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. She was 87 and had been under the care of James River Hospice. 

Ms. Volpe had worked in public health, at the Kent Nursing Home in Holmes, N.Y., the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, N.Y., and as the director of nursing services for the Maryknoll Sisters in Ossining, N.Y. She and her husband, Hercules A. Volpe, moved to Mako Lane, Amagansett, in 1990 from Mahopac, N.Y., where they had lived for over 30 years. They attended St. John the Evangelist Church there and took an active part in the parish community. 

Her family said she had an imposing, quiet strength and shared a love of the beach and the ocean with family and friends.

She was born on June 24, 1930, to Carl Cutler and the former Mary O’Dowd in Providence, R.I. She graduated from Classical High School in Providence, Simmons College in Boston, and trained at the Boston Children’s Hospital as a nurse.

The Volpes, who married on June 8, 1950, raised nine children in Mahopac, as well as Ms. Volpe’s sister, Jean Cutler. They bought the cottage in the Amagansett dunes in the early 1980s, which they eventually added on to and moved to year round in retirement.

She is survived by her husband of 67 years, a sister, Diane Kerr of Exeter, N.H., and a brother, Robert Cutler of Stowe, Vt., as well as her children. They are Katherine Bettin and Peggy Healey of Midlothian, Kristine Hansmann, Susan Gusamano, Rosemary Carinci, Annie Fetzer, and James Volpe, all of Mahopac, Beth Ainsworth of Pleasant Valley, N.Y., and Matthew Volpe of San Diego. She also is survived by 22 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. A brother and a sister died before her.

Ms. Volpe was cremated. A memorial service will be planned for the spring. Donations in her memory have been suggested to the Maryknoll Sisters, 10 Pinesbridge Road, Ossining 10562.

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 and had liver and kidney failure.

Mr. Donna began work with the Associated Press in Philadelphia in 1973. He had previously worked at Look magazine and the Reading Eagle, a newspaper in Reading, Pa.

For a time during the 1980s, he worked at Gamma Liaison, a photo agency, before returning to the A.P., where he had been the enterprise editor and New York City bureau chief. He then served in a series of management roles at the New York City headquarters, including assistant to the president, vice president, and the board of directors, as well as director of human resources and then senior vice president of international business.

Among Mr. Donna’s more memorable assignments was coordinating coverage for the stuntman Evel Knievel’s 1974 Snake River Canyon jump attempt in Wyoming and the return of the 52 American hostages who had been held in Iran for more than 14 months to West Point, in 1981.

He was a trustee of the Montauk Library, a member of its strategic planning committee, and  a volunteer at its annual book fair. In New York City, he had been a board member of Services for the Underserved.

He was born on July 15, 1946, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., to Michael Donna and the former Dolores Slattery. He attended schools in Wilkes-Barre and attended several colleges before graduating from St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He received a master’s degree in journalism from Penn State University.

He and Patricia Lukaszewska were married on Aug. 18, 1979. The couple had a house on Seaview Avenue in Montauk, and Ms. Lukaszewska said her husband enjoyed surfcasting and being at the beach a great deal. They also had a house in Katonah, N.Y. 

Mr. Donna is survived by a son, Peter Donna, and a daughter, Sarah Donna, both of New York City as well as a sister, Mary Ann Kelly of Baltimore, and a nephew.

His ashes will be scattered privately in Montauk.

Donations in his memory have been suggested to the Montauk Library, 871 Montauk Highway, Montauk 11954 and Services for the Underserved, 463 Seventh Avenue, 17th Floor, New York City  10018.

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. Mr. Talbot, who had a house in Water Mill, was 91. He had been ill for the last few months.

In a profile in this newspaper in 1998, Mr. Talbot said film had always been an interest, that becoming the owner of movie houses and a film distributer and critic could be said to have been inevitable. He saw upward of 350 films a year, he said, more than many see in a lifetime. 

He owned the Cinema Studio at Lincoln Center, which he started and which lasted through the 1980s overlapping with the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, which is scheduled to close at the end of the month.

He and his wife, Toby Talbot, a translator, teacher of documentary film, and writer, met while walking on Southern Boulevard in the Bronx in 1950. They were soon married.

He worked in publishing in the 1950s, compiling anthologies of short stories, when he decided to collect essays by serious film writers from the 1920s for publication, which prompted an interest in film criticism. He was the film critic for Progressive magazine, a job that lasted a year. He and his wife, however, went to movies once or twice a week, to the Little Carnegie, the Normandy, and the Beverly, which specialized in English movies.

Then an opportunity arose for him to buy the New Yorker theater, formerly the Yorktown, on 88th Street and Broadway. The couple showed notable American films from the 1930s and ’40s there, selling it in about 1973 and then running the Metro theater for about five years, showcasing second-run movies. 

