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Obituaries

For Ray Cappiello

Visiting hours for Ray Cappiello, who died on Friday, will be held on Monday from 4 to 8 p.m. at Raynor and D’Andrea, 683 Montauk Highway in Bayport.

A funeral Mass will be said on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk, with burial to follow at Fort Hill Cemetery.

Mr. Cappiello was a member of the Montauk Chamber of Commerce and had served as chairman of the chamber’s board for 11 years.

A full obituary will appear in a future issue of The Star. 

Oct 23, 2017
Thomas Leo, 80

Thomas J. Leo, a character actor and comedian, died on Saturday at the Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead of complications of late-stage dementia. He was 80.

Oct 19, 2017
Billy Havens, Longtime Bayman, ‘Finest Kind’

William E. Havens Jr., a 12th-generation bayman and almost lifelong Amagansett resident, died on Sept. 28 in Boca Raton, Fla., after a series of illnesses.

Oct 19, 2017
Donald Swanton, 69, Investment Expert

Donald Swanton of Dayton Lane, East Hampton, a recognized expert on investment tax credits, died on Sept. 23 at Southampton Hospital of coronary thrombosis.

Oct 19, 2017
Rose Mae Clark, 73

Rose Mae Clark, an 11th-generation resident of East Hampton and Amagansett who was known for helping the needy, died at home of cancer on Oct. 6 at the age of 73.

Oct 19, 2017
Donald Swanton

A funeral Mass for Donald Swanton of Dayton Lane, East Hampton, who died at Southampton Hospital on Sept. 23 at the age of 69, will be celebrated on Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton.

Oct 12, 2017
Richard L. Morris Sr., SoHo Developer

Richard Lee Morris Sr., a pioneering developer of SoHo properties in Manhattan who spent summers for more than 50 years at the Montauk Shores Condominium, died on Sept. 26 at Stony Brook University Hospital.

Oct 12, 2017
For William Havens Jr.

Visiting hours for William E. Havens Jr., an Amagansett bayman who had been a passionate advocate for commercial fishermen and who died on Sept. 28 in Boca Raton, Fla., after a series of illnesses, will be tomorrow at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton from 7 to 9 p.m.

Oct 12, 2017
Richard W. McGowin, Public Safety Advocate

Richard W. McGowin, a former Montauk Fire Department chief and commissioner who served on the Suffolk Fire and Rescue Services oversight board for more than 30 years, died on Sept. 28 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton.

Oct 12, 2017
Josie Kalbacher, 57

Josie Kalbacher of Springs-Fireplace Road in Springs, who spent her final days surrounded by friends and family, died at home on Sept. 29 from the complications of brain cancer, which had been diagnosed three years ago. She was 57.

Oct 12, 2017
Bonnie Jacobson, Therapist and Author

Bonnie Jacobson, a therapist in private practice in Manhattan for more than 40 years and an adjunct professor of applied psychology at New York University, died at the age of 74 at Lenox Hill Hospital on Sept. 30 after a long illness.

Oct 12, 2017
Barry Fleischman

Barry Marvin Fleischman, who in his long business career owned and operated a number of real estate and insurance agencies, including the Sagg Harbour Agency, died on Aug. 28 at Stony Brook University Hospital.

Oct 5, 2017
For Josie Kalbacher

Visiting hours for Josie Kalbacher of Springs-Fireplace Road in East Hampton, who died on Friday at the age of 57 of brain cancer, will begin at 1 p.m. on Oct. 14 at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

Oct 5, 2017
Jeannette H. Novack, 88, of Montauk

Jeannette H. Novack of Montauk died in her sleep at home on Sept. 14. Her family attributed her death to cardiopulmonary arrest.

Oct 5, 2017
Bonnie Jacobson

Dr. Bonnie Jacobson of Springs and Manhattan, a noted psychologist who was the author of seven self-help books and appeared often on television, died in Manhattan on Saturday.

Oct 5, 2017
Peter V. Tishman, 85, Real Estate Developer

Peter Valentine Tishman, a member of a family that is synonymous with New York City real estate, died on Aug. 26 at Stony Brook University Hospital.

