Helen P. Brundage

WILLIAMSTOWN -- Helen Patricia Brundage, 85, of 80 Southworth St., died Friday at Sweet Brook Care Centers after a brief illness.

Born in Pittsfield on Sept. 2, 1922, daughter of Patrick and Alice Ferry Prendergast, she graduated from Pittsfield High School and received her bachelor's degree from Our Lady of the Elms College in Chicopee, now Elms College, and her master's degree from the former North Adams State College, now Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. She moved to Williamstown in the late 1950s, when her husband, Ernest J. Brundage, and brother-in-law, Frank Brundage established the former Howard Johnson's restaurant there.

Mrs. Brundage was a teacher at the Barrington School for Girls in Great Barrington for several years. Later, she taught senior English at the former St. Joseph's High School in North Adams and at Pine Cobble School. She also taught bridge at the Williams College Faculty Club.

She was a communicant of the Parish of St. Patrick and St. Raphael and a member of the Williamstown Garden Club and the Williamstown Women's Ex change.

Her husband, whom she married June 26, 1948, died Feb. 16, 1994.

She leaves a daughter, Patricia E. Brundage of Williamstown, and a sister, Dorothy M. Goggins of Pittsfield.

FUNERAL NOTICE -- The funeral for Helen Brundage, who died Nov. 23, 2007, will be Tuesday at 11:15 a.m. from FLYNN & DAGNOLI-MONTAGNA HOME FOR FUNERALS, West Chapel, 521 West Main St., North Adams, with a Funeral Mass at 12 p.m. at St. Patrick's Church in Williamstown celebrated by the Rev. Mark Burke, pastor. Burial will follow in Eastlawn Cemetery. Calling hours will be Monday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the funeral home. Donations to the charity of the donor's choice may be made in care of the funeral home. Mrs. Brundage also leaves a sister-in-law, Marian Delong Brundage of Sarasota, Fla.; many nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews from the Brundage, Sullivan, Goggins, Prendergast, McWilliams and Bouley families; and many special friends. She was predeceased by two brothers, Robert "Bees" Prendergast and Richard Prendergast, and by a sister, Alice Sullivan.