Obituaries

    Helen Anderson, a longtime resident of South Fairview Avenue in Montauk, died at the Heritage Hill Senior Community in Weatherly, Pa., on July 11. She was 91.
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    Joseph F. Koster, a man who had a career in marketing and advertising and who also was a playwright and follower of the spiritual teachings of J. Krishnamurti, died of cancer...

    June R. O’Connor, a resident of Montauk since 1955 who served during World War II in the Navy’s Waves, or Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, died on...

    Between 1978 and 2003, the years that Lucy Macdonald lived in East Hampton, she found the local art scene to be a rich environment for her artwork, her family said. Her work...

Edmund Carpenter, an anthropologist, art historian, ethnographer, and co-founder with Marshall McLuhan of modern media theory, died on July 1 in Southampton.

Elizabeth Jane Burns, a homemaker who enjoyed quilting, sewing, and crafts, died at Southampton Hospital on July 7 after a 10-month illness.

Estelle Edwards Adams, a former Orient resident who was born in Amagansett in 1913, died on June 17 at Asbury Solomons retirement home in Solomons, Md. She was 97.

James E. McGroarty, a carpenter and craftsman who was the first non-Native American to build a canoe, or tomol, for members of the Chumash Indian tribe, died of a massive heart attack at a friend’s...
Arnold M. Cooper, M.D., who practiced psychiatry and psychoanalysis for almost six decades and was internationally acknowledged as an educator and writer in the field, died of lung cancer at...