4X 1 B6 OBITUARIES, WASHINGTON Union-News, Thursday, June 1, 2000 I Tristan J. Molongoski, victim of bike accident GREENFIELD Tristan J. Molor longoski, 17, of 170 Hope and 5 TS St. in the Turners Falls section of Mc Montague, died Tuesday at Franklin lin Medical Center after being injur jured Police in a said motorcycle accident. his motorcycle str struck a utility pole on Laurel Str Street.
Born in Greenfield, he was a jur junior He at leaves Greenfield his father, High School. Edmund Me Molongoski of Turners Falls; his mo mother, Kim James of Greenfield; at: a brother, Nicholas Pratt of Greenfie field; a sister, Carrie Molongoski of of the Florence section of Northampton; his grandmother, Vicki Jat James of Greenfield; his grandfathi ther and stepgrandmother, Richari ard and Ruth James of Buckland; an and his girlfriend, Katrina Adkins of of Greenfield. The funeral will be Saturday morning at Kostanski Funeral Home, with burial in Our Lady of Czestochowa Cemetery in Turners Fa Falls. Calling hours are Friday afternoon and evening. Memorial contributions may be made to the Greenfield Area Anim; mal Shelter, P.O.
Box 786, Greenm: fie field, MA 01302. Leo J. Bressette POMFRET, Conn. Leo J. Bressette, 87, of Deerfield Road, died Tuesday in the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Mass.
He was a machine operator and toolmaker at Pratt Whitney Aircraft Division of United Technologies Corp. in East Hartford and retired in 1976. He also was a self-employed roofing contractor in Massachusetts for, many years. Born in Palmer, he lived in Pomfret since last year. He had lived in Cavendish, for 27 years and in Norwich and the Springfield, area.
He was a communicant of Most Holy Trinity Church and a former member of the Elks Lodge. He leaves his wife, the former Simone Joly: two sons, Leo J. Jr. of Florida and Gene of Michigan; three daughters, Connie Hebert and Patricia Biagini, both of West Springfield, and Joan Palmero of Palmer; a stepson, Paul O'Connell of Danielson; eight stepdaughters, Gloria Bernard of Brooklyn, Shirley Lynch of Woodstock, Beatrice Riley of North Grosvenordale, Evelyn Mathieu of Woodstock; Dianne Mayo of Killingly, Priscilla Richardson of Putnam, Susan Smith of Norwich and Jane Delaney Griswold; a brother, Russell of Monson, a sister, Eleanor Lynch of Sun City, grandchildren; and great-grandchildren. The funeral will be Saturday morning at Smith Walker Funeral Home of Putnam and the church, with burial at the convenience of the family in St.
Mary Cemetery, Putnam. Calling hours are Friday evening. Memorial contributions may be made to the church at P.O. Box 235, Pomfret, CT.06259-0235. Aldine M.
Bednar CHICOPEE Aldine M. (Laviolette) Bednar, 84, of 400 Britton died Wednesday at Baystate Medical Center i in Springfield. She was an assembler at Co. in Connecticut for 30 years. Born in Lawrence, she lived in Milford most of her life before moving to Chicopee two years ago.
She was a communicant of St. Ann's Church. Her husband, Joseph E. Bednar, died in 1998. She leaves a son, Joseph C.
of Westfield; two brothers, Ernest Laviolette and Victor Laviolette, and a sister, Evelyn Siegel, all of Lawrence; and five grandchildren. The funeral will be Friday morning at Funeral Home and the church, with burial in St. John Cemetery in Stratford, Conn. Calling hours are late this afternoon to early evening. contributions may be made to St.
Ann's Church, College Street, Chicopee, MA 01020. Tina M. Siano SPRINGFIELD The funeral of Tina M. (Tuttle) Siano, 31, will be Saturday morning at Sampson's Chapel of the Acres Funeral Home and St. Catherine of Siena Church, both in Springfield.
