Obituaries

Margaret E. Till Edeline, who was a young actress in London before moving to this country, died on Dec. 12 at her daughter’s house in Norfolk, Va.

Kathleen Mezynieski, who lived in Wainscott for 50 years, died at South­ampton Hospital last Thursday of kidney failure. She would have been 72 on Saturday.

There will be a graveside service at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton tomorrow at noon for Margaret Schorsch.

Gary J. Tweed, who had a house on Robertson Drive on North Haven for 25 years, died on Dec. 9 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City at the age of 70

Robert Roy Metz, who had been the president and C.E.O. of United Media, a licensing and newspaper-syndication company that launched and syndicated the “Garfield” and “Dilbert” comic strips under his leadership, died of pneumonia on Sunday.

George Dorsey Brenning, who was among the founders of the East End Gay Organization in the 1970s, died of complications from surgery on Nov. 6 at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C.

Sy Coopersmith, a practicing Manhattan psychoanalyst for nearly a half-century and the owner of an East Hampton house for much of that time, died at his home in Great Neck on Nov. 6, at the age of 84.

Jody Lee Kalafut, who grew up in Montauk and with her husband operated Jody’s Country Kitchen on the hamlet’s Main Street from 1978 to 1982, died on Oct. 25 at her East Hampton house.

Hy Brodsky, a public relations man, jazz historian, and Montauk community activist, died on Sunday at Southampton Hospital. Mr. Brodsky, who was 89, had not been ill, his family said.

Joanne Shea Cole, whose family said she dedicated her life to healing practices and service to others, died on Friday in Albany. She was 69 and had pancreatic cancer for three months.

Norman Charles Pickering, an inventor, musician, musical instrument maker, and acoustical researcher, died at home in East Hampton on Nov. 18.

Margaret Lewis, a longtime member of Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton who had 7 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren, and 2 great-great grandchildren, died at Southampton Hospital on Friday.

Vivian Holder was “a very elegant and sophisticated woman,” said her daughter, Corey Ann Holder of East Hampton. Ms. Holder, who came from Brooklyn to East Hampton in the 1980s to care for her mother and thereafter lived on Three Mile Harbor Road, died on Nov. 13 at Southampton Hospital of complications following a stroke.

Daniel Justman, a well-known psychoanalyst, died of Alzheimer’s disease at home in Manhattan on Nov. 15.

Marie Norkin Warach, a former president of the Artists Alliance of East Hampton and a longtime resident of Springs, died in New York City on Nov. 18.

Jeffrey S. Taylor, a real estate developer and the mayor in Chatham Township, N.J., for eight years, died on Oct. 18 at home in East Hampton.

Jean Gollay, a writer and editor, whose work appeared in The Readers Digest and The New York Times as well as The East Hampton Star, died in Venice, Fla., on Nov. 4, about a month shy of her 98th birthday.

Visiting hours for Vivian Holder of Three Mile Harbor Road in East Hampton, who died on Friday at Southampton Hospital, will begin Saturday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home here at 11 a.m.

Carol Jane Crowley, a lifelong Bridgehampton resident who grew up on a potato farm on Scuttlehole Road, died at the age of 93 on Nov. 1 at home on Lumber Lane.

Jessie Mae DeBoard, who died on Nov. 4 at a daughter’s home in White Plains, Md., was 74 years old and had long had a respiratory illness.

Alfred Howell Conklin, who on Oct. 27 reached his 100th birthday, a milestone he had been looking forward to with great anticipation, died at his Dayton Lane home less than a week later, on Nov. 2.

A military memorial service for Margaret F. D’Andrea, followed by the burial of her ashes, will take place on Nov. 14 at 10 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery. Friends and family will gather at 11:30 to celebrate her life at the Wainscott Chapel, 65 Wainscott Main Street.

Mrs. D’Andrea, who was an Army Air Corps nurse during World War II and later an active community volunteer, died on Oct. 6 at the age of 93.

hrough his work with the International Rescue Committee, which spanned three decades, Robert P. DeVecchi was credited with helping to save the lives of millions of refugees who fled foreign conflicts. Mr. DeVecchi, who held several leadership roles with the I.R.C. and was recognized with a number of humanitarian awards, died on Oct. 26 at his home in Southport, Conn.

Helen Everett of Sag Harbor, who spent 27 years as an elementary school teacher there and many more years volunteering with Southampton Hospital and the Dominican Family Health Service, died on Oct. 14.

Robert Craig Yardley of Dorset, Vt., who was a standout student-athlete at East Hampton High School and then enjoyed a long career teaching history at his alma mater, died on Oct. 25 at the Albany Medical Center.

Alfred Howell Conklin died at home in East Hampton on Monday.

Genevieve F. Hewitt, an author, columnist, and former home building and decorating editor at Good Housekeeping magazine, died on Oct. 26 in Manhattan after a brief illness.

Lynn Rauch, who spent many summers with her sister, Patricia Story, in East Hampton, died at home in Delray Beach, Fla., on Friday, surrounded by family. The cause was lung cancer.

Robert Louis Peters, a standout high school and college football player who was a jack of all trades as an adult in East Hampton, died on Oct. 18 in St. Petersburg, Fla., where he had gone to visit a sister.

Harry J. O’Rourke, who grew up in Wainscott and East Hampton Village and had a successful insurance career after serving in the Marine Corps, died on Sept. 29 at Kettering Hospital in Ohio after a short illness.