Semira Breitweg of Flaggy Hole Road in Springs, who moved full time to East Hampton after the death of her husband in 1994, died on Monday at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Westhampton Beach. She was 95. The family will receive visitors on Sunday between 2 and 4 p.m. and 7 and 9 at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. On Monday at 10 a.m., there will be a funeral Mass said at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton, followed by burial at Calverton National Cemetery. The family has suggested memorial donations to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.

An obituary will appear in a future issue of The Star.

Norman Larson Morton Sr., a lifelong baseball and tennis player, died on Oct. 31 at home in Stuart, Fla. He was 92 and his health had been declining.

Mr. Morton was born in Roselle, N.J., on Feb. 12, 1925, to Norman Morton and the former Ida Larson. He went to school there and graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in business administration. His earned run average record while a pitcher at Rutgers has yet to be broken, according to his wife. 

Mr. Morton served as an ensign in the Navy for more than two years in World War II, in both the Mediterranean and the Pacific.

He was recruited by several Major League Baseball teams, including the New York Yankees, the New York Giants, and the Pittsburgh Pirates farm system, and played for three years, until 1952, for the New Orleans Pelicans. In 1995 he was inducted into the Union County Baseball Hall of Fame.

After leaving baseball, Mr. Morton went to work with his father as a land developer and residential builder in Westfield and Warren, N.J. He switched his allegiance from baseball to tennis, and built the Mountainside Indoor Tennis Center in Mountainside, N.J. He was a longtime member of the Westfield Tennis Club and the Echo Lake Country Club. “Norman so enjoyed a round of golf with dear friends,” said his wife, who survives.

He was a member of the Westfield Presbyterian Church, where he served as a deacon and helped make improvements so as to provide shelter for people in need.

Mr. Morton’s first wife, Anna Bell Olsen Morton, died before him. They had three children, who survive: Eva Morton Bell of Barnegat, N.J., Lisa Morton Bruce of West Chester, Pa., and Norman L. Morton Jr. of Stuart. Two granddaughters, two great-grandsons, and several nieces and nephews survive as well. His sisters, Phyllis Morton Harris and Mildred Morton Ley, died before him.

When Mr. Morton retired to Stuart, he met his second wife, the former Anne-Marie Scheitlie Burr, who had a house in East Hampton. Starting in 1991 they spent their summers here and were members of the Maidstone Club. In Stuart, he enjoyed golf, tennis, and bridge and served on the board of trustees of the Mariner Sands Chapel. He volunteered his building expertise to help with the planning and construction of a residence known as Molly’s House, for families of ailing Mariner Sands members.

A private burial will take place tomorrow at Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, N.J. The family has suggested memorial donations to Mariner Sands Chapel, 6500 Southeast Congressional Way, Stuart, Fla. 34997 or Molly’s House, 430 Southeast Osceola Street, Stuart, Fla, 34994.

A memorial service will be held on Dec. 1 at 2 p.m. at the Mariner Sands Chapel. 

Lydia Shaternik, who first came to Montauk when she married a Russian whose family lived there, died on Friday of complications from a gastrointestinal illness at Southampton Hospital. She was 87.

She and her husband, Theodore Shaternik, spent time on weekends and in the summers in Montauk, but did not live there year round until 1976. Once there, Ms. Shaternik quickly became involved in the community, working at the Montauk Community Church rummage sales and holiday fairs, becoming a member of the Friends of the Montauk Library, and volunteering at Meals on Wheels. She also contributed to church sales by becoming a plant propagator and selling the baby plants there.

Lydia Shaternik was born in Garfield, N.J., on March 18, 1930, one of two children of the former Yevdokia Pilipichuk and Paul Daviduk, immigrants from Russia. Her parents took her and her brother back to their farm in Russia when she was about 2, and they lived there for five years before returning to Garfield, where she stayed until age 18, at which point she moved to New York City. 

