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.

Ira Kornbluth, whose love of history, literature, and the arts outpaced his career as an attorney, died on Dec. 28 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 76 and had been diagnosed with cancer 10 years ago.

Mr. Kornbluth’s aesthetic interests brought him in 1980 to the South Fork, where he bought a house at the foot of a preserved field on David White’s Lane in Southampton. He furnished it with sophisticated finds from East End shops and hung its walls with the work of artists who became his friends‚ among them Larry Rivers, Howard Kanovitz, Sheila Isham, Peter Dayton, and Dora Frost.

 His law degree was from the University of Virginia, and he worked as what he called a “country lawyer” for a time in East Hampton, with an office on Muchmore Lane, within walking distance of Main Street, where he soon was a familiar figure. He also had a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., and Bologna, Italy. He was fluent in German, having read Thomas Mann in the original, was a student of Germany’s philosophers, and he kept abreast of German history. Over the years, he was called on by The East Hampton Star to review such books as “Hitler’s Banker: Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schact” and “Odyssey of Hope” by Joseph Kazickas.

He was born on May 24, 1941, in the Bronx to Alfred and Dorothy Lehner Kornbluth. He attended the Bronx High School of Science, where Anita Rosenshine, the woman who was to become his wife of 30 years, was a classmate. After graduating with a B.A. in history from the University of Wisconsin, he worked for the United States State Department in West Germany. His varied later career including work for the New York State Council on the Arts, the Bankers Trust Company, several Manhattan political campaigns, and public radio. Before settling on the South Fork, he had spent a few days as a cook for Ethel Kennedy.

“He taught me how to aspire to appreciate beauty and to pay attention to it,” said James Williamson, who as a young man worked with Mr. Kornbluth in East Hampton. As an example of Mr. Kornbluth’s appreciation of natural beauty, Mr. Williamson noted how Mr. Kornbluth insisted they drive on Further Lane when the cherry trees were in bloom rather than taking faster routes along Montauk Highway.

Dedicated to the life of the mind, Mr. Kornbluth also was serious about keeping in shape. He frequently was seen running on Southampton’s back roads, and he regularly attended yoga classes at the Hampton Jitney’s Omni. He was a member of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Southampton, but no funeral service has been planned. 

Mr. Kornbluth was married first, in 1967, to Vera Schrecker. Their daughter, Elena de Noue of Manhattan, survives him, as does a granddaughter, Gioia Anne de Noue. He and his high school classmate, Ms. Rosenshine, were married on April 24, 1987. She survives, as do two stepsons, Jon Rosenshine of New York City and Andrew Rosenshine of Westborough, Mass.

Memorial contributions have been suggested to Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, 1740 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.

Capt. William Butler, whose career included operating a popular Montauk party boat called Lazy Bones and teaching English at East Hampton High School, died of complications of pneumonia on Oct. 31 at Martin Memorial hospital in Jensen Beach, Fla., where he had lived since 1985. He was 81.

Captain Butler got his start in boating piloting for the Davis Park Ferry Company to and from Fire Island. At the time, he also taught English at Patchogue High School.

 He was born in Patchogue on Oct. 23, 1936, the only child of the former Gertrude Combs and William Butler. He attended Brown University and graduated with a degree in English from Hofstra University.

In June 1957, he married the former Lynn Schmidt. They and three of their children moved to Montauk in 1963. In addition to teaching English, he coached basketball at East Hampton High School. He also had served as an East Hampton Town trustee.

His widow survives him, as do his children, Rhett Butler of Parker, Colo., Nathaniel Butler of Westfield, N.J., Jennifer Lyman of Newark, Del., and Alisa Sanabria of East Hampton. Thirteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive. 

Captain Butler was cremated, with a private memorial to be held in the future.

Leonard M. Goldberg of Amagansett, an illustrator who painted one of the iconic Camel billboards in Times Square and produced a series of print and television ads for Marlboro during a 40-year career, died at home on Dec. 6. He was 95 and had become frail.

Mr. Goldberg was an illustrator for agencies in Boston, Montreal, and then New York City, where he worked for the Fredman Chite agency before working freelance in the early 1960s. He designed movie posters and the covers of the Fu Manchu books, Harlequin Books novels, and novels by Barbara Cartland. He also designed Rheingold beer posters and print ads for Rheingold and the packaging and ads for Brawny paper towels. 

Leonard Max Goldberg was born on Aug. 21, 1922, in Chelsea, Mass., one of two sons of the former Sarah Karetski and Charles Goldberg, Russian immigrants. One of his grandfathers had designed book covers in Russia. 

Mr. Goldberg grew up in Boston, where he graduated from the Boston Latin School and studied design at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He served stateside in the Army during World War II.

