Florence Clara Hogan died in her sleep at her Amagansett house on Saturday evening. According to a nephew, Len Bernard of East Hampton, she had had respiratory illnesses recently and died of organ failure. She was 91. 

Born on Jan. 5, 1927, in Queens to Leonard Matthew Bernard and the former Clara Burger, Ms. Hogan grew up in Richmond Hill. After graduating from high school, she became a bookkeeper at Jamaica Hospital. 

She and her husband, Joseph Hogan, were married in the mid-1950s. In 1959, they bought a lot on Miankoma Lane and built a house there the following year. It was a summer residence for many years, but in 1972 after they both retired, it became their full-time home. They became part of the community, with Mr. Hogan joining the Fire Department and Ms. Hogan becoming a member of its ladies auxiliary. They both were active in the East Hampton Republican Club during the 1970s.

“She was an active woman,” her nephew said yesterday. After retiring from her city job, she went to work as a clerk at the Suffolk County Off Track Betting branch in Southampton, where she worked until the late 1980s. She was a member of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church and received communion right up to her final days. 

Ms. Hogan and her husband enjoyed entertaining guests. “They were very sociable,” Mr. Bernard said.

She loved reading and watching movies and would help her husband, who had a passion for collecting. “She was a good lady, liked by all,” Mr. Bernard said.

Her husband died before her, as did a sister, Margaret Bernard, and a brother, Len Bernard Sr. She is survived by another sister, Madeline Frank of Elmont, her nephew, and four nieces. 

A funeral Mass will be said at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at Most Holy Trinity Church, with burial to follow at Calverton National Cemetery. The family has suggested memorial donations to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.

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. Ms. Tomitz died last Thursday after being struck in a parking lot by a hit-and-run driver. She was a resident of Montauk for 40 years and had moved to Las Vegas two years ago. A memorial will be held in Montauk at a later date and an obituary will appear in a future issue of The Star.

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.

He met Angele Mahmouzian of Marseille, France, aboard the S.S. Constitution, which brought them both to the U.S. in 1959. They married on Aug. 29, 1959, living at first in Manhattan and then moving to East Hampton, where Mrs. Sumi’s brothers already had homes, in 1971 to raise their two sons. Mrs. Sumi survives.

He was born on Jan. 10, 1922, in Damascus, Syria, to the former Nazir Shankour and Abdul Jalil Sumi. He grew up in Damascus and went to high school there.

Here, Mr. Sumi had his own dental lab and also worked as a contractor, building houses. Mrs. Sumi was a housewife. In 1989, after their sons had graduated from college and moved to California, Mr. and Mrs. Sumi followed them there. Michel Sumi of Torrance said that the family still owns land here in East Hampton.

The family said that Mr. Sumi enjoyed playing with his grandchildren, traveling, gardening, and backgammon.

In addition to his wife and son Michel, another son, Roland Sumi of Redondo Beach, Calif., survives, as do three grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

A funeral Mass was said on Dec. 22 at Green Hills Memorial Park Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., followed by burial in the cemetery there.

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. 

He spent about three years in East Hampton, working at Sam’s restaurant while here. 

Mr. Burchell, who was 77, died on Dec. 10 in Fernandina Beach, Fla., after being diagnosed with cancer two weeks earlier. 

Born on Feb. 16, 1940, in Portchester, N.Y., to Edgar and Marjorie Burchell, he grew up in nearby Mamaroneck, where his family had relocated, and he graduated from Bellows High School. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Science in marine education from the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point in 1962, after which he embarked upon a 50-plus-year career at sea. Of the many places he visited, Cape Town, South Africa, was his favorite, his family said.

In 1969, he married Allison McGrath, but the marriage ended in divorce. Their son, Jonathan Edgar Burchell, died in a plane crash in 2003 in the Kenya outback while tracking, capturing, and collaring lions for research.

The older Mr. Burchell enjoyed fishing, boat restoration, sailing, and listening to jazz. He is survived by a sister, Janet Norcross, of Marblehead, Mass., two nieces, and a nephew. 

Mr. Burchell was cremated. The family plans to scatter his ashes at sea.

John N. Sumi, 94

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.

