Lorraine Dorothy-Jean McCann, who lived in Montauk as a girl and worked at the Trail’s End and Blue Marlin restaurants there during summer vacations, died on Jan. 29 at home in Huntington. Her death was unexpected and the cause was not known, her family said. She was 77.

Ms. McCann’s family had camped in the summer at Hither Hills State Park in Montauk for many years, and, in 1947, moved there year-round.

She was born on April 10, 1940, in Queens to Eugene Campbell and the former Dorothy Lorraine McCann. She attended East Hampton High School and the State University at Potsdam, graduating at the top of her class. She received two master’s degrees from Queens College.

She became a teacher, first in Livingston Manor, N.Y., then in the South Huntington School District, where she worked for 40 years, primarily at the Country Wood School with fourth graders.

During college and in the summer, she worked at a Horn and Hardart restaurant in Westbury, staying with relatives.

Ms. McCann was a bachelorette by choice, a nonsmoker, non-drinker, and in her early years enjoyed entertaining at home and going to opera and theater performances. To relax, she took up knitting, crocheting, quilting, needlepoint, and calligraphy. She also enjoyed solving math and logic problems, and she loved to read, particularly historical, political, and art-figure biographies.

Her father, mother, and two brothers, Eugene McCann and Roger McCann, died before her. Her surviving brother, Kevin J. McCann, lives in Healdsburg, Calif. She also left a niece and a nephew, for whose education she had contributed $100 a month for 30 years.

A memorial Mass for her will be said on June 8 at 9:30 a.m. at St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church in Melville, followed by burial at St. Charles Catholic Cemetery in Farmingdale.

Alice Jane Hersh, a 13th-generation East Hamptoner who grew up on an Amagansett farm, died of complications of cancer on May 8 at Southside Hospital in Bay Shore. She was 64 and had been ill for four months.

Born to Harvey N. Bennett, whose forebears were among East Hampton’s first five families, and the former Jane Pafnucka, who emigrated from Poland to this country when she was 15,  she picked corn, beans, and strawberries at the family farm on Oak and Town Lanes as a girl. The produce and eggs from the farm’s 1,000 laying hens were sold at a farm stand that was next to Brent’s Store on Montauk Highway in Amagansett at first and then on Pantigo Road in East Hampton. Her family said these girlhood experiences instilled the love she retained all her life for animals and nature.

Mrs. Hersh was born at Southampton Hospital on Dec. 30, 1952, one of her parents’ four children. Her mother died only five years ago at age 98. She attended the Amagansett School and Most Holy Trinity Catholic School in East Hampton and graduated from East Hampton High School. After two years at Suffolk Community College, she went to the State University at Albany, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in business education. She subsequently taught business and was an assistant reading teacher in the Comsewogue School District. More recently, she ran a computer based reading program for young readers at Forest Brook Elementary School in the Hauppauge School District.

In July 1976 she converted to Judaism to marry Stephen Hersh, who survives. They had met in college and settled in Smithtown where they reared their children.

Mrs. Hersh’s family said she loved spending time at the beach and, once her mother moved to East Hampton, could often be seen on Main Beach. She enjoyed traveling and had gone to France and Poland in 1972 with her mother, who returned to find her roots. She was proud of her family history on both sides, they said.

Mrs. Hersh was “a loving mother and wife,” her family said, and enjoyed taking walks, knitting quilts for family and friends, and being sociable. She had had a cat for many years and most recently had considered her children’s corgis her “grandpups.”

 In addition to Mr. Hersh, a son, Jeff Hersh of Los Angeles, and a daughter, Carolyn Hersh of Hauppauge, survive her. Her siblings survive as well. They are Josephine Domingues of Springfield, Va., Jonathan Bennett of Moodus, Conn., and Amagansett, and Capt. Harvey L. Bennett of Amagansett.

Mrs. Hersh had a Jewish funeral and was buried at Mt. Ararat Cemetery in Farmingdale. The family will hold a memorial at a future date.

Richard G. Wolf, a producer and director of documentary films, television series, and commercials, died of kidney and heart failure on April 30 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 81.

Mr. Wolf started his career in the late 1950s as a soundman and crewmember “on every conceivable type of production, from features to spots to TV series,” he wrote in his résumé. “You name it, I did it!”

