Obituaries

Geraldine B. Taylor of East Hampton died unexpectedly on July 29 in Ireland, where she had been vacationing, accompanied by two of her children and a son-in-law. She had gone to a hospital to be treated for an infection, and died there.

Funeral services for Trudy L. Lester of East Hampton will be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, 675 Scuttlehole Road in Water Mill.

Ms. Lester, who died on Friday at Southampton Hospital, was 61. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

A graveside service for Peter Frances Rucano Sr. of Springs will be held Thursday at Calverton National Cemetery at 11 a.m. Mr. Rucano died at Southampton Hospital on Aug. 1 at the age of 91.

His family plans to gather at Yardley and Pino Funeral Home on Pantigo Road in East Hampton at 9 a.m. for a procession to the cemetery.

An obituary will appear in a future issue.

The Star has received word of the sudden death of Geraldine B. Taylor of East Hampton, 78, while on vacation with her children in Ireland.

Margaret Zukas, who immigrated to this country with her family when she was 2, died at home in East Hampton on Monday.

Beatrice Loretta Neill, who grew up in a house on Louse Point Road in Springs and for many years worked in the Bulova watchcase factory in Sag Harbor, died of breast cancer on July 26 at home in Essex Junction, Vt., her family said. She was 72.

Lynda Marie Havens-Horn, a former resident of Sag Harbor, died in Salt Lake City on July 20 from metastatic breast cancer, at the home of her son, Father Justin Lawrence Havens, a Christian Orthodox priest.

Linda Washburne Finney of East Hampton died of liver cancer on July 23 at Southampton Hospital.

A funeral Mass will be said on Aug. 5 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Sag Harbor for Kathleen Barry of Sag Harbor and Jupiter, Fla., who died on Dec. 31 at the age of 72.

Jacob Nelson Foran “was a man of many passions,” wrote Richard Swift, his partner of 35 years.

Visiting hours for Beatrice L. Neill, a Springs native who died at home yesterday in Essex Junction, Vt., will be tomorrow from 4 to 6 p.m. at the A.W. Rich Funeral Home there.

Edward J. McGuire Jr., a Montauk resident since 2002 with his wife of 20 years, Kathleen Smith, died on Monday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.

Jean Edmond Lanier of Wainscott, who was instrumental in founding L’Arche Long Island, a Riverhead branch of an international organization that creates communities for people with intellectual disabilities and those who care for them, died on July 19 in New York City, surrounded by his family. He was 71 and had been ill for only a short time.

Meredith Arnoux of Wainscott died on July 8 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. A former guidance counselor at the Westhampton Beach Middle School, she was 69 and had had cancer for two and a half years.

The Star has received word of the death of Patricia A. Arceri of Amagansett, who was 85, on July 14. A memorial service is planned for Sept. 16.

A celebration of the life of Clara B. Windsor, who died at age 90 on Feb. 24, will take place on July 29 at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on James Lane in East Hampton Village.

Christopher Holden, who was said to have beaten throat cancer within the past year, died at home in Montauk of a heart attack on May 11.

Meredith Arnoux of Wainscott died on Saturday.

John J. Lehmann, who grew up in Sag Harbor and served in the Navy, died at home in Cuba, N.Y., on June 30. He was 27.

Gloria Appel, an Upper West Sider whose family had been year-round weekenders on the South Fork for over 40 years, died of ovarian cancer at the age of 74 on July 1.

Edgar C. Grimes Jr., who had cancer, died on June 20 at the Good Samaritan Lutheran Health Care Center in Delmar, N.Y.

When Eleanor A. Miller was diagnosed with ovarian cancer 12 years ago, she was told she would live another three years at most. She was determined to “fight as long and as much as she could,” her family reported, and with the help of the local organizations Fighting Chance and Lucia’s Angels, survived to see four grandchildren born. She died on June 15 at Southampton Hospital.

Patrick James Coyle, who was 42, died on June 20 in Cleveland. The cause of death has not yet been determined, his family said.

Roger Evans, a longtime resident of Montauk and East Hampton who was known informally as the Weatherman, died on June 23 at the Southampton Care Center, where he had spent the last four years of his life.

Marieanne Labbat, who with her husband, Eugene Labbat, owned and ran the East Hampton restaurant Chez Labbat for many years, died at home here on June 20, surrounded by her family and a caregiver, Paulett Waite.

Kathleen Nancy Danielson died at home on June 19 of an apparently unintentional heroin overdose after a 10-year battle with addiction. A 2007 East Hampton High School graduate, she was 28.

In an effort to overcome addiction, Ms. Danielson had belonged to the Sunday Night Fight Club, sponsored by the Riverhead chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous, and also attended a Heroin Anonymous support group known as Spiritually Protected.

Phyllis Adams, a descendant of two of East Hampton’s early families who led the women’s crafts group of the Amagansett Presbyterian Church for many years, died on June 8 at the Brookdale Assisted Living facility in Augusta, Ga., to which she had moved to be closer to her family.

A memorial service for Roger Evans, a longtime resident of Montauk and more recently of East Hampton, will be held next Thursday at 6 p.m. at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Ama­gansett.

Mark Anthony Hogg, originally from the island of Jamaica, died on June 4 at his East Hampton residence following a heart attack.

Dr. D’Agostino came to Montauk in 1970 when he was appointed to represent St. John’s University at the New York Ocean Science Laboratory, which researched marine life in Long Island Sound and surrounding waters.