Henry Griffith Parker III, a summer visitor to Amagansett for than 50 years, died on July 9 at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey. He was 89 and had lived in Madison, N.J. The cause of death was cardiac arrest, his family said. 

Mr. Parker was an executive whose accomplishments at Chubb and Son included identifying the need for insurance for companies making foreign investments and guiding the creation of new programs to meet that need.

Born on Oct. 27, 1926, in Plainfield, N.J., his parents were Henry G. Parker II and the former Ruth Van Auken. He attended St. Andrew’s School in Delaware and the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, graduating in 1944, and served in the Navy in the last years of World War II.

After his military service ended, Mr. Parker entered Princeton, where he was a founding member of the Princeton Tigertones, an a capella singing group. He graduated in 1948. 

He spent 48 years with Chubb and Son, during which he held a number of positions, among them senior vice president and managing director. Early on, Mr. Parker saw an opportunity for a multinational insurance program to support globalization. He is credited with establishing the company’s offices in China, India, Japan, Cuba, and throughout Europe and South America, cementing Chubb’s global presence today.

Mr. Parker served on many boards, including the National Foreign Trade Council, the Firemark Global Insurance Fund, and the Alliance Insurance Company. He was chairman of the Business Advisory Committee for the United Nations Business Council and advisory board liaison for the People’s Insurance Company of China. He also appeared on numerous television and radio programs and contributed articles to professional journals. 

He was a trustee of Drew University in Madison and was chairman of the board at Overlook Hospital in Summit, N.J., from 1973 to 1980. 

He received the International Insurance Award from the United States Chamber of Commerce in 1981 and a distinguished service award from the International Insurance Council in 1988. 

He was a member of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, American Insurance Association, Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett, Morris County Golf Club, Princeton Club of New York, and Psi Upsilon.

Mr. Parker is survived by his wife of 59 years, the former Audrey Turner; a son, H. Griffith Parker IV of Wayne, Pa., a daughter, Elizabeth Parker Browne of Bethesda, Md., three grandchildren, three step-grandchildren, and a step-great-grandchild. His son said he loved being on the water and taking part in sailing races organized by Devon. “He was his most relaxed out there,” he said.

Funeral services took place last Thursday at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison. Burial followed at Mt. Hebron Cemetery in Upper Montclair, N.J.

Marie Judith Fenley Esposito of Montauk, who was introduced to the hamlet as a teenager in 1955 when her grandfather built a house on East Lake Drive, died on June 21. She was 76.

Mrs. Esposito was born in Oceanside on Sept. 17, 1939, to the former Catherine Kelly and John Fenley. Her parents had six children, and the grandparents’ Montauk house had room for everyone. They would visit on weekends and during the summer.

She graduated from St. Agnes Cathedral School in Rockville Centre and attended the Katharine Gibbs School in Manhattan before her marriage, on Sept. 17, 1960, to Louis Thomas Esposito. For more than 30 years, the couple lived in Oceanside, where she looked after their three children and worked as a medical assistant to an orthopedic surgeon.

Her extended family convened in Montauk every November, with upward of 50 people, to celebrate Thanksgiving. Her daughter, Catherine Esposito Koslow of Weston, Fla., said her mother was famous for “tossing the first Thanksgiving roll,” announcing to all that the meal could begin — and “always with her signature left hook.”

A voracious reader, Mrs. Esposito was also described as “the original Tiger Mom,” a woman who loved her family with a passion that knew no bounds. She took great pride in looking after her children, husband, and later her beloved grandchildren.

Her husband of 55 years, Louis Thomas Esposito, survives. In addition to her daughter, she leaves two sons, John Esposito of Montauk and Joseph Esposito of Bethpage. Six grandchildren survive as well, as do four siblings, Jacqueline Fenley and Kathleen Fenley Rieflin, both of Connecticut; Betty Fenley Grande of Montauk, and Patricia Fenley of Medford.

Memorial services were held on Monday at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk.

A graveside memorial service for Stephen A. Steele Sr., an East Hampton native who died on March 30 at Sentara Obici Hospital in Suffolk, Va., will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church’s cemetery on Cedar Street in East Hampton. Mr. Steele died at the age of 58. His wife, Susan Steele, said he had had heart problems for a long time.

