Obituaries

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.