Obituaries

A funeral service for Joanne Conforti of East Hampton will be held on Saturday at 9 a.m. at Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel at 1076 Madison Avenue in Manhattan. Her ashes will be buried at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery in East Hampton.

James Salant, an author who lived in Springs as a young boy and returned often to stay with grandparents in Amagansett, died of a heart attack on Aug. 25 in Brooklin, Me.

Ernest Clark Jr., a former owner of the E.T. Dayton Insurance and Real Estate Agency in East Hampton, died of congestive heart failure at the Moorings Park health care facility in Naples, Fla., on Sept. 25. He was 94.

Phyllis Newman, a Tony Award-winning actress and founder of the Women’s Health Initiative of the Actors Fund, died of primary pulmonary hypertension at her Manhattan home on Sept. 15.

Barbara Bolton Dello Joio died on Sept. 24 at Stony Brook-Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport after a brief illness, with her two children holding her hands. Always playful, Ms. Dello Joio referred to herself as a member of the 1925 Birthday Club at Peconic Landing, the retirement community in Greenport.

Patricia Ann Shaw, who helped to shape and organize the East Hampton Independence Party when it was first formed in the early 1990s, died of lung cancer at her Amagansett home last Thursday. She was 70.

Michael F. Ver Snyder, who had a long career as a policeman on the South Fork and with Suffolk County, died on Sunday after having a heart attack in his sleep. A resident of Bridgehampton for 20 years, he was 78.

Hugh Thomas Quigley died suddenly and unexpectedly on Sunday of cardiac arrest at his family’s cabin in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, in the hamlet of Lyndonville.

Lydia Salant, a therapist and healer who had lived part time on the South Fork for many years, died at home in Blue Hill, Me., on Aug. 3.

Max Rampe, a former New York State Department of Transportation highway supervisor, died on Sept. 22 at home in East Hampton. He was 66. The cause was esophageal cancer, his family said.

A graveside service for Brian J. King of East Hampton will be held at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery on Cedar Street in East Hampton on Saturday at 10 a.m. Mr. King died of cancer on July 22. He was 68.

Mark Wesnofske, a mechanic and accomplished amateur motocross racer, died last Thursday at his residence in Riverhead. He was 40.