He met his second wife, Maureen Harris, who survives, on a blind date, and they married in July 1962, coming to Amagansett on weekends at first from Manhattan. Eventually, they bought land in Devon Woods in Amagansett and built a house in 1970, later moving to Montauk Highway.

Mrs. Goldberg said he would go to the drawing board at 9 a.m. and not stop working until 5 p.m. He had a studio on the second floor of their house and would go to the city to photograph models. He once had only 16 hours to design a poster for Bruce Beresford’s 1980 movie “Breaker Morant,” about a British-Australian soldier who was executed in 1902 for murdering Boer soldiers. He and Ms. Goldberg began arranging their living room for a photo shoot at 5 p.m. and he delivered the artwork by 9 a.m. the next morning.

Outside of his work, Mr. Goldberg was a voracious reader, Mrs. Goldberg said, who “could converse on everything, went to every museum, had season tickets to the Philharmonic for more than 40 years, loved The New Yorker, and did the New York Times crossword in pen every day.” He had also played the piano as a young man. “He was the nicest, loveliest gentleman on the face of this earth,” she said.

Even though his parents had moved to this country from Russia and Mrs. Goldberg’s had moved from Russia to England, they were so similar it was as if they had grown up in the same place, she said. 

In addition to his wife, three children from a previous marriage survive. A brother, Morton Goldberg of Boston, died before him. 

Rabbi Barbara Sheryl presided on Dec. 10 at a graveside service at the Independent Jewish Cemetery in Sag Harbor. Memorial donations have been suggested for the Kosher Meals for the Homebound program at Dorot, 171 West 85th Street, New York 10024.

Joan Colangelo of Hampton Bays, who had been an assistant to the parish administrator of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton, died surrounded by her family on Nov. 14 at Syosset Hospital in Oyster Bay. She was 75 and had been diagnosed with cancer earlier this year.

Ms. Colangelo was one of three children of Albert P. Pontick of East Hampton, a veterinarian who took over the East Hampton Animal Hospital in 1941. She was born in Southampton on Jan. 5, 1942, to Dr. Pontick and the former Henrietta Wells and grew up in East Hampton, graduating from East Hampton High School with the class of 1959. She received a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts and was a member of the Delta Gamma sorority at the University of Miami. She traveled and lived in Italy for a while after graduating, and returned to Manhattan, where she became a founder and principal at Furniture Programmers Inc., an office furniture planning and contracting firm, from 1972 to 1988.

She and Frank Colangelo, an architect at Leonard Colangelo and Peters, were married in 1971. They lived in Manhattan until Mr. Colangelo’s death, at which point Ms. Colangelo moved to the family house at Dune Alpin Farm in East Hampton. She moved to Hampton Bays shortly thereafter, where she became her parents’ caretaker until their respective deaths.

Her family said she was devoted and generous, taking care not only of family members but also of various pets, which she rescued. They said she enjoyed entertaining and cooking and “was known for her many homemade family specialties like beach plum jelly, clam chowder, and her famous canned tomato juice.” She loved the South Fork, they said, and the East Hampton house, which became the focal point for family gatherings. After moving to Hampton Bays, she especially liked watching the wildlife and sunset over Shinnecock Bay, and the tide going out from Wells Creek in front of her house.

A sister, Judith Bernazzani-Haller of Gainesville, Va., and a brother, Albert Pontick of Sarasota, Fla., survive, as do a niece and a nephew. The family welcomed visitors at O’Shea’s Funeral Home in Hampton Bays on Nov. 19, followed by a graveside eulogy at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton by her niece’s husband, Jeff Opperman, Ph.D., a writer and the global freshwater lead scientist at the World Wildlife Fund.

The family has suggested memorial donations to the Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation, P.O. Box 696, Hampton Bays 11946.

Deyo Eugene Trowbridge, who taught science at East Hampton High School from 1966 to 1996, died on Dec. 6 at home in Ocala, Fla. He was 75 and had Lewy body dementia, a form of Parkinson’s disease, his family said.

He was born on Oct. 12, 1942, in Oneonta, N.Y., the second of five children of Freida Mary Williams and Gerald D. Trowbridge. His father died when he was a teenager. He graduated from Otego Central School in Oneonta in 1960. 

On Aug. 9, 1963, he married his best friend, Darlene Holden.

Mr. Trowbridge received a bachelor’s degree in science from Hartwick College in 1964. He used this degree to obtain a state teaching certificate in mathematics, physics, social studies, and general science for grades seven through 12. 

He next obtained a master’s degree, having spent four summers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.  

In 1966, Mr. Trowbridge was hired as a teacher in the science department at East Hampton High School. There, he taught both physics and “earth science” for more than 30 years. His family said that he loved watching students’ eyes light up when they began to understand the material. He pushed his students to strive to go further and learn more than they thought they could. “Teach to mediocrity and that’s what you’ll get,” he would say.