He graduated from film school at the City College of New York, but had begun taking jobs in the industry even before finishing high school. At just 14, he was a messenger for an animation studio, and later, while going to film school at night, he worked by day as an opaquer and assistant animation cameraman, “photographing one cell at a time, a hideous job,” he told The Southampton Press in a 2001 interview.

Among his many projects, he produced “Profiles in Diplomacy,” a PBS special on the United States Foreign Service, and “A Measure of Trust,” about a group of Santa Barbara, Calif., residents and their battle with the Exxon Corporation, and directed “Ice,” an award-winning documentary about Arctic exploration.

He was also a senior producer of corporate campaigns for IBM, Exxon, and General Mills, among other companies, and produced and directed spots for Mercedes-Benz and Philip Morris.

His final film project, in 2007, was “The Dolphin Dilemma,” a documentary about a dolphin trainer on the Caribbean island of Curacao.

He moved to East Hampton from New York in the late 1990s.

In East Hampton, Mr. Wolf was a Democratic committeeman for a time and also served in the early 2000s on the East Hampton Citizens Advisory Committee.

He enjoyed fly-fishing. “He always put the fish back,” his wife, Ann Schafer Wolf, said. “I would have to beg him to keep one bluefish.” He loved to read and garden and was an excellent cook. “Everybody wanted him to open a restaurant, but he refused.”

Mr. Wolf was born in Manhattan on March 15, 1936, to Harry Wolf and the former Phoebe Rosenthal. He had a daughter, Sasha Wolf, from his first marriage and gained a stepdaughter, Nina Schafer, when he was married on May 31, 1984, to the former Ann Schafer. His daughter lives in Manhattan; his stepdaughter in East Hampton.

Mr. Wolf was cremated. A gathering of friends will be held at his house on Oakview Highway at some point this spring.

Maureen Patricia Babin, who grew up in East Hampton but lived for a long time in South Bound Brook, N.J., died on April 26 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Somerville, N.J. She was 66 and had been receiving treatment for cancer.

Ms. Babin, who was born in Brooklyn on July 26, 1950, was adopted by Ernest and Kathleen Donohue Mott of East Hampton when she was 6 months old. She grew up in East Hampton and Montauk, went to Stella Maris Catholic School in Sag Harbor, and graduated from East Hampton High School. She received a degree in accounting at Grahm Junior College in Boston and worked as an accountant.

She and Gary Leonard Babin of Delaware were married in 1969 and settled in New Jersey, where they brought up three children. She and her children visited her parents here frequently, especially in the summer. The marriage ended in divorce.

Ms. Babin is survived by her mother and by  John Pettoni of New Jersey, her companion of seven years, as well as by her daughters Kathleen Nowsch and Danielle Bertagna, her son, Gary Ernest Babin, and two grandchildren, all of Las Vegas. A sister, Karen Pitstick of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., also survives. Her father died before her.

The family received visitors at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on April 30, with a funeral Mass said at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton on May 1. Ms. Babin was buried in the church cemetery. The family has suggested memorial donations to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis 38105.

Nathaniel Wilkins Creamer, whose father, the late Francis B. Creamer Jr., was the rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton from 1978 to 1996, died of cancer at the Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care in Towson, Md., on April 14, a little over a year after his father’s death. He was 49.

Mr. Creamer was reared in a family that believed in community building and social justice. His favorite phrase, according to his family, was “Pass it on,” which became an organizing principle, beginning with his work for the Peace Corps in the West African archipelago of Cape Verde, where he was an agricultural adviser to goat herders on Maio Island. His mother said languages came to him naturally and he had learned Portuguese to work on Maio. He returned to the island later to make a documentary about its daily life.

Nathaniel Creamer was born in New York City on Feb. 14, 1968, one of the two children of Reverend Creamer and the former Ann Wilkins Lichty, who survives. He grew up in New York, New London, N.H., and in East Hampton when his father was at St. Luke’s. He attended the East Hampton Middle School from fifth through eighth grade and graduated from the Salisbury School in Connecticut, having spent his junior year in Barcelona, Spain. He graduated from Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Ill., with a double major in European languages and international relations.

In East Hampton, he had worked during the summer at various jobs, once as a locker room attendant at the Maidstone Club and once as the town’s assistant garbage collector. He was also a bouncer one summer at a restaurant in South­ampton.

