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 Zelda Josephine Brandon
August 16, 2004
Zelda Josephine Brandon, 83, of 56 Lillian St. died Monday evening at Berkshire Medical Center.
Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 15, 1920, daughter of Louis and Rena Bettini Brandon, she was a 1938 graduate of Pittsfield High School and a 1939 graduate of the former Marcel Academy of Beauty.
She also attended Westfield State College to become certified as a vocational instructor and took a number of advanced cosmetology courses.
Miss Brandon was owner and operator of Zelda's Beauty Shoppe on North Street and later Merrill Road from 1947 until selling the business in 1971. She had earlier worked for eight years at other salons.
She taught cosmetology at Springfield Technical Community College for a year before becoming the first cosmetology teacher in the vocational department at Pittsfield High School. She left after 18 years to run Bernard Beauty Supply Co. full time, which she had purchased two years earlier. She retired in 1985.
She was a member of the national and state cosmetologists associations for many years, and an officer of the former Pittsfield and South Berkshire Cosmetologists Association.
She was founding president of the Berkshire Cosmetologists Association, and served as an officer from 1981 until her retirement. In 1988, the association honored her "50 years of enthusiasm and dedication" to cosmetology.
In 1990, she led a group opposing the construction of a natural gas pipeline through Richmond and her neighborhood to the former Altresco plant. She became a legal intervenor in the matter and led a successful petition drive against the City Council's approval of the line. A compromise led to the pipeline being relocated to affect fewer homes.
She leaves two nieces and two nephews.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- The funeral for Zelda J. Brandon, who died Aug. 16, 2004, will be Wednesday evening at 7 at DERY FUNERAL HOME, 54 Bradford St., Pittsfield. Calling hours will precede the service from 4 to 7. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to The Berkshire Eagle Santa Toy Fund or the cosmetology department at Pittsfield High School, both in care of the funeral home.
She is survived by two nieces, Nancy M. Brindley and Bette Jean Trybus, both of Pittsfield; two nephews, Richard B. White and James F. White, both of Pittsfield, and many grandnieces and grandnephews. She was predeceased by her beloved sister, Serena M. White, on Feb. 23, 2004.
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