Obituaries

Donald R. Klein, who ran a company called EastEndTech to service computers from Montauk to Manhattan until he retired in 2018, died in New York City on Sept. 16. He was 77.

Derek Miller, a 2000 graduate of East Hampton High School who lived here and in Jacksonville, N.C., died at home in Jacksonville on Sept. 10. He was 41.

A funeral service for Robert Otto will be held on Oct. 8 at 9 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton.

Mary Louise McHugh Nelson, a former trustee and missionary board member of Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton, died at home on Sept. 8 in Dalzell, S.C., where she had been living since 2011.

A musician, singer, actor, and interior designer, Peter Johannes van Hattum of East Hampton died on Sept. 20 at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset. He was 90.

A celebration of Louis Arceri’s life will take place on Oct. 8 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Springs Presbyterian Church.

Nancy Orshefsky, an art teacher and working artist formerly of Sagaponack, died of cardiopulmonary arrest on Aug. 14 in Great Neck, where she had been living since 2015.

Ray Barrett, who was known for driving his familiar tool truck all over the East End while serving as the region’s representative for the Snap-On Tools company, died of complications of dementia on Sept. 4 at Brookdale Senior Living in Dublin, Pa. The former Springs resident was 80.

Vaughan Allentuck, a resident of Springs for 52 years and a founding member of the Community Theater Company, died on Sept. 10 of advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which she had for many years. She was 90.

Visiting hours for Derek Miller of East Hampton and Jacksonville, N.C., who died on Sept. 10 at age 41, will be on Friday, Sept. 30, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A graveside service will take place the following day at 10:30 a.m. at Green River Cemetery in Springs.

Dominic Annacone, a veteran educator and school administrator who had a reputation as a progressive leader on the South Fork, died at home in Amagansett on Sept. 12 after a long illness. He was 86.

Elinor Irene Nason, a stay-at-home mom for many years, died at home in Springs on Sept. 11. She was 90.

Walter Alvin Nelson III, a maritime transportation specialist who lived on East Lake Drive in Montauk and in Maryland, died on Sept. 12 in a motor vehicle accident.

Over the course of 17 years, Susan Lynn Solomon of Amagansett and New York City, a founder and longtime chief executive officer of the New York Stem Cell Foundation, raised more than $400 million to advance the field of stem cell research. Ms. Solomon, who had had only recently stepped down as the organization’s C.E.O., died last Thursday, at home in Amagansett, five years after she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She was 71.

Jean Knoesel, who lived in East Hampton for more than 40 years, died at home on Old House Landing Road in Northwest on Saturday after a short illness.

A service for Dominic Annacone, an educator who served as principal of Pierson High School and superintendent of the Sag Harbor School District, interim superintendent of the Springs School District, and superintendent of the Wainscott School District, will be held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on on Wednesday at 11 a.m., followed by interment at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton at 1 p.m. 

Vaughan Bianca Allentuck died at home in Springs on Saturday, surrounded by her family. She was 90. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Lucas Conrad Matthiessen, 69, an editor and writer who also ran a network of clinics for drug and alcohol abusers, died on Aug. 20 at a hospice near his home on City Island in the Bronx. The cause of death was metastatic cancer, said his wife, Claire de Brunner.

Joanne Backlund of Noyac died on Aug. 31 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital after having gone into cardiac arrest at home three days earlier.

Barbara E. Schwartz, a former teacher in Manhattan who lived in East Hampton for 20 years, died at home on Settlers Landing Lane on Aug. 31. She was 76.

A onetime Vietnam War tank driver who became a New York Police Department detective and later a proprietor of a local wine shop, Rodney Roncaglio of East Hampton died on Aug. 24 at the Kanas Hospice Center in Quiogue. He was 75.

Maralyn Rittenour was traveling in Italy over the summer when she started feeling unwell. It was lymphoma, she learned when she returned home to Springs. She died on Aug. 18 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital at age 84.

Steve Haweeli, whose WordHampton Public Relations firm in Springs became the pre-eminent promoter of restaurants and hospitality companies here and across Long Island, died on Aug. 23 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan of complications from Covid-19.

Richard W. Smith Jr., a past president of the Maidstone Club, died at his Borden Lane residence in East Hampton Village on Aug. 20. The cause was cardiopulmonary arrest.

James Howard Sweeney, who worked as a cinematographer, gaffer, best boy, and props man in the film industry in California for many years, died in his sleep on June 13 at home in Brooklyn.

A memorial service for Simon Perchik will take place at Ashawagh Hall in Springs on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. Mr. Perchik, a longtime resident of that hamlet, was a well-known poet who died on June 14 at the age of 98.

Barbara Anne Sullivan was a fan of the arts. "She took great joy in her home and had a distinctive flair for design," her family said. An enthusiastic reader, she "surrounded herself with beautiful books" and also enjoyed spending time in her garden in Montauk. But "most of all," her family wrote, "she loved traveling and living all over the world with her husband of 64 years, Jim."

John Eastman, a prominent entertainment lawyer whose clients included the musicians Paul McCartney and Billy Joel, the Abstract Expressionist painter Willem de Kooning, and the playwright Tennessee Williams, died at his Lily Pond Lane, East Hampton Village, residence on Aug. 10. Mr. Eastman, who had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer two months earlier, was 83.

Before starting Robert E. Otto Glass Inc., Bob Otto was a partner with Ward Freese in a similar business. The two parted ways in 1960 and Mr. Otto took the glass business to a storefront on North Main Street in East Hampton. Five years later, he moved it to where it has been ever since, on Montauk Highway in Wainscott. Two generations of Ottos have followed him in the business.

Joseph John Raffel Jr., 89, a craftsman, painter, miniaturist, and bird carver who retired in 1992 from a 35-year career with the Long Island Lighting Company, died of lung cancer on July 22 at Saratoga Hospital in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.