Hannah W. Agar
Nov 17, 2015
Hannah W. Agar, 73, passed away on November 17, 2015. Born in Great Barrington, MA, on December 5, 1941, she was the daughter of the late Dr. Edward R. and Kathleen O’Connell Wyman. She was a graduate of Doane Stuart formerly Kenwood Academy of the Sacred Heart in Albany, NY. She also attended Endicott College in Boston. She married Stephen...
Norman Charbonneau
Nov 17, 2015
Norman Charbonneau, 87, of Devonshire Estates in Lenox, passed away on Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at Mt. Carmel Facility in Lenox. Born on July 16, 1928, in Springfield, MA, he was the son of the late Helen Bousquet  and Ovila Charbonneau. Norman was a graduate of Springfield Technical High School and continued his education at Capitol Radio Engineering Institute in...
Donna Marie Cook
Nov 16, 2015
Donna Marie Shaw Cook, 74, a longtime resident of VanDeusenville Road passed peacefully into eternal life at Baystate Medical Center on November 16, 2015. A native and lifelong resident, Donna was born in Great Barrington, MA on December 31, 1940 the daughter of the late Lawrence Martin Shaw and Cecelia Nutting Shaw. She was a graduate of the former Williams...
Beatrice Scholz Shepard
Nov 15, 2015
Beatrice Scholz Shepard, 90, a longtime resident of West Road in Alford passed away November 15, 2015 at Timberlyn Heights Nursing Home in Great Barrington. A native and lifelong resident of the area Beatrice was born March 9, 1925 at the family home in West Stockbridge, the daughter of Warner and Doris (Tucker) Scholz. She attended local schools and was...
Harry Franklin
Nov 14, 2015
Harry Franklin was born Hermann Harry Hirschbein in Vienna, Austria, November 13, 1920 to Charlotte Frankovitz, originally from Romania and Moritz Hirschbein, originally from Poland. In the United States he changed his name to Franklin, a derivative of Frankovitz, to make life easier due to anti-semitism and the difficulty of the name itself. He chose to go by the name...
Susan M. Cutter
Nov 12, 2015
Susan M. Cutter, 82, of Wyantenuck St., in Housatonic died November 12, 2015 at Fairview Commons in Great Barrington. Born August 12, 1933 in North Adams, MA she was the daughter of Gerald and Evelyn Niles Middlebrook. She graduated from local schools and received her nursing degree from the Holyoke School of Nursing. Mrs. Cutter was employed as a Registered...
David C. Benham, Sr.
Nov 9, 2015
David C. Benham, Sr., 70, of Wyantenuck St., died November 9, 2015 at his home in Housatonic following a four and a half year battle with cancer. Born September 1, 1945 in Pittsfield, MA he was the son of the late Charles Joseph and Mary Alice McGraw Benham. He was a 1963 graduate of the former Searles High School. While...
Minnie A. Rood
Nov 7, 2015
Minnie M. Rood, 85, of Ashley Falls Road passed away Saturday, November 7, 2015 at her home in Ashley Falls, MA. A native and lifelong resident, Minnie was born in Ashley Falls on December 2, 1929 the daughter of George D. Wilhelm and Minnie Pierson Wilhelm. She attended local schools and received her high school diploma from Mt. Everett Regional...
Roland B. Wheeler
Nov 4, 2015
NORTH EGREMONT - Mr. Roland B. Wheeler, 94, of Prospect Lake Road died November 4, 2015. Born and raised in Egremont, MA on September 15, 1921, he was the son of the late Ralph and Gladys Brewer Wheeler. He attended Egremont schools and graduated from the former Searles High School in Great Barrington, MA. He served in WWII, stationed in...
Caryl Aibel
Nov 2, 2015
Aibel - Caryl, 79 died peacefully at Morristown Medical Center in NJ on November 2. Caryl was born on March 26, 1936 to George and Sarah Lieberman (nee Mogul) in Brooklyn, NY. She attended University of Miami, and graduated from Adelphi University where she earned a degree in Social Work. After moving to Wayne, NJ with her husband Roy, she...