She worked there for a silk hosiery company that was at the top of the Empire State Building. On weekends, knowing that she would need a wardrobe, Ms. Shaternik worked at B. Altman and Company on Fifth Avenue in Midtown, her daughter Lydia Shaternik Burns said.

She did not, however, spend all her time working, but also attended a Russian social club in the city, where she met her future husband, marrying him on Sept. 25, 1954. They lived in College Point, Queens, for five years until he became a New York City fireman. They then moved to Arrow Park (American Russian Organized Workers), what began as a Russian agricultural community in Monroe, N.Y., and where they reared their three daughters.

Ms. Shaternik had a huge organic farm there that fed the family. Once the children were a bit more independent, she decided to finish her education and earned first a bachelor’s degree in education at the State University at New Paltz and then two master’s degrees as well, one in Russian, her first language, and one in childhood education. She taught elementary special education in Monroe.

Ms. Shaternik’s husband died in June 2015. Her brother, Walter Daviduk of Colorado, also died before her. In addition to Ms. Shaternik Burns, who lives in Montauk, her two other daughters, Evonne Shaternik of East Hampton and Eileen Devlin of Montauk, survive, as do four grandchildren.

She was cremated. On Saturday at 3 p.m., the Rev. Bill Hoffmann will preside at a memorial service at the Montauk Community Church. The family plans to bury her ashes at a future date. They have suggested memorial donations to the Montauk Community Church, P.O. Box 698, Montauk 11954.

Jennifer Anne Balnis, a former East Hampton resident who had moved to Mount Pleasant, S.C., recently, died at home on Sept. 16. The cause was brain cancer, her family said.

She was born on Jan. 23, 1973, in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx. She grew up in Massapequa Park, one of two children of John Hajko and the former Nora Adams. 

She graduated from Massapequa High School in 1991 and received an associate’s degree from Nassau Community College, while also attending Stony Brook University and working as a waitress at the Boathouse in Montauk, among other spots, in the summers. She later worked in catering for Nick and Toni’s and at the Ross School cafeteria in East Hampton.

She married Richard J. Balnis II on June 17, 1995, and the couple built a house in East Hampton. 

Ms. Balnis was a kind and loving person, her mother said. “She lived her life with grace and dignity and always chose to see the good in people she met and situations she encountered,” she said. 

She loved being by the beach and visiting the ocean year round. A plaque in her honor will be installed by the Ladies Village Improvement Society at a tree under its care near Main Beach in East Hampton, her mother said.

Mr. and Ms. Balnis moved with their children, Avery Grace Balnis, Abigail Mae Balnis, and Richard Balnis III, to Mount Pleasant, which is near Charles­ton, about three years ago to escape the harsh winters in East Hampton. Once settled in South Carolina, Ms. Balnis continued her work in food ser­vice, but really concentrated on raising her children, her mother said.

She was diagnosed with cancer only a few months before her death, her mother said.

In addition to her mother, who lives in East Hampton, Mr. Balnis, and their children, she is survived by her father, who lives in Delray Beach, Fla., and a brother, Peter John Hajko of Farmingdale.

A memorial celebration in East Hampton for Ms. Balnis is planned for June.

Shirley Plitt, who spent her childhood summers on Shelter Island and met her husband, who also spent summers there, through mutual summer friends, died last Thursday at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue, where she had been taken a few days before. She was 93 and had been diagnosed with cancer two years ago.

Ms. Plitt had been a member of the Ladies Village Improvement Society since 1959 and liked working the “chance” booth at its annual July family fair and, later, taking pride of place at the entry gate. She and her husband, the late Robert G. Plitt, were members of the Guild Hall Players, working alongside each other on productions including “The Tender Trap” in 1959 and “Stalag 17” in 1958. She was also active for about 20 years with the East Hampton unit of the American Cancer Society and was its president for a time, leading a fund-raising drive that was known as the East Hampton Town Cancer Crusade.

