Betty Batacchi

Betty Batacchi 1923 - 2008 SHEFFIELD Betty Delores Batacchi, 85, of West Road, died Thursday, Oct. 9, at Fairview Hospital. Born in Great Barrington on June 15, 1923, daughter of Edward S. and Marion Billings Mead, she was educated in local Great Barrington schools. She graduated with honors from Searles High School, class of 1941, where she enjoyed playing sports especially basketball. A lifelong resident of Southern Berkshire County, she worked at General electric Company in Pittsfield, enjoyed the Youth Fellowship, sang in the Methodist Church choir, and won all the marbles in the neighborhood. She was a winner in whatever she did. Later on she was a Brownie Girl Scout Troop leader. She loved gardening and all crafts and was an exhibitor of farm produce at the former Great Barrington Fair. She leaves her husband of 65 years, Arthur J. Batacchi, sr., whom she married on June 15, 1943, at Our Lady of the Valley Church, at home; her daughter Cheryl, and her husband, Thomas Jack Baker, of Norfolk, Va.; her son Arthur, Jr., and his wife Rebbeca, of Sheffield; two sisters, Marion Barnum, of Sheffield, and Gloria Moody, of Keene, N.Y.; four grandchildren, Catherine Copas, and her husband, Joel, Rachele Bonhotel and her husband, Jason, Hillary Baker, and her husband, David Herstein, and Alexis Batacchi; and three great-grandsons, Jakob, Jaxon, and Jesse. FUNERAL NOTICE: Services will be held on Monday, Oct. 13, at 10:30 a.m., at the BIRCHES-ROY FUNERAL HOME, with the Rev. Betty LeGeyte, officiating. The family will receive friends from 4 to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 12 at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Southern Berkshire Ambulance Squad in care of the Birches-Roy Funeral Home, 33 South St., Great Barrington, MA 01230