Obituaries

Mary Gurley

Mary Gurley, 74, of Sweetwood, Cold Spring Road, formerly of Park Street, died Tuesday at home. Born in Chicago on Jan. 18, 1933, daughter of George R. and Charlotte Case Joslyn, she moved to...

Nora Mary Aherne

Nora Mary Aherne, 84, of 379 East St. died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center after a brief illness. Born in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland, on May 20, 1923, daughter of Arthur and Bridget Nolan...

William Albert Mitchell

William Albert Mitchell, 80, of 43 Holmes Road died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 13, 1927, son of George and Louise Mitchell, he attended elementary school in...

Donald F. "Mac" McDermott

Donald F. "Mac" McDermott, 57, of the Florida Keys died July 6 at Lower Keys Medical Center in Key West, Fla. He and his wife, the former Sherry Caul, ran an interior design/furniture-restoration...

Thomas James Cairns Sr.

Thomas James Cairns Sr., 78, of Division Street died Saturday at home. Born in Hartford, Conn., on Sept. 4, 1928, son of Robert and Ethel Cairns Cairns, he attended schools in Canaan, Conn.,...

Rose M. Serafin

Rose M. Serafin, 78, of 180 Montgomery Ave. Extension died Wednesday at home. Born in Pittsfield on April 8, 1929, daughter of William and Annie Galpin Duclos, she was educated in local...

John Joseph O'Neil Sr.

John Joseph O'Neil Sr., 89, of 43 Bellmore Drive died Sunday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Jan. 23, 1918, son of Thomas and Jennie Burns O'Neil, he was a 1935 graduate of St. Joseph's High...

Marjorie M. Campbell

Marjorie M. Campbell, 90, of 274 Eleanor Road died Wednesday at Mount Greylock Extended Care Facility. She served on the Pittsfield Council on Aging and was a member of the Pittsfield Boys' and...

Mary E. Siciliano, 85

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Mary Eileen Siciliano, 85, of 3 Rickard St., died Tuesday, July 17, 2007, at her home. Born on Nov. 13, 1921, daughter of Walter F. Pringle Sr. and Elizabeth Fallon...

Maria Iris Garrity McInally

Maria Iris Garrity McInally, 83, of Brewster, died Tuesday at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis after a serious illness. She was the sister of Jessica Cibelli of Lee. Born July 8, 1924, daughter of...

Donald A. Johnson

Donald A. Johnson, 86, of 326 Dalton Ave. died Tuesday at home. Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 5, 1920, son of Alexander E. and Frances Boice Johnson, he was a 1938 graduate of Pittsfield High School...

Floyd E. Twing

Floyd E. Twing, 69, died Saturday at his residence at 12 Navin Heights. Born in Tyringham, on Dec. 14, 1937, son of Eugene and Grace Ondress Twing, he attended Lee schools. He worked as a stone...

Catherine M. Bartlett

Catherine M. Bartlett, 102, of Maple Street, died Sunday at Wingate Nursing Home in East Longmeadow. Born on July 29, 1904, in West Stockbridge, daughter of Edward and Clara Dikeman Bartlett, she...

Mary T. Bailot

Mary T. Bailot, 75, of 175 Lebanon Ave., died Monday at her son's residence on 13 Columbia Terrace, Adams, where she had resided since April. Born in Pittsfield on July 7, 1932, daughter of Philip...

Ellen C. Van De Bogart

Ellen C. Van De Bogart, 100, of 320 Pittsfield Road, died Friday at Providence Care Center of Lenox. Born on Sept. 25, 1906, in North Canaan, Conn., daughter of Harvey and Caroline Hoag Drumm, she...

Eleanor C. Maynard Sturtevant

Eleanor C. Maynard Sturtevant, 88, of 1 Sturtevant Road and North Adams Commons, died yesterday at North Adams Commons. Born in Boston on March 25, 1919, daughter of the Herbert and Sarah Allen...

Joseph F. Koziol

Joseph F. Koziol, 64, of 20 Britton St., died Sunday at Hillcrest Commons. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 21, 1942, son of Julian and Julia Muron Koziol, he attended local schools and was a 1960...

Margaret C. Grogan

Margaret C. Grogan, 82, a longtime resident of Lenox, died Sunday after a brief illness at the home of her daughter, Susan A. Hayes, of Chili-Riga Town Line Road, Churchville, N.Y. Born in New...

Soula D. Diamond

Soula D. Diamond, 83, of 28 Plastics Ave., died Saturday at her home. Born in Pittsfield on Aug. 11, 1923, daughter of Dennis G. and Urania T. Gourdouveli Diamond, she was a graduate of Pittsfield...

Edward L. Dennison Sr.

Edward L. Dennison Sr., 66, of Root Lane died Sunday at home. Born in Penn Yan, N.Y., on Sept. 20, 1940, son of Emory and Mable Styles Dennison, he attended Ockawamick High School in Penn...

Catherine B. Carey

Catherine B. Carey, 99, died Friday at Providence Care Center in Lenox. She was the mother of Frances P. Conaghan of Pittsfield. Born in County Roscommon, Ireland on Nov. 9, 1907, daughter of...

Lauretta M. Loughman

Lauretta M. Loughman, 82, of 1 Berkshire Square died Thursday at home. Born in Northampton on May 29, 1925, daughter of David and Yvonne Brais Jones, she graduated from St. Michael's Elementary...

Myrtle Hadsell

Myrtle Hadsell, 78, of Home Road died Thursday at home. Born in Sharon, Conn., on Nov. 26, 1928, daughter of Pierre and Myrtle Ball Thomen, she attended Salisbury Central School in Lakeville,...

John E. Champagne

John E. Champagne, 79, a resident of Otis since 1985, died Thursday at Heritage Hall Nursing Home in Agawam. Born in Chicopee on March 24, 1928, son of John E. and Lillian Ketterle Champagne, he...

Joseph S. Janiga, 87

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Joseph Stanley Janiga, 87, of 45 Hudson St. died Thursday, July 12, 2007, at home. Born in Adams on Oct. 11, 1919, son of Frank and Gertrude Janiga, he was educated in...