Burial will be in Island Pond Cemetefy, Ludlow. She died Saturday al Metro West Hospital in Framingham. She leaves her husband, James J. Siano III; a son, Matthew A. Delisle of the Three Rivers section of Palmer; two daughters, Christy A.
Delisle of Three Rivers and Christina M. Tuttle of Springfield; her mother and stepfather, Gloria (Harnois) Cobleigh and George Cobleigh of Springfield; her father, Richard Tuttle of Fort Pierce, a grandmother, Bella (Cheverett) Harnois of Warren; three brothers, Richard Tuttle Jr. of Connecticut, David Tuttle of Springfield and Daniel Tuttle of Washington state: and a sister, Lisa Tuttle of Springfield. A daughter, Monique E. Delisle, died in 1991.
1. Obituaries Charlotte M. HYANNIS Charlotte M. (Mooney) Dazelle, 80, of 16 Garden Lane, died Monday at Cape Cod Hospital. She worked for the state Welfare Department in Westfield and Falmouth for 20 years.
Born in in East Northfield, she was raised in Springfield and was a graduate of the city's Commerce High School. She lived in Westfield for many years before moving to the Cape in 1982. Her husband, David J. Dazelle, died in 1990. She leaves two daughters, Patricia A.
Balicki of Kona, Hawaii, and Nancy G. Wall of East Otis; four grandsons; and four great-grandchildren. The funeral will be Friday morning at Robert E. Cusack Funeral Home, with burial in St. Mary's Cemetery, both in Westfield.
A calling hour will precede the service. Memorial contributions may be made to the National Kidney Foundation, 390 Main Suite 412, Worcester, MA 01608. Sylvia Sexton WESTFIELD Sylvia (Preble) Sexton, 64, of 100 Lockhouse Road, died Tuesday at home. She was a 35-year secretary for in Springfield. Born in Braintree, she graduated from Braintree High School and lived in Brattleboro, before moving to Westfield 40 years ago.
She leaves a son, Timothy of Alexandria, two daughters, Denice Paroline of the Feeding Hills section of Agawam and Christine Sexton of Westfield; a sister, Diana Proble. of Arizona; four grandchildren; and' her longtime companion, Norm McNamara of Westfield. The funeral will be Saturday morning at Robert E. Cusack Funeral Home, with in Mary's Cemetery. Calling hours are Friday evening.
Mayzel A. Skrove MADELIA, Minn. Myzel A. (Kneeland) Skrove, 67, of this town, died May 21 at' Madelia Community Hospital. Born in Westford Township, Martin County, Iowa, she attended schools in Truman and was a member of Augustana Lutheran Church in St.
James. She leaves. her husband, Milton Skrove; two sons, Mike of St. Peter and Brian of Fairmont; six laughters, Faith Allen of Reno, Debra McCarron of Rochester, Terri Schmitter of South Hadley, Connie Anderson of Eagle Lake, Marcia Klebel of Kasson, and Carol Justice of Ringsted, Iowa; four sisters, Ruth Krenz of Madelia, Norma Hogge of Chicago, Maxine Hoppe of Trimont, and Darlene Brummond of Truman; and 19 grandchildren. The funeral was at the church, with burial in Haugen Lutheran Cemetery, Jackson.
Sturm Funeral Home of St. James was in charge. unt James T. Drew SPRINGFIELD The funeral of James T. Drew, 74, of 817 Sumner will be Friday morning at St.
John's Congregational Church, with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. He died Saturday at Baystate Medical Center. A lifelong resident, he was a graduate of the former Springfield Technical High School. He was a member and former usher of St. John's Congregational Church.
He leaves his wife of 51 years, the former Muriel B. Jones; a son, Gregory D. of Springfield; three daughters, Susan E. Drew of Dunwoody, and Holly E. Drew and Stacey B.
Drew, both of Springfield; and two grandchildren. Calling hours are this evening at the church. Henderson Funeral Home is in charge. Keith E. Bennett TAMPA, Fla.
