Tracy Ann Humes

Tracy Ann Humes 1980 - 2008 GREAT BARRINGTON Tracy Ann Humes, 28, of 75 Old Turnpike Road, Canaan, Conn., died Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008, at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, after a five-year courageous battle with brain cancer. Born in Great Barrington on July 17, 1980, daughter of Scott and Jaclyn Smith Labshere, she was a 1998 graduate of Mount Everett Regional High School. She had previously worked at the Shrope Foundation for Handicapped Children and Bicron in Canaan. She was a member of the Clayton Church of God, Clayton, Mass. Tracy enjoyed cooking, camping, the New England Patriots, dirt racing, scrapbooking, horseback riding, the ocean, hosting candle parties, which in 2007 she was named Hostess of the Year for Party Lite, and most of all, Tracy enjoyed spending time with friends and family, especially her husband and son. Besides her parents, Scott and Jackie Labshere of Canaan, Tracy leaves her husband, Charles Humes, whom she married Nov. 18, 2000 at the Christ Episcopal Church, Canaan; one son, Christopher, at home; one brother, Keith Labshere and his wife, Stephanie, of East Canaan, Conn., and their two sons, Logan and Aden; her mother- and father in-law, Orville and Elina Bassett Humes of Canaan; her paternal grandparents, Watson and Joan Schoonmaker Labshere Hayden, of Clayton, and two brothers-in-law, Matt Humes and his wife, Sarah, and their daughter, Madison, of Sheffield, and Dan Humes of Canaan. FUNERAL NOTICE: Services for Tracy Ann Humes, who died Nov. 8, 2008, will be Wednesday Nov. 12 at 11 a.m. at the Clayton Church of God, with the Rev. Regina King officiating. Burial will follow in Clayton Cemetery. Family will receive friends on Tuesday, Nov. 11, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the BIRCHES-ROY FUNERAL HOME. In lieu of flowers, family requests that expressions of sympathy in Tracy's memory may be made to the Christopher Humes Scholarship Fund in care of the BIRCHES-ROY FUNERAL HOME 33 South St., Great Barrington, MA 01230