In the 1960s Mr. Talbot began buying the rights to movies, which were subsequently produced and made available to American audiences, among them Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1964 film “Before the Revolution.” His personal library of more than 200 films was called New Yorker Films, and he eventually donated copies of the whole collection to Jersualem Cinematheque. 

Among the first films he introduced in New York City was “Point of Order,” 188 hours of the 1954 Senate hearings on Joseph McCarthy that he and Emile De Antonio edited to 97 minutes. He also showed “Shoah,” Claude Lanzmann’s nine and a half hour interview-based documentary about the Holocaust, and  Leni Riefenstahl’s propaganda documentary about the 1934 Nazi Party Congress, which he released in 1960.

His daughter Nina Talbot of Brooklyn said her father kept a journal for most of his life and was always writing. Cynthia Rowell, an assistant editor at Cineaste, called his writing “original, compelling, perceptive, cultivated, forthright, steadfast, passionate — all of which could be used to describe the films he selected.”

He was born in the Bronx on July 21, 1926, the only child of Israel Distenfeld and the former Jean Frances Charak. He graduated from Evander Childs High School in the Bronx and attended City College of New York on the G.I. Bill after serving in the Army during World War II. He had trained with a combat unit in Georgia and then secured an administrative job at the Pentagon, where he was charged with finding out and letting officials know where any general was located. 

His daughter said that even though she had known of his wartime service, it was not until the last six months that he indicated how upset he had been when he learned that the whole unit he trained with had been killed at the Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines.

Mr. Talbot is survived by his wife and three daughters. In addition to Nina Talbot, they are Emily Talbot of Manhattan and Sarah Tanzer of Brooklyn. He also is survived by four grandchildren. 

A funeral service was held on Dec. 31 at Riverside Memorial Chapel in Manhattan, with Rabbi Mark Rand officiating. Mr. Talbot, who told The Star that he came out to Water Mill to watch the birds and see old friends, was buried at the Water Mill Cemetery.

Visiting hours for Kenneth McFall of East Hampton, who died on Jan. 17 at the age of 80, will be on Feb. 5 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. 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. She was 87 and had been ill for some time.

With her first husband, Henry G. Kabelitz, to whom she was married in 1955, Mrs. Olszewski traveled the world as an Air Force wife, living on bases in Saint-Mihiel, France, Furstenfeldbruck, Germany, Moron, Spain, Roswell, N.M., and Austin and El Paso, Tex. She became interested in baking and cake decorating while living overseas.

Just before Mr. Kabelitz died, in 1968, they moved to East Hampton, where she worked in day care for a year and then at the East Hampton Library.

In November 1977, she married John B. Olszewski of Sag Harbor, who died in August 2017. With two children from her first marriage, they lived first in East Hampton, where Mr. Olszewski was the library caretaker, then in Sag Harbor. The family moved in 1986 to Saratoga Springs, N.Y., where she worked for a construction company for 10 years.

After she retired, Mrs. Olszewski was a volunteer at the Saratoga Battlefield in the Saratoga National Historical Park. Her family wrote that she became known there for offering cookies to park visitors and businesses as a way of encouraging donations to the park. The effort was so successful that park rangers built what they called Doris’s Kitchen for her.

Mrs. Olszewski was born on April 25, 1930, in Howard Beach, Queens, to the former Gertrude Hoffman and James B. Harrietts. She grew up there, graduating from John Adams High School in Ozone Park.

In addition to being a master baker and cake decorator, her family wrote that she was a birdwatcher, enjoyed doing The New York Times crossword puzzle, watching “Jeopardy,” and playing Bingo and slot machines at casinos.

In addition to her son, Gary B. Kabelitz of Sag Harbor, who said that as a child he loved his mother’s cakes and cookies, a daughter, Gail O’Neill of Palm Beach Gardens, survives, as well as four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Olszewski will be cremated and her ashes buried with her husband’s at the Calverton National Cemetery Columbarium in Wading River. A memorial service is yet to be scheduled. Donations in her name can be sent to Friends of the Saratoga Battlefield, 648 Route 32, Stillwater, N.Y. 12170.

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. She had been ill for about a year. 

Ms. Wolfe made her career in real estate. Before moving full time to East Hampton with her husband, Ralph J. Wolfe, she was head of the corporate-relocations department at Four Seasons Realtors in Red Bank, N.J. It was in New Jersey that she met Mr. Wolfe, who was an executive with Panasonic, although they soon were spending summers in East Hampton and were married at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church on Aug. 16, 1983. Some years later, after they moved to East Hampton full time, they worked alongside one another as brokers at the Corcoran real estate agency’s East Hampton office. Mr. Wolfe died in 2007. 

