Obituaries

George Mossin Hansen Jr., a former member of the Sag Harbor Village Planning Board, a 35-year employee of the East Hampton Town Highway Department, and a Republican committeeman for New York’s Second Congressional District, died last Thursday at his home in Blairsville, Ga. He was 79, and had had Parkinson’s disease.

Doris A. DiSunno, a member of the DiSunno family of Amagansett and a legal secretary in East Hampton for many years, died at her Bryant Street, Springs, home on Aug. 22. She was 76 and had been diagnosed with esophageal cancer a year ago.

Claire Reed of Springs and Manhattan, who marched for civil rights and against war and nuclear proliferation, died on Saturday at her apartment in the city at the age of 98. According to her family, she had been in poor health for about a month.

Ellis Roemer French, a successful and influential Montauk businessman who began the resort there known as the Panoramic View, died at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center on Aug. 10, following complications of open-heart surgery to replace a more than 40-year-old prosthetic mitral valve, one of the oldest original valves still functioning. He was 80 years old and had been hospitalized for 23 days.

Mauro Filicori, a graphic and industrial designer, died of kidney failure at his Amagansett residence on May 8. He was 75, and had lived here year round since 1999.

James Milton Villas, the author of 12 cookbooks who wrote hundreds of articles during 27 years as food and wine editor of Town & Country magazine and also made frequent television appearances, died in his sleep at his East Hampton home on Friday.

Alexander N. Buccola of Noyac, who worked in customer service at Cirillo’s I.G.A. Market in Amagansett and also as a pet sitter and an estate manager, died of cancer on July 17 at his brother’s house in Goodview, Va. He was 67.

For a generation of neighborhood kids on and around Franklin Drive in Montauk, Mary Ann Noakes was the go-to person for first aid for bumps, scrapes, and bruises.

Bruce Douglas Treleaven of Verona, N.J., whose family moved to Amagansett when he was a boy and who grew up there, died unexpectedly of cardiac arrest in his sleep on Aug. 11, while on vacation in Atlantic City. He was 60.

Theresa A. Graf, who with her sister, Margaret Graf, moved to East Hampton in 1993 to live on Boxwood Street with their brother Frank Graf, died in her sleep on Aug. 16 at the Southampton Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing, where she had been for five weeks. She was 82 and had fallen earlier this summer.

A memorial service for Andrew Bonertz, who died on June 15 at the age of 28, will be held at the Maidstone Park pavilion in Springs on Tuesday night at 8.

Rob Roden of East Hampton, the founder of the Antigua and Barbuda Hamptons Challenge Sailing Race, died at his sister’s home in Hampton Bays on Saturday. He was 70 and had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer six weeks ago.

His family said that after he moved to the South Fork in the 1960s, he was one of the original group of surfers at Flying Point, who once converted an ambulance into a “surf-mobile” and drove it across the country with his dog Heidi.

A memorial Mass for Richard F. Jarmain of Montauk will be said at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in that hamlet on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. Mr. Jarmain, a dentist and professor of dentistry, died on March 1 at the age of 78.

William Scott Tiernan of Laramie, Wyo., who spent childhood summers in East Hampton, died on July 27 in a fire at his house there.

Laura Wojciechowski, who came to the United States from Belarus as a teenager and made Sag Harbor her home for more than 50 years, died of a stroke on July 9 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Tucson. She was 84.

Bette Jean Jacobs Gifford of East Hampton, a fashion designer, master gardener, and dedicated volunteer for organizations that helped those in need, including the local Meals on Wheels, died of a stroke on March 25 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 89.

Mary Jane Anderson, who was active in East Hampton Town politics and headed its Women’s Republican Club, died on Saturday at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. She had just turned 87 and had a short illness following hospitalization.

Steven Douglas Strauss of Toledo, Ohio, who spent summers since he was a child on Shore Road in Amagansett, died on July 20 at Stony Brook University Hospital of complications from a stroke. He was 52.

Surrounded by her family, Anna Luise Waleko died on Saturday at her son Ray and daughter-in-law Patricia’s house in Wainscott, where she had lived for two and a half years, following a long illness. Called Nana by all who knew her, she was 80 years old.

Rian J. White of Springs died of cancer on July 25 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. He was 62 and had been ill for two years.

Norton William Daniels Jr. of Bridgehampton, who served for many years as an East Hampton Town assessor and helped start the movement to preserve open space and farmland after being elected to the Suffolk County Legislature in the mid-1970s, died on July 19 at his son’s house in Sag Harbor. He was 98.

Edward Paul Miller II, a computer specialist who recently had been ordained as a minister with Universal Life Ministries of Glen County, Ga., died of renal failure on June 30 in Brunswick, Ga., where he lived. He was 43 and had been ill for four years.

Anthony Lee Bowen, formerly of Montauk and Park Ridge, N.J., died on July 4 at St. Catherine’s Hospital in Smithtown. He was 80 and had been unwell since last autumn.

A Mass for Nicholas Sennefelder, a former Montauk resident who died on June 27 in Abingdon, Va., will be said on Friday, Aug. 3, at 11 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk. An obituary in last week’s paper had the wrong time for the Mass.

Rita Paon, who lived for about 80 years in Montauk, died there on July 16. She was 105.

Betty Goldman Schlein, a political activist who helped found and later led the Long Island chapter of the National Organization for Women and was a founding member of Eleanor’s Legacy, an organization named for the first lady that helps recruit and train female Democratic candidates, died of a stroke at her Manhattan home on June 29. A Southampton resident as well, she was 87.

Thomas A. Theuret, the former owner of Quality Seafood in Queens and, later, a dispatcher for Scan Security of Southampton, died at home in Springs on July 10 with friends and family present. He was 69 and had Parkinson’s disease.

Nicholas Sennefelder, a former Montauk resident, died on June 27 in Abingdon, Va., of cancer. He was 50 and had been ill for 18 months.

Barbara S. Cirami of East Hampton, an activist for gay and lesbian causes who had a 30-year career with IBM in Westchester, died of cancer at her winter residence in North Fort Myers, Fla., on July 10. She was 72.

Phyllis Clemenz of Montauk died on July 1 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton of complications of dementia, which she had for five years. She was 87.