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.

Florence Ann Lakeman, a familiar presence in Montauk for nearly 50 years, died on April 29 at Southampton Hospital. She was 88 and had been in failing health for about two years, her family said.

At one time or another, Mrs. Lakeman would have spoken to nearly every Montauk resident, first in her work as a secretary at the hamlet’s medical center, later on greeting innumerable visitors in the Montauk Lighthouse gift shop.

John Lakeman described his mother as someone who enjoyed talking to others. At the gift shop, he said, she became something of a Montauk historian, fielding questions about the place from people who stopped by.

She was born in Queens on Dec. 23, 1928, to Anthony Rade and the former Genevieve Waczkovki, and grew up there. She married Thomas Lakeman on Jan. 15, 1949, and they raised their two sons in Maspeth. Mrs. Lakeman worked at National Cash Register in Manhattan before moving east.

The family were frequent visitors to Montauk, where her father had built a house and an uncle and his wife ran a party boat fishing business. In 1968, the Lakemans moved year round to a house on Greenwich Street, where she remained to the end of her life. Mr. Lakeman died on April 5, 2015.

An early job on the South Fork was at the First National Bank branch on Pantigo Road in East Hampton, where Mrs. Lakeman was witness to an armed robbery in which four men with shotguns made off with a sum of money.

She was an animal lover of the highest order, her son said, taking in stray cats, feeding feral ones, and nearly always having a dog — German shepherds, for the most part, which she enjoyed taking for walks on the Montauk beaches. She contributed regularly to the World Wildlife Fund, the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, Amaryllis Farm Rescue, and just about any animal charity organization whose pitch she received in the mail.

Both her sons survive. John Lakeman lives in East Hampton, Thomas Lakeman in Peoria, Ariz. She also leaves a sister, Jenny Lenz of Montauk; six grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Lakeman was cremated. Her ashes will be buried at Calverton National Cemetery next to her husband’s, a United States Navy veteran, in a ceremony today at 2 p.m.

A memorial service will be held on May 6 for Timothy Reutershan, a “true Bonac entrepreneur,” his family said, who had several businesses in East Hampton.

Mr. Reutershan, who was widely read and knowledgeable about history, music, art, and literature, died of heart failure on Feb. 17 in Tucson, where he had lived for the past three years. He was 60.

A native of East Hampton, he graduated from East Hampton High School in 1974. His varied jobs here included working as a lobster fisherman and as a heavy equipment operator, and operating his own businesses, including Reutershan Firewood and a lawn service. In the early ’70s, he was a part of the team that constructed all of the street landscaping in downtown Montauk.

Mr. Reutershan preferred independent learning to classroom instruction, the family said, though he attended Alfred State College for a year. He later completed a course in heavy equipment operation in South Carolina.

As a young boy, he became an expert on the Civil War and the life of Robert E. Lee. As a young man, he commissioned Doug Kuntz, his childhood friend and a local photographer, to create a photo history of the remaining East End windmills. Later, he began collecting historical plates, inspired by plates depicting East Hampton and Sag Harbor that were commissioned from Rowland & Marcellus by his great-great-uncle Maximillian Reutershan.

Mr. Reutershan was, like his mother, a voracious reader. He was known for an exceptionally sharp wit, and never failed, his family said, to send a crowd into gales of laughter over his jokes, tales, and stories. He was passionate about country music as well, even trying his hand at songwriting, and was drawn to the art and artists of the East End.

Besides East Hampton, he had lived for a time in Southampton and in Bridgehampton, where his beloved shar-pei, Chester, was a local celebrity.

Born on April 14, 1956, at Southampton Hospital, Mr. Reutershan was the son of Robert G. and Nanci Reutershan, both of whom died before him. He is survived by a brother, Christopher Reutershan of Bel Air, Md., and by three sisters, Susan Garde of Panama City Beach, Fla., Cynthia Marshall of East Hampton, and Kate Johnson of Bridgehampton.

Mr. Reutershan was cremated. A memorial service will be held on May 6 at 2 p.m. at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery in East Hampton, where his ashes are buried. Memorial donations have been suggested to the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, P.O. Box 901, Wainscott 11975.