She loved watching old movies, her daughter, Michel Plitt Wirth, said, and “her door was always open to anyone who wanted to drop in for a visit or needed a place to stay,” including stray animals, of which she had at one time four dogs and three cats.

Shirley May Plitt was born in Manhattan on Dec. 7, 1923, the only child of the former Anna Butt and Raphael Schulum. She grew up in the Bronx and graduated from Hunter High School in 1940, having studied English, French, and algebra, and then earned a B.A. at Hunter College in 1944. She went to work for Prentice Hall publishers. 

After meeting and marrying Mr. Plitt — who had served as a meteorologist with the Air Force during the war — in 1948, the couple lived in Manhattan and Hudson, N.Y., moving to East Hampton in 1954, when Mr. Plitt, the former manager of General Motors in Albany, bought Willard Motors, the Ford and Mercury dealership that used to stand where the C.V.S. pharmacy is now.

Once they were living here, Ms. Plitt ran the office for her husband while he sold cars. The business later moved to Wainscott. She retired when her husband became ill in 2009. He died in August 2011.

Her grandchildren, Molly Wirth of New York City, and William Plitt and Lucas Plitt, both of East Hampton, spent a huge amount of time with their “Grammy,” whose East Hampton Village house, her daughter said, “was the hub” of their world. They would bake brownies with her, play Monopoly, and go on adventures to the Nature Trail, Ms. Wirth said. Her mother never lost her slightly irreverent wit, Ms. Wirth said, even when she was in pain.

In addition to her daughter and three grandchildren, Ms. Plitt’s son, Jeffrey R. Plitt of Springs, survives. Ms. Plitt was cremated. Memorial donations have been suggested for East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978 or eeh.org. Ms. Wirth is planning a memorial for both parents in the spring.

Henry John Flohr, an Army veteran and longtime East Hampton resident, died in the Hospice and Palliative Care branch of the Northport V.A. Medical Center on Saturday. He had been diagnosed a year ago with stomach cancer and was in hospice care for a month. He would have turned 78 on Tuesday.

Mr. Flohr was born on Nov. 14, 1939, in Islip, one of four children of the former Frieda Lackmeyer and Henry J. Flohr Sr. His family moved to East Hampton when he was 2 years old. Mr. Flohr attended the Springs School and graduated from high school in Florida, because his father moved the family there when he opened a business in New Port Richey.

After high school, he joined the Army and served as a security guard in Turkey, Germany, and Fort Dix, N.J. Mr. Flohr met the former Joyce Klahn as soon as he had returned from Germany. She was working with his sister Linda. As she recalled, “We met in September 1952, were engaged in October, and married in December. Everyone said it wouldn’t last. We were married for 55 years.”

In East Hampton Mr. Flohr worked for Lewis Edwards in his electrician’s business and after that he worked at the I.G.A. in Noyac, the Amagansett I.G.A., and King Kullen, from which he retired.

Ms. Flohr said that for fun, her husband “collected model cars, fished, clammed, and liked the outdoors.”

In addition to his wife, his sister Linda Barrett of Patchogue and his brother, Peter O. Flohr of Florida, survive, as do his sons, Henry J. Flohr III of Freehold, N.J., and R. Jordan Flohr of Hoosick Falls, N.Y. His sister Helen Tvdik of Florida died before him. Four nieces and nephews and five grandchildren also survive.

Mr. Flohr was a charter member of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Amagansett, as is his widow. On Nov. 18 at 11 a.m., the Rev. George Dietrich will preside at a celebration of his life. Mr. Flohr was cremated. Ms. Flohr will keep his ashes and, when the time comes, their ashes will be mingled and dispersed on the water.

Memorial donations have been suggested to St. Michael’s Lutheran Church, P.O. Box 695, Amagansett 11930 or to the East Hampton Library, where Ms. Flohr worked for 20 years, at 159 Main Street, East Hampton 11937.

Rose Mae Clark, an 11th-generation resident of East Hampton and Amagansett who was known for helping the needy, died at home of cancer on Oct. 6 at the age of 73.

