Michael John Weeks

Chicopee- Michael John Weeks, 65, passed away on Thursday, October 9, 2025, at Baystate Medical Center.  Born on March 22, 1960, he was a graduate of Chicopee Comprehensive High School, where he became a jack of all trades, learning to weld, work on cars, and become a machinist.  He worked most recently as a field technician at Applied Dynamics.  Mike worked hard all his life, also working as a welder at Chicopee Welding, as a machinist at Associated Electro Mechanics, as a plasma sprayer at General Plasma Assoc., and working on cars with his brother-in-law, Gary Wilk, but he always found time for hockey, golf, fishing, picnics, and cookouts with his family.  Mike is survived by his best friend and the love of his life, his wife of 40 years, Gail C. (Wilk) Weeks, their 3 daughters, Erica Ashley Weeks, of Chicopee, Natalie Angela Bartlett (Timothy), of Michigan, and Deanna Audrey Weeks, of Chicopee, his 4 cherished grandchildren, Angeliece, Manuel, Cameron, and Finnley, and a great-grandson KeanJavin.  He also leaves his siblings, Daniel and Alan Weeks, Patricia Courchesne, and Mary Goulette, his brothers-in-law Leonard Wilk, David Lariviere, Ronald Paynter, and David Courchesne, sister-in-law Denise Paynter, as well as many nieces, nephews, extended family members, and dear friends.  Mike was predeceased by the best parents a man could ever love, Franklin and Eleanor (Swords) Weeks, his grandson and namesake Franklin Michael Bartlett, his sisters-in-law Jean Lariviere and Elaine Weeks, brother-in-law Gary Wilk, and his mother and father-in-law Frank and Genevieve Wilk.   Friends and family are invited to attend calling hours on Friday, October 17, 2025, from 5:00 to 6:30pm at Corridan Funeral Home, 333 Springfield St., Chicopee, MA.  A prayer service will take place at the funeral home at 6:30pm.  In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Mike’s name can be made to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation – www.CFF.org  To leave your condolences, or to share a memory with the family, please visit www.CorridanFuneral.com