Obituaries

Eric B. Johnson of East Hampton died on Dec. 29 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. His health had been in decline for the last three to four years. Mr. Johnson was 94.

An obituary will follow in a future issue.

Visiting hours for Vincent D’Angelo, 73, who died on Monday while on his way to hunt at Sammy’s Beach in East Hampton, will be today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home on Pantigo Road in East Hampton. A service will be held at the funeral home tomorrow at noon. 

Burial will be private. 

An obituary for Mr. D’Angelo will appear in a future issue.

Ira Kornbluth, whose love of history, literature, and the arts outpaced his career as an attorney, died on Dec. 28 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 76.

Daniel Talbot of Water Mill and Manhattan, who with his wife and partner, Toby Talbot, introduced New Yorkers to contemporary cinema from around the world and revived classic American films at the Lincoln Plaza Cinema for more than 60 years, died at home in Manhattan on Dec. 29. Mr. Talbot, who had been ill for the last few months, was 91. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

A resident of Bridgehampton for over 60 years, Elizabeth Anne Grant McHugh, who had cancer, died on Nov. 28 in Staunton, Va., while visiting her daughter. She was 90.

Doris M. Olszewski of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., who worked at the East Hampton Library from 1970 to 1986, died early on Christmas Day in Florida.

Betty DiSunno, formerly of Bluff Road in Amagansett, died on Friday at Southampton Hospital. She was 89. Service arrangements are to be announced. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Michael Stephen London, a former United States administrative law judge in Brooklyn who was 76, died on Dec. 18. Mr. London lived in Manhasset and East Hampton

Sherry B. Wolfe of Springs, a tireless advocate for East Hampton’s business interests as well as a longtime volunteer to help the sick, the hungry, and the abused, died at Brookhaven Memorial Hospital on Dec. 28 of heart failure.

A service for Gerri Tomitz, 79, formerly of Montauk and more recently of Las Vegas, will be held today at 1 p.m. at Hites Funeral Home in Henderson, Nev.

Marlys Gilyard Dohanos, whose personal and professional life in East Hampton began when almost everyone on Main Street recognized each other, died on Christmas Eve at her North Haven home. She was 85 and had been in declining health following numerous surgeries.

A former East Hampton resident, John Nasira Sumi of Redondo Beach, Calif., died at Torrance Memorial Hospital in Torrance, Calif., on Dec. 18. He was 94 and had been in failing health for two months.

A family house on Sammy’s Beach named Sail-Ho brought a young Richard C. Burchell to East Hampton in the mid-1960s. It was one of many ports of call for a man who over 50 years spent 14 years at sea aboard 25 ships.

Kathleen Flannery McFall of East Hampton Village died unexpectedly last Thursday night at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, of a cerebral hemorrhage. She was 74 and had generally been in good health.

Marlys Gilyard Dohanos, a longtime East Hampton resident who more recently lived on North Haven, died at home on Dec. 24. She was 85 and her health had been declining.

Michael S. London of Manhasset and East Hampton died unexpectedly on Dec. 18. A service was held yesterday at 1 p.m. at Gutterman’s Funeral Home in Woodbury. An obituary will follow in a future issue

Deyo Eugene Trowbridge, who taught science at East Hampton High School from 1966 to 1996, died on Dec. 6 at home in Ocala, Fla. He was 75.

Leonard M. Goldberg of Amagansett, an illustrator who painted one of the iconic Camel billboards in Times Square and produced a series of print and television ads for Marlboro during a 40-year career, died at home on Dec. 6. He was 95 and had become frail.

Peter Enrico Rana Jr., who followed his father as an Amagansett barber and was born in his parents’ apartment over the Main Street barbershop, died at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan on Dec. 13.

Joan Colangelo of Hampton Bays, who had been an assistant to the parish administrator of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton, died surrounded by her family on Nov. 14 at Syosset Hospital in Oyster Bay. She was 75 and had been diagnosed with cancer earlier this year.

Kathleen Mott, who had served during World War II with the Coast Guard Women’s Reserve, died on Dec. 13 in Cooper, Fla., after recovering from a three-week bout with pneumonia in an assisted-living facility near Fort Lauderdale.

A gathering in memory of Tom Leo of Sag Harbor, who died on Oct. 14 at the age of 80, will be held on Saturday afternoon at 2:15 in the Unitarian Universalist meetinghouse at 977 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike in Bridgehampton.

Capt. William Butler, whose career included operating a popular Montauk party boat called Lazy Bones and teaching English at East Hampton High School, died of complications of pneumonia on Oct. 31 at Martin Memorial hospital in Jensen Beach, Fla., where he had lived since 1985. He was 81.

Captain Butler got his start in boating piloting for the Davis Park Ferry Company to and from Fire Island. At the time, he also taught English at Patchogue High School.

Robert Winslow, who co-owned and operated the Amagansett I.G.A. for almost 30 years, died on Nov. 12 in Lafayette, Colo., where he had moved three years ago. The cause was a chronic infection. Mr. Winslow, who was 91, had been ill for five years. 

With his business partner, Robert Moss, Mr. Winslow ran the I.G.A. at its Main Street, Amagansett, location for 10 years before moving it, 50 years ago, to its current location on Montauk Highway. 

Harriet Talmadge Peele, a 60-year resident of Cooper Lane in East Hampton Village, died on Nov. 20 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital three days after a stroke. She was 91.

Mrs. Peele was a deacon and retired 15-year secretary of the East Hampton Presbyterian Church, where she worked during the tenure of the Rev. Frederick W. Schulz. As a descendant of a Revolutionary War veteran named Hand, she was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and was also a member of the Order of the Eastern Star.

A graveside service for Leonard M. Goldberg of Amagansett, who died on Wednesday, will be Sunday at 10 a.m. at the Independent Jewish Cemetery in Sag Harbor. Mr. Goldberg was 95.

Susan Vitale died on Friday, surrounded by family members and close friends, at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. A memorial service will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk.

Christine Epifania of Southampton, a health care director and counselor, a visual artist and chef, and a two-term co-chairwoman of the East End Gay Organization, died on Nov. 20 of complications of cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. She was 68 and had been ill for two years.

Lucille Malouche, a former Montauk resident, died on Nov. 20 in New Rochelle, N.Y. She was 97.

Mary Lester Byrnes, who lived on Cedar Street in East Hampton, died at home on Nov. 25 at the age of 94.