Ms. Clark was described as a one-woman charity drive, and, in the 1990s, acted as the precursor of the area’s food pantries. Perfectly fine vegetables with cosmetic blemishes from Vicki’s Veggies in Amagansett might go to a 90-year-old neighbor. She clipped coupons for food bargains for those in need, and kept her eyes peeled for furniture that she could give away. A bunk bed she found at the town dump went to a family with children. 

In a 1996 interview in The East Hampton Star, Ms. Clark spoke of how friends would drop off bags of clothing at her house, knowing she would be sure they got to the right people, and she made weekly clothing deliveries to Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Catholic Church in Southampton.

While many of her donations were distributed locally; other items made their way to a coal-mining region in Pennsylvania, others to Alabama, Puerto Rico, or the Dominican Republic. 

“This is the richest country in the world, and yet there are people in need everywhere,” she said in the interview.

Ms. Clark was born on Oct. 1, 1944, at Southampton Hospital to Howard Hodgdon and the former Alice Morgan. She traced her roots in East Hampton to members of the Bennett and Miller families.

She grew up near Three Mile Harbor, then lived in a house at the corner of Grove Street and Windmill Lane in Amagansett for a decade starting in 1965, and ultimately had a house on Abraham’s Path in East Hampton. She attended the Amagansett and East Hampton schools and worked as a housekeeper, home health aide, and as a caregiver for elderly people. 

Her son David Clark of Garnerville, N.Y., said that she had a strong desire to help whoever needed it. “She was a beautiful, giving person,” he said. She was a former deacon of the Amagansett Presbyterian Church, and “was well loved in the community,” he said.

In addition to Mr. Clark, she is survived by two other children, Lynn Clark III of East Hampton and Donald Clark of Virginia Beach, Va., her siblings, Ruth Anderson and Howard Hodgdon, both of Hampton Bays, and seven grandchildren. Her sisters Doris Thompson and Ethel Hodgdon died before her.

A service was held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on Oct. 8. A celebration of her life and burial of her ashes at Green River Cemetery in Springs will take place at a date to be announced shortly.

Her family suggested memorial donations to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach, 11978-7048.

William E. Havens Jr., a 12th-generation bayman and almost lifelong Amagansett resident, died on Sept. 28 in Boca Raton, Fla., after a series of illnesses. He was 65.

Mr. Havens had recently moved to West Palm Beach, Fla., to be nearer his daughter, Rebecca Havens, who attends Florida Atlantic University.

Mr. Havens and other members of his family were featured in Peter Mat­thiessen’s book “Men’s Lives,” which chronicled the work of East Hampton’s baymen; one chapter was titled “Summer of 1983: The Havens Crew.” 

He was born on July 10, 1952, the son of William E. Havens and the former Anna Hollander, both of whom died before him. The Havens family traces its roots here to a William Havens, who arrived on Shelter Island in the 17th century. In the 1890s, a member of the Havens family settled in Springs. They moved to Amagansett before the Great Depression, and fished with the Posey Lester crews off the ocean beach.

The fisheries of Mr. Havens’s youth were diverse and productive. In “Men’s Lives,” Mr. Matthiessen wrote of the Havenses setting gill nets and cod trawls in the ocean while a grandfather, Henry Havens, watched with a spyglass from a scuttlehole in his house on Old Montauk Highway.

Like many of the Amagansett baymen, Mr. Havens was a haulseiner, mostly targeting striped bass before the fishery was banned by the state in 1986 over potential PCB contamination. That year, Mr. Havens told The New York Times, “Now I know how the Indians feel. The Indians were driven out, weren’t they? The same thing is happening to us.”

Arnold Leo, the secretary of the East Hampton Town Baymen’s Association, said that Mr. Havens had been a key figure in the group, serving as one of its 12 directors for a long period. 