Keith E. Bennett, 47, of this city, and formerly of Wilbraham, died here May 23. Born in Wilbraham, he was a 1970 graduate of Minnechaug Regional High School. He served in the Navy and lived in Tampa for the past 20 years. He leaves his father, Warren L.
Bennett of Merritt Island; and two brothers, Gary and Steven, and a sister, Diana, all of Merritt Island. There are no services. Morning Glory Funeral Home of Tampa is in charge. Eleanor L. Holsten WEST SPRINGFIELD The funeral of Eleanor L.
(Wuester) Holsten, 87, of 36 Shady Brook Lane, will be private and at the convenience of the family. She died Monday at home. Her husband, George Holsten, died in 1998. She leaves two sons, Dr. Steven of Monson and Dr.
George of West Springfield; a daughter. Ellen Jamison of Souderton, seven grandchildren; and seven greatgrandchildren. Other obituaries on Page B5 Flora Reinhold SPRINGFIELD Flora (Alexopoulos) Reinhold, 78, of 152 Windemere died Wednesday at Baystate Medical Center. She was a retired head waitress at the former Windsor Grill in East Windsor, Conn. Born in the Thompsonville section of Enfield, she lived in Springfield for 30 years.
She belonged to the Southwick Country Club and won its women's club championship in 1982. She leaves her husband, Raymond Reinhold; a stepson, Lawrence Reinhold of Virginia; a stepdaughter, Patricia Edelman of Georgia; two brothers, Christy Alexopoulos of South Hadley and Michael Alexopoulos of Suffield, and three sisters, Bessie Nash of East Windsor, Lilly Kane of East Longmeadow and Elaine Ford of Suffield, The funeral will be Saturday morning at Nowak Funeral Home in the Indian Orchard section, with burial in Pine Hill Cemetery, Westfield. A calling hour will precede the service. Robert Fryer, 79; Broadway producer New York Times Robert Fryer, the producer or; co-producer including of many "Wonderful Broadway "Auntie Mame" and its musical adaptation "Sweet Charity," "Chicago" and "Noises Off," died on Sunday at a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 79 and lived in Angeles.
The cause was complications from Parkinson's disease, said the producer Martin Richards. A distinguished man of the theater, Fryer not only presented shows, he also often invented them, or. at least brought together a' subject and artists who could transform an idea into a success. His shows won dozens of Tony awards in various categories, and he himself won three as producer for "Wonderful Town," "Redhead" (with Lawrence Carr) and "Sweeney Todd." With "Wonderful Town," in 1953. Fryer bought the rights to the play "My Sister Eileen" by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov and to the original Ruth McKenney stories on which the play was based.
Then he told George Abbott that Rosalind Russell had agreed to star in the musical, and he told Russell that Abbott would be the director. Neither had yet been signed, but both a agreed to do the musical, as did Leonard Bernstein as composer, and Betty Comden and Adolph Green as lyricists. "Wonderful Town," which ran for 559 performances on Broadway, won a Tony award as best musical and a Tony for Russell as best actress in a musical. In 1959 Fryer produced a television version, again starring Russell. Fryer's role was similar with his first production, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" in 1951.
He and Abbott acquired the rights to the Betty Smith novel, Arthur Schwartz and Dorothy Fields wrote the score, and Shirley Booth became the star. Both Russell and Booth returned to work again for Fryer, Russell in "Auntie Mame," Booth in "Desk Set" and "By the Beautiful Sea." Gwen Verdon, another Fryer star, was in "Redhead" and "Sweet Charity." Although Fryer was best known for musicals, he also produced plays: "Advise and Consent," two by Neil Simon Suite" and "Biloxi and three by Michael Frayn Off," "Wild Honey" and For many years, his career focused on Broadway, but he was also a film producer, including "The Boston Strangler," "The Prime of Jean Brodie" (with Maggie Smith), "Mame" (with Lucille Ball) and "The Shining." From 1971 to 1988 he was the director of the Ahmanson Theater at the Los Angeles Music Center. Fryer was born in Washington, graduated from Western Reserve University in Cleveland and served with the U.S. Army during World War II. He is survived by a sister, Eleanor Massell, of Atlanta.
