Stanley R. Farnumâs happy place was where most people get lost. At one time, every weekend at four in the morning, the men of South Egremont would congregate at the Farnum house for a traditional trapperâs breakfast cooked by Stanleyâs wife, Hilda Mae. âThere was a huge cast-iron frying pan on the stove with a big breakfast or home fries and eggs, and after that, they were out the door and in the woods before it got light,â said his daughter, Kyle Farnum.
For Stanley, hunting wasnât a pastime, it was a lifestyle. He spent most of his childhood in the woods, fishing, hunting and working construction jobs with his father Roy, who taught him the craftsmanship heâd pass on to his 11 children. Stanley and his father ran a sawmill. Instead of saving up for a new home, they stocked up on lumber and simply built the house they wanted.
They now live in memory. People like Veronica Alice Mildred Coody, one of the first Berkshire County residents to fall to COVID-19 last April. âShe had to fight for everything,â says her eldest daughter, Phyllis Gaule. âWhatever she got, she earned. She was a person you could look up to.â
Veronica Alice Mildred Coodyâs eight children always will remember the strength and vibrancy with which their mother greeted life.
Today, The Eagle presents the first in a series of profiles, âThese Lives,â honoring eight of the 138 Berkshire County residents whose deaths, as of Thursday, have been linked to the virus. New profiles will continue to appear weekly. The series seeks to ensure that memory wins out over statistics.
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