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Ella Winters
March 01, 2003
Ella Winters, 80, formerly of West Road, Sheffield, died Saturday at Hillcrest Commons, where she had resided for a year.
Born in Lenox on Feb. 6, 1923, daughter of Charles and Ethel Brasie Farrington, she was a 1941 graduate of Lenox High School and a 1945 graduate of the former St. Luke's School of Nursing. She moved to Sheffield in 1948.
She was employed as a registered nurse at Fairview Hospital's maternity ward, retiring in 1968.
Mrs. Winters was a communicant of Our Lady of the Valley Church and a member of its Ladies' Group. She was also a member, past district president and past Massachusetts District One director of American Legion Auxiliary Post 340 in Sheffield, past president of the Women's Club.
She was a volunteer for the Red Cross and recipient of pin number 248044. She enjoyed reading and playing bingo.
Her husband, James M. Winters, whom she married Feb. 15, 1947, in St. Ann's Church, died Oct. 31, 1990.
She leaves two daughters, Katherine M. Klahan and Patricia A. Delmolino, both of Lenox; a sister, Mary Ellen McCormick of Stockbridge; two grandchildren, and a great-grandson.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- Services for Ella Winters, who died Saturday, March 1, 2003, will be Wednesday, March 5, at 9 from BIRCHES-ROY FUNERAL HOME with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 10 at Our Lady of the Valley Church celebrated by the Rev. John Lis, pastor. Burial will follow in St. Peter's Cemetery. Family will receive friends tomorrow, March 4, from 4 to 7 at the funeral home.
Expressions of sympathy in Ella's name may be made to HospiceCare in the Berkshires, c/o Birches-Roy Funeral Home, 33 South St., Great Barrington, MA 01230. She leaves two grandchildren, Nancy A. Pieraccini and Tamara L. Replogle; a great-grandson, Joshua Cormier, whom she worshipped and cared for, and two godsons, Charles Farrington and James Masse.
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