Obituaries

Alfred G. Osterweil, an attorney who represented several police unions, died of pneumonia on Jan. 29 in Many, La. He was 86.

Roseanne Monaco, a resident of East Hampton for 25 years and a part-time resident of Montauk for 20 years before that, died at home in Morristown, N.J., on Jan. 25 after a long illness. She was 86.

William P. Rayner, a watercolorist and travel writer who was the editorial business manager of Condé Nast for 30 years, died in New York City on Jan. 22 at the age of 88.

Services are to be announced by the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton for Christopher L. Russo, a former East Hampton Town highway superintendent who died at home in Amagansett yesterday at age 75. 

Mr. Russo became highway superintendent in 1990 and served in that elected post for 18 years.

Details about his funeral arrangements and an obituary for him will appear in a future issue.

Melvin Tublin, who had a house in Springs for over 40 years, died at home in Brooklyn on Jan. 13. He was 90.

Kenneth James McFall of East Hampton, who had been recognized repeatedly for his outstanding work as an educator both here and abroad, died on Jan. 17 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue.

Geraldine Frances Tomitz, who ran a taxi company and a cake business in Montauk, died in Henderson, Nev., on Dec. 28 of injuries after being hit by a car in a parking lot. She was 79.

An obituary in last week’s paper for William J. Fleming omitted the organizations to which his family had suggested donations. They are: the Long Island chapter of the Nature Conservancy, P.O. Box 5125, East Hampton 11937; the Irish Repertory Theatre, 132 West 22nd Street, New York 10011 or irishrep.org; the Thomas Moran Trust, 101 Main Street, East Hampton 11937; Yellowstone National Park at yellowstone.org, or a charity of choice.

George Knoblach of Montauk, an accomplished photographer and pioneering spearfisherman, died on Jan. 24 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton. He was 92.

After 38 years in uniform, including for the East Hampton Village Police Department and as a Suffolk County deputy sheriff, Kenneth Lambert died on Jan. 7 in Port Charlotte, Fla. He was 82 and had leukemia.

A service for Miriam Oxenhorn of Sag Harbor, who died on Jan. 21 at the age of 81, will be held today at 11 a.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. Burial will follow at Green River Cemetery in Springs. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Visiting hours for Mary B. Conaty of East Hampton, who died on Sunday, are to be held today from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, with a funeral Mass at Most Holy Trinity Church at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow, followed by burial at the church cemetery.

Thomas C. Whitehill, a law book editor, graphic designer, and assembler of found objects in an outsider art style, died of a heart attack at home on Hog Creek Road in Springs last Thursday. He was 71.

May Rodney Kelman, a noted quilter and resident of Sag Harbor for more than 70 years, died last Thursday at the age of 103.

Visiting hours for Kenneth McFall of East Hampton will be on Feb. 5.

Barbara Jean LaGarenne, who had a long nursing career, died of congestive heart failure on Dec. 9 at her son’s home in Washington, N.J. She was 85.

Debra Yvonne Daniels, who was born in East Hampton on Jan. 15, 1953, one of four children of the former Stella Grace and Kenneth Reney, died at home in Sebastian, Fla., on Jan. 12.

Peter Donohue began a lengthy career in newspapers in the early 1970s at The New York Daily News. He died last Thursday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital of complications of throat and neck cancer. He was 68.

Rosemary Ryan Kaufman, who lived in East Hampton for more than 25 years died on Dec. 25 in Port St. Lucie, Fla. She was 95.

Wendy Patrice Damark Armstrong died at home on Nov. 22 of respiratory failure. She was 61.

With his golden retriever almost always at his side on daily walks from his East Hampton law office, William J. Fleming might have seemed every bit the country lawyer, said his law partner, Trevor Darrell. But with Mr. Fleming you got much more than met the eye.

Roland W. Stubbmann, who came to Montauk from California in the 1970s to surf and stayed on, died of an apparent heart attack on Saturday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. He was 67.

Huntington Sheldon, a professor and researcher at McGill University in Montreal who was a pioneer in the study of electron microscopy while working at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, died on Dec. 29 in Vermont. The part-time Amagansett resident was 87.

Demetra Mirras, who was known to believe “all good things happen around ice cream,” and who with her husband and son owned John’s Drive-In restaurant in Montauk from 1975 to 1983 and the Snowflake in East Hampton from 1985 to 1990, died of heart failure on Jan. 7, in Colorado Springs. She was 91.

James M. Donna, who retired to Montauk in 2006 after a career with the Associated Press news agency, died on Jan. 10 at New York University Langone Tisch Hospital in Manhattan. He was 71.

William J. Fleming of Wainscott, an attorney with an office in East Hampton and a longtime LTV host, died last Thursday of heart failure. He was 69.

Florence Clara Hogan died in her sleep at her Amagansett house on Saturday evening. She was 91.

Daniel Talbot, who with his wife and partner, Toby Talbot, introduced New Yorkers for 60 years to contemporary cinema from around the world and revived classic American films at a number of theaters in Manhattan including Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, died at his Manhattan home on Dec. 29.

Kynaston McShine of Manhattan and Springs died in Manhattan on Jan. 8.

Barbara Ann Volpe, a retired registered nurse and volunteer for several East Hampton organizations, died on Jan. 9 in Midlothian, Va., where she had spent winters for the last five years and been living with Peggy and Kevin Healy, a daughter and son-in-law.