Recent Stories: Obituaries

    Delroy McCauley Campbell, a pillar in Montauk’s Jamaican community who was known to many as the face of the Sunday brunch buffet at Manucci’s restaurant, died on April 10 at Brookdale University Hospital in Brooklyn. The 55-year-old had been short of breath for a number of weeks and was awaiting an appointment to have his lungs evaluated when he collapsed from a heart attack at home on Rutland Road in Brooklyn on the morning of April 6.

    Elizabeth M. Lane, a Montauk resident known as Libby, died at her home on Edgemere Lane yesterday. She was 90 years old and had been in declining health.
    A resident of Montauk since she was 6 years old, Ms. Lane was a waitress at the Shagwong restaurant there for many years and a longtime and active member of the Montauk Community Church. She had many friends whom she cherished, and who cherished her, a friend, Beverly Kamensky, said.

    Patrick Masone was a fighter, said Russell Masone, his son. He fought to regain his health so that he could remain in his house, on North Delphi Road in Montauk, with his son.
    “He really fought hard — that’s the only thing my cousin said to me,” Carol Gemon, Mr. Masone’s niece, said.

    Stella Kremer, a retired marriage and family therapist who had lived for many years in Barnes Landing and Elmont, died on May 3 in hospice in Delray Beach, Fla. She was 85 and had been receiving treatment for acute myeloid leukemia.
    For many years, Ms. Kremer, who was known as Dolly, and her husband, Dr. Herman Saling Kremer, had a house on Water’s Edge in Barnes Landing, Springs; it became their full-time home in the 1980s. After her husband died, she sold the house and moved to Huckleberry Lane in East Hampton.

    An obituary for Madge R. Lester that appeared in the April 25 issue omitted three grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and three step great-grandchildren from among her survivors.
    Ms. Lester and her son, Ted Lester, cared for Helene Schall for seven years; the obituary erroneously said Ms. Schall had taken care of Ms. Lester during that time.
 

    Foye Forbus (Bob) Black Jr., a former year-round resident of Amagansett who was a longtime member of the Professional Golfers Association and a “scratch golfer,” meaning that his handicap was zero, died of natural causes in Fort Worth, Tex., on April 18, just six days after his 82nd birthday.

Martin E. Forsberg Jr., who raised his family in East Hampton, died at Southampton Hospital on April 3. Shortly after going to sleep that night at his Springs residence he suffered a seizure, his family said, and never awoke. Mr. Forsberg, who was diabetic, was 45.

    Alice H. Mund, a tireless volunteer for the Ladies Village Improvement Society in East Hampton, which she joined in 1955, and a dedicated wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and friend, died at home in Lewes, Del., on March 10. She was 84.
    She left her mark on all those with whom she came in contact, her family said, and was “a lady of the greatest generation, a lady who lived through good times and tumultuous times and personal trials, but always did so with grace, style, and good humor.”

    The Star has received word of the death on Dec. 25 of Douglas A. Freytag of East Hampton. Mr. Freytag, who was 66, died at the Northport Veterans Administration Hospital of complications related to past exposure to Agent Orange, his family said.
    Mr. Freytag was born on Oct. 4, 1946, to Warren H. Freytag and the former Helen L. Brooks. He grew up in East Hampton and graduated from East Hampton High School, entering the Air Force just after graduation in 1965.

    A memorial service for Helen Louise Freytag of East Hampton, who died on April 12, will be held at 3 p.m. on May 17 at Maidstone Park in Springs.
    An obituary for Ms. Freytag’s son, Douglas A. Freytag, appears on this page.
 

    Ruth Foster Fleming of Cove Hollow Road, East Hampton, died on Saturday at Southampton Hospital of a respiratory condition. She was 79.
    Born in 1933 in Sagaponack to the former Amy Gould and Everett Foster, she grew up with her sister, Janet, on what is still known as the Foster Farm.
    She attended the Sagaponack School and Bridgehampton High School, and graduated with a degree in business administration from Skidmore College in Saratoga, N.Y., in 1955.

    An obituary in last week’s paper for Helen Louise Freytag failed to mention some of her survivors. Mrs. Freytag died on April 12 at Southampton Hospital after suffering a number of health issues in recent years. In addition to her daughter, Diana F. Wunschel, who was mentioned in her obituary, she also leaves two sisters, Vivian Marie Tollefson of Walnut Creek, Calif., and Annalee Smith of Apache Junction, Ariz., three grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. The obituary also gave an incomplete name for the tavern she ran on Newtown Lane in East Hampton.