In 1996, while working as a program manager at Boston University’s School of Public Health, he met the former Louisa Kerr Bray. They married in 1998 and moved to Baltimore, where he became a self-taught manager of information technology for TerpSys, a Gaith­ersburg, Md., firm. At his death he was the head administrator of the Center for Leadership Education at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering.

“To close friends, neighbors, and colleagues, he defined what it means to be a citizen,” his family said, adding that he was “regarded as a quiet but determined community organizer.” In Baltimore, he was known to rise early every Saturday to clean up litter in the Oakenshawe neighborhood, where he helped organize community events and led efforts to maintain the Greenspace area, which served as the neighborhood’s backyard.

Among Mr. Creamer’s interests and talents, his family said, was woodworking, and he used it to improve his family home. He also was known for “his reassuring smile, easy laughter, and great singing voice,” they said. His favorite place was Chappaquiddick on Martha’s Vineyard, where his parents had bought a house in the 1960s and where he “passed on his love for the ocean and open wildness to his children,” his family said.

In addition to his wife and mother, who lives in Waldoboro, Me., he is survived by a son, Luke, 15, a daughter, Tess, 12, and a sister, Elizabeth Figler of Duxbury, Mass.

A celebration of his life will take place on May 27 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Glass Pavilion on the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore 21218. His ashes will be buried in Chappaquiddick. Memorial donations have been suggested to United Way of Central Maryland, 1800 Washington Boulevard, Suite 340, Baltimore 21230, and National Public Radio at npr.org.

Susan Oliner Russotti, an architectural consultant who had a house in Springs, died on April 5 at New York University Hospital in Manhattan of complications of ovarian cancer, her family said. She was 64 and had been ill for about four years.

Ms. Russotti’s career began following her completion of a master’s in architecture degree at the University of Minnesota, with a first job in the St. Louis office of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, a national firm now known as HOK. She eventually struck out on her own with Harrison Leigh, an independent consulting business. The Bank of America building in Manhattan was among her firm’s clients.

In 2007 she met Philip Russotti through a Craigslist listing for an East End summer rental. A romance followed, and they bought a house in Springs together. They married on Dec. 20, 2009.

She was born on Jan. 22, 1953, in St. Paul to the former Leah Newman and Harry Plotke. After graduating from high school, she studied at Syracuse University, where she finished with a fine arts degree. She met her first husband, Andrew Oliner, at HOK.

She and Mr. Oliner moved to New Jersey, where they had children, and from where they were frequent visitors to the East End. That marriage ended in divorce, and Ms. Russotti relocated to New York City.

After buying the Springs house with Mr. Russotti, she turned her attention to updating its architectural details and transforming its grounds and pool area. She drafted the necessary drawings, supervised the contractors, and did all the interior design.

Ms. Russotti would frequently cook with fresh ingredients from her garden and fill the house with flowers she had planted herself. She joined the Clay Arts Guild of the Hamptons and was a member of the East End Clay Works in East Hampton, selling some of her ceramics at local shows under the name Studio Russotti, but giving most away to family and friends.

After her grandchildren began to arrive, she rediscovered a love of sewing, making them stuffed dinosaurs, bears, and the like. Late in life, she became a boater, keeping her powerboat, the Suzie Q, in Three Mile Harbor, taking family out for rides on Peconic and Gardiner’s Bays as often as possible.

Travel was a pleasure, as well. She and Mr. Russotti visited Europe, the Caribbean, and South America. Her family said that she helped herself to poppy seeds from several famous overseas gardens, including Claude Monet’s at Giverny, which she was able to propagate successfully back home in Springs.

Some of her trips included seeing in person locations from the World War II spy novels she loved to read. Others were to Arizona for winter horseback adventures on desert trails.

Mr. Russotti survives, as do her children from her first marriage: Daniel Oliner of Brooklyn and East Hampton and Lindsay Calicchio of Scotch Plains; her stepsons, Thomas Russotti and Matthew Russotti of Brooklyn and Peter Russotti of Singapore, a brother, Gary Plotke of Woodbridge, Conn., three grandchildren, and a niece and a nephew.

A private gathering for Ms. Russotti was held at the Springs house on April 22. She was cremated, and her ashes spread around her garden and waters she once piloted on the Suzie Q.

Her family has established a fund in Ms. Russotti’s name at N.Y.U. Langone Medical Center, where memorial donations can be made at nyulangone.org.

