Obituaries

Rita M. Brassard

Rita M. Brassard, 89, formerly of Elm Street, died Sunday evening at Providence Care Center of Lenox, where she had resided since August 2002. Born in Pittsfield Dec. 15, 1917, daughter of Robert...

Susan T. Dimanche

Susan T. Dimanche, 61, of 82 Wilson St. died yesterday at home after a long battle with cancer. She was the owner and operator of Chipper Clipper Beauty Shop in Dalton. Born in Pittsfield on...

Carolyn Ann Dicranian Ultimo

Carolyn Ann Dicranian Ultimo, 66, of 645 Washington Road died Saturday at her home. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 21, 1940, daughter of Augustus and Zabel Ann Dicranian Ultimo, she was a 1957...

Elizabeth J. "Betty" Mahoney

Elizabeth J. "Betty" Mahoney, 74, of 184 Doreen St. died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in North Pownal, Vt., on Nov. 5, 1932, daughter of Earl and Delia King Hatch, she was a longtime...

Esther Gelston DuBois

Esther Gelston DuBois, 92, of Springside Nursing Center, formerly of Goodrich Street, died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Montreal on March 14, 1914, daughter of the late Robert and...

John Joseph Sokolowski Sr.

John Joseph Sokolowski Sr., 74, of 59 Harris St., a former Pittsfield firefighter, died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on June 22, 1932, son of Nicholas and Mary Sauwick...

Andrea O. Sadowy

Andrea O. Sadowy, 44, of 1883 Route 32 North, Gansevoort, N.Y., a native of Pittsfield, died Tuesday at Saratoga Springs (N.Y.) Hospital after a short battle with lung cancer. Before moving to...

Ruth I. Melle

Ruth I. Melle, 79, of 68 Gale Ave. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center after a brief illness. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 23, 1927, daughter of Roy Nash Sr. and Nellie Foster Nash, she was a...

Lucia DiPrimio

Lucia DiPrimio, 92, of 161 Newell St. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. She had resided at Hillcrest Commons for two years. Born in Turrivalignani, province of Pescara, Italy, on...

Robert Charles Nicholas

Robert Charles Nicholas, 83, of Pownal, Vt., formerly of Pittsfield, died Friday at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington. Born in Great Barrington on Aug. 2, 1923, son of Everett A....

Douglas F. Barnes

Douglas F. Barnes, 65, of 189 Churchill Road died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center of an apparent heart attack. Born in Pittsfield on March 8, 1941, son of the late Leroy and Claire LaFrance...

Mary I. Ricchi

Mary I. Ricchi, 93, formerly of Pittsfield and McKinney, Texas, died Sunday at the Cogburn Health & Rehabilitation Center in Huntsville, Ala. Born in Cassine, Province of Alessandria, Italy, on...

David F. Hart

David F. Hart, 69, of 255 Lebanon Ave. died Sunday evening at Springside of Pittsfield, where he had resided for the past three years. Born in Pittsfield on April 9, 1937, son of M. Evelyn Fallaw...

Nina Grechan

Nina Grechan, 85, of 73 Rose Drive died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Springfield on March 29, 1921, daughter of Aleksey and Eugenie Gardieff Grechan, she was a graduate of Dalton...

Christine Helen Vanhoenacker

Christine Helen Vanhoenacker, 69, of Melbourne Place, formerly of Dawes Avenue, died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Shenandoah, Pa., on Dec. 7, 1937, daughter of Andrew and Helen...

John Funke Jr.

John Funke Jr., 87, of 1110 Marshall Road, Greenwood, S.C., died Thursday at Wesley Commons in Greenwood. He was the father of Carole Ann Collins of Pittsfield. Born in Atlanta on March 15,...

Albert W. "Red" Turner

Albert W. "Red" Turner, 90, of 40 Sunset Ave., a former longtime resident of 370 East St., died Saturday at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center, where he had been a patient since May 4. Born in...

Priscilla Mary Ryan

Priscilla Mary Ryan, 81, of 19 Roselyn Drive died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center after six months of hospitalization. Born in Pittsfield on March 16, 1925, daughter of Joseph B. and...

Judith D. Joyce

Judith D. Joyce, 64, of 494 East New Lenox Road died Saturday at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 22, 1942, daughter of Russell F. and Marion Williams Allen, she spent her...

Barbara A. Fahey

Barbara A. Fahey, 76, of 74 Flansburg Ave. died Saturday at home. Born in Pittsfield on May 17, 1930, daughter of Walter B. and Vera Mongue Fox, she was a 1948 graduate of the former Dalton High...

Charles A. Reed Sr.

Charles A. Reed Sr., 73, of 347 Sycamore Drive, Crossville, Tenn., died Monday at home. He was co-owner of Summit Hill Campground in the town of Washington from 1985 to 2005 Born in New Haven,...

Victoria Houghtaling

Victoria Houghtaling, 60, of 169 Valentine Road died Tuesday afternoon at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 6, 1946, daughter of Angelo and Theresa Palumbo Vicki, she attended...

William Edward Prew

William Edward Prew, 53, of 18 Woodbine Ave. died Monday at home of cancer. Born in Pittsfield on April 29, 1953, son of Madeline Derade Prew and the late William James Prew, he attended St....

Dorothy Lotto

Dorothy Lotto, 88, of 1 Colt Road, formerly of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., died Monday at home. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., July 15, 1918, daughter of Charles and Anna Shapiro Weiss, she spent most of her life...

Antoinette DiNicola

Antoinette DiNicola, 87, of 164 Elm St. died Monday at St. Francis' Hospital in Hartford, Conn. Born in Lee on March 14, 1919, daughter of Diego and Frances Insalaco Carlino, she attended schools...