Pietro Nivola, who was considered a scholar and a kind and gracious man by colleagues and friends, died at home in Springs on April 5. He was 73 and had cancer.

Mr. Nivola’s career was largely spent at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., where he began as a visiting fellow in 1988 and stayed on for nearly three decades, during which he published 11 books on energy conservation, environmental protection, trade and industrial policies, federalism, and political polarization. In 1993, he was appointed a senior fellow at the institution and, between 2004 and 2008, served as vice president and director of governance studies there.  In a memorial essay on the Brookings Institution website, William A. Galston, deputy director of goverance studies, wrote, “In everything he did, he was a craftsman — careful, patient, and concise.”

His wife, Katherine Stahl, said he “explored complex ideas with deceptive ease, addressing his reader in a straightforward conversational tone, with memorable turns of phrase.” He was also considered exceptional in his insistence that research centers stay focused on issues that required long-term, evidence-based responses, rather than relying on impulsive, ratings-oriented judgments. She said that he would be remembered “as a generous mentor to many interns and research assistants” and that he also would be remembered “not only for his inquisitive mind but also for the rigor of his scholarship, for his talent as a writer and editor, and not least for his impish humor and stylish elegance.”

Before he joined Brookings, Mr. Nivola was an associate professor of political science at the University of Vermont and, from 1976 to 1977, a lecturer in the department of government at Harvard University.

Pietro Salvatore Nivola was born in New York City on March 31, 1944, one of two children of the former Ruth Guggenheim and Costantino Nivola, artists who had met at art school in Italy and immigrated to New York to flee Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The couple soon moved to Springs, where in 1948 they bought a house and a barn that dated to the 1750s.

Mr. Nivola attended the Springs School and the Little Red School House in SoHo, ultimately graduating from the Pomfret School and from Harvard College in 1966. He earned a master’s degree in city and regional planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a doctorate from Harvard University in 1976. In the course of his career, Mr. Nivola also was the recipient of many foundation fellowships and grants.

After he retired, Mr. Nivola followed his lifelong interest in architecture and design, restoring the family house and barn. He cherished spending time with his family and friends, both at home and on his antique wooden boat. He also was a runner and a  tennis player and, like his parents, an exceptional cook, his wife said. Conversations at their dinner parties “extended late into the night,” she said.

Mr. Nivola had two sons with his first wife, the former Virginia Davis, who survives and lives in Brooklyn. The marriage ended in divorce. In 1986 he met Katherine Stahl; they married in 1996. His stepdaughter, Asia Webber of West Newton, Mass., survives, as do his sons, Alessandro Nivola of Brooklyn and Amagansett, and Adrian Nivola of Brooklyn. A sister, Claire Nivola of Newton Highlands, Mass., also survives, as do many cousins in Sardinia and five grandchildren, whom he enjoyed taking out on his boat and teaching to fish.

Mr. Galston said Mr. Nivola expressed an artistic sensibility through his scholarship and diverse interests, with “each element carefully wrought, coming together in a full life well lived. He taught us how to live, and in his final months he taught us how to die.”

Mr. Nivola was buried in the Nivola family plot at Green River Cemetery in Springs. The family plans a private memorial at a later date. They have suggested memorial donations to the Pietro S. Nivola Internship in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, or online at brookings.edu.

A graveside service for Timothy Reutershan, a former East Hampton resident who died on Feb. 17 in Tucson, will take place on Saturday at 2 p.m. at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery on Cedar Street in East Hampton.

Patia Rosenberg, a writer, translator, and musicologist who grew up among the New York artists who settled on the South Fork in the 1950s, died on March 20 at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in New York City following a heart attack. She was 74.

Patia E. Myrel Rosenberg was born in New York City on Dec. 4, 1943, the only child of Mae-Natalie Tabak, a novelist, and Harold Rosenberg, a writer, educator, and respected art critic. She grew up in Greenwich Village and in her parents’ Neck Path house in Springs, briefly attending the Springs School. She graduated from the High School of Performing Arts in the city.

“When I was going out with boys as a teenager, Patia was teaching herself Japanese,” Denise Lassaw, a friend from childhood, said.

