John G. Nicholas, an advertising executive and producer whose credits included the first television commercials for the Ford Mustang, died of congestive heart failure on Sunday at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Conn.

Mr. Nicholas, who was 87, had owned a house on Cove Hollow Road in East Hampton since 1965, where he and his and family loved spending summers, his daughter, Victoria Nicholas Donovan, said.

“They were mini-movies,” Ms. Donovan said of her father’s car commercials. “They shot on film. They did helicopter shots over very dramatically created sets, all made from scratch. He really was behind the camera. He learned the craft.” 

John Nicholas was born on May 26, 1928, in Manhattan to Joseph Nicholas and the former Elizabeth Gallagher. He grew up there, graduating from Haaren High School, a building that is now used by John Jay College.

He enlisted in the Navy in 1945, intending to take advantage of the G.I. Bill to become the first in his family to go to college upon completion of his service.

“Because he was such a good stenographer,” his daughter said, “they sent him to work with naval officers in the office. He had to take dictation and was really good at it. Officers loved him because he smoked and drank with them and made them look good because he knew grammar well.” The Navy sent him to China aboard the U.S.S. Repose, a hospital ship, and then to Alaska aboard the U.S.S. Navasota.

After his honorable discharge in 1949, he earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from New York University, graduating in 1954.

The following year, on Oct. 28, he and Janet Stremezki married. They had met in the advertising department at the Remington Rand typewriter company, Ms. Donovan said. “To make it even more romantic,” she said, “they not only worked in the same area, he proposed to her via interoffice mail. I still have the envelope.”

The couple eloped, “jumped on the subway and got married at City Hall,” she said. Mrs. Nicholas died in 1994.

Mr. Nicholas’s career took him to J. Walter Thompson in Manhattan, one of the top agencies in the world, and Compton Advertising, a New York firm that was acquired by Saatchi and Saatchi in 1982. At the former, he produced elaborate commercials for both Ford automobiles and Firestone tires.

“Ford and Firestone were his big moments,” Ms. Donovan said. “He traded that for more basic stuff like Crisco and Duncan Hines” at Compton Advertising, she said. He also loved to read and travel.

The family moved to Bronxville, N.Y., in the mid-1970s. After Mr. Nicholas’s retirement, they lived in East Hampton for several years, after which Mr. Nicholas returned to Manhattan, where he was a member of Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church. He also belonged to Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton. From 2013, he was a resident of the Sarah Neuman Center in Mamaroneck, N.Y.

In addition to his daughter, who lives in Manhattan and East Hampton, Mr. Nicholas is survived by two grandchildren.

A funeral will be held on Saturday at 9:45 a.m. at the Church of St. Joseph in Bronxville, followed by burial at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Valhalla, N.Y.

Carol Ann Bradley, a 35-year resident of Springs and an active member of St. Peter’s Chapel there, died on Dec. 30. Ms. Bradley died at home at the age of 65. Her death was attributed to pneumonia.

Born in Yonkers on Dec. 9, 1950, one of three daughters of Oliver A. Beckwith and Marie Caggana, she was a 1968 graduate of Yonkers High School. Her grandparents had retired to East Hampton by then, and the family spent many weekends and summers here with other relatives and friends. In 1981, Ms. Bradley came here to live to be closer to family members.

Following high school, she took classes to become a secretary, and worked between 1969 and 1971 as the assistant to the vice president of the Grolier Encyclopedia Company, leaving to become a full-time homemaker and mother. Ms. Bradley was married and divorced twice, and had two children, Jessica Grunewald Watson of Bradford, England, and John L. Bradley of East Hampton.

She was said to be passionate about her family, loved the beach, and liked playing bingo and card games with friends. Most recently, she was a caregiver for an elderly relative.

In addition to her children, Ms. Bradley leaves two sisters, Linda Palmer of East Hampton and Gail McManus of Barefoot Bay, Fla. She is also survived by a granddaughter, two step-grandchildren, and a cousin, Emily Grunewald, with whom she was close.

Her family plans a celebration of her life this summer.

Frank A. Almeraz of Springs was a union-trained electrician who built his own business from the ground up to support his family and was proud of having worked on several high-profile projects on the South Fork. He died on Jan. 9 at the age of 68 at Stony Brook Hospital after experiencing complications from a medical procedure.

