Service Saturday for Patricia Olmsted

NORTHAMPTON - A memorial service for Patricia C. Olmsted (1924-2009) will be held Saturday afternoon, Sept. 26, at 1 p.m. at Helen Hills Hills Chapel in Northampton.

Service Saturday for Earl Richardson

GOSHEN - Earl E. Richardson passed away on Sept. 20, at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton. Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. in Goshen at the Congregational Church with burial to follow in Goshen Cemetery on Saturday, Sept. 26. A complete obituary will be in the Gazette on Friday, Sept. 25. Childs Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Jean Bilsza, 81, lifelong Northampton resident

NORTHAMPTON - Jean (Shoro) Bilsza, 81, of Haydenville Road, died Monday, Sept. 21, in Linda Manor Nursing Home.

Robert Parsons, 89, WWII vet, VA employee

WILLIAMSBURG - Robert T. Parsons, 89, of Williamsburg, died on Sept. 19 at the Linda Manor Nursing facility after a brief illness.

Joseph Stokes Jr., 62, banker, taught at UMass

LEVERETT - Joseph C. Stokes Jr., 62, of Leverett, died Saturday, Sept. 19, at his home.

Marjorie Wright, 100, longtime teacher

NORTHAMPTON - Marjorie (Bullock) Wright, of 349 Haydenville Road, Leeds, died peacefully on Monday, Sept. 21, at the age of 100 at the Linda Manor Nursing Home.

Marjorie was born June 27, 1909, in Worcester. She was the daughter of the late Horatio Van Bullock and Ruth Esther Ferguson. Married to the late Joseph O. Wright, she lived most of her 100 years in Springfield.

Service Saturday for Patricia Olmsted

NORTHAMPTON - A memorial service for Patricia C. Olmsted (1924-2009) will be held Saturday afternoon, Sept. 26, at 1 p.m. at Helen Hills Hills Chapel in Northampton.