Kernan F. Gorman, 82

    Kernan Francis Gorman, who split his time between London and East Hampton, will be remembered as “a great charmer and a funny guy,” with a wide circle of friends, his family said. Very fit, Mr. Gorman played golf regularly at the Maidstone Club in East Hampton and walked everywhere. When in London, he jogged around Hyde Park several times a week, an activity he was still undertaking last fall.

    Mr. Gorman died at home in East Hampton on Monday evening. He was 82. He had been ill following a stroke in New Orleans on New Year’s Eve.

    With his wife, Mardie, he built a house when he retired in l986 on Dunemere Lane, which “he dearly loved.” He and his wife had come to the East End independently, long before they were married in 1962. They met on a blind date in New York City.

    When they were living in New York City before they had children, they rented a barn-house on Jericho Lane. The couple relocated to London in 1967, and moved into Trevor Square, Knightsbridge, still their part-time residence. In 1976, they again began renting during the summer in East Hampton.

    Mr. Gorman was born on Jan. 29, 1926, to Arthur Gorman and Gertrude Fay Gorman. He was raised in New Rochelle, N.Y., and attended Iona School. His siblings, including a sister and two brothers, predeceased him.  

    At the age of 18, he volunteered for the Army Air Corps in 1944. He was a tail-gunner in B-17 bombers and flew 24 missions over Germany. He was shot down twice and managed to escape back to allied territory.

    On his return to New York, Mr. Gorman attended Columbia University and then Harvard Law School. He worked his way through university by taking groups to Canada as a tour guide. After he graduated, he joined the Wall Street firm Kelley Drye as a tax lawyer.

    He left there to take a similar position with Mobil Oil, and remained with the company throughout his career. He was in charge of European taxes for Mobil and traveled through the continent from Finland to Turkey until his retirement.

    Mr. Gorman was passionate about current affairs and completing crossword puzzles. In addition to the Maidstone Club, he belonged to the Union Club in New York and Brook’s Club in London.  

    In addition to his wife, Mr. Gorman is survived by three daughters, Jennifer Gorman Lewis of New York City, Caroline Gorman Hurley of London, and Annabel Gorman of Cape Cod, Mass.

    A service will be held at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton on Tuesday at 11 a.m. The family has suggested donations to the East Hampton Healthcare Center, 200 Pantigo Place, East Hampton 11937.

Richard B. Herrlin

    Richard B. Herrlin, president of Schenck Fuels and a former East Hampton Town councilman, died on Friday after having a heart attack at the Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead. He was 75.

    “He was a treasure, so honest and loyal, a wonderful person and a great friend. He did wonderful things on the town board, commonsense things. At the time, our harbor channels were not well marked,” said Mary Fallon, former town supervisor. “He became involved with the marinas. The channels were marked and they were safer for boaters.” Ms. Fallon served with Mr. Herrlin on the board from 1973 to 1975.

    In addition to his government work and his 47-year association with Schenck Fuels, Mr. Herrlin served on the Springs Fire Department’s board of commissioners. He belonged to the Visiting Nurses Association, the East Hampton Chamber of Commerce, and the town’s Board of Assessment Review. He was also a member of the Lions Club.

    Richard Herrlin was born in New York City on Oct. 22, 1932, to John S.O. Herrlin and the former Wilma Powell. He attended Trinity School in New York City, went on to the University of Maine, and served a hitch in the Army.  

    In 1957, he married the former Susan Schenck of East Hampton who survives. Mr. Herrlin was a boater and kept his boat at the dock in front of his house on Three Mile Harbor. The Herrlins enjoyed making the trip to Block Island for long weekends on their boat Hustler.

    In addition to his wife, he is survived by his children, Richard Herrlin Jr. and Rodney Herrlin, both of East Hampton, and Julie Landi of Long Beach, Calif. Two brothers predeceased him. He leaves seven grandchildren.  

    Friends and family gathered at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on Tuesday. A funeral service was held at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church yesterday at 11 a.m. Burial followed at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton.

    Memorial contributions were suggested for the Springs Fire Department, 179 Fort Pond Boulevard, East Hampton 11937, or the Block Island Fire Department, 10 Beach Avenue, Block Island, R.I. 02807.