Mr. Almeraz was born on Aug. 25, 1947, in Manhattan, but he moved to East Hampton when he was 2 or 3 years old with his parents, Tomas Almeraz and Gladys Griffin Almeraz, when his father was offered a job at the Schwenk Dairy. He grew up on Miller Terrace in East Hampton, graduated from East Hampton High School in 1966, and soon joined the local chapter of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, with which he received certification as an electrician.

He struck out on his own in 1974. Over the years, he worked on several big projects, including Gurney’s Inn, Gosman’s restaurant, and the Beachcomber Resort, all in Montauk. He was an active member of the Suffolk County Electrical Contractors Association.

Mr. Almeraz was a gardener who particularly liked growing vegetables, his family said. He was known to bring tomatoes whenever he visited a friend during the growing season. Mr. Almeraz also loved fishing, clamming, and anything having to do with the water. Although he was not a military veteran, he enjoyed the company of friends who were members of the American Legion, and he also had many friends in the business community.

His eldest daughter, Lisa Matz of Springs, described him as a family man. “He always took care of his children and loved his grandchildren and loved being a part of what they were doing,” Ms. Matz said. “He was somebody you could call upon if you were broken down or needed an ear. He was always willing to put down what he was doing to help somebody else.”

Mr. Almeraz married Ginny Bennett in 1966; they were divorced after 13 years. In 1987, he married Mary McClinton. She died in 2009.

In addition to Ms. Matz, Mr. Almeraz is survived by two children from his second marriage, Tomas Almeraz of Virginia Beach, Va., and Michelle O’Connel of Mooresville, N.C. He also is survived by two brothers, John Alan Almeraz of New Rochelle, N.Y., and Robert Almeraz of Hampton Bays, and five grandchildren.

A prayer service was conducted by the Rev. Manuel Zuzarto of St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Sag Harbor at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on Jan. 12. Mr. Alvarez’s ashes, along with those of his late wife, will be scattered in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Hawaii in January. Ms. Matz wrote that Mr. and Mrs. Alvarez “always wanted to go to Hawaii, but never did.”

Memorial donations have been suggested to the Clamshell Foundation, an East Hampton nonprofit organization, for which more information can be found at clamshellfoundation.org.

Dr. James H. Ryan, a pioneer in the field of psychiatry who helped to introduce the use of film and video technique in teaching the science, died on Dec. 28 at home in East Hampton. He was 85 and had been diagnosed with esophageal cancer last spring.

Dr. Ryan had summered here since the mid-1960s.

“A familiar figure around East Hampton, often in tattered sweatshirts and pants,” he “loved long days of tennis and yard work, followed by animated dinner party conversations featuring sufficient quantities of white wine,” his family wrote. “He rarely shrank from a D.I.Y. home improvement project. When his century-old, eight-bedroom ‘cottage’ on Dunemere Lane began to list perilously toward the ocean, he simply jacked it up with car jacks, adding a few more each year.”

A longtime professor of clinical psychiatry at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Ryan became the founding director of the department of educational research at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in 1963, establishing one of the first hospital-based film and video studios in the nation.

“It was a major innovation, and Jim created the atmosphere that motivated everyone to participate,” Dr. Robert Michaels, a colleague and former chairman of the Weill Cornell department of psychiatry, said recently about the introduction of video. “Now everyone has cameras on their computers. . . . Then, nobody did.”

Dr. Ryan was chairman of the postgraduate education department for the New York State Psychiatric Institute, where he helped develop curriculum for medical residents across the state and also established a remote video teaching system. He retired in 2004. 

He “brought a maverick humor to the intellectual field of psychoanalysis, reaching beyond the hospital wards to draw a range of colorful characters to his lab for filming, including actors, professional athletes, media personalities, and once even a visiting Soviet general,” his family wrote.

He was born in Albion, N.Y., on Oct. 9, 1930, to James Ryan and the former Gertrude Geary. Dr. Ryan’s family moved to Rochester when he was 6 years old after the death of his mother, and he was enrolled in a Catholic boarding school beginning in second grade.

