Obituaries

Michael G. Howe

Michael G. Howe, 51, of 760 Tyler St. died Wednesday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 11, 1954, son of Bridget Ryan Howe and the late Richard J. Howe Jr., he was a 1975 graduate of Kolburne...

Donna Andrew

Donna Andrew, 63, of 12 Cedar St. died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Fulton, N.Y., on June 6, 1943, daughter of Paul A. and Margaret Johnson Hall, she moved to Pittsfield as a...

Gene R. Peterson

Gene R. Peterson, 87, of Kimball Farms died Thursday afternoon at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Syracuse, N.Y., on July 30, 1918, son of Glenn and Bertha Blinzinger Peterson, he was a...

Janet K. Faubion

Janet K. Faubion, 85, of Haviland Drive, Glenville, N.Y., a former resident of Paisley Terrace in Pittsfield, died Saturday at home. Born in Springfield on April 2, 1921, daughter of William W....

Bernice Shook Czaja

Bernice Shook Czaja, 89, formerly of 234 Highland Ave., died Saturday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided since February 2000. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 4, 1916, daughter of Joseph and...

Marilyn A. Buckley

Marilyn A. Buckley, 73, of 399 High St. died yesterday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided since June. Born in Boston on April 21, 1933, daughter of Joseph and Mary Rochelo Turner, she...

Claire M. Rooke

Claire M. Rooke, 81, of Rye, N.H., formerly of Lenox, died Tuesday at the Portsmouth (N.H.) Regional Hospital. Born in Lynn on Nov. 15, 1924, daughter of the late Philias and Irene Gosselin...

John C. "Jack" Reid

John C. "Jack" Reid, 64, of Vero Beach, Fla., formerly of Dalton, died Tuesday at Indian River Memorial Hospital in Vero Beach, Fla. Born in Pittsfield on April 5, 1942, son of the late Charles...

Lillian G. MacWhinnie

Lillian G. MacWhinnie, 96, former resident of Second Street, died Wednesday at the home of her son in Bentley Creek, Pa. Born in Springfield on May 7, 1910, daughter of Otto and Alexina Sawyer...

Ruby E. Bendross

Ruby E. Bendross, 75, of 393 Washington Mountain Road died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Bainbridge, Ga. on May 3, 1931, daughter of the late Gordie Pugh Sr. and Virgilene Clayton...

The Rev. John Olland Parker

The Rev. John Olland Parker, 70, of Amherst, former pastor of First United Methodist Church in Pittsfield, died Monday morning at Monte Vista farm, the family homestead in Vershire, Vt. Born in...

Joseph J. "Ooper" Miraglia

Joseph J. "Ooper" Miraglia, 74, of 66 Ontario St. died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 9, 1932, son of John and Grace McNamara Miraglia, he was a lifelong resident...

Joseph G. Larrivee

Joseph G. Larrivee, 81, of 8 Elm St. died Saturday at his home. Born in Housatonic on Oct. 30, 1924, son of the late Ulric Larrivee and Rosanna Mercier Larrivee, he was a 1942 graduate of Lee...

Philip Cook

Philip Cook, 95, formerly of Liberty, N.Y., died on Sunday at his home at Devonshire Estates. Born in Bronx, N.Y., on April 23, 1911, son of Lena and Isaac Cook, he attended local schools and...

Alice W. Bergan

Alice W. Bergan, 88, of 1395 Massachusetts Ave., Arlington, formerly of Lenox, died Monday in Arlington. Born in New York City on May 17, 1918, daughter of Frederick J. and Mabel Dickerson...

Alejandro Villarroel

Alejandro Villarroel, 44, of San Francisco died Monday after a three-year battle with colon cancer. His wife, the former Wanda Nichols, was born and raised in Pittsfield. Born in Caracas,...

Ann H. Ryan

Ann H. Ryan, 92, of Berkshiretown Apartments died Saturday at Providence Health Care Facility in Lenox, where she had resided for a year. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 26, 1913, daughter of Louis...

Dr. George Grossman

Dr. George Grossman, 83, of 94 Sampson Parkway died Friday at Hillcrest Commons. Born in Boston on Aug. 10, 1922, son of Richard and Jennie Freedman Grossman, he moved to Pittsfield at the age of...

Ellwood F. DeCoster

Ellwood F. DeCoster, 94, of Devonshire Estates died yesterday at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center, where he had resided for the past month. Born on the family farm in Buckfield, Maine, on Sept....

Mary A. Salvaggio

Mary A. Salvaggio, 84, of Syracuse, N.Y., formerly of Pittsfield, died yesterday at St. Camillus Health Center in Syracuse. Born in Syracuse on July 19, 1921, daughter of John and Angeline...

Florence Isabel Macdonald

Florence Isabel Macdonald, 95, died Sunday at Kimball Farms, where she had resided since 1993. Born in Boston on July 17, 1910, daughter of John A. and Jean Ferguson Macdonald, she grew up in...

Henry F. Dimouro

Henry F. Dimouro, 54, of 169 Valentine Road, formerly of Hudson and of Jay, Maine, died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Marlborough, son of Mary Odiorne Dimouro and the late Samuel...

Lorraine Rose Anderson

Lorraine Rose Anderson, 68, of Lynn, formerly of Pittsfield, died Wednesday at the Jewish Rehab Center in Swampscott after a battle with cancer. Born in Pittsfield, daughter of Hilda Palardy...

Miles R. McCarry

Miles R. McCarry, 89, of Deltona, Fla., formerly of Pittsfield, a leading figure in the dairy cattle industry and a former Berkshire County agricultural agent, died July 11 at Hospice of...

Imelda E. Barnes

Imelda E. Barnes, 91, of BerkshireTown Apartments, formerly of Westminster Street, died Tuesday morning at Mt. Greylock Extended Care Facility, where she had been a patient since March 17. Born...