He served his community as a member of the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association for 23 years, moving from a basic emergency medical technician to an advanced E.M.T. He was the ambulance association’s chief for eight years, and taught cardiopulmonary resuscitation in American Heart Association courses, as well as defensive driving classes.

His heart was always in music, his family said. Playing the piano and singing were his release and joy. For more than 40  years, he was a pianist for the Hamptons Alliance Church in Water Mill, but could play piano to accompany any sort of musical performance. He will be remembered by friends at the keyboard during sing-alongs at the Buckhout family’s annual Christmas parties. He also sang tenor in the Whalers Chorus and in many competition quartets as part of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America.

In his later years, he was a Eucharistic minister at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton. He also enjoyed spending time in his final days with his many children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

He is survived by his wife, Darlene Trowbridge, and four children: Sean Trowbridge and Colan Jay Trowbridge of East Hampton, Jeremy David Trowbridge of Greenville, S.C., and Namie Joy Singer of Tampa, Fla. Nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren survive, as well.

Mr. Trowbridge was remembered this week by his family as a protector and nurturer to all who needed him, especially to Nhan Nguyen of Pennsylvania and Phoung Nguyen of Plainview, whom he considered his children, as well. His parents and his step-father, George Evans (whom his mother had married in 1963) died before him, as did a grandson and a great-grandson.

A memorial service will be held at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton tomorrow morning at 11. 

A reception lunch will be held in Hoie Hall immediately after the service, and his family has said they hope to greet his friends from throughout the years. 

The family has suggested memorial donations to St. Luke’s Outreach, 18 James Lane, East Hampton 11937.

Peter Enrico Rana Jr., who followed his father as an Amagansett barber and was born in his parents’ apartment over the Main Street barbershop, died at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan on Dec. 13, eight months after being diagnosed with esophagus cancer. He would have celebrated his 84th birthday on Jan. 15, 2018.

His parents were Peter Enrico Rana Sr., who had immigrated from Italy when he was 14, and the former Rose Teresa Miraglia, a second generation Italian-American. They met in New York City and married in 1916, moving to Amagansett, where the senior Mr. Rana opened the barbershop in what is now Astro’s Pizza.

Four years after his birth in the apartment above the barbershop, Mr. Rana rode out the Hurricane of 1938 huddled in a closet with his siblings and his mother. He attended the Amagansett School just down the street, and then East Hampton High School. 

During the Korean War, he served in the Navy, assigned to service radios on aircraft carriers, a job that took him to naval ports around the world. After receiving an honorable discharge in 1956, he followed in his father’s footsteps, training as a barber in New York City and working next to him in the Amagansett shop.

He soon became a fixture in the Amagansett community. He was a firefighter in the Amagansett Fire Department for 15 years and in its ambulance corps for another 17. He owned a taxi at one time, and once drove for Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe. He also was a member of the East Hampton Town Planning Board for over a decade. 

As a barber, however, Mr. Rana decided there was more money in the distaff side of the trade and enrolled in the Marinello School of Beauty in Manhattan, where he met his wife-to-be, Virginia Meyer. They were married in Brooklyn after a 10-month courtship on Oct. 9, 1958. The couple settled in the apartment in which he was born and founded the Charm Beauty Salon adjacent to the barbershop.

Offered a job by his brother-in-law, Samuel Lester Sr., a well-respected and busy builder, Mr. Rana decided to switch trades. He learned his new craft quickly, became a licensed electrician, and formed his own company, Rana Enterprises, building numerous houses across the East End. “A lot of businesses started out in buildings he built,” one of his daughters, East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana, said Monday. “He was a very fair man.”

In his spare time, Mr. Rana took to golf and could frequently be found on the South Fork Country Club links in Amagansett. He and his wife enjoyed antiquing, collecting early American furnishings, glassware, and antique clocks, especially those with pendulums. Visitors to their house could look forward to the striking of the hour, with each clock’s different chimes perfectly timed. He also appreciated boating and cars, and was very handy and could fix almost anything, Justice Rana said. What he loved the most, though, was his family.

The Ranas had four children, all of whom survive: Dawn Rana Brophy of Amagansett, Peter Rana III of Auckland, New Zealand, Annette Rana Webb of East Hampton, and Justice Rana, of Springs. 

The couple began wintering in Jupiter, Fla., in the early 1980s with several other East Hampton families. He continued working until the late 1990s. At that time, he purchased land on a lakeside in Casco, Me., a small town where the general store sells everything from hunting ammunition to a quart of milk. It was a rustic, calm setting that reminded him of the world he grew up in on the South Fork.

“He was kind and gentle, a good friend, a good listener,” his daughter Dawn Rana Brophy said Monday. “He gave of himself. He was always there for those in need,” she said. He was always looking at the good in people. 