Anthony L. Panzeca, who retired with his wife to East Hampton in 1994 to be closer to their daughter and grandchildren, died at Southampton Hospital on April 23. His health had been declining within the past year, his family said. He was 88.

Born in Brooklyn on Oct. 19, 1928, he was one of three children of the former Constance Bovona and Leonard Panzeca. After graduating from Brooklyn Technical High School, he joined the Air Force, and served during the Korean War in business operations and logistics, first at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver and then at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio.

Not long after he left the military a cousin introduced him to Naomi Figueroa, whom he married in 1952. She worked as a nurse at Peninsula Hospital in Far Rockaway; he worked in accounting services at Pan American World Airways, then I.B.M., and finally at Manufacturers Hanover Trust. The couple lived in Brooklyn and eventually in Howard Beach, Queens.

After their daughter, Mary Lownes, moved to Amagansett and married Brock Lownes, her parents followed. Mrs. Panzeca died in 2007. In addition to his daughter, Mr. Panzeca is survived by his sister Theresa Melisurgo of East Meadow, and three grandchildren. Another sister, Marie Boscarino of North Bellmore, died before him.

A funeral Mass was said at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton on Friday, followed by burial at Cedar Lawn Cemetery, East Hampton. The family has suggested memorial donations to Southampton Hospital, 240 Meeting House Lane, Southampton 11968, or the Rector’s Discretionary Fund, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 18 James Lane, East Hampton 11937.

Boating and taking his Jeep on the beach with friends were two of David S. Hill’s great joys, his wife, Jean Hill, said this week. He kept a CB radio in his Jeep, and his handle, Snoopy, also became his nickname around town, Mrs. Hill said.

Mr. Hill died on April 11 at South­ampton Hospital after a long illness. He was 80.

A resident of East Hampton for nearly 60 years, he lived in a house once owned by his grandmother Esther Anderson.

Mr. Hill was born on Feb. 10, 1937, in Glen Head to David Hill, who had been a congressman, and the former Hilma Anderson. He grew up in Glen Head but spent weekends and holidays at his grandmother’s house in East Hampton.

After graduating from Hempstead High School in 1956, Mr. Hill entered the Coast Guard and spent the better part of four years guarding New York Harbor. In Glen Head, he was a volunteer fireman before moving east.

He married Jean Leighton on April 14, 1961.

Entrepreneurial in spirit, he was employed as a sales representative by a number of firms specializing in the home-building market before starting his own company, D. Hill Associates, which sold building materials. He had many friends in the industry and was known for his witty salesmanship, his wife said.

The Hills kept their boat, the Salty Paw, in Three Mile Harbor for many years, enjoying outings with friends and family, including his wife’s brother, Robert Leighton, and his nephews, Gregory and Eric, who were like children to him, Mrs. Hill said.

In addition to his wife, brother-in-law, and nephews, Mr. Hill is survived by a stepbrother, John Wambough of Florida.

Mr. Hill was cremated. A graveside service will be held next Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Cutchogue Cemetery on Main Road, where his ashes will be interred.

His wife has suggested contributions to the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, 371 East Jericho Turnpike, Smithtown 11787, or online at guidedog.org.

An East Hampton Village’s resident, Nancy E. O’Brien, died on April 24. She was 91, and had been ill with Alzheimer’s disease for a long time.

 Mrs. O’Brien was born on Nov. 11, 1925, on Main Street, and continued to live in the village all her life.   Her father, Raymond Mott, was a direct descendant of the Mott family from England, who arrived in East Hampton in the 19th century. A World War I veteran, he lived in Springs, and his name is listed on the Ashawagh Hall war monument there.

Her mother, Dehlia Quigley, was from Galway, Ireland. She was working in the kitchen of a house on Pudding Hill in East Hampton, when Raymond Mott arrived to deliver ice to the house. The couple had four children: Nancy, who was named for a grandmother, Nancy Miller Mott; Margaret Marcinski of Meriden, Conn., who died before her; Kathleen Potter of Virginia Beach, Va., and Raymond Mott of Mobile, Ala. both of whom survive.

When Mrs. O’Brien was 10, she lost sight in her right eye. Her daughter Lisa Wirth wrote that she never considered herself handicapped, instead pushing herself to try harder.

