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 Martha D. Harris
July 31, 2007
Martha D. Harris, 92, of 17 Colt Road died yesterday at home.
Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 8, 1914, daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth Teti Ruscio, she graduated from Pittsfield High School in 1934 and from New England School of X-ray Technology in 1939. She also attended the University of Connecticut.
Mrs. Harris was employed as an executive medical secretary in the department of pathology at St. Francis' Hospital in Hartford, Conn., retiring in 1976. Before that, she was employed as an X-ray technician.
She was a communicant of Mount Carmel Church and a member of its Ladies' Guild and a communicant of St. Teresa's Church.
She was a member of the Leadership Circle, Doris Day Animal League, and the National Humane Education and Berkshire Humane societies. She was also a charter member of the Valencia Society of St. Francis' Hospital Medical Center, a former member of the Women's Club of Pittsfield and a former Confraternity od Christian Doctrine teacher at St. Teresa's Church. She enjoyed paintings.
Her husband, Howard M. Harris Jr., whom she married Aug. 23, 1980, died May 12, 1994.
She leaves a stepson, Howard M. Harris III of Springwater, N.Y.; three stepdaughters, Meg Harris of Del Mar, Calif., and Marian Harris and Holly Harris, both of Pittsfield; eight step-grandchildren; and a step-grandson.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- A Liturgy of Christian Burial for Martha D. Ruscio Harris, who died Tuesday, July 31, 2007, will be celebrated Friday at 10 a.m. at St. Teresa's Church by the Rev. Mark Mengel, pastor. Burial will follow in the family plot in St. Joseph's Cemetery.
She also leaves a stepdaughter-in-law, Bonnie Harris; and several nieces and nephews. Martha was predeceased by two brothers, Bruno J. Ruscio and Nicholas P. Ruscio, and by two sisters, Maria Celia Rash and Katherine R. Salvadore Barbas.
There will be no calling hours. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Berkshire Humane Society, in care of FLYNN & DAGNOLI-BENCIVENGA FUNERAL HOME, 5 Elm St., Pittsfield, MA 01201, which is in charge of arrangements.
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