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Obituaries

For Christopher Holden

There will be a celebration of the life of Christopher Holden at the Shagwong Tavern in Montauk on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m

Sep 14, 2017
William H. Mann, 91

William Houston Mann of Southampton and Palm Beach died of pneumonia on Aug. 27 at Southampton Hospital, surrounded by his family. He was 91.

Sep 14, 2017
John V. Willenborg, Longtime Montauker

John Victor Willenborg of Vero Beach, Fla., who as a year-round resident of Montauk had helped spearhead the drive to build a new building for the growing congregation of St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church, died on Aug. 28 at the Palm Garden Health and Rehabilitation Center in Vero Beach.

Sep 14, 2017
Barbara Jordan

Barbara Jordan of East Hampton died on Sept. 5 at San Simeon by the Sound nursing home in Greenport. She was 82.

Sep 14, 2017
Carol A. McCallion, 74

Carol A. McCallion, a resident of East Hampton for many years and more recently of Naples, Fla., died on Sept. 1 at Southampton Hospital.

Sep 14, 2017
Vincent Longo, Artist and Teacher

Vincent Longo, whose distinguished career as a painter and printmaker spanned more than six decades and whose influence as a teacher was felt by three generations of artists, died at home in Amagansett on Sept. 4.

Sep 14, 2017
For Cheryl Lewis

A funeral for Cheryl O. Lewis of Three Mile Harbor Road in East Hampton, who died on Sept. 3 at Southampton Hospital, will be held on Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton.

Sep 14, 2017
For Patricia Arceri

The Very Rev. Denis C. Brunelle will officiate at a memorial service for Patricia A. Arceri on Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. at Scoville Hall in Amagansett.

Sep 14, 2017
Patricia Holmes-Mackay

Patricia Elizabeth Holmes-Mackay died on Aug. 12 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City of liver disease, the culmination of lifelong health problems. She was 50 years old.

Sep 7, 2017
Bonnie Reiss, Education Philanthropist

Bonnie Feldman Reiss, who helped numerous students go to college through the Reiss Family Scholarship Fund, died at her New York City apartment on Monday at the age of 72.

Sep 7, 2017
For Eleanor Dordelman

A graveside service for Eleanor Belle Dordelman, a native of Amagansett who died on June 20 in Palm Bay, Fla., will take place on Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton, the Rev. Scot McCachren officiating.

Sep 7, 2017
William H. Mann

William H. Mann, who lived in Southampton and Palm Beach, Fla., and was a member of the Maidstone Club here, died of pneumonia on Sunday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

Aug 31, 2017
Judith A. Ackerman, 75

Judith Ackerman, who had been ill for many years, died at home on Georgica Road in East Hampton on Aug. 9 at the age of 75.

Aug 31, 2017
Eleanor Dordelman, 89

Eleanor Belle Dordelman, who was born in Amagansett and was married to Carl Dordelman, a former chief of the East Hampton Village Police Department, died on June 20 at William Childs Hospice House in Palm Bay, Fla., following a massive stroke.

Aug 31, 2017
Francis Wyss, 93

Francis H. Wyss, formerly of East Hampton, died on Saturday at the Orchard Nursing Home in Granville, N.Y. He was 93 and had been in deteriorating health for several years.

Aug 31, 2017
Julio N. Tubatan

At the age of about 15, Julio N. Tubatan left Ecuador for Montauk, working at Gurney’s Inn for three years before returning to his home country, and in 1980, emigrated to the United States for good, living briefly in Queens, before returning to Montauk, where he would stay for the next 37 years and would raise a family of his own. 

He was one of nine children. His entire family eventually joined him and his oldest brother in the U.S. They were among the first Ecuadorean immigrants to settle in Montauk. 

Aug 31, 2017
Simone V. Marshall, 93

Simone V. Marshall, who was brought up in Paris but came to the United States to train and work as a psychoanalyst, died at home in Springs on Aug. 22 after a long illness.

Aug 31, 2017
William Belber Jr.

William Belber Jr., a commercial fisherman who grew up in Montauk’s old fishing village on Fort Pond Bay, died on Aug. 11 in Port St. Lucie, Fla. He was 86 and had been in poor health for 10 years.

Known as Bill, he was born in Greenport to William Belber Sr. and the former Ellen Berg and moved to Montauk as a boy. His father had a small restaurant, Bill’s Inn, in the fishing village there, and later moved it to Edgemere Road.

Aug 26, 2017
Ronald Heller, 86, Fashion Designer

Ronald Heller, a fashion designer who at one time had his own boutique in Bergdorf Goodman, died at home in East Hampton on Aug. 7 at the age of 86.

Aug 26, 2017
Taryn Enck, 25

Taryn Lynn Enck, who had struggled for more than 10 years with hereditary angioedema, a rare genetic disease, died on Aug. 9 at home on Mulford Avenue in Montauk. She was 25 years old.

Aug 24, 2017
For Phyllis Adams

A memorial service will be held at the Amagansett Presbyterian Church tomorrow at 10 a.m. for Phyllis Adams, a native of that hamlet who was born there on Aug. 28, 1922. Mrs. Adams died on June 8 in Augusta, Ga., where she had lived in her final years. She was 94.

Aug 17, 2017
John Anthony Sasso

John Anthony Sasso of Montauk, who had a long career in business and was a music arranger and brass instrument instructor, died at home at noon on Sunday of an unexpected heart attack.

Aug 17, 2017
Paula M. Dankowski

Paula Dankowski of Plattsburgh, N.Y., formerly of Wainscott, died on Aug. 3 at the Visiting Nurse Association Respite House in Colchester, Vt.

Aug 17, 2017
James J. McLaughlin, 91

James Joseph McLaughlin of East Hampton, who founded the Wall Street bond-trading firm McLaughlin, Piven and Vogel Securities, and continued to run the company after moving to Amagansett in the 1980s, died at home on Aug. 9 with his wife at his side.

Aug 17, 2017
Kevin Raymond Young

A celebration of Kevin Raymond Young’s life was held on Cousin’s Island in Falmouth, Me., on Friday, which would have been his 56th birthday.

Aug 17, 2017
Patricia A. Arceri, 85

Patricia A. Arceri, who had been ill for only a short time, died at home in Amagansett on July 14, with her husband and family at her bedside.

Aug 17, 2017
John M. Arms

John M. Arms of New York City and Bridgehampton, an architect who was an associate partner at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill for 37 years, died of heart failure on Friday at home in Bridgehampton.

Aug 17, 2017
Donald Norton, 93

Donald Norton, who was born at home in East Hampton Village in 1923, died on July 29 at East End Hospice in Westhampton Beach at the age of 93.

Aug 17, 2017
Phyllis Adams Memorial

Phyllis Adams will be honored in a memorial Friday in Amagansett at 10 a.m.

Aug 14, 2017
For Deborah Miller

A memorial gathering for Deborah A. Miller, an 11th-generation Bonacker who died in San Francisco on Dec. 20, 2016, of pneumonia, will take place on Aug. 21 at 11 a.m. off Landing Lane at Accabonac Harbor in Springs. She had requested that a memorial be held that day, her birthday, and a reception will be held during the solar eclipse at the family house at 517 Accabonac Road, Springs.

She would have been 65.

Aug 10, 2017