Ms. Rosenberg graduated from Oberlin College in 1962. In the following years she received a master’s degree with a thesis on Ainu music from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree in Middle Eastern studies from New York University, and a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University. “An Introduction to Japanese Folk Song” was the subject of her doctoral thesis, and she wrote a book, “Mountain Storm, Breeze: Folk Song in Japan,” in 1981.

 Ms. Rosenberg taught ethnomusicology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She studied Chinese and Persian as well as Japanese and translated and copy-edited in those languages. A scholar, she was working on a translation from Italian to English of Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of an Author” and Rostand’s “Cyrano de Bergerac” from French to English before her death.

Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami, a professor of Persian studies at N.Y.U., said, “I am not exaggerating when I say that she played an important role in the intellectual achievements that I, and a number of people she worked with, have had.” She used the names Patia Isaku, Patia Yasin, and Patia Rosenberg professionally at various times.

Among the people in her parents’ circle, Ms. Rosenberg was close to Elaine de Kooning,  who encouraged her studies. In 1967 Ms. de Kooning  painted a portrait of Ms. Rosenberg, who wrote, “Elaine painted a portrait of me when my life was full of chaos and barriers. Somehow she found the order and peace that were hiding in my innermost soul and put them on the canvas. Only she could have coaxed them out into the open. She was trustworthy that way.” The artist Saul Steinberg, a friend, made drawings for her that depicted family stories, said Ms. Lassaw, which he titled “Mae rescues the cat from a vertical labyrinth, in safe admiration from loft,” and “Patia and Harold the Giant Killer.”

Ms. Rosenberg was married briefly in the late 1960s to Mikao Isaku and lived for a time in Japan, where she continued studying Japanese classical instruments and performed folk songs in that language. She lived in California after her divorce and moved back to New York when her father became ill, eventually taking over her parents’ 10th Street apartment. Ms. Lassaw said the walls of her friend’s apartment were “filled with hundreds of books and dictionaries in various languages, poetry, plays, and histories.”

Ms. Rosenberg is survived by an uncle, Charles Tabak, and a cousin, Elissa Tabak Lombardo, both of New Jersey, and by her cat, Tulula. She is survived as well by a faithful friend, Jeremiah Shea of New York City; they had called each other at about 7:30 every night for the last 25 years, and he was with her when she died. Ms. Lassaw, whose parents were also part of the Springs art world, now lives in Bellingham, Wash. A private ceremony will take place in New York next month.

Sandra Joy Fryman, who lived in East Hampton with her husband, Norman, died on April 27 at Stony Brook University Hospital after a long illness. She was 85.

Mrs. Fryman was described by her family as blessed with a sharp and self-deprecating sense of humor, an infectious laugh, and an innate compassion and generosity. Her “spirit, curiosity, attention to detail, judgment, and boundless optimism  affected and changed the world around her,” they said, adding that it was a gift and a responsibility which she left to her children and grandchildren.

She was born on April 6, 1932, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., to Benjamin Lustig and the former Pauline Cohen, and graduated from Myers High School there. As a student at Pennsylvania State University she met Norman M. Fryman,; they were married on Dec. 2, 1951, in Wilkes-Barre.

Relatives said Ms. Fryman was a devoted reader, moviegoer, and television-watcher, well-informed and good with number and word games — crosswords, Scrabble, backgammon — and clever and inspiring in writing to family and friends.

The Frymans lived for a time outside Philadelphia, raising their children there before moving to New York City. Their first house in East Hampton was in Wainscott, which they outgrew after six years. They moved to Quarty Circle in East Hampton about 23 years ago. After Mr. Fryman retired, the house here became their year-round home.

Her husband survives. She leaves three children, James Fryman of New York City, Shelly Leiweke of East Hampton, and Pamela Grossbard of Los Angeles; six grandchildren, and a sister, Sue Goldstone of Naples, Fla., by and to whom she was beloved. Her caregivers during her final illness, Nichelle Roachford and Sherry Allen, became a treasured part of the family, they said.

Mrs. Fryman’s life was celebrated during the Friday morning service at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons. Burial followed at the center’s cemetery, Shaarey Pardes Accabonac Grove, in Springs.

Rodney Scott Rodriguez of Springs died on April 21 at Southampton Hospital, two weeks after being diagnosed with cancer. He was 83.