Toward the end of 2015, the Steeles moved from East Hampton to Carrollton, Va., near where their eldest son, Stephen Steele Jr., lives. Ill health had forced Mr. Steele to retire eight or nine years ago from Riverhead Building Supply, where he had worked in the warehouse and as a driver for about 20 years.

He was born at Southampton Hospital on June 29, 1957, and attended local schools, graduating from East Hampton High School, where he met the former Susan Greenwood, in 1976. They were married on June 14, 1981.

From 1992 to 2006, Mr. Steele was a volunteer member of the East Hampton Fire Department’s Company No. 5. His grandfather, Arthur Steele, had been a member of the same fire company, and so was Stephen Jr. when he was old enough.    

His grandfather taught Mr. Steele to fish and hunt, pastimes he continued to enjoy with his three grandchildren, Andrew and Ella Steele of Virginia and Brie Steele of Amagansett.

In addition to his wife and son Stephen, who lives in Smithfield, Va., he is survived by two daughters, Melissa Steele of Springs and Lauren Steele of East Hampton, and another son, Michael Steele, also of East Hampton. His mother, Joan Steele, predeceased him. 

The family has suggested memorial donations for the fire department or the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association, both located at 1 Cedar Street, East Hampton 11937.

Dr. Jerome L. Schulman, a professor emeritus at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan and a pioneering virologist in influenza research, died at his New York City home last Thursday at the age of 89. Death was attributed to advanced cardiac disease; he had been ill for several years. 

Born in Brooklyn on Oct. 15, 1927, to Meier Schulman and the former Shirley Strominger, the future virologist graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School as his class valedictorian. At Brown University, where he graduated in 1948, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa; four years later he graduated from New York University’s Medical College.

His internship and residency in internal medicine at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis was interrupted by two years, 1953 to 1955, as a captain in the Army. He served in Germany and in Austria, near Salzburg, which was an ideal post for a music lover. He attended many festivals.

After completing a residency in internal medicine at Columbia University in 1956, Dr. Schulman took additional training at Cornell University Medical College, where he eventually became an associate professor in the department of public health. During that time he also lived in the Dominican Republic, conducting scientific studies.

Dr. Schulman and his wife, the noted poet Grace Schulman, who survives, met in 1957 — she was playing a guitar in Washington Square Park at the time — and married two years later. The couple were longtime residents of Springs.

Dr. Schulman was torn between practicing medicine as an internist and doing research in virology, said his wife, but finally chose the latter. He was one of the first faculty members at Mount Sinai, serving from 1968 until he retired in 2005, and was also among the first to pinpoint the characteristics of the Hong Kong virus of 1968, by differentiating it from other prevalent Asian viruses. The Hong Kong strain had killed an estimated one million people worldwide.

For many years, Dr. Schulman maintained an active laboratory, with funding from the National Institutes of Health enabling his work on the biochemistry and pathogenicity of influenza viruses. A significant achievement, his colleagues at Mount Sinai said, was the creation of what became the most widely used animal model for several types of influenza viruses. He also pioneered studies on how mice and humans react to the virus.

“Much of the influenza virus work being done at Mount Sinai and around the world builds upon his earlier findings,” Dr. Peter Palese, a Mount Sinai professor and chair of its Department of Microbiology, wrote in a notice to the hospital community.

Dr. Schulman’s wife is his only survivor. A brother, Dr. Edward Schulman, predeceased him.

He was cremated, and his ashes will be spread over Gardiner’s Bay off Gerard Park and Louse Point in Springs, and at Washington Square Park.

Barbara Ann Miller, who had run Barbara Miller Studios, a drapery and slipcover business in East Hampton, died last Thursday at Stony Brook University Hospital after a stroke, her family said. Ms. Miller, who had lived in the Avalone Apartments on Fort Pond Road in Montauk, was 72.

Ms. Miller was interested in the arts from an early age. While in junior high school in Mount Vernon, N.Y., she won a scholarship to attend a weekend program at Pratt Institute in New York City. Following high school she entered Cooper Union in Manhattan, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1966.

By the time she had graduated, however, she had already lined up a job, with Hallmark in Kansas City, Mo., where she designed party supplies. After two years there, she married Robert Eikenberry and moved to Atascadero, Calif., where they lived for eight years. The family later lived in Mount Shasta, Calif., where their three children were born.

