Holyoke, Mass

[Adapted from the Berkshire Evening Eagle, 20 February 1946.]

The Holyoke High School basketball team is ranked No. 1 in Massachusetts, according to the Dunkel ratings, released by the Scholastic Sports institute.  Coach Billy Sullivan’s team has a rating of 64 points.  Somerville High is second with 62.4 and Sacred Heart High, Holyoke, eighth.  Westfield is placed 12th.

Sacred Heart High, Holyoke is rated second for Western Massachusetts, Westfield third, Williston, fourth, Worcester Academy, fifth, Ludlow, sixth, Williams High, Stockbridge, seventh, Adams 12th and Drury 20th.

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[Adapted from the Berkshire Eagle, 17 February 1943.]

Hinsdale.—Mrs. Ella Clark of Main Street received friends and relatives at ther home Sunday in observance of her 85th birthday.  She received flowers and a shower of cards.  Mrs. Clark was born in Holyoke Feb. 14, 1858.  She came to Hinsdale in 1893 with her husband, Wesley Clark, who died in 1920.  Mrs. Clark has a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Sydney Scott of Dalton and two grandchildren, Wesley Clark of Hinsdale and Mrs. Harold Richmond of Dalton.

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[Adapted from the Berkshire Eagle, 15 February 1943.] 

Great Barrington.—Mrs. Ella Fitzpatrick, 60, died suddenly last night shortly after she was stricken with a heart attack at Val’s Restaurant.  Dr. M. T. Cavanaugh, medical examiner, viewed the body which was removed to the Birches Funeral Home.

Miss Fitzpatrick was born in Holyoke, the daughter of William and Catherine Mogan Fitzpatrick and spent most of her life in that city.  She had been living in this section six months and was employed at the Jug End Barn.  She was an aunt of Mrs. Harry Stannard of Mill River.  There are also several cousins surviving.

The funeral will be at 9 tomorrow morning at St. Peter’s Church and the body will be placed in a vault in St. Peter’s Cemetery until burial in the Catholic Cemetery, Mill River, in the spring.

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[Adapted from the Berkshire County Eagle, 13 February 1945.]

Holyoke.—A note pinned on the front door of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Potvin’s home led today to the discovery of their bodies in easy chairs close to the kitchen stove from which gas was flowing from four burners.

The couple, both 67 had committed suicide, Medical Examiner Arthur Lyman Kinne reported.  He said they died of illuminating gas poisoning and had been dead several hours when the bodies were found.

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[Adapted from the Berkshire Eagle, 15 February 1946.]

Holyoke.—Francis E. Herlihy, 58, of Fairview, a watchman, was killed instantly last night when his head was crushed by an elevator at the Crocker division of the American Writing Paper Corporation, where he was employed.  He was missed by workers in the machine room, but it was not until after 10 o’clock that the fatal accident was discovered.

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