Amagansett born and bred, Mr. Rodriguez was one of eight children of the former Dorothy Scott and Jesse M. Rodriguez Sr. Upon his graduation from East Hampton High School, he was drafted into the Army and served stateside as a sergeant during the Korean War. After his discharge, he returned here and went to work in his father’s landscaping business. Eventually he and a brother, James Rodriguez, who died before him, took over the business and named it J & R Landscaping. Before retiring, Mr. Rodriguez worked for 17 years for the Town of East Hampton at its recycling center.

A member of Company 1 of the Amagansett Fire Department for 62 years, he served as chief of the department from 1966 to 1968, followed by two terms on the board of commissioners, from 1972 to 1976 and again from 1988 to 1992.

His marriage to Caroline Mae Weiberg ended in divorce. They had two daughters, Carla Rodriguez, who lives in East Hampton, and Dorothy Rodriguez, who died of cancer two and a half years ago. In 1976, he married Judith Wilson of Water Mill, who died in 2013.

Mr. Rodriguez is also survived by his brother Leonard Rodriguez of Sag Harbor; two sisters, Alicia Hoyt and Shirley Wornstaff of East Hampton, and two grandchildren. Two other sisters, Doro­thy Moss and Eleanor Hutflas, died before  him, as did another brother, Jesse M. Rodriguez Jr. of Amagansett.

The family received visitors at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on April 25. The following day the Rev. Steven Howarth of the Amagansett Presbyterian Church presided at a graveside service at the family plot at Oak Grove Cemetery in Amagansett. Mr. Rodriguez was cremated.

Memorial donations may be directed to the Amagansett Fire Department, P.O. Box 911, Amagansett 11930, or to American Legion Post 419, P.O. Box 1343, Amagansett.

Mary Giordano Stewart, who first came to Montauk before the Hurricane of 1938 and played an important role in that community for most of her life, died at the Affinity Skilled Living and Rehabilitation center in Oakdale on April 17. She had been weakened after a bout with pneumonia in early March. She was 98.

Mrs. Stewart was born Jan. 29, 1919, in Manhattan, one of 10 children in the family of Ralph Giordano and the former Concetta Coppola. Her family moved to the Bronx when she was young, and she attended P.S. 71 in Pelham Bay and James Monroe High School in Soundview.

By the time she graduated from high school, her family had already begun visiting Montauk in the summer. She briefly attended the Rhodes Secretarial School, but “became disillusioned with secretarial work,” her family wrote. She loved to read and had competed in the Miss Bronx competition, and left secretarial school dreaming of moving to Paris and becoming an actress or designer. To make ends meet, she took a job as a receptionist with the Motor Hearse Association of New York. Her father, who owned a limousine business at the time, had helped her get that job, and when she left, he helped her get a job in the administration of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who was a client of his. She worked for Harry Levine, the commissioner of the Census of New York City.

It was Mr. Levine who taught her how to run an office. At the same time, she became her father’s representative to various civic, religious, and political organizations, volunteering on his behalf.

On weekends, the family destination was frequently Montauk, and the old Dickinson farm in Ditch Plain, which her father had purchased.

Seeking independence from her father, she took a job with the New York University School of Dentistry, and when World War II broke out, she went to work in a Western Electric factory.

In 1944, she met Calvin Stewart, a highly decorated staff sergeant with the Army Corps of Engineers, who was back from Europe. The two fell in love and were married on Nov. 12, 1946. They initially left New York, trying to make a home in several states. That ended when Mrs. Stewart’s father offered her husband a job. He had purchased the Lakeside Inn in Montauk, and wanted to renovate and expand it into a motel. While Mr. Stewart worked building the motel, now known as the Surf Lodge, his wife took on whatever task was needed, from taking reservations to changing sheets to chopping lettuce.

While they sometimes stayed at the Lakeside Inn, they eventually turned a small garage on the Dickinson farm into their home. Mrs. Stewart learned from her husband, a farm boy from Kentucky, how to raise chickens and vegetables.

They had two children, MaryEllen and Calvin Jr. Mrs. Stewart founded Montauk Scout Troop 136 and was later awarded a Golden Spark Plug by the Suffolk County Council of the Boy Scouts of America. She was a member of the Congregation at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church, where she would organize fund-raisers for the March of Dimes.