He attended high school at St. Thomas Aquinas in Rochester, where he starred on the football team. Upon graduation, he accepted a football scholarship from Boston College, but, always a good student, he yearned for the challenge of the Ivy League, and was courted as a potential transfer by both Harvard and Yale. The Bulldogs beat out their archrivals, after it was pointed out to the future doctor that Harvard still played the single-wing style of offensive football, where the quarterback passes infrequently.

He became the starting quarterback, punter, and kickoff receiver for Yale’s team. For 30 years he held the record for the longest kickoff return in school history.

Upon graduation, he turned down the possibility of playing professionally for the legendary Paul Brown in Cleveland. Instead, he turned his focus to medicine, choosing Harvard Medical School as his path to life beyond football.

He went on to do his residency at the Langley-Porter Clinic in San Francisco, where he met the former Mary Bayes. The two moved to New York, and were married. They had two children, both of whom survive: Maxwell and Oliver Ryan, both still splitting their time between New York and East Hampton. The couple eventually divorced. She lives in Springs. In 1981, Dr. Ryan married the former Lisa Eyer, who survives. They had one child, Justine Ryan, who also splits her time now between East Hampton and New York.

He also leaves a granddaughter and a brother, Maury Ryan of Providence, R.I.

Dr. Ryan “always said East Hampton had the greatest beaches in the world. He loved the ocean and the community,” Oliver Ryan said yesterday.

He enjoyed painting, frequently displaying his work in the annual Guild Hall Artist Members show, and was also an investor, sometime collector, and had taken up woodworking in recent years.

He loved tennis, and was a member of the Maidstone Club.

The family will hold a private service.

Elizabeth Bowser, whose lineage and devotion to history propelled her to work for the East Hampton and Eastville Historical Societies and to have an impact on the understanding of Native American, African-American, and colonial crafts and culture, died at the age of 96 at Southampton Hospital on Dec. 17. She was a resident of Sag Harbor.

Ms. Bowser, who was born on July 25, 1919, was the only daughter of Aubrey and Jessie Bowser. She was said to have been named for Mary Elizabeth Bowser, who conveyed Confederate war plans to the Union during the Civil War while a house servant for Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president. She was the granddaughter of Carrie Smiley, the daughter of an enslaved Native American and a slave owner, and T. Thomas Fortune, who was born a slave and eventually became a ghostwriter for Booker T. Washington and founded the New York Age, a newspaper for African- Americans, in 1887. Ms. Bowser was raised in Brooklyn and spent summers in Sag Harbor, where her grandmother worked as a seamstress after the Civil War, before retiring from her New York positions in the 1970s.

A graduate of New York University, she was fluent in Spanish and French, and worked for the United Nations after World War II. She spent eight years in France working as an interpreter and, after moving back to this country, became a social worker in New York City and worked for the New York State Unemployment Office.

Ms. Bowser learned about textiles and native crafts, which she considered homage to her grandmother. She honed basketry and weaving skills in the 1960s at the Hallockville Museum Farm in Riverhead, and would later teach those crafts for East Hampton Town, Guild Hall, and the Shinnecock Reservation. In 1978, Ms. Bowser began working for the East Hampton Historical Society, where she helped catalog nearly 10,000 artifacts and under whose auspices taught historic arts in schools and the community. Over the years, she was a docent at Clinton Academy, Home, Sweet Home Museum, Hook Mill, and the Mulford Farm.

Hugh King, East Hampton’s town crier, said “her demeanor was so nice — never raised her voice so that you never knew just how much she was knowledgeable about. You had to ask.” A car accident in 2010 forced her to retire, although she continued working with crafts, was known as an excellent cook, and participated in the oral history project “Voices of Sag Harbor” for the Friends of John Jermain Memorial Library.

Ms. Bowser had two brothers, Garrison Bowser and Hallowell Bowser, who died before her. She had no children but leaves a friend, Robert Pharaoh, whom she called her grandson and who cared for her in her later years.

Plans for a memorial service will be announced.

Frederick Ernest Bock, a Korean War veteran who worked at Grumman Aerospace making parts for the NASA lunar module, died at home in East Hampton on Jan. 11. He was 86 and had been diagnosed with cancer some time ago.

He was a gardener, fisherman, and baseball fan, and a devoted parent who helped generations of Cub Scouts.

