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Saturday, October 31, 2026 Worcester County, Massachusetts · Change town
Obituaries

Obituary notices, week of October 12, 2026 through October 18, 2026

One Barre obituary notice published this week: Summers-McGuinness, Tai, 79, of Barre, who died October 4, 2026, at Heywood Hospital in Gardner.

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This week's column carries a notice for 1 Barre-resident obituary published this week, with the name coming from Boucher Funeral Home, Inc., as listed via Legacy.com.

Tai Summers-McGuinness [listed as "Tai Summer-McGuinness" on Echovita], 79, of Barre, died on Sunday, October 4, 2026, at Heywood Hospital in Gardner. She was born in Oakland, California, on April 9, 1947, the daughter of the late Ralph Adams and Millicent Doyle Adams, and was raised in San Leandro, California. Service details were not included in the obituary excerpt available to this column. Full obituary at Legacy.com (Boucher Funeral Home, Inc.): https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/tai-summers-mcguinness-obituary?id=62766308.

Notices compiled from Legacy.com (including the Boucher Funeral Home, Inc. notice above), Echovita, Tribute Archive, and Barre Patch. A separate Legacy.com listing for Frederick (Fred) Hamberger, cared for by Pillsbury Funeral Home, Inc. of Barre, was reviewed but omitted this week because the available text did not explicitly identify him as a Barre resident.


Compiled from funeral home notices and published obituaries.

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