Jane P. Chaleff

    Jane Pacey Chaleff, a children’s librarian at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton, a nature lover, and an advocate for peace and justice, died at Stony Brook University Hospital on Monday following injuries from a fall. She was 63.

    Born on Dec. 2, 1944, in Albany, a daughter of Donald Pacey and the former Marjorie Elsbree, Mrs. Chaleff spent part of her childhood in Preston Hollow, N.Y., and in communities in Virginia and Maryland where her father worked as a farm manager and caretaker.

    She inherited a reverence for the natural world from her parents and passed it on to her own son, Ben, and to the children she worked with at the library. She was a self-taught student of the soil, plants, rocks, birds, and other creatures of the East End and beyond.

    Mrs. Chaleff lived with her husband, Bill Chaleff, who survives, on Cedar Street in East Hampton. The couple, who were New York City residents before moving east 36 years ago, celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary in March.

    Besides her husband and son, who lives in Southampton, Mrs. Chaleff is survived by a granddaughter who was born two weeks ago and who, the family said, she was “thrilled to know.”

    A sister, Mary Pacey Schultz of Carmel, Calif., and a brother, Hugh Pacey of Cincinnati, also survive.

    A member of the Long Island Progressive Coalition, Mrs. Chaleff expressed her commitment to international peace and justice by participating in vigils both alone and with friends, including members of East End Women in Black.

    She took delight in things that were homemade. She worked beside her husband, an architect, to help build a house for her in-laws, displaying such skill with a hammer that she was nicknamed Sparky.

    Mrs. Chaleff held a master’s degree in French from Ohio University. After earning a graduate degree in library science at C.W. Post College of Long Island University, she worked in the children’s room at the East Hampton Library before going on to the Rogers Memorial Library, where she was head of the children’s department.

    She was cremated. Visiting will be in the Morris Room of the Rogers Memorial Library this afternoon from 2 to 4. A memorial service will be held at Quail Hill Farm in Amagansett on Oct. 25.

    Donations in Mrs. Chaleff’s name have been suggested to any peace or conservation organization.

Richard G. Hewitt

    Richard Hewitt of Rivers Road in East Hampton and New York City died suddenly of cardiac arrest on Aug. 2 at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. He was 81.

    Mr. Hewitt began coming to East Hampton after he married his second wife, Genevieve Fisch Fernandez Hewitt, in 1989.

    A prodigious bridge player, he and his wife, who was his bridge partner, had just returned from the North American Bridge Championship in Las Vegas, which was held at the end of July. The couple met as players in a team of four with their original spouses. Mr. and Mrs. Hewitt played as partners in that team because the husbands and wives did not get along when they played as partners.

    After their spouses died, they reconnected as bridge partners and then eventually as a couple.

    Mr. and Mrs. Hewitt attended most of the national tournaments and many of the regional tournaments sponsored by the American Contract Bridge League. He served as a director for district three of the league as well as the president of its National Charity Foundation. He was also a member of the league’s good-will committee and its laws commission.

    Mrs. Hewitt said her husband sensed something was wrong by the way he played a card at the Las Vegas tournament. After they came home he fainted and hit his head. He was hospitalized with very low blood pressure and dehydration. On the morning he was to be released, he died in his sleep.

    She said the letters she had received from his friends, clients, and acquaintances from bridge had been wonderful. “He was a very decent human being, very straight, exceptional. I consider myself very lucky to have had him for as long as I did.” Mr. Hewitt had two bypass surgeries and advanced heart disease “and he took terrible care of himself,” she noted.

    At 81, Mr. Hewitt was in semiretirement, remaining as counsel to Wormser, Kiely, Galef, and Jacobs, a firm he had been employed at since 1955. Mr. Hewitt graduated from Columbia University Law School and attended Williams College as an undergraduate. He served as a United States Navy midshipman in World War II.

    Mr. Hewitt was born in Boston on Jan. 1, 1927, to Ely and Frieda Pike Hewitt and grew up in New Rochelle, N.Y. He lived in Scarsdale and Irvington with his first wife, Shirley, and they raised their children, William Hewitt of New York City and Carolyn Spiegel of Florida, there.

