RONALD E. OLIVEIRA, 74, of 200 Stockbridge Road, Stockbridge, a resident
of Stockbridge, for the past fifteen years, and a twenty-year former resident of the Town
of Peru, died Monday, December 7, at Baystate Medical Center.
Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on November 1, 1935, the son of Eugene
and Helen Enos Oliveira, he was educated at St. Clement School for Boys Military
Academy in Canton, Massachusetts, and was a 1955 graduate of Tabor Academy in
Marion, Massachusetts.
Continuing his education, he was a 1960 graduate of the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst with a bachelor of arts degree in history, and in 1961 earned
his Juris Doctor from the Boston College School of Law in Newton.
Atty. Oliveira was licensed to practice law in both Massachusetts and Vermont.
His areas of concentration included personal injury, insurance defense law, and complex
civil litigation.
He was an adjunct professor of law at Harvard Law School for ten years and
was a past president of the of the Berkshire County Bar Association. He was named as
one of "The Best Lawyers in America" in the area of personal injury litigation in a book
of the same name. In 1991, Atty. Oliveira was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers,the first Berkshire County lawyer to be invited to join since 1970. Only the top one
percent of the trial lawyers in the United States are invited to join the college. Induction is based on professional competence in the art of trial advocacy.
His professional affiliations included the United States District Court, District of
Massachusetts, United States Supreme Court, United States District Court, District of
Vermont, as well as the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Berkshire Bar
Association. Atty. Oliveira was one of the original partners of Cain, Hibbard, Myers & Cook.
He left that firm in May 1993 to open his own practice and merged to form the present
firm of Martin & Oliveira on January 1, 1995.
He served on the Board of Trustees of Tabor Academy. Atty. Oliveira enjoyed his roundtable lunches at the Country Club of Pittsfield.
He also enjoyed flying and was a member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association,
as well as boating and sailing. He loved music, especially jazz, and was a fan of Stan
Kenton. He also enjoyed spending time with his family. Atty. Oliveira was pre-deceased by his wife, Rosemary. Two sons, Robbie, late
of Peru, and Todd, late of Boston, also pre-deceased him.
He is survived by a sister, Patricia A. Gibeley and her husband, Robert, of
Naples, Florida, and Ogunquit, Maine; his nephews, Marc Gibeley of Boxford,
Massachusetts, and Michael Gibeley of Topsfield, Massachusetts; as well as his close
personal friend, Kay Reynolds, of Stockbridge.

FUNERAL NOTICE: Funeral services for RONALD E. OLIVEIRA, who died Monday, December 7,
will be Friday, December 11, at 1:00 p.m., at DERY FUNERAL HOME, with Rev.
James K. Joyce, Pastor of Sacred Heart Church, officiating. Calling hours will precede
the service beginning at 11:00 a.m. Following cremation, burial will be in Stockbridge
Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions in memory of Atty. Oliveira may be made to
the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation, 1332 North Halsted Street, Suite 201, Chicago, IL
60642.

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