But her passion was service and volunteering. Having been a survivor of domestic abuse in an earlier marriage, Ms. Wolfe became president of the board of trustees at the Retreat — a nonprofit that offers shelter and support to women and children who have been the victims of domestic violence — during its formative years in the 1980s. She bravely spoke out about her own experiences, and was a driving organizational and administrative force in the movement to make the Retreat a reality.

“Sherry was dazzling,” said Mary Bromley, a counselor and former president of the Retreat’s board of trustees, recalling events in 1987 and 1988. “I call her my blond bombshell on her white horse, riding into town! There we were, these beleaguered clinicians — a ragtag bunch of therapists and social workers and physicians with the big plan — and she really knocked people over. She was a role model, a victim who became a survivor. She dedicated herself full time to fund-raising, working with the politicians, getting state funding, working with the town board, writing grants, and getting commitments from everyone to actually build the shelter.”

Ms. Wolfe was president of the local chapter of Rotary International, being honored with its Person of the Year Award for her work with the Retreat, and was made a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary. She was on the board of directors of East End Hospice and Southampton Hospital. Both she and Mr. Wolfe were active with Meals on Wheels. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society, and the Ramblers.  She took a leadership role at the Presbyterian Church, as well, becoming a member not just of its session but of the Committee on Ministry of the Long Island Presbytery. 

But perhaps most prominent among her many roles as a community leader was as an articulate and tireless booster of business. As the executive director of the East Hampton Business Alliance for many years, beginning in the 1990s, Ms. Wolfe frequently took her turn at the podium during forums and public hearings on the hot-button issues of the day: parking, upzoning, a proposed building moratorium, the town’s comprehensive plan, and water sustainability, to name a few. She was a member of a committee investigating intractable problems surrounding East Hampton Airport. 

Ms. Wolfe was born on Aug. 30, 1944, in Stamford, Conn., to William W. Quarles III and the former Dorothy Skene. After her mother remarried, Ms. Wolfe took the last name of her stepfather, Frank N. Bowers. She was raised in Short Hills, N.J. After high school, she studied French at the Catholic University of Paris, and graduated from Baldwin Wallace College in Ohio — where she was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority — with a bachelor’s degree in political science. After her schooling, but before getting involved in real estate, she was a flight attendant for Pan American Airlines, and later worked for the Northeast marketing division of Eastern Airlines, in charge of corporate sales.  

A funeral service will be held at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church on Jan. 21 at 11:30 a.m., immediately following the regular Sunday worship service. The Rev. Scot McCachren will officiate. Ms. Wolfe’s ashes will join those of her husband in the church’s memorial garden. Friends have suggested memorial contributions to the Retreat, 13 Goodfriend Drive, East Hampton 11937, or to the First Presbyterian Church of East Hampton, 120 Main Street, East Hampton 11937.

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.

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. 

Mr. Fleming is survived by his wife, Abigail Fleming, and a daughter, Catharine. There will be no immediate services, but the family is planning a memorial in the spring. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Kynaston McShine of Manhattan and Springs, who retired as the Museum of Modern Art’s chief curator in 2008 after more than four decades of organizing contemporary art exhibitions, died in Manhattan on Jan. 8. He was 82. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

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 and had lived there for the last three years with a daughter. 

  Ms. Mirras, Dee to friends, was raised in a family in the ice cream business and had owned ice cream shops and eateries on Long Island for about 20 years, including Pops in Island Park and Health Haven in Oceanside. 

Born to Elias and Stravoula Vassilakos in Chicago on Sept. 7, 1926, she graduated from Chicago’s Amundsen High School in 1944 and immediately began working at the Treasury Department before relocating with her mother and brothers to Baldwin in 1949 to work for the Bell Telephone Company. In 1950 she married James Mirras, who died in 2003.

According to Maura Mirras, the treasurer of the Montauk School District, her mother-in-law was full of boundless energy and always busy, whether running her businesses, volunteering at church or Sunday school, or being a member of women’s clubs. She baked Christmas cookies that were legendary and will be missed, her daughter-in-law said. 

She is survived by a sister, Bessie Soter of Massapequa, her children, Karen Puretz of Colorado Springs, Louis Mirras, and Michael Mirras of Montauk, as well as five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.

The family will receive visitors tomorrow from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Towers Funeral Home, 2681 Long Beach Road, Oceanside. A Mass will be celebrated on Saturday at 9 a.m. at St. Paul’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 110 Cathedral Avenue, Hempstead. Burial will follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park in Farmingdale.

The family has suggested memorial donations to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, 4550 Montgomery Avenue, Bethesda, Md. 20814 or online to the New Century Hospice/Grace Foundation.