He met Angele Mahmouzian of Marseille, France, aboard the S.S. Constitution, which brought them both to the U.S. in 1959. They married on Aug. 29, 1959, living at first in Manhattan and then moving to East Hampton, where Mrs. Sumi’s brothers already had homes, in 1971 to raise their two sons. Mrs. Sumi survives.

He was born on Jan. 10, 1922, in Damascus, Syria, to the former Nazir Shankour and Abdul Jalil Sumi. He grew up in Damascus and went to high school there.

Here, Mr. Sumi had his own dental lab and also worked as a contractor, building houses. Mrs. Sumi was a housewife. In 1989, after their sons had graduated from college and moved to California, Mr. and Mrs. Sumi followed them there. Michel Sumi of Torrance said that the family still owns land here in East Hampton.

The family said that Mr. Sumi enjoyed playing with his grandchildren, traveling, gardening, and backgammon.

In addition to his wife and son Michel, another son, Roland Sumi of Redondo Beach, Calif., survives, as do three grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

A funeral Mass was said on Dec. 22 at Green Hills Memorial Park Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., followed by burial in the cemetery there.

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.

Mrs. Dohanos first came to East Hampton in the late 1950s with her husband, Peter Dohanos, a set designer who was here to work at Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater. With friends, she opened Whimseys, a Main Street shop where Obligato is today, in the early 1970s. It was the first store here to sell work by local artisans, from knitted items to tie-dyed T-shirts, along with coffee beans, stuffed animals, and penny candy. It became a gathering place at all times of year and for glogg, the Scandinavian mulled wine, at Christmastime. She would keep the shop open till 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve, rushing home to join her husband in the festivities they created for a wide circle of family and friends over the years.

 Of Norwegian and Danish descent, Mrs. Dohanos celebrated her Scandinavian background most especially during the winter holidays, introducing friends to wood Father Christmases with woolen beards, elves and sprites made of straw, and traditional foods. She would not let Christmas pass without decorating incredibly intricate gingerbread cookies and grilling lefsa, a Norwegian flatbread made with potato as well as flour and cream. She taught her daughters, Nina Landi and Daisy Dohanos of North Haven, how to make her legendary Swedish meatballs from the time they were very young. 

Following in her footsteps, they will prepare all the food and drink for a celebration of their mother’s life to be held at the Bell and Anchor restaurant in Noyac on Saturday night. The restaurant’s owner, a friend, is turning it over to them as a gathering place although it is closed for the season. The singing of Mrs. Dohanos’s favorite Christmas carols and a toast with glogg have been planned as part of the remembrance.

Marlys Gilyard was born on April 22, 1932, in Foley, Minn., the daughter of Clifford Gilyard and the former Lillian Carroll. The circumstances of her childhood were relatively difficult, her daughters said, recalling that she had told them she sewed her own clothes. Her family would take the battery out of the car and bring it inside in order to listen to the radio, which she enjoyed greatly as a child and for the rest of her life (becoming devoted to “Prairie Home Companion,”which evoked the sort of Minnesota-Lutheran community she had grown up in). 

After graduating from high school, she studied for a year to become a psychiatric nurse and worked at an in-patient facility in Minnesota for a short time. Her brother, Russell Gilyard of Isanti, Minn., who survives, said, “She was so caring for other people. Her main objective in life was making other people happy.”

Leaving Minnesota, she went first to California and then to Denver, where she joined Donna Gilyard Perkins, her  cousin and best friend, and both met their husbands-to-be in Colorado. 

Married in 1954, Mr. and Mrs. Dohanos lived first on Gay Street in Greenwich Village, where an upstairs neighbor, John Shinn, eventually showed them the land on Georgica Road in East Hampton where they built a house in 1960. They were quickly known as outstanding hosts, entertaining many friends made through Mr. Dohanos’s theater work in New York City as well as East Hampton, and through his father, the well-known artist and illustrator Stevan Dohanos. After selling the Georgica house in 1994, Mrs. Dohanos lived for a time on Neck Path in Springs. She worked in the front office of The East Hampton Star in the 1990s, using her natural talent for friendship in customer relations. In addition to her daughters, she is survived by two grandchildren, Peter Landi and Daisy Landi.

