Nell loved animals and was a veterinarian technician for many years. Later, she was a library assistant at the Berkshire Hills Regional School District.
Tag: Thursday Morning Club
Agnes Walker, 96, of Great Barrington
She taught many women to sew through the adult education program at Monument Mountain Regional High School.
Maryanna Macy, 94, of Great Barrington
She was the school nurse at the Searles/Bryant school from 1978 until her retirement in 1987.
Josephine Mallory, 94, formerly of Great Barrington
She worked as a switchboard operator for Wheeler and Taylor, then for the General Electric’s drafting department in Pittsfield, the E.M. Ryder Jewelry Store in Great Barrington, and then was the assistant town clerk for the town of Great Barrington for 11 years.
Wilma Darada, 98, of Great Barrington
She knitted sweaters with children’s names for her mail order business, Wilma’s Sweaters and Things, until 2010.
Mary Ann (Larkin) Sullivan, 82, of Newport, Rhode Island, formerly of Great Barrington
She was a dedicated daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, organizer and party planner. If there was a committee, Mary Ann was on it.
Sabina Ullrich, 88, of North Canaan, Conn., formerly of Sheffield
She was a charter member of the Sheffield Garden Club, the Thursday Morning Club, a past member of the Sheffield Historical Society, an honorary member of the Sheffield Kiwanis and a Cub Scouts den mother in Sheffield.
CONNECTIONS: A tour of Berkshire abodes
Berkshire County is particularly interesting as an architectural exhibit. Given New England practicality or parsimony or respect for our history, we didn’t always tear down and build new: We save our old houses.
Bits & Bytes: BBG Harvest Festival; First Fridays Artswalk; Thursday Morning Club house tour; ‘The Lost Forests of New England’; Grafton Peace Pagoda anniversary
The Thursday Morning Club will present its second annual house tour Saturday, Oct. 6, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
History markers in curious places: A quiz for Berkshire explorers
Why are we honoring a massacre? On the other hand, how many monuments are there to Native American maltreatment? It’s a rare admission of how fiercely we wrestled New England from its indigenous people.
Norma Spaulding, 90, formerly of Great Barrington
Norma was a former member of the Order of the Eastern Star, the Thursday Morning Club and the First Congregational Church of Great Barrington.
Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Boddie, 82, of Great Barrington
Betty was also a former special policewoman for the Town of Great Barrington, a volunteer at Fairview Hospital and Marian Fathers Helpers.
Alice Wilmot, 91, of West Stockbridge, trustee, deacon, Sunday School teacher
Alice was a great believer in the collective power of people to work together to make the world a better place.
Bits & Bytes: House tour to benefit scholarship fund; food security talks; ‘Dear White People’ at Mason Library; college fair at BCC; waste oil & paint collection
Authors Andy Fisher and Brian Donahue are prominent leaders in the national and regional food and farming landscapes.
Alice Horonzy Guidi, 97, formerly of Great Barrington
She was employed at Searles Middle School as a secretary until her retirement in 1982. Alice also volunteered at the Fairview Hospital gift shop and the Red Cross blood bank.
CONNECTIONS: Alternating fortunes as Great Barrington electrifies
In 1798, Timothy Dwight, president of Yale College, described Great Barrington and its buildings as “decayed…barely decent…ruinous.” He blamed it on the residents who were not properly religious.
Nancy W. Heady, 88, of Great Barrington
Nancy was a member of the Thursday Morning Club and the Fairview Hospital Auxiliary, and was a volunteer at the Fairview Hospital endoscopy department, a position which she loved and held until shortly before her death.
Coralice “Coree” Michaelyan, 92, of Great Barrington
Coree was a member of the Thursday Morning Club, a past volunteer at the Great Barrington senior center, a past member of the local chapter of the NAACP and a lifelong proud Democrat.
Jean Curtis, 93, of Sheffield, ran school lunch programs
Jean worked for many years running the school lunch programs at Mt. Everett and New Marlborough Schools.
Bits & Bytes: Storyteller Kevin O’Hara Christmas program; Berkshire Concert Choir at Ventfort Hall; ‘Christmastime in the City;’ ‘All Band Together;’ ‘Beneath the Surface’ photo show
Kevin O’Hara grew up in Pittsfield in the 1950s and ‘60s, an experience recounted in his book “A Lucky Irish Lad.”
CONNECTIONS: Invitation from the 124-year-old Thursday Morning Club
The goals of the club are to promote education, civic involvement, preservation and the arts.
Barbara B. Walker, 81, of Great Barrington
Barbara Walker was a 1952 graduate of the former Searles High School. She worked for many years as a secretary and bookkeeper for Home Gas.
Mary M. Lucey, 100, of Great Barrington, retired secretary at Great Barrington Savings Bank
Mary was overjoyed to attend her 100th birthday party with her loving family and friends. She loved reading and doing crossword puzzles.
Muriel Rokos, 95, of South Egremont
An active member of the community, Mrs. Rokos was a charter member of the Sheffield Historical Society and the Thursday Morning Club. She volunteered at Fairview Hospital, drove for the Road to Recovery program of American Cancer Society and was a member of the Quilters’ Guild of Great Barrington.
Natalie Scholes Goranson, 85, educator for Berkshire Hills School District
Natalie was a longtime employee of Berkshire Hills Regional School District, teaching home economics at Monument Mountain High School and then at Searles Middle School. She initiated and developed the curriculum for the nursery school at Monument Mountain, which continues in existence to this day.
Joan E. Polesak, 80, of Alford, weather spotter, founding member of ambulance squad, member of Thursday Morning Club
Joan was very active in the community: She was a weather spotter, founding member of ambulance squad, a member of Thursday Morning Club. the Alford Gardening Club, the Alford Cemetery Commission, and a member of the Ski Patrol at Stratton Mountain, Vermont.