As a father of six children, Mr. Bock dedicated much of his time to their activities, and extended his help to other youth as well. For more than 20 years, he coached Little League in East Hampton, selecting one of the first girls to play in the league. As a Cub Scout parent, he helped his sons build cars to race in the annual Pinewood Derby, a tradition he continued even after his own children aged out of the program. With his brother, he paid particular attention to helping boys whose own fathers were unavailable to help. Many of the boys went home carrying trophies, Mr. Bock’s family said. 

Mr. Bock tended a quarter-acre garden for much of his adult life — a “thing of beauty,” his family said, that was the “source of many competitions between his family and friends.”

A lifelong East Hamptoner who was born on Aug. 26, 1929, in the family house on Accabonac Road, he “nourished his Bonac heritage by fishing, clamming, and dredging scallops,” said his family, and was an excellent cook known for his clam chowder. He made it in five-gallon batches to fulfill requests. In the wintertime, he enjoyed bowling, and for many years he played on the Iacono Farm team. Mr. Bock’s interests have been passed down and are shared by his children and grandchildren, his family said.

He was one of 11 children born to Gustave Bock and Aino Sorvari Bock, and attended school in East Hampton.

He served in the Army during the Korean War and met his future wife, Carol Collins, while home on leave. The couple married after his return from the service, on Sept. 12, 1954.

Their children, all of whom survive, are Francis Bock, Tim Bock, Tom Bock, Bryan Bock, and Alison Anderson of East Hampton, and Rick Bock of New Bern, N.C. Fourteen grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren also survive, as does a brother, David Bock of Jacksonville, Fla.

Mr. Bock worked as a precision machinist at Grumman Aerospace in Sag Harbor, and took great pride in manufacturing parts for the lunar module, his family said. After the company left Sag Harbor, Mr. Bock worked in estate management.

A wake was held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on Jan. 14, and a funeral Mass was said at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton the next day, the Rev. Manuel Zuzarte presiding. It was followed by a military graveside service at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery in East Hampton.

Mr. Bock’s grandchildren then asked the family to meet them at his favorite fishing spot on Three Mile Harbor, where a wreath was thrown into the outgoing tide at sunset. The family then completed the send-off with a fire on the beach and a toast.

Memorial contributions have been suggested to the East Hampton Ambulance Association, 1 Cedar Street, East Hampton 11937, East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978, or to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, 1311 Mamaroneck Avenue, Suite 310, White Plains, N.Y. 10605.

Visiting hours for George T. Dracker of Dayton Lane in East Hampton will be on Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A funeral Mass will be offered at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton on Monday at 10 a.m., with burial to follow in the church cemetery on Cedar Street. Mr. Dracker was 94. An obituary for him will appear in a future issue.

E.H. Bonnabeau of Montauk, an Army veteran who worked for the American Tobacco Company for 34 years and later was the golf starter at the Montauk Downs golf course for 14 years, died on Saturday at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton. He was 87 and had pneumonia.

Mr. Bonnabeau, who was known as  Gene, was born in Brooklyn on Aug. 27, 1928, to Eugene L. Bonnabeau and the former Dorothy Newman. He attended St. Sylvester School in Brooklyn and John Adams High School in Queens, and enlisted in the Army when he turned 18, serving as a fire control instrument operator from August of 1946 to 1947 during the United States occupation of Japan following World War II.

Mr. Bonnabeau was known as a great athlete in track and baseball. His family said his father had been a scout for the New York Giants baseball team, which inspired his love of baseball. Mr. Bonnabeau pitched for the Army during his military service, going undefeated in 13 games, and later continued to play in local leagues into his 40s.

In 1948, Mr. Bonnabeau married Josephine McCullough, with whom he had five children.

Mr. Bonnabeau took college night classes in New York City for two years while working at the Richmond Hill Savings Bank. He later took a job with the American Tobacco Company as a sales representative on Long Island. Eventually, he worked his way up to the rank of sales manager, with a territory that included all of New York State and West Virginia and half of Pennsylvania. He retired in 1988 after 34 years with the company.

Josephine Bonnabeau died in 1983.