    In addition to bridge, he enjoyed golfing at Montauk Downs, lobsters at Gosman’s, swimming in the pool, visiting with friends, and building fires in the winter months. He served on the boards of Research to Prevent Blindness and the Hale Matthews Foundation.

    “I was the one who was out here. East Hampton was new to him. He came out with me and grew to love it,” Mrs. Hewitt said.

    In addition to his wife and children, he is survived by two stepdaughters and five grandchildren. A brother, Don Hew­itt, lives in Bridgehampton and New York City.

    Mr. Hewitt was cremated. A private service will be held in October. Memorial contributions have been suggested to Research to Prevent Blindness, 645 Madison Avenue, Floor 21, New York 10022.

James S. Sterling

    James S. Sterling Jr. of Sag Harbor, a title insurance underwriter who served in the Korean conflict, died on Saturday at the Westhampton Care Center at the age of 80.

    He was born in Southampton on April 29, 1928, to James S. Sterling Sr. and the former Mary McDonough. He graduated from Pierson High School in Sag Harbor, then joined the Army and served in Korea from 1946 to 1948. After leaving the service, Mr. Sterling attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

    In 1952, he married the former Nancy Nolan. The couple moved to Massachusetts, where Mr. Sterling began working in the insurance field. The Sterlings returned to the East End in 1955, where Mr. Sterling pursued his career with a number of title companies.  

    Marie Page, one of Mr. Sterling’s daughters, said her father and mother often vacationed in Bermuda. Mr. Sterling enjoyed working in his garden and collecting stamps, especially those from countries of the former British Empire.

    He is survived by his children, Ms. Page of Sag Harbor, Nancy Davidson of Florida, Jim Sterling of Jacksboro, Tenn., Maryanne Piccione of Sag Harbor, and Patrice Davidson of Calverton. He also leaves his brother, George Sterling of Maplewood, N.J., 11 grandchildren, and 8 great-grandchildren.

    The Rev. Peter Devaraj presided over a funeral Mass at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Sag Harbor on Aug. 6. Burial followed in the church cemetery. Memorial contributions were suggested for Sag Harbor V.F.W. Post 9082, 26 Bay Street, Sag Harbor 11963.    

Muriel Williamson, 94

    Muriel Williamson, a longtime resident and real estate agent in Montauk, died on Monday at the age of 94.

    After retiring from her job as secretary to the dean of students at Manhattan College in Riverdale, Ms. Williamson moved with her daughter, Mary Elizabeth Payne, to a house on Coolidge Road in Montauk in the 1970s.

    “She was a vibrant person,” her daughter said yesterday. “She loved to talk to people” — especially the students. Riverdale was where Ms. Williamson raised her children. Her husband, George S. Williamson, whom she married in 1945, died in 1952.

    Ms. Williamson was a successful real estate agent in Montauk, working into her 80s, her daughter said. “And she loved her ‘little house on Coolidge Road,’ as she called it.”

    Ms. Williamson was born in Brooklyn on March 1, 1914, to Bill and Elizabeth Werner. In addition to Ms. Payne, who lives in Southampton, she is survived by a son, George Stephen Williamson of Bedford Hills, N.Y., and four grandchildren. There will be a private burial at a future place and date.

    Memorial contributions have been suggested to Southampton Hospital, 240 Meeting House Lane, Southampton 11968.

Maureen E. Gould

    Maureen E. Gould, a former nurse and assistant to the director of the New York County Medical Society, kept a sailboat in Three Mile Harbor. She and her husband, Dr. Wilbur J. Gould, spent summers in East Hampton for more than 20 years and enjoyed taking Tawny, a wooden boat built in the 1950s, out on the water.

    Ms. Gould, who moved to a 19th-century gatehouse in Water Mill in the 1990s, died there on Aug. 1. She was 75 and had had melanoma for six months.

    She moved to Water Mill full time after her husband died in 1994. The two met in the 1950s, when she was a nurse at Lenox Hill Hospital, and married in 1955. The boat was donated to the Massachusetts Maritime Academy a few years ago.

