M. McMurtry, 85, of 63 Toronita Ave. died Monday at Hillcrest Commons Nursing Home. Born in Grandville Ferry, Nova Scotia, on Jan. 31, 1916, daughter of George I. and Hattie Mae Robblee...

MaryAnn Phillips

MaryAnn L. Phillips, 62, of 1094 Boiling Springs Road, Spartanburg, S.C., formerly of Pittsfield, died Tuesday at home after a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 19, 1939, daughter of the...

Marion Louise Coan

Marion Louise Coan, 91, of Devonshire Estates, formerly of 27 Pomeroy Ave., Pittsfield, died Wednesday at Sisters of Providence Care Center in Lenox. Born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, on June 14,...

Louise DeGesero

Louise M. DeGesero, 77, of 60 Cheshire Road died Wednesday evening at home. Born in Schenectady, N.Y., on Jan. 23, 1924, daughter of Thomas J. and Margaret Coughlin Charles, she attended schools...

Charlesetta Carpenter

Charlesetta Delia Carpenter, 93, of Garfield Road died yesterday at Springside of Pittsfield, Mass., where she had resided since December. Born in Schodack Landing on Dec. 12, 1907, daughter of...

Mary P. Plankey

Mary P. Plankey, 65, of 25 Westchester Ave. died Monday at home. Born in Stockbridge on Sept. 15, 1935, daughter of the late Louie and Erma Drumm Nicholas, she attended local schools, including...

Karen Brown

Karen Lee Brown, 51, of 10 Union St. died Thursday at home. Born in Newton on May 3, 1949, daughter of the late Horace E. and Norma Kingsbury Dort, she was a graduate of Wellsley High School and...

Sammy Kennedy

Sammy Kennedy, 74, of 166 Chapel St. died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Camden, Ala., on April 15, 1926, son of Sam and Ruth Cannon Kennedy, he attended Alabama schools and had...

Leonard I. Boivin

Leonard I. Boivin, 73, of 74 Maplewood Ave. died Tuesday at home. Born in Pittsfield on March 22, 1927, son of Isadore and Rose Lassor Boivin, he was a 1944 graduate of Pittsfield High...

Florence Pizzuto

Florence M. Pizzuto, 83, of 351 West St. died yesterday at home. Born in Waterbury, Conn., on Nov. 14, 1917, daughter of Peter and Mary Marino Moffie, she moved to Pittsfield as a child and...

Evelyn J. Williams

Evelyn J. Williams, 81, of 360 West Housatonic St. died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 5, 1919, daughter of Samuel and Edna Springstead Williams, she attended...

Roma L. Grace

Roma L. Grace, 88, formerly of 34 Plunkett St., died Monday at Providence Care Center in Lenox, where she had been a patient since last year. Born in Adams on Oct. 16, 1912, daughter of Zenophille...

Robert L. Nolan

Robert L. Nolan, 69, of 152 Linden St. died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in New Haven, Conn., on Dec. 5, 1931, son of the late Claude and Edith Hamilton Nolan, he moved to Pittsfield...