Ruth Ann Andersson
Nov 1, 2015
Ruth Ann (Kellogg) Andersson, 75, formerly of Great Barrington died on November 1, 2015. Ruth was born December 20, 1939 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts to Lee and Alice Kellogg. She was the youngest of the four Kellogg children. Ruth graduated from Searles High School in Great Barrington in 1957, and began work in the offices of Great Barrington Manufacturing. In...
Phyllis Harriet Katz
Oct 27, 2015
Phyllis (Steiner) Katz (78), of South Florida and Lenox, MA, passed away peacefully on October 27, 2015. Phyllis, a graduate of Weequahic High School, University of Chicago and Columbia University, was predeceased by her beloved husband of 55 years, Eli G. Katz. Phyllis was an adored Girl Scout leader and skilled clinical social worker. She co-owned and grew a business...
Jean E. Curtiss
Oct 18, 2015
Jean E. Curtiss died peacefully at the age of 92, in her sleep early Sunday morning October 18, 2015 at her home of 66 years in Sheffield after a brief illness. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Exton she was born in Paris, France where they lived until the German invasion in 1940. The American family of five received...
Richard Scott Burow, Esq.
Oct 18, 2015
Richard Scott Burow, 66, of Main Street passed away on Sunday, October 18, 2015 at his home in Stockbridge where he had lived since 1993. Born March 23, 1949 in Newton, MA he was the son of Richard E. Burow and the late Barbara Duston Burow. He earned his Bachelor's of Arts Degree from the American University in Washington D.C....
Esther "Tess" Iredale
Oct 17, 2015
NOTE: This tribute to Esther "Tess" Iredale was shared by her daughter Jane Iredale and Jane's husband Bob Montgomery with their colleagues at Iredale Mineral Cosmetics in Great Barrington. She moved into her first house by horse and cart; she died under the shadow of drones. Esther (Tess) Iredale was 102. Born in 1913 as the First World War claimed...
Mildred Pevzner
Oct 16, 2015
Mildred Pevzner passed away peacefully in Kensington, Maryland on October 16, 2015. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts on November 10, 1922, she was a daughter of Jacob and Dora Cohen. She graduated from Newburyport High School in 1940 and moved to Great Barrington after her marriage to Jack B. Pevzner in Roxbury, MA in 1946. In 1954, Mildred and her husband...
Baukje P. Cohen
Oct 10, 2015
Baukje P. Cohen, 87, of Manhattan, NY, and Ashley Falls, MA, succumbed to Alzheimer disease on Saturday, October 10. Devoted wife of Noel and mother of Mark, mother-in-law to Sheila, and grandmother to Kaitlyn and Christopher, aunt to Kathy, Mitch, and Sabrina, Lauren, Savannah, and Allison. A wonderful woman, talented artist, former head of the hematology laboratory at the university...
Dr. Marvin Ira Shapiro
Oct 8, 2015
It is with profound sadness that we mourn the loss of Dr. Marvin Ira Shapiro (1939-2015), son of Benjamin and Lillian (deceased), adoring husband to Roberta, loving father and father-in-law to Gregg and Renee, Rachel and Brandon and Lori and Neil, doting grandfather to Sam, Colbie, Ari, Miriam, Laurel and Davis, devoted brother to Barbara and Marty (deceased), Stan and...
Evelyn Augusta Guartha
Oct 6, 2015
Evelyn Augusta Guartha, 100, a lifelong resident of Reed Street, passed away at the Great Barrington Nursing Home on Maple Avenue on October 6, 2015, where she had resided for the past few years. Evelyn was born in Great Barrington on March 15, 1915, daughter of Frank S. and May Hutchinson Guartha. She was a 1933 graduate of the...
Elizabeth (Bess) Arienti
Oct 5, 2015
Elizabeth F. Arienti (Bess), 96, a longtime resident of Great Barrington passed away Monday morning, October 5, 2015. Born December 20, 1918 in Hartford, CT she was the daughter of Frank and Mary (Gawel) Zagata. She attended local schools in Turner Falls, MA. She married her husband, the late Fermo Arienti on June 7, 1941 in Vermont. Together the couple...
