Obituaries

Thelma P. Wells

Thelma P. Wells, 89, a resident of 445 Frost Road for the past 46 years, died Wednesday at her home. Born in Williamstown on Aug. 26, 1917, daughter of Charles and Addie Haley Leonard, she was...

William Purcell

William Purcell, 69, of 343 Main Road died Tuesday at home of lung cancer. Born in the Bronx, N.Y., on Feb. 19, 1937, son of William and Mary Ellen McCaffrey Purcell, he attended schools there....

Dorothy K. O'Neill

Dorothy K. O'Neill, 87, of 1000 North St. died yesterday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility, where she had resided for 14 months. Born in Sheffield on Sept. 24, 1918, daughter of Frank F....

Leslie D. Kirchner

Leslie D. Kirchner, 50, of 2566 East 3750 North, Layton, Utah, formerly of Pomeroy Avenue, died Aug. 23 while fishing in Layton. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 19, 1955, son of Nicholas and Jeanne...

Viola Grace "Mim" Guachione

Viola Grace "Mim" Guachione, 84, of 573 Peck's Road died Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center after a short illness. Born in Pittsfield on May 25, 1922, daughter of Luigi and Luisa Altobelli...

Pauline Greene

Pauline Greene, 79, formerly of Friedel Street, Worcester, died Tuesday at Craneville Place nursing facility. Born in Ludlow on Jan. 14, 1927, daughter of Andrew and Catherine Duff Campsie, she...

Margaret M. Miller

Margaret M. Miller, 61, of 105 Underwood Road died Sunday at home. Born in Pawtucket, R.I., on Jan. 26, 1945, daughter of the late Joseph and Sara Desjardins Mongeau, she was a 1962 graduate of...

Milton A. Kolodkin

Milton A. Kolodkin, 82, of 340 Red Barn Road died Monday at home following a long illness. Born in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Feb. 16, 1924, son of Alex M. and Sarah Baron Kolodkin, he attended the...

Robert Beals

Robert Beals, 62, of 92-31 57th Ave., Elmhurst, N.Y., formerly of Pittsfield, died of cancer on Sunday at the Margaret Tietz Hospice in Jamaica, N.Y. Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 16, 1943, son of...

Emilio Anthony "Slim" Ariazi

Emilio Anthony "Slim" Ariazi, 86, of 352 Houghton St. died Monday at Berkshire Medical Center, where he was admitted two weeks ago. Born in North Adams on June 6, 1920, son of the late Joseph...

Nancy Hart Markgraf

Nancy Hart Markgraf, 72, of 104 Forest Road, died at North Adams Regional Hospital on Saturday. Born in West Cornwall, Conn., on March 12, 1934, daughter of C. Whittelsey and Doris Shurtleff...

Mary K. Lusignan

Mary K. Lusignan, 87, of Chestnut Hill Road, Montpelier, Vt., a native and longtime resident of Pittsfield, died Sunday evening at Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin, Vt. Born in Pittsfield...

Gertrude Bowers Burdsall

Gertrude Bowers Burdsall, 99, of Baldwin Hill died Monday at her home. Born Sept. 30, 1906, in Lansdowne, Pa., daughter of Walter and Gertrude Kissick Bowers, she graduated from Lansdowne High...

Orville Clayton Benoit Sr.

Orville Clayton Benoit Sr., 65, of 85 Eagle St., died Saturday at Williamstown Commons following a battle with lung cancer. Born in Florida on Nov. 27, 1940, son of the late Leo Arthur Benoit Sr....

Louise May "Lulu" Webb

Louise May "Lulu" Webb, 90, of 118 Church St. died Saturday at Williamstown Commons. Born in Barre, Vt., on May 18, 1916, daughter of David and Emma Cadwell Vania, she moved to Hartford, Conn.,...

Thomas A. Sacchetti

Thomas A. Sacchetti, 88, of 52 McKinley Terrace died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center after a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 2, 1918, son of Anthony M. Sacchetti Sr. and Amelia...

Laszlo George Kish

Laszlo George Kish, 84, of 1739 Old Brook Road, Charlottesville, Va., formerly of Lee, died Wednesday at Hospice of the Piedmont in Charlottesville. Born in Budapest, Hungary, on May 18, 1922,...

Phalice A. Jenks

Phalice A. Jenks, 77, of 27 Franklin St. died Friday at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 19, 1928, daughter of Clymer and Anna McCarty Dunbar, she was a 1946...

Barbara A. McMahon

Barbara A. McMahon, 73, of 186 Lebanon Ave., died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center following a long illness. Born in Pittsfield on May 22, 1933, daughter of Frederick and Evelyn Daigle...

Patrick H. Mathews

Patrick H. Mathews, 82, of Fabiano Boulevard in Greensport, formerly of Pittsfield, died Thursday at Community Hospice Memorial Hospital in Hudson. Born in Pittsfield on March 17, 1924, son of...

Julia Landry, 83

ADAMS, Mass. — Julia Landry, 83, of 40 Commercial St. died Thursday, Aug. 24, 2006, at North Adams Regional Hospital after a brief illness. Born in North Adams on Sept. 13, 1922, daughter...

Vivian A. Dupuis

Vivian A. Dupuis, 88, of 93 Johnson St. died Friday at Sweet Brook Care Center in Williamstown. Born in Madison, Wis., on June 11, 1918, the eldest of the eight children of Frederick N. and Anna...

Catherine Tracy Staples

Catherine Tracy Staples, 78, died Wednesday on Hilton Head, S.C. Born in Great Barrington on Feb. 29, 1928, daughter of Edward and Mary Bailly Tracy, she attended local schools. She was a...

Eugene T. McCarthy

Eugene T. McCarthy, 80, of 76 Baldwin Ave., died Wednesday at Berkshire Medical Center after a brief illness. Born in Pittsfield on June 5, 1926, son of Thomas and Pauline Labrode McCarthy, he...

Stephen Raymond Kelly

Stephen Raymond Kelly, 39, of 71 Doreen St. died at home on Sunday of heart failure. He came to Pittsfield in 2002 from Overland Park, Kan. Born in Kansas City, Miss., on May 5, 1967, son of...