She called herself “a perpetual volunteer,” her family wrote. She ran flu vaccine clinics and established a youth employment agency in Montauk. She also helped establish the Senior Nutrition Center at the Montauk Community Church.

In the 1980s, working with the Montauk Chamber of Commerce, Mrs. Stewart organized the Arts in Montauk program, with lectures, readings, art openings, and a youth drama club.

She was chairwoman of the Montauk AARP Chapter 2610. In the 1980s, AARP wanted her to take on the job of vice president, which she turned down because it would have required many trips to Albany, and her husband had become disabled. He died in 1989.

“Mary wrote poetry for herself, made crochet hats for gifts, maintained a large garden, and loved to cook,” her family wrote. “Her signature dish was eggplant Parmesan,” and she would bake several trays of it at a time and freeze them to share with friends or acquaintances who had been kind enough to lend her a hand or give her a ride back to her house from one of her frequent walks to town.

She was gregarious, and a storyteller, and those rides frequently led to deep friendships, her family said.

Besides her children, MaryEllen LeClerc and Calvin Stewart Jr., both of East Hampton, she is survived by three grandchildren, a great-grandson, and a sister, Ann Vasti of Summerville, S.C.

A wake was held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton last Thursday, with a funeral Mass at St. Therese being offered the next day. Father Thomas Murray officiated. She was buried at Calverton National Cemetery beside her husband.

Mary Jane Coy Osborne, a former East Hampton resident who was a frequent visitor regardless of where she lived, died on March 30 in San Diego. She was 92 and had been in poor health for over a year.

She was born in New York City on Dec. 13, 1924, to the former Esther McGann and James J. Coy, a detective in the New York City Police Department. After her father retired, the family moved to East Hampton and Mary Jane, then 15, attended East Hampton High School, where she met Jack (Nelson C.) Osborne Jr., who was to be her husband. They were married and divorced twice.

After graduating from high school, Ms. Coy Osborne studied at the University of Vermont in Burlington, although she did not graduate. In 1945, she returned to East Hampton and she and Jack Osborne celebrated their first marriage. One of their daughters was born in November that year, followed by a second daughter in 1949.

In 1952, after the couple’s divorce, she moved with her daughters to West­chester where she worked for the Nestlé Company and Reader’s Digest. She and Mr. Osborne were remarried in 1964, and she returned to East Hampton, where their third daughter was born in 1965. When the marriage once again ended in divorce, she moved back to Westchester, going to work for the New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y., for many years.

After her youngest daughter, Stephanie, left for college, she moved to Pelham, N.Y., to be near her daughter Deborah Morgan and her two grandsons. She joined the Pelham Manor Club and became a weekly fixture at its bridge games, where she enjoyed the camaraderie and her fellow players enjoyed her sense of humor and joie de vivre, her family said.

In 2009, she joined her daughter Jacqueline Osborne in California, where she lived until her death. She remained a Yankees fan and continued to devour the sports section of The New York Times.

Regardless of where Ms. Coy Osborne lived, she maintained her friendships with former classmates and friends in East Hampton. She often came here to visit, staying with a brother or sister, who each had weekend residences in the area. While here, her family said, she never missed the opportunity to join a spirited game of bridge at the home of the late Alice Osborne Hamm on Buell Lane in East Hampton Village.

Ms. Coy Osborne is survived by two of her daughters, Stephanie Phillips of Somers Point, N.J., and Jacqueline Osborne of California, as well as two grandsons. Her daughter Deborah Morgan died before her. According to  Jamie Coy Wallace of East Hampton,  a niece, she was a beloved member of the Coy and Osborne families and will be especially missed by her many nieces and nephews.

A vigil was held and a memorial Mass said at St. Louise De Marillac Catholic Church in El Cajon, Calif., earlier this month. Her ashes are to be brought to East Hampton in the summer and a funeral Mass is to be celebrated at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church. Donations in her memory have been suggested to Alzheimer’s San Diego, 6632 Convoy Court, San Diego 92111 or to Most Holy Trinity Church, 57 Buell Lane, East Hampton 11937.