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B2 The Berkshire Eagle, Sunday, February 6, 1994 City Town Obituaries No-smoking group shuns negatives! offers Disney World trip to quitte Dinn, Richard F. Fairbanks, Leo J. Hamel, Agnes Menard Menard. Avis Loper Roche, Thomas R. Williams, Lydia Leroy On Feb.

16, the coalition will hold an organizational meeting with representatives of 17 communities, including members of health organizations and town boards, youth groups, churches, businesses, councils on aging, civic groups, smokers and non-smokers. The meeting will take place at the First Congregational Church from 3:30 to 5 p.m. The coalition's aim will be to reduce "environmental tobacco" in the communities served toy the grant, said Terry. The Tri-Town Health Board of Health has implemented phased-in no-smoking policy for public places and businesses in the three towns it serves: Lee, Lenox and Stockbridge. There are also restrictions on the sale of cigarettes through vending machines and fines up to $300 for illegal cigarette sales to minors.

"We'll expand on those policies and try to bring some form of them to other communities," said Terry. The towns in the coalition include Hinsdale, Washington, Lenox, West Stockbridge, Becket, Sandisfield, Tyringham, Monterey, New Marlboro, Stockbridge, Great Barringtpn, Sheffield, Eg- By Ellen G. Lahr Berkshire Eagle Staff LEE Attention smokers! Win a trip for two to Disney World! All you have to do is, well, kick the habit. The Disney World contest is just one of the programs that will get under way this year as the newly established South County Anti-Smoking Coalition helps smokers quit, implements smoking prevention programs and aids more than a dozen towns in developing smoking regulations. "It's going to be positive, positive, nothing negative," said Peter J.

Kolodziej, sanitarian for the Tri-Town Health Department. State grant The coalition, formed with a new $75,000 state grant from Department of Public Health cigarette tax revenues, is administered by the Tri-Town Health Department, the Lee Visiting Nurse Association and the office of State Rep. Christopher J. Hodgkins. Sharon A.

Terry of Lee was hired last month as the full-time program director, and Lynn M. Bokankowitz of Pittsfield has filled a part-time position. Leo Fairbanks; trucking firm's founder HOOSICK FALLS, Y. Leo J. Fairbanks, 80, of Fairbanks Road, the father of Dr.

Donald E. Fairbanks of Pittsfield, died in the emergency room at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, Bennington, yesterday morning after being stricken at his home. Born on Sept. 30, 1913, in Jackson, the son of John and Sadie Ann Costello Fairbanks, he attended school in Cambridge. In 1935 he married Charlotte Smith, who died in August 1962.

In 1939 Mr. Fairbanks established Fairbanks Express Trucking Co. in Cambridge, and then moved the business to its present location on the North Hoosick Road. He retired as president of Fairbanks Express Co. in 1983.

He enjoyed his cottage and boat on Lake Bomoseen, Vt, and his home in Hollywood, Fla. He was the past exalted ruler and district deputy of Northeast District of B.P.O.E. Elks Lodge, Hoosick Falls. He was also a lifetime member and past president of the Hoosick Falls Kiwanis Club, and a former member of the board of directors of Key Bank and Home Savings and Loan. He was a communicant of Immaculate Conception Church.

Besides his son, he leaves his wife, the former Eleanor Green, whom he married Nov. 17, 1972, in Hoosick Falls; another son, Richard J. Fairbanks of Hoosick Falls; a sister, Mrs. Margaret Benn of Bennington, a brother, Harold Fairbanks of Cambridge; ten grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. His daughter, Mrs.

Shirley Ann Fin-igan, died Jan. 12, 1993. A Liturgy of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 on Tuesday at Immaculate Conception ChQrch, Main Street, Hoosick Falls. Burial will be in Woodlands Cemetery, Cambridge, on May 21 at 2. Calling hours at the Robson-Stegeman Funeral Home, 72 Main St, Hoosick Falls, are tomorrow from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9.

Memorial donations may be made to the Town of Hoosick Rescue Squad, the Hoosick Falls Food Pantry or Cheney Library, in care of the funeral home sit. Box 48, Hoosick Falls 12090-0048. Testing identifies remains remont, Alford and Mount Washington. In partnership with a similar Pittsfield-based coalition and the Callahan Sign the Lee-based organization will sponsor a bilT-board contest with an educational message about smoking. There will be educational T-shirt exchange and workplace policy seminars, Terry said.

