Obituaries

John R. Fadding

John R. Fadding, 47, of Pine Street, Housatonic, died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Great Barrington on Aug. 13, 1959, son of Archibald Fadding Jr. and Jennie Bevens Fadding, he...

May M. Thayer

May M. Thayer, 85, of 395 West Housatonic St. died Monday at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center, where she had resided since July 2005. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 29, 1920, daughter of Allan J....

Stanley Walter Polchlopek

Stanley Walter Polchlopek, 82, of 1100 Mohawk Trail died Monday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Born in Dalton on April 6, 1924, son of Albert and Rose Pierowicz Polchlopek, he...

Rodney G. Moore, 57

CLARKSBURG, Mass. Rodney Grant Moore, 57, of 556 West Cross Road died Thursday, Sept. 7, 2006, at North Adams Regional Hospital after being stricken earlier at home. Born in Greenfield on Jan....

Bryan Craig Livsey

Bryan Craig Livsey, 47, of 72-C Jackson Road died yesterday at home after a battle with melanoma. Born in Adams on Oct. 19, 1958, son of Marion Waterman Livsey Rathbun and the late Donald T....

Charles Edward Geoffrion

Charles Edward Geoffrion, 82, of Fredericksburg, Va., formerly of Lanesborough, died Tuesday at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg. Born in Adams on Aug. 21, 1924, son of Louis and Louise...

Rachel Elizabeth Wonkka

Rachel Elizabeth Wonkka, 89, of 4 Columbia St. died Sunday at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. Born in Adams on Nov. 4, 1916, daughter of Walter G. and Margaret Rupprecht Frese, she was...

Nizio Nugai

Nizio Nugai, 75, formerly of 348 Newell St., died Tuesday at Hillcrest Commons, where he resided since September 2004. Born in Pittsfield on April 23, 1921, son of Sebastian and Adelaide Vittina...

Donna Marie Bierbower

Donna Marie Bierbower, 58, of Salisbury Road died Monday at home following a brief illness. Born in Hartford, Conn., on Nov. 22, 1947, daughter of Lionel and Mary Uliano Mann, she attended...

Donna M. Adams

Donna M. Adams, 58, of 20 Riverview Homes died Tuesday of a stroke at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on May 30, 1948, daughter of Reno N. and Grace Tassone Pellegrino, she attended...

Esther Luddy Tilton

Esther Luddy Tilton, 84, of Mountain View Apartments in Hadley, died Saturday at the Calvin Coolidge Nursing Home in Northampton. Her daughter, Judith Rennie, lived in Pittsfield. Born on July...

Robert Ralph Pitoniak

Robert Ralph Pitoniak, 73, of 125 Friend St. died Tuesday morning at his home. Born in Adams on Sept. 30, 1932, son of the late John and Margaret Blasczak Pitoniak, he graduated from the former...

Rebecca Cady Lowell Paquette

Rebecca Cady Lowell Paquette, 66, of 57 Apple Tree Lane died Monday morning at her home of pheochromocytoma. Born in Oneida, N.Y., on Jan. 4, 1940, daughter of Beecher and Clara Leaf Cady, she...

Helen Mary Osterhout

Helen Mary Osterhout, 67, of 2 Woodruff Road died Sunday at Fairview Commons in Great Barrington. Born in Pittsfield on May 3, 1939, daughter of Charles M. and Helen Ring Magner, she was a...

Teresa Simoneau

Teresa Simoneau, 79, of 115 Memorial Drive died late Sunday evening at North Adams Regional Hospital. Born in Amherst, on Feb. 3, 1927, daughter of Andrew and Anna Pleppo, she graduated from...

Michael Robert Gagne

Michael Robert Gagne, 59, of 70 Mohawk Forest Blvd. died Sunday morning at the emergency room of the North Adams Regional Hospital, where he was taken after being stricken at home. Born in North...

Viva Dexter Baumann

Viva Dexter Baumann, 92, formerly of East Windsor Road, died yesterday morning at Hillcrest Commons. Born in New Bedford on Dec. 8, 1913, daughter of the late Richard Williamson and Elise Leary...

Clara A. Pictrowski

Clara A. Pictrowski, 81, of 31 Wellesley St. died Wednesday at home after a short illness. Born in Pittsfield on Nov. 25, 1924, daughter of Luigi and Luisa Altobelli Arpante, she was a 1943...

Carter Brown Owen

Carter Brown Owen, 45, of 20 Miner St. died Friday at home of natural causes. Born in Cumberland, Md., on Aug. 8, 1961, son of Glenn Brown Owen Dobbs and the late Archibald A. Owen III, he moved...

Joseph W. Izzo

Joseph W. Izzo, 49, of 360 West Housatonic St. died Thursdayat home. Born in Pittsfield on May 4, 1957, son of Joseph A. and Anne Mullen Izzo, he was a 1975 graduate of Taconic High School, where...

Catherine Marie Foreman

Catherine Marie Foreman, 85, of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, formerly of Housatonic, died Friday at Wyandot Memorial Hospital in Upper Sandusky. She recently moved from Morral, Ohio, to Upper Sandusky....

George Bernard Benner Jr.

George Bernard Benner Jr., 47, of Park Street, Housatonic, died Thursday at Fairview Hospital. Born in Port Jefferson, N.Y., on Nov. 26, 1958, son of George Bernard Benner Sr. and Florence...

Marceline T. Lanoue

Marceline T. Lanoue, 78, of 14 Joan Drive died Saturday at home. Born in Rensselaer, N.Y., on Oct. 11, 1927, daughter of Edward and Albina Soulier West, she lived in Cummington as a child, and...

Sharleen T. Kotski

Sharleen T. Kotski, 55, of 63 Plymouth St. died Sunday at her home. Born in Pittsfield on July 30, 1951, daughter of Marie Massacani Kucka of Pittsfield and the late Charles A. Kucka, she was...

Nathan Kaplan

Nathan Kaplan, 95, of 10 Taconic St., a longtime resident of New York City, died at home on Sunday after a brief illness. Born in Shenandoah, Pa., on Nov. 20, 1910, son of Isaac and Anna Mednick...