The couple were divorced in 1978, and in 1980 Ms. Miller moved back to Montauk. She worked as a sign painter, mail carrier, in the production department of The East Hampton Star, and as a freelance artist. She did drafting for an artist and a surveyor and later managed Ginny Quinn’s restaurant before opening her drapery and slipcover business.

She was a member of St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church and sang in the choir there.

She was born on Sept. 24, 1944, in Mount Vernon to George J. Miller and the former Ethel D. Amundson.

Ms. Miller is survived by her children, Matthew Eikenberry and Andrew Eikenberry of Montauk, and Annie Eikenberry of California, and a brother, George M. Miller of Montauk, as well as several grandchildren.

Donations in her memory have been suggested to the Montauk Fire Department, 14 Edgemere Street, Montauk 11954.

Ms. Miller was cremated; no service was announced.

Renata Dobryn, a potter and freelance carpenter who was born in Argentina and lived in Montauk for the last 30 years, died on June 13 at Stony Brook University Hospital following complications from heart surgery. She was 79.

Her family said she was a dedicated and loving mother and grandmother to not only her own family but also to many “honorary” grandchildren. She will be remembered as strong, generous, thoughtful, accepting, and curious, they said.

Ms. Dobryn was born on Aug. 26, 1936, in Buenos Aires to Rudolf Berge and the former Inge Remak. She attended the University of Buenos Aires, studying pharmacology and psychology. She lived in Beer Sheva, Israel, and Flushing, Queens, before settling in Montauk. In 1962 she married Carlos Dobryn. They had two children together but had since separated.

Her family said she loved to create with her hands and enjoyed photography, windsurfing, reading, travel, camping, and simply sitting on her porch and taking in the surroundings. “She affected so many people’s lives in such a positive way. She will be greatly missed,” her family wrote.

Ms. Dobryn is survived by a daughter, Donna Dobryn of Mill Valley, Calif., a son, Daniel Dobryn of Cos Cob, Conn., and five grandchildren. She is also survived by two siblings, Evi Berge and Raul Berge, both of Los Angeles.

A memorial service will take place on July 16 at Ms. Dobryn’s house in Montauk.

Silvia Tennenbaum, a novelist, occasional journalist, active member of the East Hampton  Democratic Party, and a fixture of The Star’s letters pages who lived in Springs for many years, died on June 27 at Bryn Mawr Hospital in Pennsylvania after a brief illness. She was 88.

Known for the novels “Rachel, the Rabbi’s Wife” and “Yesterday’s Streets” as well as short stories, Ms. Tennenbaum received the Goethe Medal of the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art in 2012 after “Yesterday’s Streets” was published in German. At the age of 84, she went on a book tour throughout the country that had been her childhood home.

In a September 1983 “Guestwords” in The Star, Ms. Tennenbaum called for people to recognize their common issues: “Why can’t we see where our common interest lies, identify with those who are in the same boat with us? The Bonacker surely has more in common with the steelworker in Pittsburgh or the black machinist in Detroit than with the members of the Maidstone Club. . . .” Ms. Tennenbaum was born to Erich Pfeiffer-Belli, a journalist, and Charlotte Stern, a member of an old and prosperous Jewish family, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1928. Her parents eventually separated and her mother married a conductor who became known later as William Steinberg. In 1936, they went Tel Aviv, where Mr. Steinberg helped establish the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, and the young Ms. Tennenbaum was sent to live in Switzerland with an aunt for a year and a half. The family came to America in 1938 after Mr. Steinberg was hired as an assistant to Arturo Toscanini of the NBC Symphony.

She began her American schooling in New Rochelle, N.Y., learning English and assimilating quickly. As a girl, she was a tomboy who not only loved movies but sports, particularly baseball. A fan first of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Ebbets Field, she later loved the New York Mets and became a longtime season ticket holder at Shea Stadium. On the East End years later, she played softball with a Springs women’s team for a year or two and was one of the first women to pick up a bat at the annual Artists and Writers softball game.

Ms. Tennenbaum went to Barnard College, where she studied art history and she adopted a bohemian lifestyle. For a time she was romantically involved with Anton Rosenberg, a young painter and Beat personality who eventually figured in Jack Kerouac’s “The Subterraneans,” and later in her own first novel.