The Disney World contest will involve participants who quit smoking for two months, with verification from a witness. The names of all people who quit will be placed in a hat, and a name will be drawn, she said. Terry said the grant, which runs out in September, will be refunded depending on the coalition's track record in encouraging people to kick the habit, implementing voluntary and required non-smoking policies in the coalition towns and educating the public about first and secondhand smoke. Terry has worked for Hospice-Care, where she has organized major fund-raisers including the annual Summerfest in Great Barrington. She is also the founder and co-director of Dreams of Joy, a Christmas giving project to help underprivileged people.

She is a certified secondary education teacher and has worked" as a logistics analyst at GE. She lives in Lee with her two sons. Bokankowitz will handle project events and administrative duties. She lives in Pittsfield with her husband and two children. official to discuss Bosnia PITTSFIELD "Bosnia Croatia: No Safe Haven" will be the topic of a lecture by Michelle Christides at 12:15 p.m.

Thursday in the Koussevitzky Arts Center at Berkshire Community College. Christides, a former program officer for the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, will provide an insider's view of the "stark absence of safe havens in the war-torn regions, where even the U.N.'s refugee camps offer no protection." She has taught European studies at the college level and has been an international trade consultant. She attended the Uni'r versity of Michigan, the University of California at Berkeley and the Carl Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. While in Zurich, she became part of a team of specialists who volunteered for hazardous duty stations at U.N. refugee camps iri Croatia and Bosnia.

Christides now lives in the Berkshires, where she practices Jung-oriented psychotherapy arid teaches Western civilization at BCC. Her lecture, part of BCC's Forum series, is free and open td the public. Lydia Williams, Scout camp founder STAMFORD. Vt Lydia Williams. 93, formerly of Mill Road, died yesterday at the Sweetbrook Nursing Home in Williamstown, where she had been admitted Feb.

9, 1993. Born in Stamford on Aug. 9, 1900, the daughter of Emile and Marianne Zwahlen Leroy, she attended local schools in Stamford and North Adams, Mass. She later attended Bridgeport (Conn.) Business College and transferred to and graduated from Drexel Business Institute of Philadelphia, Pa. She was a founder and lifelong member and former director of Camp Runels, a Girl Scout Camp that operated in Lowell, from 1926 to 1941.

During World War II she served as a nurses' aide and continued to do so after the war. She was an active volunteer for many years with the American Red Cross. She was a member of the Stamford Community Church. Her husband, Gordon R. Williams, died in 1961.

She leaves a sister, Mrs. Anne Perkins of Portland, and several nephews and nieces, including Mrs. Shirley Tremblay of Pittsfield, Mass. A memorial service will be held at a later date in Stamford Community Church. Burial will be private.

There are ncrballing hours. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Stamford Community Church through the Auge-San Soucie-Simmons Funeral Home, 46 North Church St, North Adams, 01247, which is in charge of arrangements. Agnes V. Hamel; former textile worker ADAMS Mrs. Agnes Vina Hamel, 81, of Newark Street died Friday at North Adams Regional Hospital, where she had been admitted earlier in the day.

Born in North Adams on May 25, 1912, the daughter of Alcide and Elisa Rougeau Menard, she attended Notre Dame Elementary school and moved to Adams in 1932. Mrs. Hamel worked for 18 years at the former Hoosac Cotton Mills in North Adams, retiring many years ago. She was a communicant of Notre Dame Church, Adams, and was an avid bingo player. Her husband, Harold L.

Hamel, died on July 19, 1993. They were married on July 20, 1931. She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Gail A. Rose of Cheshire, a gran-daughter and a great-grandaughter.

The funeral will be Tuesday at 9:15 from the Auge-Paciorek-Simmons Funeral Home, with a Liturgy of Christian Burial celebrated at 10 in Notre Dame Church. Burial will be in Belle-vue Cemetery, Adams. Richard F. Dinn; professor of anatomy WYNANTSKILL, BMFi Richard F. Dinn, 56, of Todd Drive, Wynantskill, died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, after being stricken while skiing at Jiminy Peak.

Born in Great Barrington, on July 29, 1937, son of the late Dr. John F. Dinn and Bertha Morrison Dinn, he lived in Wynantskill for the past 21 years. A graduate of St. Joseph's High School, Pittsfield, he received his bachelor's degree in 1961 from Siena College, Loudonville, and a master's degree in 1965 from the College of St.

Rose. He completed other graduate studies at Albany Medical College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Upstate Medical Center of Syracuse University. Mr. Dinn was a professor of anatomy and physiology at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy for the past 27 years, in the physicians' assistant and nursing programs. He was also a consultant for Coromed Inc.

of Troy, a member of the ethics committee and coach of the community college's golf team. He also currently held a position as collaborating professor for the New York State Regents External Degree Program and had authored and published several research papers on the subject of human physiology. He was a member-of the Frear Golf Association, the Troy AO.H. Golf League, past president of the Wynantskill Board of Education and former member of the Troy Country Club. He was a communicant of St.

