Ruth Emma Verones
Nov 9, 2017
ALFORD- Ruth Verones died on November 9, 2017 at Fairview Commons in Gt. Barrington. Born on May 22, 1927 in Gt. Barrington, she was the daughter of Howard and Ida Dewkett Drumm.  She was raised in Alford and attended the one room Alford School House then later graduated from Searles High School.
Philip C. Boardman
Nov 6, 2017
Philip C. Boardman, a lifetime resident of Hewins Street, Sheffield, passed away November 6, 2017, surrounded by his loving family and friends. Death occurred due to a recently discovered cancer, as well as many prior serious illnesses. Born Nov. 14, 1938 he was the son of the late Edgar Boardman and Eleanor Moulton Boardman of Sheffield. Philip grew up working...
Linda B. Day
Nov 1, 2017
Linda Busse Day, of Stockbridge MA, died peacefully on November 1, 2017 at Mt. Carmel Care Center in Lenox. Born in the Bronx, NY, she was the daughter of the late Ewald & Christine Bueshing Busse who were both German immigrants. She grew up in Elmont, LI and Huntington, CT and graduated from Shelton High School (CT) in 1960. She...
Laura Jean Polzella
Oct 24, 2017
Laura Jean Polzella, 63, of Sheffield, passed away peacefully on October 24, 2017 at Berkshire Medical Center. Born in Southington, CT on December 21, 1953, she was the daughter of Lawson and Betty Anderson Polzella. She attended both high school and college in Connecticut.
She moved to the Berkshires many years ago to make a home with her...
Patrick Owen Burns
Sep 28, 2017
Patrick Owen Burns of Sheffield MA, a native New Yorker and resident of Brooklyn Heights for over 50 Years, died on Thursday, September 28 at the age of 80, from complications of Parkinson Disease. Born in 1937 to Edward D. and Anne Gallagher, of Fieldston, New York, Patrick grew up in the city and then attended Dartmouth College, after Dartmouth...
David T. Kaplan
Sep 27, 2017
David T. Kaplan, of Kennsington, MD, died Wednesday, September 27 of cancer. Born on April 28, 1951, the son of the late Lillian Westerman and Carl Kaplan and the late Ben Westerman (step-father), he graduated from Hudson High School in Hudson, NY. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree from Drew University in botany and a master’s degree from University of Massachusetts,...
Thomas B. Guidi
Sep 25, 2017
Thomas B. Guidi, 75, longtime resident of Great Barrington, MA and Rotunda West, FL passed away on September 25, 2017 of a hemorrhagic stroke while on vacation in Texas. Born to Harold A. and Marion E. Curtiss Guidi on April 21, 1942, in Great Barrington, he graduated from Mt. Everett High School in 1960, before proudly serving our country in...
Charles E. Deitz
Sep 21, 2017
Rev. Dr. Charles E. Deitz died September 21, 2017 at the Geer Nursing facility in Canaan CT. Born on May 27, 1920, Pastor Deitz was a 1942 graduate of Hartwick College where he met his wife of 72 years, Marjorie. He attended Gettysburg Seminary before graduating in 1945 and beginning his Lutheran ministry in Germantown, NY. In 1947 he began...
Christine M. Lombardi
Sep 18, 2017
Christine M. Lombardi, 32, of Sheffield MA, died on September 18th leaving behind her parents, Ralph Lombardi of Sheffield, Jane Hiza and her husband, Frank of Southfield, brother Michael Lombardi of Morro Bay California, sister Melissa Durrin and her nephew River Durrin of Heath, MA and her beloved dog, Louie. Christine attended both Mount Everett and Monument Mountain high schools...
Blanche Bennett
Sep 18, 2017
Blanche "Aunty Bea" Bennett, 91, a longtime resident of Ashley Falls, MA passed away on September 18th. Born October 4, 1925 she was the daughter of the late Hazel and Rupert Stevens. Aunty Bea worked for the Postal Department as clerk and then Postmaster for over 30 years in the Ashley Falls Post Office. She also worked at Maplewood Fabrics,...
