Obituaries

Bernard McDonough, 82

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Bernard Gerald McDonough, 82, of 108 East Housatonic Street, Apartment #7, Pittsfield, passed away on Saturday, July 8, 2017, at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in...

Daniel Hines, 68

PERU, Mass. — Daniel Marion Hines, 68, of Peru, Mass., died Monday, July 10, 2017, at Cooley-Dickinson Hospital. Dan was born October 15, 1948, in Jonesville, Lee County, Virginia, the...

Daniel W. Walden, 67

DALTON, Mass. — Daniel W. Walden, 67, of 181 High St. passed away on Tuesday, July 11, 2017, at Berkshire Medical Center after a courageous battle with leukemia. Born on September 18,...

Leda Dewkett, 90

LEE, Mass. — Leda E. Dewkett, 90, of Church Street, Lee, passed away peacefully at Fairview Commons in Great Barrington on July 8, 2017. Leda was born in Lee on April 11, 1927, the...

Richard Biasin, 72

TYRINGHAM, Mass. — Richard Paul Biasin, 72, of Tyringham died Thursday, July 6, 2017, at Berkshire Medical Center from Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Richard was born in Pittsfield,...

Raymond J. Dorazio, 73

WEST STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Raymond J. Dorazio, 73, of Lenox Road, West Stockbridge, passed away peacefully on July 12, 2017, after a valiant battle. Ray was born on August 21, 1943, in...

Angela M. Shartrand, 48

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Angela Marie Shartrand, of Florence, died in her home, Monday, June 26, 2017, at the age of 48. Born in North Adams on April 16, 1969, daughter of Nancy Galli...

Mary Jane Pignatelli, 63

LENOX, Mass. — Mary Jane Pignatelli, 63, of Lenox, died Sunday, July 9, 2017, at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, surrounded by her family, after a courageous battle with...

Isabel T. Hyndman, 95

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Isabel Thompson Hyndman, 95, of North Adams died Monday, July 10, 2017, at North Adams Commons.   Born in North Adams on July 8, 1922, daughter of David and...

Sylvia C. Shugg, 90

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Sylvia Caesar Shugg, 90, a former longtime resident of Williamstown, died peacefully at home in Orono, Maine, in the early hours of Friday, June 30,...

Emma Drew, 94

STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Emma Drew, 94, of Stockbridge died peacefully on Sunday, July 9, 2017, at her daughter's home in West Stockbridge.     Born in Sandwich on Feb. 20,...

Elizabeth E. LaPlante, 85

WILLIASMTOWN, Mass. — Elizabeth Ellen LaPlante, 85, of Pines Lodge Park died on Monday, July 10, 2017, at Williamstown Commons.    Born in Williamstown on Dec. 30, 1931, a...

Ronald R. Marony, 92

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Ronald Romeo Marony, 92, of North Adams died on Sunday, July 9, 2017, at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield.    Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on April...

David A. Smith, 39

LENOX, Mass. — David Albert Smith, 39, died suddenly at his home in Lenox on Friday, July 7, 2017.   Born in Norwich, Conn., on June 15, 1978, son of the late James Everett...

James E. Turner, 69

LENOX, Mass. — James Earl Turner, 69, died suddenly his home in Lenox on Thursday, July 6, 2017.   Born in Wakefield on April 9, 1947, to Earl and Mary Turner, he was educated...

Herbert H. Palmer, 88

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Herbert Harold Palmer, 88, of Williamstown died Friday, Dec. 9, 2016. Born in Bennington, Vt., on Oct. 25, 1928, the only child of Harold and Elsa Palmer, he...

Mario R. Cristofolini, 79

POWNAL, Vt. — Mario Richard Cristofolini, 79, of Pownal, died on Monday, July 3, 2017, at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington.   Born in Vigo Cavedine, Italy, on...

Angeline M. Umbro, 86

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Angeline M. Umbro, 86, of Pittsfield, died peacefully Sunday, July 2, 2017, at home, surrounded by her family.   Born in Chicago on May 17, 1931, she was one...

James J. Ferris, 93

PITTSFIELD, Mass. - James J. Ferris, 93, of Pittsfield, Mass., died Thursday, June 29, 2017, at his home. Born in Pittsfield on August 19, 1923, the son of late George and Alice McCabe...

Brian D. Raftery, 58

LENOX, Mass. — Brian D. Raftery, 58, of Lenox died Wednesday morning, June 28, 2017, at his home after a long illness. Born in Pittsfield May 17, 1959, the son of Frederick A. and...

Jeanne M. Bogino, 56

HANCOCK, Mass. — Jeanne M. Bogino, 56, of Hancock, Mass., died unexpectedly at Northwestern Hospital in Chicago while traveling for work on June 26, 2017.  She was born in...

Francis Boyer, 60

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Francis Bernard (Frank) Boyer, 60, formerly of Pittsfield and Lanesborough, Mass., died at his home in Kettering, Ohio, on Tuesday June 27, 2017, from small cell lung...

Ellen L. Altschuler, 100

DALTON, Mass. — Ellen Lillian Altschuler, 100, passed away peacefully at Craneville Place of Dalton, Mass., on June 16, 2017. She was born on June 6, 1917, in Hartford, Conn., to Ivar...

Peter A. D'Amico Jr., 80

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Peter A. D'Amico Jr., 80, of North Highlands, Calif., formerly of North Adams, Mass., passed away June 13, 2017, in North Highlands. Born in North Adams on...

Stanley J. Kopala, 85

ADAMS, Mass. — Mr. Stanley J. Kopala, 85, of Adams, Mass., died on Tuesday, June 27, 2017, at Berkshire Medical Center-North Adams. He was born in Adams on April 17, 1932, a son of the...