He began his theatrical training with Richard Aldrich and Abbott. After working at CBS television as casting director, he moved to Broadway, where he often produced in collaboration with Lawrence Carr. GOOD ADVICE Dear Abby has the answer daily in the Uniont 3 Dr. Petter Lindstrom, Bergman's ex-husband Associated Press LOS ANGELES Dr. Petter Lindstrom, a neurosurgeon who was abandoned by wife Ingrid Bergman in a high-profile affair a ma, home on.
May 24. He half-century ago, a died in his Sonowas 93. Lindstrom was married to Bergman for 10 years, moving with her from Sweden to this country when her acting career took off here in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Bergman began an affair with Italian director Roberto Rossellini in 1948, leaving her husband and their daughter, Pia, to live with Rossellini in Italy. She bore him a son, Roberto.
The love triangle and out-ofwedlock birth shocked Bergman fans who were used to seeing the screen idol playing nuns and martyrs. The U.S. Senate even denounced the affair from the floor. She divorced Lindstrom in 1950 to marry Rossellini, and their eight-year marriage produced two more children, Ingrid and Isabella. Isabella Rossellini became a noted actress in her own right.
Bergman, whose film credits included "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness," "Autumn Sonata," and "A Woman Called Golda," died in 1982. Lindstrom remained bitter about Bergman's abandonment, and helped biographer Laurence Leamer portray her as a promiscuous woman more concerned about her acting than her children in the 1986 book, "As Time Goes By, The Life of Ingrid Bergman." He was a dentist and eight years older than Bergman when they married in Stockholm: After joining his wife in Hollywood, he switched from dentistry to brain surgery and became a U.S. citizen; Lindstrom later taught neurosurgery at the University of California, Los Angeles. He held a practice in San. Francisco from 1964 until 1978 before relocating to San Diego.
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VA care spared Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D- calls it a victory for all New England veterans. By CAREN BENJAMIN Associated Press WASHINGTON New England's veterans' health care system will not suffer the sweeping job cuts that had been expected this year, officials. announced yesterday.
"This decision'ts a victory for all veterans in Massachusetts and New England," said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. "I hope it means that we have finally turned the corner on improving health care and other services for veterans in our region." About 500,000 veterans live in' Massachusetts. The state has lost $54 million in veterans' health funding in recent years.
Bay State lawmakers have complained that their hospitals and clinics have been subject to deeper cuts than those in other states in the same VA area network. Last June, Sen. John Kerry, D- put a hold on the renomination of Dr. Kenneth Kizer as head of the Department of Veterans Affairs' hospital system. Kerry said he felt that Kizer was not a strong advocate for veterans.
8 Kizer subsequently withdrew from consideration for the post. system job cuts In the fall, the region's then-director asked New England medical centers to develop a list of positions that could be cut to help balance the system's books. In December, the all-Democratic Massachusetts congressional delegation wrote to VA Secretary Togo West, asking him to reconsider the cuts. which would have affected about 315 jobs in Massachusetts. Previous budget cuts have already weakened the veterans' health system in Massachusetts, the lawmakers wrote.
"Veterans are waiting longer to get medical appointments VA nurses in our state are threatening to leave their jobs out of frustration, because they do not have sufficient resources to care for their patients The network director, Dr. Jeannette Chirico-Post, said in yesterday's letter that she agrees with her predecessor that the system is in dire financial straits. But she has also seriously considered what can be done besides job cuts officially known as reductions in force (RIFs). "I have had the opportunity to meet many of our employees as I have traveled around the network," she wrote. "These opportunities have reaffirmed my belief that our employees are our most valuable resource.
RIF is one of several tools at our disposal, but its use at this time may not be appropriate or in the best interest of the organization." Li PI of in fc M. la is al fo ti O' OPP r. r. 0.4 0 6 tire r'. 1.
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