She and Lloyd Tennenbaum, a young rabbi studying philosophy and mathematics at Columbia University, met as students and married in 1951. Rabbi Tennenbaum was called to a congregation in Lynchburg, Va., and their three children were born there. In addition to raising her children and doing her best to fulfill the obligations to her husband’s congregation, Ms. Tennenbaum began writing and painting. In 1958, she got her first break when her short story “The Sound of Crickets” was a finalist in a nationwide contest and was published in “Stories of the Sixties.”

The Tennenbaums came to Long Island after Rabbi Tennenbaum took the pulpit at the Huntington Jewish Center. They shared a strong sense of political and social responsibility, with Rabbi Tennenbaum speaking out against racial discrimination and the Vietnam War and Ms. Tennenbaum attending anti-war demonstrations and rallies in support of integration and Long Island farmworkers.

They first came to the East End in the 1960s to visit her mother and stepfather who had become the principal guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic. They soon became regular summer visitors, and eventually bought a house on Fireplace Road in Springs.

Ms. Tennenbaum’s first novel, “Rachel, the Rabbi’s Wife,” published in 1977, explored the life of a suburban rebbetzin seeking artistic fulfillment and emergence from the shadow of a vain, egotistical husband. It attracted considerable attention and landed on the New York Times bestseller list. By 1980, however, the couple had separated and Ms. Tennenbaum established herself in an old house on Fireplace Road, becoming active in East Hampton civic and political life. As a member of the Democratic Party, she was an election inspector in Springs for many years. She and  her husband were divorced in 1982. 

Ms. Tennenbaum also shared her viewpoints, which some considered radical, in many letters to The Star. In the 1980s, one of her letters prompted someone to plant a hand-painted sign reading “Communist Headquarters” near her driveway. She kept it for a time in her garage.

As a writer, Ms. Tennenbaum continued to find success, publishing stories in the New American Review and the Massachusetts Review. One of them, “A Lingering Death,” was selected by Joyce Carol Oates for “Best American Short Stories of 1979.” Her second novel, “Yesterday’s Streets,” was based on her family’s experiences in Germany, though it did not achieve the same acclaim as “Rachel, the Rabbi’s Wife.” She eventually began a third novel, based on the life of Moe Berg, a Princeton-educated baseball catcher and wartime secret agent, but never completed it.

Ms. Tennenbaum had an apartment in Manhattan, where she often spent time, visiting museums and galleries and attending baseball games. The walls of her apartment and  Springs house were filled with paintings and prints by local artist friends, such as Perle Fine and Ibram Lassaw, and by such greats as Picasso and Gauguin.

In her later years, she traveled extensively, often in the company of the late Mary Mothersill of Sagaponack. She reacquainted herself with Frankfurt, and developed relationships among the artistic and political communities there. In 2014, she moved to the Quadrangle, an independent living facility in Haverford, Pa., where she continued to keep up with world news and the Mets.

Ms. Tennenbaum is survived by her three sons, Jeremy Tennenbaum of Wynnewood, Pa., David Tennenbaum of Chicago, and Raphael Tennenbaum of Brooklyn. She was buried at Green River Cemetery on June 29 with Rabbi Daniel N. Geffen of Temple Adas Israel presiding.

Alison R. Bernstein, a higher education pioneer who had been a vice president for knowledge, creativity, and freedom at the Ford Foundation, died at home in East Hampton last Thursday, in the company of her dog as well as friends, her partner, and her daughters. She was 69 and had had cancer for some 18 months.

While at the Ford Foundation, Ms. Bernstein was the architect of an extraordinary number of initiatives intended to open doors for diverse and historically underserved populations. She funded a number of women’s studies programs in higher education, seeking to anchor feminist scholarship into academic cultures of teaching and research.

Ms. Bernstein’s colleagues at Ford said she cultivated the talents of others and prized original thinking, making hers a powerful voice for justice within higher education circles, both nationally and internationally. 

Five years ago, Ms. Bernstein became the director of Rutgers University’s Institute for Women’s Leadership, where she focused on issues related to women, health, media, and technology. Over the last two years, she led a campaign to create and endow the Gloria Steinem Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies there.

  With her trademark jaunty and ebullient style, Ms. Bernstein wrote or co-wrote four books on topics related to diversity in South Africa and the role of philanthropy in higher education. Her partner, Johanna Schoen, a history professor at Rutgers, recalled that during moments of passionate conviction, Ms. Bernstein would often remove her eyeglasses, usually perched atop her head, using them to gesticulate for emphasis.