Mr. Havens was committed to defending the way of life of East End fishermen, his family said, and he was featured in a video made in 1989 by the singer Billy Joel, “Downeaster Alexa.” In the video, Mr. Leo’s daughter, the actor Melissa Leo, played Mr. Havens’s wife.

Striped bass fishing eventually returned, though haulseining was, for the most part, outlawed, spelling the end of a more than 300-year-old tradition.

Because of Mr. Havens’s knowledge of the sea, he was introduced to Deborah Ross, who was gathering information for a movie about fishing on the East End, and they married. At one time they owned and operated Harry’s Hideaway restaurant and bar on Fort Pond Boulevard in Springs, where Mr. Havens had worked after quitting fishing.

He and Ms. Havens lived in California for several years, where he worked in a union job as a film industry grip. They returned here in the mid-1990s, and Mr. Havens went to work for the East Hampton Town Highway Department, digging clams for money on the side when he could. Ms. Havens died before him, as did a brother, Benjamin Havens.

In retirement, Mr. Havens continued to clam, fish, and scallop. He picked and preserved wild raspberries and blackberries. He would travel to see NASCAR races and car shows and to the Riverhead Raceway. He was a co-founder of Hometown Bonac Connected Friends on Facebook, where he posted images of sunrises and sunsets, as well as his accomplishments in the kitchen. 

His family and friends recalled him as having a contagious smile and laugh and as a kind soul and a solid friend — “finest kind,” as Bonackers like him say. 

In addition to his daughter, Mr. Havens is survived by his sisters Marion Havens of Hicksville, Lillian Havens of Manorville, and Connie Havens Colonna of East Hampton, and a brother, Nick Havens of Amagansett, as well as 11 nieces and nephews.

A graveside service was held on Saturday at Oak Grove Cemetery in Amagansett. Memorial donations have been suggested to the Wounded Warriors Project at woundedwarriorproject.org, or Box 758517, Topeka, Kan. 66675-8517.

Visiting hours for Ray Cappiello, who died on Friday, will be held on Monday from 4 to 8 p.m. at Raynor and D’Andrea, 683 Montauk Highway in Bayport.

A funeral Mass will be said on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk, with burial to follow at Fort Hill Cemetery.

Mr. Cappiello was a member of the Montauk Chamber of Commerce and had served as chairman of the chamber’s board for 11 years.

A full obituary will appear in a future issue of The Star. 

Doris Geneva Franzone died at home in Montauk on Aug. 23, surrounded by her family. She was 88 and had developed heart disease six months ago.

Ms. Franzone met her future husband, Lawrence Franzone, in New York City when she was working at Stouffer’s restaurant, in the financial district, and he was working at AT&T and would have lunch there. They married in 1951 and moved to Montauk in 1958, when AT&T transferred him to the South Fork. Her father-in-law had bought two lots in Montauk right after the war for $100 each. The young couple “put up a little Cape Cod house,” Ms. Franzone was quoted as saying in her husband’s obituary.

They built Montauk Beer and Soda in 1976, and she ran it for the first 15 years, until her husband retired. Mr. Franzone died in 2015.

In addition to working at Montauk Beer and Soda, Mrs. Franzone enjoyed sailing, going to yard sales, crochet, and reading. She was also an active member of the Montauk Community Church, dedicated to helping run the sales there.

She was born in Greenfield, Mass., one of five children of the former Ruth Howes and George Leukhardt. Her siblings all died before her. She grew up and went to school in Massachusetts. Her children, Vincent Franzone and Audine Franzone, both of Montauk, survive, as do three grandchildren. Ms. Franzone was cremated. Half the ashes were buried next to her husband’s at Fort Hill Cemetery; the other half will be dispersed at a later date.

The family received visitors at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on Aug. 28, followed by a funeral service conducted by the Rev. Bill Hoffmann of the Montauk Community Church.

The family has suggested memorial contributions to the Montauk Fire Department’s scholarship fund, 12 Flamingo Avenue, Montauk 11954.