Obituaries

Robert "Skip" Janes

Robert "Skip" Janes, 33, of 126 Union St. died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center after a short illness. Born in Santa Barbara, Calif., on Sept. 18, 1973, son of Robert and the late Marlene Turner...

Nora Mary Aherne

Nora Mary Aherne, 84, of 379 East St. died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center after a brief illness. Born in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland, on May 20, 1923, daughter of Arthur and Bridget Nolan...

William Albert Mitchell

William Albert Mitchell, 80, of 43 Holmes Road died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 13, 1927, son of George and Louise Mitchell, he attended elementary school in...

Rose M. Serafin

Rose M. Serafin, 78, of 180 Montgomery Ave. Extension died Wednesday at home. Born in Pittsfield on April 8, 1929, daughter of William and Annie Galpin Duclos, she was educated in local...

John Joseph O'Neil Sr.

John Joseph O'Neil Sr., 89, of 43 Bellmore Drive died Sunday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 23, 1918, son of Thomas and Jennie Burns O'Neil, he was a 1935 graduate of St. Joseph's High...

Marjorie M. Campbell

Marjorie M. Campbell, 90, of 274 Eleanor Road died Wednesday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility. She served on the Pittsfield Council on Aging and was a member of the Pittsfield Boys' and...

Donald A. Johnson

Donald A. Johnson, 86, of 326 Dalton Ave. died Tuesday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 5, 1920, son of Alexander E. and Frances Boice Johnson, he was a 1938 graduate of Pittsfield High School...

Mary T. Bailot

Mary T. Bailot, 75, of 175 Lebanon Ave., died Monday at her son's residence on 13 Columbia Terrace, Adams, where she had resided since April. Born in Pittsfield on July 7, 1932, daughter of Philip...

Ellen C. Van De Bogart

Ellen C. Van De Bogart, 100, of 320 Pittsfield Road, died Friday at Providence Care Center of Lenox. Born on Sept. 25, 1906, in North Canaan, Conn., daughter of Harvey and Caroline Hoag Drumm, she...

Joseph F. Koziol

Joseph F. Koziol, 64, of 20 Britton St., died Sunday at Hillcrest Commons. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 21, 1942, son of Julian and Julia Muron Koziol, he attended local schools and was a 1960...

Margaret C. Grogan

Margaret C. Grogan, 82, a longtime resident of Lenox, died Sunday after a brief illness at the home of her daughter, Susan A. Hayes, of Chili-Riga Town Line Road, Churchville, N.Y. Born in New...

Soula D. Diamond

Soula D. Diamond, 83, of 28 Plastics Ave., died Saturday at her home. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 11, 1923, daughter of Dennis G. and Urania T. Gourdouveli Diamond, she was a graduate of Pittsfield...

Catherine B. Carey

Catherine B. Carey, 99, died Friday at Providence Care Center in Lenox. She was the mother of Frances P. Conaghan of Pittsfield. Born in County Roscommon, Ireland on Nov. 9, 1907, daughter of...

Norbert M. Jacoby

Norbert M. Jacoby, 64, of 145 Buckman Road, Rochester, N.Y., died Friday in Wilmington, Vt., while on vacation. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 18, 1943, son of Norbert H. and Beulah Ressler Jacoby, he...

Eleanor M. Beitzel

Eleanor M. Beitzel, 79, of 47 Pine Grove Drive died yesterday at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. Born in Pittsfield on May 24, 1928, daughter of Andrew J. and Mary Ruff Miller, she was a...

Jane S. Bradley

Jane S. Bradley, 88, of 1265 West St. died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 25, 1918, daughter of Hubert C. and Alice Harlow Sykes, she was a 1936 graduate of...

Hubert E. Olsen

Hubert E. Olsen, 95, of 20 Knox Road died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center after a long illness. Born in Daytona Beach, Fla., on Jan. 8, 1912, son of Johan and Hilda Loufquist Olsen, he was a...

Rose M. Stracuzzi

Rose M. Stracuzzi, 85, of 379 East St., Providence Court Apts., died Monday at Springside of Pittsfield. Born in Pittsfield, Jan. 17, 1922, a daughter of Giuseppe and Giovanna Gentile Frangipane,...

Ruth Elizabeth LeBeau

Ruth Elizabeth LeBeau, 87, formerly of Dalton, died Tuesday at Springside of Pittsfield, where she had resided since August 2004. Born in Rensselaer, N.Y., Nov. 2, 1919, daughter of Arthur J. and...

Victoria B. Conte

Victoria B. Conte, 87, formerly of 71 Newton Ave., died Monday at her daughter's home in San Jacinto, Calif. Mrs. Conte, the daughter of Joseph and Helen Bannick Stockley, was born in Waterbury,...

Jared M. Benham

Jared M. Benham, 21, of 11 Constitution Ave., died Wednesday morning as the result of injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident. Mr. Benham was born in Pittsfield, March 18, 1986, the son of...

Denise Lynn Perkins Cope

Denise Lynn Perkins Cope, 32, of Windermere, Fla., died Sunday at Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, Fla. Born Nov. 8, 1974, in Pittsfield, daughter of W.E. Bill and Maureen Perkins. She moved...

William Ronald Carmon

William Ronald Carmon, 58, of 75 Massachusetts Ave., died Monday at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. Born in Pittsfield, May 1, 1949, son of William W. and Florence S. Killela Carmon, he...

Jane S. Hennelly

Jane S. Hennelly, 83, of 235 Walker St., a former longtime resident of 555 Williams St., died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 11, 1923, daughter of Thomas P. and...

Maura E. Taillefer

Maura E. Taillefer, 43, of 63 Pollock Ave., died Thursday at home after a long illness. Born in Manhattan, N.Y., on Oct. 7, 1963, daughter of John and May Cavanaugh Hickey, she was a 1982 graduate...