She was born on June 8, 1947, to Robert Bernstein and the former Beverly Bereznik. An only child, she grew up in Roslyn. In 1969, she graduated from Vassar College, and, at 22, became the youngest person named to Vassar’s board of trustees. Alan Simpson, formerly Vassar’s president, said of her appointment: “If anyone can mediate between hairy youth and hoary age, it is Alison Bernstein.” Shortly after graduating from Vassar, she enrolled at Columbia University, where she earned both a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in history.

In 1974, while working on a dissertation about federal policy and Native Americans, she became a program and planning officer at the federal Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, beginning a lifelong career devoted to education and educational policy.

In 1980, she left the fund to serve for two years as a dean at Sangamon State University, which was later acquired by the University of Illinois at Springfield. In 1983, she joined the Ford Foundation, headquartered in Manhattan, where she spent the bulk of her professional life.

Besides her life as a scholar, Ms. Bernstein was among the first women in New York City to raise children in an openly lesbian relationship. She adored her twins, Emma and Julia, and taught them to be progressive feminists. Since their childhood, the family had spent summers and weekends in East Hampton, with Ms. Bernstein finally buying a house here nearly 20 years ago. She also knew how to have fun, whether throwing a party or organizing international travel with friends. Described as curious, perceptive, and ferociously intelligent, Ms. Bernstein cultivated a wide array of interests, particularly all things cultural, including the theater, Broadway, and the opera.

Her daughters, Emma Brown-Bernstein of Atlanta and Julia Brown-Bernstein of Los Angeles, survive, as does her partner, who lives here and in New York City.

A memorial service is planned for September.

The family has suggested a charitable gift in her name to the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair at Rutgers University: Rutgers University Foundation, c/o Lisa Hetfield, Institute for Women’s Leadership, 162 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, N.J. 08901.

A wake for Joseph Hren Jr. will be held at Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on Tuesday from 2 to 4 and from 7 to 9 p.m., with a fireman's service scheduled for 7 p.m. that day. A funeral is planned for Wednesday at 11 a.m. at St. Peter's Catholic Church in Amagansett, and burial will be at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery in East Hampton.

Mr. Hren, a longtime resident of East Hampton and member of the Amagansett Fire Department for many years, died on July 6 in Cooperstown, N.Y. 

Susan W. Duke, who grew up in Laredo, Tex., and moved north with her husband to live in Noyac and Sag Harbor for 31 years, died Monday at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quogue. She was 61 and had had a debilitating bowel disease for many years.

Born on Dec. 28, 1954, in Inglewood, Calif., to Max Watts and the former Mary Lawrence, Mrs. Duke soon headed with her family to Laredo, where she went to school and earned an associate business degree from the Texas A&M International University.  After college, she worked as a personnel director in Arlington, Tex. It was there that she met Woody Duke Jr. through mutual friends.

“Susan was engaged to another man,” Mr. Duke said yesterday. “I said to her, if he ever gives you any trouble, let me know.” She decided then and there that she was wearing the wrong man’s ring, he said. They were soon married.

The couple moved to Noyac in 1995 with their 3-year-old daughter, Cori. Mrs. Duke became an executive secretary in the Southampton School District, working there for six years until her illness required surgery. She then was active in the Sag Harbor community and became involved with the day camp run by the now defunct Stella Maris School.

Mrs. Duke was an artist who loved to sketch and do crafts, her sister-in-law, Terri White, said yesterday. She loved shopping and frequenting her  favorite store, T.J. Maxx, which earned her the nickname Maxxinista. She also enjoyed going to Long Beach in Sag Harbor and playing games of Scrabble there with her husband’s extended family.

Mrs. Duke was cremated, and it is Mr. Duke’s wish that after he dies his ashes will be mixed with hers and dispersed. A Mass of Christian burial was held at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Sag Harbor on Tuesday.

Mrs. Duke is survived by her daughter, Cori, now Mary Cora Smith of Southampton, in addition to her husband, and by three grandchildren. Her parents also survive; her mother lives in Laredo, while her father settled in Corpus Christi, Tex. Also surviving are a sister, Sharon Garant of San Antonio, and a brother, Kenny Watts of Corpus Christi.

Memorial donations have been suggested to East End Hospice, 481 Riverhead Road, Westhampton Beach 11978.