Oct 5, 2017
Martha Nicholoulias, 93

Martha Nicholoulias, who with her husband followed her sister and brother-in-law to Montauk after they retired there in the 1970s, died in her sleep at home on Sept. 15.

Sep 28, 2017
Marcie Angel, School Librarian

For over 20 years, Marcie Angel would leave home in Remsenburg at 6 a.m. on weekdays to beat the eastbound traffic and arrive before the first bell at the Amagansett School, where she worked from 1991 to 2014.

Sep 28, 2017
Lucy West, 101

Lucy West, whose 100th birthday on Feb. 20, 2016, was declared Lucy West Day in the Village of East Hampton by Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr., died at home here on Aug. 28.

Sep 28, 2017
Jacqueline de Looz, 73

Jacqueline Odette de Looz, who worked at the United Nations in various capacities for more than four decades and who had a house on Abraham’s Path in Amagansett, died on June 2 in Vienna of pancreatic cancer, her family said.

Sep 28, 2017
Robert W. Massa, 94

Robert W. Massa of East Hampton, who served on the battleship U.S.S. Nevada as a seaman first class during World War II, died at home of respiratory failure on Sept. 19. He was 94 and had been ill for about two months.

Mr. Massa met his future wife, Kathryn Tobin, at Doubleday in Garden City, where both worked. After leaving Doubleday, he was employed as a machinist for the New York Central Railroad for 17 years, later working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and the Bowery Savings Bank.

Sep 28, 2017
Barbara A.H. Jordan, Housing Advocate

Barbara Ann Herber Jordan of East Hampton, who immersed herself in local campaigns for affordable housing and other social causes, died at the age of 81 on Sept. 6 at San Simeon by the Sound in Greenport.

Sep 21, 2017
Margaret Hindra, 83

Margaret Hindra, who came to the United States from Ireland in the early 1950s as a young woman and later retired to Springs with her husband, Valentine Hindra, died on Sept. 1 at home at Windmill Village in East Hampton. She was 83 and had Parkinson’s disease, her son, Matt Hindra, said.

Mrs. Hindra was a strong force in their family, a matriarch, he said, and the center of a large group of friends.

She was born a twin on Nov. 28, 1933, to Timothy Buckley and the former Mary Sexton on the family farm.

Sep 21, 2017
John B. Olszewski, 87

John B. Olszewski, who had moved in June from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., to West Palm Beach, Fla., died at Good Samaritan Hospital there on Aug. 22 of prostate cancer.

Sep 21, 2017
Peter Schaefer, Following a Fall

Peter Brian Schaefer of East Hampton died on Aug. 27 at Stony Brook University Hospital of injuries suffered in a fall two days earlier while he was out to dinner with his family in Southampton. He was 32.

Sep 21, 2017
Collis E. Russell

A resident of Morris Park Lane in East Hampton since 1974, Collis E. Russell died at home on Aug. 24. He was 71.

Born in Moore County, N.C., on May 2, 1946, to William and Augusta Russell, he attended school there and in Bridgehampton, where he moved with his family. On Sept. 12, 1964, he married Linda Sue Ward. The couple relocated to East Hampton, and Mr. Russell worked as a window washer for more than 25 years across the East End.

Sep 21, 2017
Cheryl Lewis, 68

Cheryl O. Lewis of East Hampton, who was born at Southampton Hospital, worked there as a nurse’s aide, and died there on Sept. 3, was a woman of deep faith, her sister, Gail Harris, said this week, always keeping a Bible with her.

Sep 21, 2017
Frank Danielo

Frank Danielo, a part-time resident of Lazy Point, Amagansett, who had summered in Amagansett from the time he was a child and was the treasurer of the Napeague Mobile Home Park, died on Sept. 10 at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn.

Sep 21, 2017
Walter Hardy, 50

Walter F. Hardy, who since 1970 had spent summers at his family’s house on Gerard Drive in Springs, died suddenly on Sept. 2.

Sep 14, 2017
George E. Butts Jr., Former Harbor Mayor

George Edmund Butts Jr., who was 82, died at home on Shelter Island on Sept. 5. A former resident of Sag Harbor and its mayor from 1985 to 1991, he had been in failing health for the last few years.

Sep 14, 2017