A funeral service will be held on Saturday morning at 9 at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Amagansett, the Rev. George W. Dietrich officiating. Her favorite hymns will be sung. The party at the Bell and Anchor will begin at 5 p.m. that night. The sound of “Good King Wenceslas” is expected to fill the rafters.

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.

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.

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.

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 years old.

She was born in Kilburn, New Brunswick, Canada, on Jan. 16, 1927, to Leigh and Elsie Grant. She graduated in 1944 from Perth High School in New Brunswick and was married to John McHugh the following year. The couple settled in Bridgehampton in 1956, where they owned and ran a family farm, and had two children. 

Over the years, Ms. McHugh worked as a cook in various restaurants and cleaned houses for summer residents. She also worked at the Bridgehampton branch of Grant’s department store, a national chain, during the 1960s and at Woolco, a division of the F. W. Woolworth Company, which replaced Grant’s in 1977, and at the Bridgehampton Caldor in the 1980s. 

Ms. McHugh loved the outdoors, especially gardening, and went on long walks most evenings. She enjoyed cooking and baking cookies for her grandchildren. She also was known to knit children’s hats and mittens.

She was a member of the Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Church in Bridgehampton. She is survived by her daughter, Sue Guyer, who lives in Staunton, and a son, Dave McHugh of Springs, as well as by four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Also surviving are her sisters and brothers: Marion Weaver of Davenport, Fla., Dorothy DeMerchant of Hamilton, Ontario, Audrey Walsh of Campbelton, New Brunswick, Joan Good of Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Fred Grant of Fort Fairfield, Me., Keith Grant of Hanwell, New Brunswick, and Gary Grant of Perth-Andover, New Brunswick.

A Mass will be said by the Rev. Peter Devaraj at 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 20 at Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Church, followed by burial at Edgewood Cemetery in Bridgehampton. There will be a service in Canada for Ms. McHugh’s family during the summer.

The family has suggested memorial donations  to one of the following: Hospices of the Shenandoah, P.O. Box 1000, Fishersville, Va. 22939, Riverheads Fire Department, P.O. Box 39, Mint Spring, Va. 24463, Bridgehampton Fire Department, P.O. Box 1280, Bridgehampton 11932, and the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, P.O. Box 901, Wainscott  11975.

Michael Stephen London, a former United States administrative law judge in Brooklyn who was 76, died on Dec. 18. Mr. London, who lived in both Manhasset and East Hampton, had been recuperating from ankle surgery and his death was unexpected, his wife, Jane London, said.

Born in the Bronx on Nov. 19, 1941, to Samuel and Edna London, he grew up in that borough until moving with his family to Albany, where he graduated from Albany High School. He then enrolled at Brandeis University, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts degree and where he starred as captain of the tennis team, coached by Bud Collins, a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Mr. London obtained his law degree from St. John’s University and practiced law for the National Labor Relations Board before receiving a lifetime appointment as a federal administrative law judge. Such appointments are the only ones in the country that are merit-based, and his wife said his appointment was the result of passing a four-hour written exam and a rigorous oral one before a panel of sitting administrative law judges with flying colors. He retired from the bench about 15 years ago.

Mr. London and his wife met on Main Beach in East Hampton in the late 1960s and were married in the mid-1970s. They lived in several places in East Hampton before building their own house on Wagon Lane. 

In addition to tennis, Mr. London developed a passion for golf and took to the links at the Noyac Golf Club as well as the Old Westbury Country Club. He also enjoyed swimming and general exercise. 

His wife said he truly adored his dogs and always had two, usually a golden retriever and one of a smaller breed, with which he would take long walks or run on the beach. 

Besides his wife, he is survived by a sister, whose full name was not immediately available, a son, Marc Wolin, who lives in Europe, a daughter, Allison Luckman of Roslyn, and three grandchildren. 

A service was held at Gutterman’s Funeral Home in Woodbury on Dec. 20, with burial following in Beth Moses Cemetery in West Babylon.

Donations in Mr. London’s memory have been suggested to the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, P.O. Box 901, Wainscott 11975.