G. Gertrude Amuso, 99, of 99 Allengate Avenue, Pittsfield, died Friday, April 8, 2011 at her home.
Born in Utica, New York on December 8, 1911, a daughter of Mary (Wojcik) Pietruszka Pikul and Lawrence Pietruszka, she spent most of her young life in Adams, where she was educated in local schools and attended St. Thomas Aquinas Church.
The oldest daughter in a family of ten children, "Gert" had to earn money to help support the family. She was employed in her teen years at the former Berkshire Mills, where she was a spinner, working very long hours six days a week.
After her marriage to Anthony "Mule" Amuso on June 7, 1941 in St. Thomas Church in Adams, she as a homemaker and raised two children. She lived all of her married adult life in Pittsfield, where she was a member of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. Gert was a wonderful cook. She was especially skilled in the art of cooking traditional ethnic Polish and Italian dishes and was renowned for her divinity fudge with butternuts. She was a most excellent dancer of the polka and also a bit of a 'psychic'. Thrifty and generous, she, in her own words, "did a lot for a lot of people. She enjoyed reading and crafts.
She was pre-deceased by her husband, Anthony, who died November 9, 1972, and by five sisters, Leonora Pietruszka, Elizabeth Sharkey, Irene Lanese, Suzanne Gagnon, and Pauline Doyle, and by four brothers, Stanley F. Wojick, Joseph Pikul, Peter Pikul, and Francis Pikul, and her stepfather, Lawrence Pikul. She leaves two children, Phyllis Amuso, of Pittsfield, her caregiver for many years, and Richard Amuso of East Longmeadow, and many nieces and nephews.
A graveside service will be held on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 11:30 a.m. at St. Joseph's Cemetery with Rev. Charles F. Young, Chaplain of HospiceCare in The Berkshires, officiating. Those attending are invited to meet inside the cemetery gate at 11:15 a.m.
Published in The Berkshire Eagle on April 12, 2011.
Born in Utica, New York on December 8, 1911, a daughter of Mary (Wojcik) Pietruszka Pikul and Lawrence Pietruszka, she spent most of her young life in Adams, where she was educated in local schools and attended St. Thomas Aquinas Church.
The oldest daughter in a family of ten children, "Gert" had to earn money to help support the family. She was employed in her teen years at the former Berkshire Mills, where she was a spinner, working very long hours six days a week.
After her marriage to Anthony "Mule" Amuso on June 7, 1941 in St. Thomas Church in Adams, she as a homemaker and raised two children. She lived all of her married adult life in Pittsfield, where she was a member of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. Gert was a wonderful cook. She was especially skilled in the art of cooking traditional ethnic Polish and Italian dishes and was renowned for her divinity fudge with butternuts. She was a most excellent dancer of the polka and also a bit of a 'psychic'. Thrifty and generous, she, in her own words, "did a lot for a lot of people. She enjoyed reading and crafts.
She was pre-deceased by her husband, Anthony, who died November 9, 1972, and by five sisters, Leonora Pietruszka, Elizabeth Sharkey, Irene Lanese, Suzanne Gagnon, and Pauline Doyle, and by four brothers, Stanley F. Wojick, Joseph Pikul, Peter Pikul, and Francis Pikul, and her stepfather, Lawrence Pikul. She leaves two children, Phyllis Amuso, of Pittsfield, her caregiver for many years, and Richard Amuso of East Longmeadow, and many nieces and nephews.
A graveside service will be held on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 11:30 a.m. at St. Joseph's Cemetery with Rev. Charles F. Young, Chaplain of HospiceCare in The Berkshires, officiating. Those attending are invited to meet inside the cemetery gate at 11:15 a.m.
Published in The Berkshire Eagle on April 12, 2011.
G. Gertrude Amuso, 99, of 99 Allengate Avenue, Pittsfield, died Friday, April 8, 2011 at her home.
Born in Utica, New York on December 8, 1911, a daughter of Mary (Wojcik) Pietruszka Pikul and Lawrence Pietruszka, she spent most of her young life in Adams, where she was educated in local schools and attended St. Thomas Aquinas Church.
The oldest daughter in a family of ten children, "Gert" had to earn money to help support the family. She was employed in her teen years at the former Berkshire Mills, where she was a spinner, working very long hours six days a week.
After her marriage to Anthony "Mule" Amuso on June 7, 1941 in St. Thomas Church in Adams, she as a homemaker and raised two children. She lived all of her married adult life in Pittsfield, where she was a member of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. Gert was a wonderful cook. She was especially skilled in the art of cooking traditional ethnic Polish and Italian dishes and was renowned for her divinity fudge with butternuts. She was a most excellent dancer of the polka and also a bit of a 'psychic'. Thrifty and generous, she, in her own words, "did a lot for a lot of people. She enjoyed reading and crafts.
She was pre-deceased by her husband, Anthony, who died November 9, 1972, and by five sisters, Leonora Pietruszka, Elizabeth Sharkey, Irene Lanese, Suzanne Gagnon, and Pauline Doyle, and by four brothers, Stanley F. Wojick, Joseph Pikul, Peter Pikul, and Francis Pikul, and her stepfather, Lawrence Pikul. She leaves two children, Phyllis Amuso, of Pittsfield, her caregiver for many years, and Richard Amuso of East Longmeadow, and many nieces and nephews.
A graveside service will be held on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 11:30 a.m. at St. Joseph's Cemetery with Rev. Charles F. Young, Chaplain of HospiceCare in The Berkshires, officiating. Those attending are invited to meet inside the cemetery gate at 11:15 a.m.
Published in The Berkshire Eagle on April 12, 2011.
Born in Utica, New York on December 8, 1911, a daughter of Mary (Wojcik) Pietruszka Pikul and Lawrence Pietruszka, she spent most of her young life in Adams, where she was educated in local schools and attended St. Thomas Aquinas Church.
The oldest daughter in a family of ten children, "Gert" had to earn money to help support the family. She was employed in her teen years at the former Berkshire Mills, where she was a spinner, working very long hours six days a week.
After her marriage to Anthony "Mule" Amuso on June 7, 1941 in St. Thomas Church in Adams, she as a homemaker and raised two children. She lived all of her married adult life in Pittsfield, where she was a member of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. Gert was a wonderful cook. She was especially skilled in the art of cooking traditional ethnic Polish and Italian dishes and was renowned for her divinity fudge with butternuts. She was a most excellent dancer of the polka and also a bit of a 'psychic'. Thrifty and generous, she, in her own words, "did a lot for a lot of people. She enjoyed reading and crafts.
She was pre-deceased by her husband, Anthony, who died November 9, 1972, and by five sisters, Leonora Pietruszka, Elizabeth Sharkey, Irene Lanese, Suzanne Gagnon, and Pauline Doyle, and by four brothers, Stanley F. Wojick, Joseph Pikul, Peter Pikul, and Francis Pikul, and her stepfather, Lawrence Pikul. She leaves two children, Phyllis Amuso, of Pittsfield, her caregiver for many years, and Richard Amuso of East Longmeadow, and many nieces and nephews.
A graveside service will be held on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 11:30 a.m. at St. Joseph's Cemetery with Rev. Charles F. Young, Chaplain of HospiceCare in The Berkshires, officiating. Those attending are invited to meet inside the cemetery gate at 11:15 a.m.
Published in The Berkshire Eagle on April 12, 2011.
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