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Obituaries

Morton Deutsch, 97

Morton Deutsch, who founded the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Columbia University (now renamed for him) died on March 13 in New York City.

Apr 20, 2017
James Anthony McCann

James Anthony McCann, a longtime resident of East Hampton who moved three years ago to Spokane, Wash., died there on April 8 of renal failure.

Apr 20, 2017
John L. Damiecki, 91

John L. Damiecki, a member of a Bridgehampton potato-farming family, died of complications of pneumonia in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Jan. 26, with several family members by his bedside.

Apr 20, 2017
Andrew C. Ingraham Jr.

Andrew Clark Ingraham Jr., who was the East Hampton Town attorney in the early 1980s and maintained a law practice here for many years, died of cancer after a long illness on April 5, in Beaufort, S.C.

Apr 20, 2017
For Daria Deshuk

A memorial service for Daria Deshuk will be held at Guild Hall on April 22 at 7 p.m.

Apr 13, 2017
Barbara Ann Marasco

Barbara Ann Marasco, a conservationist, gardener, and birdwatcher, died of pneumonia on April 1 in Stuart, Fla., at the age of 82.

Apr 13, 2017
Wanda Rosado

The Star has received word that Wanda Rosado of East Hampton died on Sunday. She was 57.

Apr 13, 2017
Charles Garrett, Scientist

Charles Garrett, a physicist, author, and educator in scientific research and a 47-year resident of Fithian Lane in East Hampton, died of cardiac failure on Saturday at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton.

Apr 13, 2017
Anita Ober, 81

Anita Ober, who had had a house in Springs since the late 1960s, died in Philadelphia at the Hahnemann University Hospital on Feb. 2 at the age of 81.

Apr 13, 2017
Michael W. Varese, 91, Writer and Restorer

Michael William Varese, who restored fine furniture in his East Hampton workshop for 35 years and wrote over 300 columns about furniture for The New York Times and Country Living magazine, died on March 27 in Lantana, Fla., at the age of 91.

Apr 13, 2017
Cathy Matus, 69

Cathy Matus, who grew up walking to the beach in Port Jefferson and rediscovered her love of the beach and nature in Amagansett died at home in Amagansett on March 21.

Apr 6, 2017
Barbara Marasco

Visiting hours for Barbara Marasco, who died on Saturday in Florida, will be tomorrow from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

Apr 6, 2017
David P. O’Shea, 36

David Patrick O’Shea of Kingston, N.Y., a former resident of East Hampton, died on March 22 of an opiate overdose

Apr 6, 2017
Barbara Tobin Reid

Barbara Tobin Reid, who taught children with learning disabilities at New York’s St. Luke’s Hospital as well as privately until her retirement in 2000, died at her Amagansett house on Wednesday morning, just before her 81st birthday, with her family by her side.

Apr 6, 2017
Gregory L. Armstrong

Gregory Luke Armstrong, known by his friends as Greg, died unexpectedly on Saturday at his house on Oakview Highway in East Hampton.

Apr 6, 2017
Anthony DeVivio

Anthony DeVivio, who ran the East Hampton office of Halstead Property, died on Sunday at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.

Mar 30, 2017
Clifford L. Bekkedahl, Career Naval Officer

Capt. Clifford Lewis Bekkedahl, a retired naval officer, Arctic explorer, and editor of The Polar Times, died of congestive heart failure at his New York City residence on Sunday, with his family by his side. He was 86 and had been in declining health for the last few years.

Mar 30, 2017
Michael Varese

Michael Varese, who lived with his wife, Elizabeth, for more than 35 years on Osborne Lane in East Hampton, died at home on Monday in Lantana, Fla.

Mar 30, 2017
Arnold T. Rosenberg, Food Photographer

Arnold T. Rosenberg, who had an extensive career as a food photographer, with work in magazines and newspapers such as Gourmet, Food and Wine, Martha Stewart Living, as well as with columns in The New York Times and cookbooks by Craig Claiborne and Pierre Franey, died at Southampton Hospital on March 21 at the age of 85.

Mar 30, 2017
Daria Deshuk, Artist

Daria Deshuk, an artist and presence on the South Fork art scene since the 1980s, died on March 9 in Bridgehampton.

Mar 23, 2017
S. McGraw-Silverstone

Sally McGraw-Silverstone, a Montauk resident for three decades who was known as Pooch, died on March 13 at Stony Brook University Hospital after a short illness.

Mar 23, 2017
Karl W. Horlitz, 95

Karl William Horlitz died on Saturday at Southampton Hospital, to which he had been admitted after a fall at his East Hampton house. According to his son, Karl Steven Horlitz, his father, who was 95, was still “the same old spicy guy on Friday and died peacefully a week later.” The younger Mr. Horlitz recalled that “two weeks ago he was reciting the Gettysburg Address, which he knew by heart.”

Mar 23, 2017
Ken Robbins, Noted Photographer

Ken Robbins, a photographer who captured the landscape, wildlife, and people of the East End for four decades, died at home in Springs on March 9.

Mar 23, 2017
Michael J. Hegarty

Michael John Hegarty, a former president and chief executive officer of Flushing Savings Bank who had houses in Montauk and Glen Head, died on Jan. 29 at home in Glen Head.

Mar 23, 2017
Gail McManus, 63

Gail B. McManus, a former East Hampton resident who moved to Florida with her husband, James McManus, 22 years ago, died at home in Barefoot Bay, Fla., on March 1 from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Mar 16, 2017
For Sally McGraw

A memorial service for Sally McGraw of Montauk, who died on Monday, will be held at the Montauk Library next Thursday from 2 to 4 p.m.

Mar 16, 2017
Jeffrey Edward Fisher

Jeffrey Edward Fisher of Warwick, N.Y., and Montauk, a history teacher for 30 years and a lifelong blood donor, died on Feb. 22 at St. Anthony Community Hospital in Warwick.

Mar 16, 2017
Ken Robbins

Ken Robbins, a photographer who lived in Springs, died at home last Thursday.

Mar 16, 2017
Ruth A. Metz, 97, ‘Rosie the Riveter’

Ruth Andrina Metz of Wainscott, the matriarch of a large extended family and an indomitable bicycle rider until the age of 92, died at home on March 7.

Mar 16, 2017
Florence Papas Merrill

Florence E. Papas Merrill of East Hampton died on Feb. 19 at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead of complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder.

Mar 16, 2017