In 1944 she graduated from East Hampton High School and in 1947 married John T. O’Brien from Staten Island. They lived on Dayton Lane, where they raised their children, John R. O’Brien of Sagaponack, Maureen Hannibal of East Hampton, and Ms. Wirth, who lives in Wainscott. The O’Briens had been married for 49 years when Mr. O’Brien died, in 1996.

As a teenager, Mrs. O’Brien worked as a telephone operator. She stayed with the company for almost 20 years, leaving, as she liked to say, “just short of a pension.” In 1972, she began working for Mark, Fore & Strike on Main Street, East Hampton, where she remained for the next quarter-century, helping to dress well-healed locals and visitors, among them John Lennon, whom she famously advised not to wear bikini underwear with a white suit.

Later, she worked as a manager at the Ladies Village Improvement Society Bargain Box, helping to transform the thrift store into a beautiful boutique. She was 80 when she gave up her full-time job but continued to work in the community, the family said, as a “tireless volunteer.” She was a Girl Scout leader, a member of the American Cancer Society (winning its East End Volunteer award in 1990), and a member and secretary of the East Hampton Republican Club. As a young mother, she brought many Fresh Air Fund children from inner cities here in the summers to enjoy the beaches and woods. Year after year from the end of World War II, she donated blood to the Red Cross, until she was too frail to do so.

According to her family, Mrs. O’Brien dressed beautifully and cut a glamorous figure around town. She especially loved cashmere sweaters, they said.

Known for her sense of humor, she loved to tell the story of the playwright Philip Barry’s attending her wedding in 1947. His gift to the newlyweds was a copy of the script of “The Philadelphia Story,” which was promptly stolen from the couple’s convertible.

In addition to her three children and two siblings, she leaves six grandchildren. A funeral Mass was celebrated last Friday at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church here. Memorial contributions have been suggested for the church, at 57 Buell Lane, East Hampton 11937, or to East End Hospice, online at eeh.org.

Susann Farrell, the children’s and family services librarian at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor for the last 12 years, died of lung cancer last Thursday at the age of 47. She died at her home in Flanders, with her family at her side.

Her colleagues said Ms. Farrell put her heart and soul into her work, enriching the lives of children and parents alike since joining the library in 2005. “Susann’s spirit and joy for her work will make it difficult to replace her,” they wrote.

She had been diagnosed not very long ago and had had to stop work early in April. On a GoFundMe page for her and her family, friends and acquaintances wrote of her kindness and the attention she bestowed on each child. She made sure the books they selected were inclusive of all races and religions, someone recalled. Others said she was the reason their children had become skilled readers. One person remembered her “collection of colorful Converse high-tops.”

    She was born Susann Catherine Matteson on Feb. 11, 1970, in Trenton, N.J., to Paul and Cathy Parcels Matteson, who do not survive. She spent most of her childhood in Surf City, N.J., and loved spending time with her grandparents on Long Beach Island, N.J., too.

At the University of Maryland, she was a member of the marching band, playing the saxophone, of which she was very proud. She transferred to Georgian Court University in New Jersey to finish her undergraduate work. After graduation, she taught first grade in the South Jersey area, during which time she met and married James Thomas Farrell. They had been married for 17 years.

  They moved to Long Island, where Ms. Farrell attended Long Island University at C.W. Post in Brookville, earning a master’s degree in library science.

Her colleagues said she loved her time with her children, Catherine Alora Farrell, 16, and James Thomas Farrell III, 14. She “worked tirelessly to give them a good life, with her unwavering love and devotion.” The family spent many good days fishing, skiing, reading, and taking pictures. She passed on her love of music, science fiction, ghost hunting, animals, and Dr. Who to her children and the people around her.

Ms. Farrell was the president of SAVES Inc., which captures feral cats and places them for adoption. Memorial donations can be made to the service at SAVES, P.O. Box 1631, Riverhead 11901. The GoFundMe page can be found at gofundme.com/help-sue-farrell-fight-lung-cancer.

In addition to her husband and children, she is survived by a large extended family. Cards of condolence can be sent to the family at 26 Fanning Road, Flanders 11901.

There will be a gathering in memory of Ms. Farrell at the John Jermain Library, 201 Main Street in Sag Harbor, at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, May 19. The family plans a memorial service at Indian Island County Park in Riverhead at noon on July 29. All those who knew her have been invited to attend.