Besides his children and wife, Mr. Rana is survived by two sisters, Diana Vorhees of Wainscott and Rose Lester of Palm City, Fla., 11 grandchildren, and 3 great-grandchildren. Two sisters, Faye Barnes and Mazie Graham, died before him.

The family will receive visitors today at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton between 4 and 7:30 p.m. A funeral Mass will tbe offered tomorrow at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton, the Rev. Peter Gary officiating. Burial will follow at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery on Cedar Street.

The family has suggested donations in his memory to the Amagansett Fire Department, P.O. Box 911, Amagansett 11930-0911, or Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York 10065.

Kathleen Mott, who had served during World War II with the Coast Guard Women’s Reserve, died on Dec. 13 in Cooper, Fla., after recovering from a three-week bout with pneumonia in an assisted-living facility near Fort Lauderdale. Known as Kit, Mrs. Mott had been spending winters in South Florida and summers on Cooper Lane in East Hampton Village. Until last year, her daughter said, she had been very active but then seemed to lose her energy.

Mrs. Mott worked as a secretary at various businesses before becoming deputy clerk at East Hampton Town Hall, a position she held for many years. She was a longtime parishioner at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton, a member of the East Hampton post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, an officer in the Ladies Auxiliary of the American Legion post in Amagansett, and a member of the South Fork Country Club, where she and her husband often played golf together.

She was born in Sag Harbor on April 8, 1923, one of three children of the former Margaret Liehr and Patrick Donohue. Her two younger brothers, Patrick (Patty) Donohue and Bobby Donohue, died very young. She grew up in Sag Harbor and Southampton, and graduated from Southampton High School.

She met her husband-to-be, Ernest Mott of East Hampton, at the Southampton roller rink in the early 1940s, and they married on Dec. 14, 1942, when Mr. Mott was on leave from his posting with a medical unit in the   Army. When he died on Dec. 12, 2011, they had been married for 69 years.

Ms. Mott served in the Coast Guard Women’s Reserve, known as the SPARs (“Semper Paratus: Always Ready”), from 1944 to 1945. The couple enjoyed clamming and scalloping and they saw their friends, with whom they also traveled, frequently. 

One of her two daughters, Karen Mott Pitstick of Fort Lauderdale, survives. Ms. Mott’s other daughter, Maureen P. Babin of South Bound Brook, N.J., died in April of this year. Five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren survive as well. The family received visitors yesterday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. There was to be a funeral Mass said today at 10:30 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, followed by burial in the church cemetery.

Kathleen Flannery McFall of East Hampton Village died unexpectedly last Thursday night at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, of a cerebral hemorrhage. She was 74 and had generally been in good health.

Mrs. McFall, known to friends as Kay, had both a long career with the Sayville Union Free School District and with the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her husband said that she was recognized both for her service at the national convention of the D.A.R. in Washington, D.C., and also in New York State for her service as an outstanding educator. 

She was born at Southampton Hospital on Sept. 20, 1943, to the former Olive Butcher and Joseph D. Flannery. She grew up in East Hampton and graduated with a Regents scholarship from East Hampton High School with the class of 1961. She graduated from the State University at Geneseo in 1965 with a B.A. in library education and went on to earn her master’s degree in library science at Long Island University’s Palmer School of Library and Information Science at the C.W. Post campus. Since 1973, Mrs. McFall had earned 75 additional graduate and in-service credits.

She joined the East Hampton chapter of the D.A.R. in 1976 and was involved in several key leadership positions, including as state regent, while also working as a librarian and library media specialist in Sayville.

Her interest in history led her to become involved in the East Hampton Historical Farm Museum on North Main Street, as well, and she became a member of that museum’s board of directors. She was a volunteer there, participating in the making of clam pies and serving at a community dinner as recently as October.

On Feb. 10, 2006, she married Kenneth J. McFall, who survives and whom she had first met in 1967. Upon marrying Mr. McFall, he said, she inherited his three children from a former marriage: Maureen Cayer of Chicopee, Mass., Sean McFall of East Hartford, Conn., and Kenneth Christopher McFall of Agawam, Mass., as well as three grandchildren and one great-grandchild, who all survive.

The family will receive visitors today from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. Tomorrow morning there will be a graveside service at 10:30 at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church’s cemetery on Cedar Street. The family will be planning two memorial services for later in the new year.

Marlys Gilyard Dohanos, a longtime East Hampton resident who more recently lived on North Haven, died at home on Dec. 24. She was 85 and her health had been declining. 

Her family is planning a memorial service on Jan. 6, the 12th night of Christmas, with a party to follow at the Bell and Anchor restaurant in Noyac. An obituary will appear in a future issue.