Obituaries

Larry Wartur, an engineer on a number of major public projects in the metropolitan area, died at home in Springs on June 27 at the age of 88.

Joseph H. Pombo, a lifelong resident of East Hampton, died on Tuesday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. He was 93.

A funeral for Roger Walker, a former East Hampton Town justice, will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church. Mr. Walker, who was 91, died at home in Wainscott on Sunday and will be buried at the Wainscott Cemetery. A full obituary will appear in a future issue.

Esther Keller, formerly of East Hampton, died of congestive heart failure on June 16 at the Trustbridge Hospice in Delray Beach, Fla., just a few days shy of her 95th birthday.

Laurie Nell Frick of Springs, a singer with the Choral Society of the Hamptons, died on June 8 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 79.

Andrew Volet, a fashion-industry executive turned East Hampton real estate agent who lived on Accabonac Road, died on June 19 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. The cause was cancer. He was 87.

John Vincenzo, a bank executive and former president of the Kiwanis Club of East Hampton, died of cancer on April 12 at home in East Hampton. He was 61.

Visiting hours for Brendan Clavin, a former Sag Harbor resident who died on June 10 at home in Hampton Bays, will be tomorrow from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor. A memorial service will start at 8 that night.

Jessie Hall of East Hampton, who had been a second-grade teacher at Douglas Grafflin Elementary School in Chappaqua, N.Y., for 30 years, died of complications of Parkinson’s disease last Thursday.

Paula Ivy Liss of East Hampton, the head librarian and a popular faculty member at Southampton High School for 26 years, died of cancer on June 10 in Douglaston, Queens.

Simon Perchik of Springs, “one of the best-kept secrets in contemporary American poetry,” died of Covid-19 on June 14. He was 98.

Dennis Samuels, a textile stylist and full-time resident of Springs since 1997, died of respiratory illness at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on June 2. He was 87 and had been ill for four weeks.

Carmela Winslow, a resident of Amagansett since 1955, died at home on May 21. She had had heart problems, but was seriously ill for only two months.

William Arthur Dreher Sr. of East Hampton Village, a life trustee of Guild Hall, died on June 5 of metastatic prostate cancer. He was 91.

Barbara Lynn Weinman, a real estate broker who lived in East Hampton for more than 40 years, died on Sunday at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan. Ms. Weinman, who was 74, had lymphoma.

Jim Ruthenberg, who lived and worked for many years in East Hampton, Montauk, and Amagansett, died on May 25 at UPMC Cole, a hospital in rural Pennsylvania near where he lived in Port Allegany. He was 76.

Michael Zingarelli of Sarasota, Fla., a former resident of East Hampton and Southampton, died at home on Sunday in Sarasota, one day before his 77th birthday.

Whether in the beauty industry, as a real estate broker, or in language sales and consultations, Joan C. Laufer enjoyed working with people from diverse backgrounds, and she loved to travel. Ms. Laufer, who was 86, died of heart failure on June 6 at Stony Brook University Hospital.

A writer, musician, athlete, filmmaker, skateboarder, and scientist, Brendan Clavin of Hampton Bays died unexpectedly at home on Friday at the age of 33. His cause of death has not yet been determined.

Susan Ellen Dottin of Southampton, a former resident of East Hampton and Sag Harbor, died on April 23 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 68, and had been ill for a year.

Constance Miller Hoagland of East Hampton Village had a successful career in Greenwich, Conn., as a real estate broker, but many here will remember her from the Monogram Shop on Newtown Lane. She died at home on May 30.

Word has been received of the death of Robert A. Brody, a podiatrist who lived year round on Sulky Circle in East Hampton. Dr. Brody died of cancer in New York City on April 18.

Joseph Francis Early of East Hampton, who died in his sleep on May 13, “touched many people in his short time on earth,” wrote his sister, Vicky Dominski of Sag Harbor. He was 58.

A celebration of life for Wendy Elizabeth Flanagan of Sag Harbor will be held on Saturday at 3 p.m. at Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island. Mrs. Flanagan, who was 51, died on May 18.

Donna M. Zingarelli, who in 1976 opened Michael’s Restaurant in Maidstone Park with her first husband, died on June 3 at the Westhampton Care Center of complications from a 2020 stroke. She was 77.

A memorial service for Betty Mazur, a former chairwoman of the East Hampton Town Democratic Committee who died last summer, will be held on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at the ocean beach between Clinton Academy Lane and Treasure Island Drive in Amagansett.

Howard Matthew Green, a handyman, painter, and mechanic who grew up in East Hampton, died of pneumonia and a bacterial infection on April 22 in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 55 and had been ill for six weeks.

Ursula Kalish of Bridgehampton and New York City, who had long careers in art and fitness, died at home in Bridgehampton on May 7. She was 92.

Sara Carey Matthiessen, the daughter of the late writers Peter Matthiessen of Sagaponack and Patsy Southgate of Springs, died at home in Northport on May 23 at the age of 67.

John T. Fix Jr., a summer resident of Springs who ran his family’s hardware store in Westchester County, died at the Bayberry Care Center in New Rochelle, N.Y., on May 17.