    Born on July 26, 1933, in Washington, D.C., to Farrel F. MacTernan and the former Edith Boghert, Mrs. Gould grew up in New York City. She earned a bachelor’s degree at New York University and two master’s degrees, in public health and urban planning, from Columbia University.

    Mrs. Gould was an enthusiastic cook, a fan of the opera, and a watercolorist who enjoyed painting outdoors. Her friends and family also knew her as a wonderful hostess.

    She “delighted in cooking every part of a meal,” her friend Barbara Loreto Peltz of Sag Harbor said. “How she stayed the same size as when we met is amazing. Her guests probably cannot say the same.” Italian food was her specialty.

    She is survived by a daughter, Tamara Leuchtenburg of New York City, a son-in-law, Josh Leuchtenburg, and a granddaughter, Julia. Weeks before she went into hospice care, she took them on a trip to Yosemite National Park in California, where they hiked and went rafting.

    A funeral service was held last Thursday the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel in Manhattan. Mrs. Gould was buried in Trinity Church Cemetery, also in Manhattan. Memorial donations have been suggested to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.

Nick Deane

    Lyttleton Nicholas (Nick) Deane, a retired publishing executive and the proprietor of Nick’s restaurant in Montauk, died on Sunday at Southampton Hospital of complications arising from lung cancer. He was 53 years old and had been ill about three years.

    Born on Nov. 1, 1954, in Kilgore, Tex., to Dot and Lyttleton Deane, he grew up in Fort Lee, N.J. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Boston College and a law degree from Loyola Law School in New Orleans. Mr. Deane’s Loyola graduation picture shows him in his signature Hawaiian shirt, sunglasses, and flip-flops, amid dozens of future lawyers clad in jackets and ties.

    In 1986, he married Claire Dowling, who survives and will continue to run the restaurant in Montauk. The couple spent many years living on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, during which time Mr. Deane wrote for and edited business journals as an executive officer for Faulkner and Gray, which was later folded into Thomson Media.

    In 1998, he retired from publishing and the couple moved to Montauk, where he established his dream of a beachfront, locals-friendly restaurant and bar.

    “He welcomed the controlled chaos that came with the food service territory,” a longtime friend, John Hallenborg, wrote, “and every May, when opening day of a fresh summer season rolled around, Nick was in his element, planning with Claire how to staff the place and make changes to an ever-evolving menu.”

    “Nick’s became a pulsing club scene with live bands appealing to a motley mix of city slickers and salty locals,” Mr. Hallenborg wrote.

    Mr. Deane described himself as a builder of friendships, relationships, business, and good times, Mr. Hallenborg said, adding that he had a “dry wit that could stop you cold.” He never seemed to get angry, his friend said, and readily forgot lapses in judgment and behavior.

    Chris Joyce, a friend from Boston College who met Mr. Deane in 1972, described him as humble, considerate, charming, and intelligent.

    Mr. Deane liked music and spicy food. He enjoyed going to “dumps” as much as the “better joints” during frequent trips to the New Orleans Jazz Festival and to concerts around the country. His favorite performers were Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffett, Dr. John, the Neville Brothers, and a host of blues and jazz artists.

    Mr. Deane continued to write business columns part time while he spent the high season running the restaurant with his wife and the off-season vacationing with her in the Caribbean.

    Burial will be at Fort Hill Cemetery following a funeral Mass at 10 a.m. today at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk. Mr. Deane’s parents died before him, but, in addition to his wife, he is survived by extended family members and friends.

    Contributions in his name have been suggested to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 22718, Oklahoma City 73123-1718.

Helen Hedges

    Helen Hedges of Bridgehampton died at Southampton Hospital on Saturday. She was 76.

    The family received friends on Tuesday at the Brockett Funeral Home in Southampton, where the Rev. Richard Dillon led a prayer service. The Rev. Msgr. Ronald Richardson led a liturgy of Christian burial yesterday that was followed by burial at Edgewood Cemetery in Bridgehampton.

    Donations have been suggested to the Bridgehampton Fire Department’s ambulance squad at P.O. Box 1280, Bridgehampton 11932, the Bridgehampton Senior Nutrition Center, 585 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, or the Community Center for the Blind and Sighted, 126 Sunrise Avenue, Riverhead 11901.

    A complete obituary will appear in a future edition.