Annie L. Mccormick
Dec 3, 2015
Annie L. McCormick, 87, a longtime resident of Pixley Hill Road in West Stockbridge passed away December 3, 2015 after a short illness in Melbourne, Florida. She had been living in The Villages, Florida since 2004. Mrs. McCormick is survived by two sons, Willard “Will” G. Losaw, Jr. and wife Young Su of Pittsfield, MA, Stephen D. Losaw of Pittsfield,...
Violet M. Cronk
Dec 2, 2015
Violet M. Cronk, 92, passed away at Geer Nursing & Rehabilitation on December 2, 2015. Born on February 18, 1923, in New Marlborough, she was the daughter of Robert and Helen Bailey McLean. She was educated in local schools. She married her husband Paul Cronk, Sr. in 1945 and they lived in Ashley Falls where they raised their family. Violet...
Michael C. Stephen
Nov 25, 2015
~ The family invites people to join them for a memorial gathering on Sunday, January 10, 2016 from 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. at Castle Street Cafe, 10 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230. Michael C. Stephen, 75, of Main Street, Stockbridge passed away on November 25, 2015 at Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City. Born July...
Gerald "Hank" Cooper
Nov 24, 2015
Gerald “Hank” R. Cooper, 93, passed away on November 24, 2015 at Craneville Place in Dalton, MA. Born in Glendale, MA on February 9, 1922, he was the son of William and Edith Bechtel Cooper. He was educated in local schools and graduated for the former Williams High School in Stockbridge, MA. After graduation, Hank served four years in the...
Katherine D. Zink
Nov 22, 2015
Katherine D. Zink, 48, passed away suddenly on November 22, 2015 at Fairview Hospital. Born on January 14, 1967 in Massapequa, NY, she was the daughter of Christian and Elizabeth Campbell Behne. Katherine was a graduate of Mt. Everett Regional High School in Sheffield, class of 1985. She worked for many years at Berkshire Bark as a chocolate maker, a...
Rose Joan Balestro
Nov 21, 2015
Rose Joan Balestro, 98 of West Stockbridge died peacefully on November 21, 2015 at Fairview Commons Nursing and Rehab Center. She was born in the family home in West Stockbridge on September 5, 1917, the youngest of nine children of Antonio and Antonia Veronesi Consolini. Rose attended local schools and graduated from the former Williams High School. She was a...
Barbara P. Robbins
Nov 20, 2015
Mrs. Barbara P. Robbins, 93, passed away on Friday, November 20, 2015. Born in Cummington, MA on May 29, 1922 she was the daughter Jesse R. and Myrtle Streeter Porter. She married her husband, the late Horace “Hob” Robbins on June 17, 1944 in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Together the couple made their home in Sheffield in the early 1950’s. Barbara...
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...