In 1984, Mr. Bonnabeau married Patricia Wade-Haughney, and in 1996, the couple moved to Montauk from their previous home in Middle Island. Mr. Bonnabeau began working at Montauk Downs, where his duties included managing tee times and maintaining the course schedule. He would serve in that role for 14 years. He was also a member of the American Legion in Amagansett and participated in many activities at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk. He enjoyed fishing and reading, loved history, and coached his two godsons in baseball leagues.

“He was a true gentleman, sweet and considerate of other people, just a good man,” Mrs. Bonnabeau recalled.

Mr. Bonnabeau is survived by his second wife and his children, Eugene Bonnabeau of New Windsor, Conn., Dorothy Tanneberger of Danbury, Conn., Susan Scotti of Tupper Lake, N.Y., Blake Bonnabeau of Bethel, Conn., and Elizabeth Bonnabeau-Harding of New Milford, Conn. He also leaves three brothers, Herbert Bonnabeau of Wilson, N.C., Jerome Bonnabeau of Albany, and Richard Bonnabeau of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., 16 grandchildren, and 8 great-grandchildren.

Visiting hours will be tomorrow from 2 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A Mass of Christian burial will take place on Saturday at 11 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux in Montauk. He will be buried in the spring at St. Alphonsus Cemetery in Tupper Lake.

Memorial donations have been suggested to the Montauk Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary or the Montauk Fire Department Volunteer Ambulance Corps, at 12 Flamingo Avenue, Montauk 11954, or St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church, P.O. Box 5027 in Montauk.

Stuart Vorpahl, a lifelong fisherman, historian, former town trustee, and descendant of one of East Hampton's oldest families, died on Thursday morning at Southampton Hospital.

He was 76 and had been undergoing treatment for cancer.

Mr. Vorpahl "was a fierce defender of the rights and traditions of the common people of our town," East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell wrote on Facebook on Thursday. "He could spin a tale and recite history at will with a good sense of humor while making his point."

"When he passed away today," Mr. Cantwell wrote, "we lost one of the most important advocates for fishermen and local residents."

"He was a man of the ages that we will never see again," said Daniel Rodgers, an attorney and advocate for East End commercial fishermen. "He was very easy to underestimate, but he was absolutely brilliant, one of the smartest men I ever met."

The $1,000 check issued to Mr. Vorpahl from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in September, restitution for the 1998 seizure of fluke and lobsters from his boat, exemplified his conviction that the Dongan Patent of 1686, which created the town trustees, granted East Hampton residents the right to fish "without lett or hindrance."

Twice, Mr. Vorpahl was charged with violating state fishing laws, and twice the charges were dismissed. "He was railing at the D.E.C. for years that he did not need a fishing license because of the Dongan Patent," said Hugh King, East Hampton's town crier and director of the Home, Sweet Home Museum. "It was never brought to trial."

He was the embodiment of Samuel (Fishhooks) Mulford, an East Hampton merchant who went to London in 1716 to protest the tax on whale oil, Mr. King said.

"He was fighting this fight when the rest of us were in diapers," Mr. Rodgers said. "Stuart Vorpahl was not born to be a raconteur. He was born first and foremost a man of the sea, a fisherman. It was only through this frustration at bureaucracy and government regulation that he began challenging authority, and he never stopped. He never gave up; he never wavered. You have to admire that about a man. . . . He did this because it was the right thing to do. And he did it for all of us."

"His opinions came from his knowledge of the trustees and the deep-seated feeling for the little man," Mr. King said. "Who speaks up for the lone fisherman?"

Even during his illness, Mr. Vorpahl continued to fight for the rights of residents and the traditions of East Hampton. On Sept. 22 he attended a trustees meeting for what would be the last time. After a discussion of lease terms for residents of trustee-owned land at Lazy Point in Amagansett, he was typically direct. "I sat here listening to an awful lot of fuss and feathers," he said. "What in God's name is going on now?"

He returned to the lectern later in the evening, when discussion had turned to the dense blue-green algae bloom at Georgica Pond in East Hampton, blamed in part on excessive use of lawn fertilizer and aging septic systems. Pondfront property owners were appealing to the trustees to open the pond to the Atlantic Ocean ahead of, and in addition to, their historic twice-yearly schedule. "Stick to the original schedules," Mr. Vorpahl told the trustees, "which were always tied to the migration of fish. All those people who live there have ratted it up. . . . The devil is here," he warned, "and he has arrived in gangbuster style. But do not open up Georgica Pond because of this situation. Let the people up there suffer, and suffer hard, and they will get together. . . . It's time to pay the piper."

