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Obituaries

David M. King, Fire Chief

David M. King died on Feb. 11 at Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 62. His family, friends, and fellow Springs firefighters remembered him as being “fiercely loyal, dedicated, committed, and generous.”

Mar 9, 2017
George Damien Mullan

George Damien Mullan, an Irishman who served with the U.S. Air Force in Arizona for three years and ultimately settled in Montauk, died on Feb. 26 in Jupiter, Fla., after a short illness. He was 75.

Mar 9, 2017
Barbara King

Barbara Halliday King, a 12th-generation member of the Schellinger family, died at home on Widow Gavits Road in Sag Harbor on Feb. 18, her 62nd birthday.

Mar 9, 2017
Fritz Hubner, 84, Fisherman

Fritz Hubner of Montauk died at home on Feb. 17. He was 84 and had been in and out of the hospital for the past few years.

Mar 9, 2017
David J. Buckley, Korean War Veteran

David Joseph Buckley, who settled in East Hampton after serving in the Air Force first at the Montauk station in 1948 and then in the Korean War from 1950 to 1952, died in Boynton Beach, Fla., on Friday.

Mar 9, 2017
Jose Lenin Sanchez

Jose Lenin Sanchez, a resident of Montauk for 32 years, died on Feb. 22 in West Palm Beach, Fla., where he and his wife wintered every year.

Mar 2, 2017
Ruth M. Steckowski

Ruth M. Steckowski, who worked for many years at the Amagansett Farmers Market, died on Monday at Southampton Hospital, where she had been admitted the previous day. She was 88.

Mar 2, 2017
Clara B. Windsor, School Bus Driver

Clara Bennett Windsor, who traced her roots to the early settlers of East Hampton, died of congestive heart failure on Friday at the Iroquois Nursing Home in Jamesville, N.Y. She was 90

Mar 2, 2017
Barbara J. King

Barbara J. King, who was born Barbara Halliday, died at her home in Sag Harbor on Saturday. It was Feb. 18, her 62nd birthday.

Feb 23, 2017
Percy King, 70

A service is to be held today at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor, from 12 to 2 p.m., for Percy King, a former resident of Sag Harbor and East Hampton, who died in his sleep at his apartment in Selden on Feb. 15 of an apparent heart attack. He was 70 years old.

Feb 23, 2017
Ted Stanley Hubbard

Ted Stanley Hubbard, a Montauk landscaper who was inspired by the natural world and all things Native American, died on Monday in Montauk. Mr. Hubbard, who was 49, was “a free spirit,” his family said, who had traveled across the United States and into Mexico. He settled for a time near Gardner, Colo., where he volunteered at a wolf sanctuary, picked sage, lived in a yurt, and embraced a simple life.

Feb 23, 2017
Eileen Mary Kim, 64

Eileen Mary Kim, a Montauk native and member of the large Kenny family there, died at the age of 64 at home in Queensbury, N.Y., on Feb. 18.

Feb 23, 2017
David M. King

David M. King, a former chief and longtime member of the Springs Fire Department and an owner of C.E. King and Sons, an awning and marine canvas company in Springs, died on Saturday morning at Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 62. His family received visitors at a firefighters’ service yesterday. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Feb 16, 2017
Elspeth Furlaud, 92

Elspeth Banks Furlaud, an artist and longtime summer resident of Dunemere Lane in East Hampton, died surrounded by her family on Feb. 5 at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She was 92.

Feb 16, 2017
For Richard Shumway

A celebration of life for Richard Shumway, a Southampton resident and owner of Atlantic Collaborative Construction Company in Bridgehampton who died on Feb. 8, will be held at the Southampton Inn on Hill Street in Southampton on March 4 at 2 p.m.

Feb 16, 2017
Betty S. Miller Proud Bonacker

Betty S. Miller, a lifelong member of the Amagansett Presbyterian Church who was proud of her Bonac roots, died at Southampton Hospital on Jan. 27 of congestive heart failure. She was about a month shy of her 87th birthday.

Feb 16, 2017
Gail J. Murphy, Insurance Agent

Gail J. Murphy of Montauk, who worked for John Ecker Inc., a Montauk insurance brokerage from the time she was in high school until her final illness, died at home on Sunday. She was 55 and had had breast cancer for about four years.

Feb 16, 2017
Walter C. Loris

Word has reached The Star that Walter C. Loris, a retired East Hampton Town police officer and Amagansett resident, died on Sunday.

Feb 9, 2017
Alison J. Aird, 49

Alison Jane Aird, an accomplished pianist and English and drama teacher who was in remission for 10 years from a malignant brain tumor, died on Friday night at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue.

Feb 9, 2017
Kathleen Hutton, 80

Kathleen Hutton, a runway model in London in the 1950s who later worked as a professional chef and property manager and also had a knitting store in Bridgehampton, died at home in East Hampton on Feb. 1 of lymphoma.

Feb 9, 2017
Robert G. Schwartz, 93

Robert Gerson Schwartz of New York City, East Hampton, and Longboat Key, Fla., died of a heart attack in Longboat Key last Thursday, his 93rd birthday.

Feb 9, 2017
Melissa E. Morgan

Melissa Morgan, who had sustained a broken hip and other injuries in a fall in 2013 and been in failing health since October, died last Thursday at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton.

Feb 9, 2017
Budd Levinson, Philanthropist

Budd Levinson, a philanthropist who had been an entrepreneur in the textiles business, Navy veteran, and inveterate fisherman, died at his home in Springs on Dec. 20. He was 101.

Feb 9, 2017
Cathy Anne Tobin

Cathy Anne Tobin, who lived on Navy Road in Montauk for the past eight years, died of complications of diabetes on Feb. 1 at Southampton Hospital.

Feb 9, 2017
Donald M. Halsey, Former Village Clerk

Donald M. Halsey, who had been the East Hampton Village clerk and treasurer from 1966 until his retirement in 1982, died on Jan. 30 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton.

Feb 9, 2017
Phyllis C. Byrne, 91

Phyllis C. Byrne of East Hampton, who together with her late husband, Patrick, owned and ran the Huntting Lane Rest Home until 2006, died on Jan. 21 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton, where she had been for several months.

Feb 9, 2017
Roger D. Myrick

Roger Dale Myrick died on Jan. 21 at Southampton Hospital of complications of a stroke. He was 71 and had been planning to go back to work as chef in March at Cappelletti, a restaurant on Noyac Road in Sag Harbor.

Feb 2, 2017
Harvey M. Spear, 94

Harvey M. Spear, an attorney who served with the United States Marine Corps during World War II, died on Jan. 22 at his home in Manhattan.

Feb 2, 2017
Monty Silver, Top Talent Agent

Monty Silver, a talent agent whose clients were among the stars of stage and screen, died at his home in Springs on Jan. 19 of bladder cancer. He was 83 and had been ill for 13 months. His family said he had been treasured for his warmth and sharp sense of humor.

Feb 2, 2017
James C. Welsch Jr.

James C. Welsch Jr. of East Hampton and Huntington died at Huntington Hospital on Jan. 20 after a brief illness.

Feb 2, 2017