Mary Malonis
Sep 6, 2017
Mary Malonis, 87, died Wednesday, Sept 6, 2017, at home with her family after a valiant battle with cancer.
Mary was born July 29, 1930 in Lynn, MA to Mary Huggins and William Archer Huggins. Mary attended Lynn schools and graduated from Lynn English High School and Lynn Hospital School of Nursing with a RN degree.  She...
Richard T. Armstrong
Sep 2, 2017
Richard T. Armstrong, 88, caring husband to his wife, Jayne, for 56 years and a wonderful father to his daughter, Jayne-Marie and son, Richard B., passed away on Saturday, September 2, 2017 at Geer Village in Canaan, CT. Born in Great Barrington, MA on January 1, 1929, he was the son of Philip S. and Jessie Barber Armstrong. He and...
John G. Wightman
Aug 24, 2017
Rev. Dr. John Wightman passed away at home August 24, after a long and spirited fight with cancer. John was born in 1936 in Greeley, Colorado. He graduated from Carleton College, then was called to the ministry and studied at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He interned at Tokyo Union Church in Japan. He was ordained in 1962...
Joyce Barrow
Aug 24, 2017
Joyce passed away peacefully of natural causes at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center in Lenox, MA on August 24, 2017 at age 89. The eldest of four children of Belle and Jacob Gitelman, Joyce Shyra Gitelman was born and raised in Rochester, New York. She was immersed in the arts at an early age, with intensive studies of both classical...
Anita G. Macchi
Aug 21, 2017
Mrs. Anita G. Hitchcock Macchi, 73, of Sheffield, MA and Venice, FL passed away August 21, 2017 at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston following a brief illness. A native and lifelong resident Anita was born in Great Barrington, MA on May 23, 1944, one of six children of the late Wallace and Matilda Trierweiler Hitchcock. She was a graduate...
Donald Coons
Aug 17, 2017
Donald Almon Coons of Springfield, MA. passed away on August 17, 2017 at Mercy Medical Center in Springfield. Born on April 4, 1938 in Worcester, MA., he was the son of the late C. Wesley and Dorothy Degnan Coons. He was educated in Worcester and Springfield schools and was later employed at Westvaco Envelope Co. as a machine operator. He...
Robert A. Wells
Aug 16, 2017
After many long and difficult battles, Robert A. Wells has been reunited with his brother, CWII Stephen Wells and the Lord our Father on August 16, 2017. We cry for Robert, for the torments he endured and the broken hearts of his family. A lover of both music and automobiles, Robert is survived by his parents John and Elizabeth Wells,...
Eleanor Mae Hall
Aug 16, 2017
Eleanor Mae Hall, 91, of Stockbridge MA passed into God's arms August 16, 2017. Born July 22, 1926 in Great Barrington she was the daughter of Clifford and Pearl Hanes Brochu. Eleanor worked as an R.N. for 43 years throughout Berkshire County. She is survived by her daughter Patricia Immediato and her son Norman Hall. As well as five grandchildren...
Michelle Laplante Romanowicz
Aug 16, 2017
Michelle LaPlante-Romanowicz, 40, formerly of Oak Street in Sheffield passed away on August 16, 2017 in Great Barrington. Born on November 8, 1976 in New Britain, CT, she was the daughter of Gary and Janice Hausenbauer LaPlante. Michelle was a dedicated mother. Her greatest joy in life came in the form of her son Alex. She was a cat lover...
Nancy W. Heady
Aug 14, 2017
Nancy W. Heady, 88, died peacefully on August 14, 2017 at Fairview Hospital. Born on Ground Hogs Day, February 2, 1929 in Montague, MA she was the daughter of the late Edward and Kathleen O’Connell Wyman. As a young child, she was raised by her grandparents Fred and Mary Wyman in Turners Falls, MA due to the fact that her...