Francis de Sales Church, Troy. He was the husband of Carol Brunelle Dinn, whom he married in 1967. Besides his wife, he leaves a son, Sean R. Dinn of Buffalo, and two daughters, Mrs. Jennifer Fitzpatrick of Clifton Park and Miss Melissa Dinn of Wynantskill.

The funeral will be Tuesday at 9:15 from the Eugene M. McLoughlin Funeral Home, 3300 6th Troy, with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 10 in St. Francis de Sales Church. Burial will be in St. Peter's Cemetery, Troy.

Calling hours at the funeral home are tomorrow from 4 to 8. Memorial donations may be made to the Professor Richard F. Dinn Memorial Scholarship Fund at Hudson Valley Community College, in care of Hudson Valley Foundation Office, 80 Van-denburgh Troy, N.Y. 12180. Sweet Adelines to host sock hop DALTON The Berkshire Hills Chorus of Sweet Adelines is sponsoring a '50's sock hop on Saturday, Feb.

12, from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Dalton American Legion in Dalton. Disc Jockey Bert Amidon will hold dance contests for which prizes will be awarded. Free popcorn will be served.

The wearing of '50's outfits is optional. Tickets for the event, chaired by Sandra Stanley, may be purchased from chorus members or at the door for $5. For information one may call 442-2926. ROCHE, from Bl glad to let people know the search is over." The exact date and cause of death may be impossible to determine, said Young. Roche, who was 37 when he vanished, was born in Boston, the son of the late Thomas Joseph Roche, former assistant superintendent of schools in Pittsfield, and the late Barbara Ann Bowen Roche.

He grew up and attended schools in Warren, R.I., and Pittsfield, graduating from Pittsfield High School in 1973. After serving in the Navy, he returned to Pittsfield and began a management career that eventually led him to California. He was about to begin a new plant management job when he disappeared. Young said that for six months police considered her brother to be a missing person, until a letter arrived at his Burbank apartment from a man claiming to have killed him. Family members turned over the unsigned letter to police, but police couldn't trace it, said Young.

The letter stated that the body had been dumped in mountains around the Los Angeles area. When a man stumbled on what looked like a human skeleton and a few personal effects in January 1992, it wasn't in the Los Angeles area, but three hours north In a wooded area in the Sacramento Valley, according to a press release from the Placer County sheriff. A belt, a pair of glasses, a boot and a T-shirt were also found near the remains, and the items were identified by Roche's brother, Francis X. Roche of New York City. But, according to Young, police refused to issue a certificate of death based only on the identification of the items found at the scene.

Siblings tested Because his body was decomposed, medical and dental records were of little use in the identification, so each of the living siblings sent blood samples to the Department of Justice in Berkeley, Calif, where DNA testing began in November 1992. Young said her brother had moved to California with his companion, Barbara Rondeau, to escape the cold Northeast weather, which had aggravated arthritis in his knee. Besides his brother and sister, Thomas Roche leaves four other sisters, Barbara Roche of Cambridge, Catherine Roche Kotrba of Norfolk, Janet Roche of Maiden, Claire Roche Stewart of Coventry, R.I., and his companion, Barbara Rondeau of Coventry. A Liturgy of Christian Burial will be celebrated Feb. 12 at 1 by the Rev.

Gerald Grace in Our Lady of the Valley Church in Townshend. The White Funeral Home of Townshend is in charge of arrangements. There will be no calling hours. Avis Menard NORTH ADAMS Mrs. Avis Louise Costa Menard, 80, of 715 Walker St, Clarksburg, died yesterday at North Adams Regional Hospital.

She was born in Canisteo, N.Y., on May 1, 1913, the daughter of Melvin and Florence Heckart Loper, and attended schools in Canisteo. She had been a resident of North Berkshire since the age of 15. She leaves her husband, Milton A Menard, whom she married Feb. 8, 1947; a daughter, Mrs. Dolores Dawson of Clarksburg; four sons, Charles Costa of Louisville, Ohio, Robert Costa of the state of Florida, John Costa of Wallopen, and Joseph Costa of New Albany, 10 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.

At her request there will be no funeral. Burial will be private. There are no calling hours. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the American Heart Association in care of the Auge-San Soucie-Simmons Funeral Home, 46 North Church St, which is in charge of arrangements. ailing nours ai me runerai home are tomorrow from 7 to 9.

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