He was not finished. "New York municipal law does not apply whatsoever," was his final message to the ancient governing body. "Courts and judges are very powerful, but there is one thing they cannot do: that is rewrite history, yet they're doing it. For now, they seem to be getting away with it."

The Rev. Steven Howarth of the Amagansett Presbyterian Church said on Friday that Mr. Vorpahl was an active and stalwart member of the congregation. He "would play a role in the church not unlike his role in the community: pay attention to changes. . . . He wouldn't want us to let go of the old unless the new was going to add something. He was also just a warm, welcoming fellow. New members and visitors to the church often found themselves in conversation with him at our coffee hour after worship. His gift for engaging other folks is something we're going to miss."

Diane McNally, a trustee and until this month the body's longtime clerk, called Mr. Vorpahl "so wise and so steadfast in his opinions and thoughts on what the trustees represent." He taught her a lot, she said. "I knew that if I had him supporting whatever I was doing on behalf of the trustees, I was going in the right direction."

Mr. Vorpahl is survived by his wife, Mary Vorpahl of East Hampton, and by two daughters, Christine Vorpahl of Sagaponack and Susan Vorpahl of East Hampton, as well as five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

A viewing will be held at Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. and Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. only. A funeral service will be held at the Amagansett Presbyterian Church on Tuesday at 11 a.m., followed by a reception at the Amagansett Firehouse. 

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

Catherine Gagliotti was known as a dedicated teacher who was generous with her time, patient with students, and helpful to colleagues during the 37 years she taught at East Hampton High School. Mrs. Gagliotti died at home in East Hampton of complications of polycystic kidney disease on Jan. 5. She was 79 years old.

“She was one of the finest examples of a teacher who was really devoted to her students,” Rich Burns, the superintendent of the East Hampton School District and a friend of Mrs. Gagliotti’s for many years, said yesterday. “She just had a way of connecting to kids.”

Mrs. Gagliotti, who taught 11th grade English, was known to work beyond typical school hours, meeting with students for extra help when needed and often counseling and tutoring them on Saturdays. She gained respect for motivating students to reach their goals, and was named teacher of the year by the New York State Council of English Teachers in 2003.

She coordinated Syracuse University’s Project Advance program, offering college-level classes at the high school, and eventually became the chairwoman of the school’s English department. She was a member of committees on school improvement, accreditation, and scholarships, and led professional development sessions and workshops for her colleagues on educational trends and new state curriculum guidelines. She retired in 2003.

“She never shied away from any responsibility she ultimately knew would be better for the district and the kids,” Mr. Burns said.

Mrs. Gagliotti was born on July 27, 1936, in New York City, one of three daughters of Vincent Graziano and the former Filomena Trotta. She was raised in New York City and graduated from Flushing High School. She earned degrees from Oswego College and Long Island University.

 She came to East Hampton, where she married Carlo Gagliotti in the early 1960s. He was the owner and chef at the Spring Close House restaurant in East Hampton, and she was the hostess of the restaurant for many years. He died in 1994.

Mrs. Gagliotti was a member of the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society and the East Hampton Retired Educators Association. She enjoyed traveling and hosting formal dinners and holiday parties, bringing together interesting groups of people for meaningful conversation.

She is survived two children, Carla Gonzalez and Jeffrey Gagliotti, both of East Hampton, a foster daughter, Mary Vorpahl of Amagansett, and several grandchildren. Two sisters, Margaret Mahoney and Marie Riesel, both of Greensboro, N.C., also survive.

A funeral was held for Mrs. Gagliotti on Jan. 8 at Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. The Rev. Donald Hanson of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church officiated at a graveside service at the church cemetery, on Cedar Street, on Jan. 9. Mrs. Gagliotti was cremated, and a portion of her ashes will be scattered at the ocean in the summer.

Memorial donations in Mrs. Gagliotti’s honor have been suggested to the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association, 1 Cedar Street, East Hampton 11937.