"The camera that today is in every smartphone, tablet, and modern camcorder is a direct result of the work Irving Hirschberg led during the 1970s and ’80s,” his daughters said this week. Mr. Hirschberg, a year-round resident of Amagansett for the last 35 years, died at Southampton Hospital on Dec. 30 following a heart attack. He was 88.

Beginning in 1960 at the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation in Syosset, Mr. Hirschberg, as manager of the company’s initial Charge Coupled Device Tri-Service program, was key in the development of a programmer for the Lunar Excursion Module. “Yes, we never understood what he did either,” said his daughters. 

He was presented with Fairchild’s Key Technologist Award in 1986 and retired two years later.  

Born on June 23, 1927, in the Bronx, to Louis Hirschberg and the former Rose Gluck, Hungarian immigrants, Mr. Hirschberg grew up in Ridgewood, Queens. He graduated from Townsend Harris High School, a public school for the city’s most gifted boys, and was always proud of it. After graduation, not yet 18, he served in the Navy.

A graduate of Cornell University, which he attended on a merit scholarship, he also held an advanced degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University. He had “a great analytical mind,” his daughters said.

Mr. Hirschberg and his wife, the former Phyllis Skolnick, whom he married on March 21, 1954, lived in Great Neck until 1980. They spent their summers at Salter’s, a cottage complex in Amagansett, until 1973, when they bought their house on Bluff Road. Seven years later, they moved there full-time, with Mr. Hirschberg commuting to work in Nassau County until he retired. 

They were devoted to each other. “His caregiving toward the end of her life was extraordinary,” said his daughters. Mrs. Hirschberg, an artist, died in January 2011.

In his later years, Mr. Hirschberg became a well-known volunteer in the community. He helped struggling English as a second language students to pass the state Regents exam in history, a topic in which he was well versed, and was a dedicated 20-year member of the Retired Senior Volunteer Program, which provides daily telephone safety checks, reassurance, and home visits for senior citizens living alone. His many letters to The Star, frequently on civic or political topics — he was a committed Democrat — often cited the rewards of R.S.V.P., for the volunteer as much as for the recipient.

In his spare time, he was happiest on the tennis court or out in Montauk on the golf course at the Downs. He also enjoyed a good cerebral game of bridge. “Our dad had boundless energy. He loved people, engaging with them and getting involved in their lives. Dad was our cheerleader, our advisor and problem-solver,” his daughters said. He took great pleasure in being a grandfather, they said, having long talks with his grandson about movies, playing games with him on the lawn, and going to the beach with him.

In addition to Lise Hirschberg, who lives in Manhattan, and Wendy Hirschberg, who lives in Brooklyn, he leaves a sister, Shirlee Hirschberg of Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., two ne­phews, and a niece. 

Mr. Hirschberg was cremated. He was a member of Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor, where funeral services were held on Sunday, Rabbi Daniel Geffen officiating. 

Memorial donations have been suggested to Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Avenue, Huntington 11743, or the Southern Poverty Law Center, 400 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Ala. 23104

Erika Reider Mark of Manhattan, who owned a house in East Hampton Village for over 30 years and was a member of the East Hampton Tennis Club and the Noyac Golf Club, died in New York City on Tuesday. A funeral service will be held at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home in Manhattan tomorrow at 2 p.m. A private service will be held at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton. A full obituary will appear in a future issue.

The family of Gilbert E. Kaplan, who died in New York City on New Year’s Day, will receive friends today at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel, 1076 Madison Avenue, from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. 

Mr. Kaplan, who made a name for himself in the financial world as a young man by publishing The Institutional Investor, devoted a good part of his adult life to studying Mahler and conducting the Mahler Second Symphony. 

He and his wife, Lena, have had a house on Apaquogue Road in East Hampton for many years. A full obituary will appear in the future issue.

Karen Rickenbach Mesiha, 54, a survivor of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, and the daughter of East Hampton Village Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. and his wife, the former Jean Smith, died of cancer on Dec. 12 at St. Francis Hospital in Flower Hill, a village in Nassau County, after a long illness.

Born on July 10, 1961, at Southampton Hospital, Ms. Mesiha grew up in East Hampton, graduating from its high school in 1979. She went on to study at Brooklyn College and make New York City her full-time home.

After graduation, she found a niche working in the financial district. But it was her devotion to the arts that gave her spiritual sustenance, her family said. She wrote short stories and poems, often focusing on nature, animals, and the simplicities of life. She loved music, in particular, reggae, and after establishing a record label, produced many recording artists both in New York and London.

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, she was at work for Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, the fifth largest American-based corporate law firm at the time. It had offices on the 56th to 60th floors of the north tower of the World Trade Center, the first to be struck, but the second to fall. Most of the firm’s employees made it out, according to The New York Times, but many friends who worked on higher floors, or in the other tower, did not.

Ms. Rickenbach was one of the last to exit the building before its collapse. Toxic dust had been descending from the north tower, and it was exacerbated by its collapse. 

It was many hours after the attack before Ms. Rickenbach was able to contact her family and tell them she had survived. “Although she escaped the building that horrific day, the medical issues to follow were just beginning,” her family wrote in a memorial letter.

Still, there were joyful moments to come. On Christmas Day, 2002, in a ceremony conducted by her father, Karen Rickenbach married Sherif G. Mesiha at the Main Beach Pavilion in East Hampton. The couple made their home in Syosset and had a daughter, Yasmin Mesiha, who is now 12.

 Ms. Mesiha was an advocate for abused and abandoned animals. “She wanted all animals to be fed, sheltered, and loved,” her family said, and was a strong supporter of rescues and shelters.

Besides her husband, daughter, and parents, Ms. Mesiha is survived by a sister, Cynthia Filippelli of Westhampton Beach.

A funeral Mass was said for Ms. Mesiha on Dec. 15 at St. Edward the Confessor Catholic Church in Syosset. She was buried at the Most Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery in East Hampton.

The family has suggested contributions to a memorial tree fund that has been set up in her name by the Ladies Village Improvement Society, 95 Main Street, East Hampton 11937.

Leonard Exter Spector, who most recently divided his time between a house on Flaggy Hole Road in Springs and Deer Isle, Me., died on Dec. 12 at Southampton Hospital. He was 88. 

Mr. Spector had retired as a partner at Audits and Surveys, a Manhattan market research firm, in the 1980s. Outside of his work, Mr. Spector’s family described him as a reader and a conversationalist, a sailor both here and in Maine, a do-it-your-selfer, bridge player, and a loving husband, parent, and friend.

He was born on Dec. 8, 1927, on Second Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. He attended Stuyvesant High School in the city and graduated from the City College of New York with a degree in accounting. His parents were Morris Spector and the former Bella Kesten. 

A proud New Yorker for most of his life, he was fond of saying that he was born on Second Street, went to elementary school on Sixth street, went to high school on 18th Street, and college on 23rd Street.

Mr. Spector owned a house on Louse Point Road in Springs from 1984 until recently, spending the past four winters or so on Flaggy Hole Road in a rented house. He was married on May 20, 1990, to the former Martha McCotter, who survives. She said he had a wide range of friends of all ages and was someone to whom others would turn for advice and wisdom born of long experience. A first marriage to the former Frances Rothwitz ended in divorce. 

His children, Matthew Spector of Los Angeles, Nancy Spector of San Francisco, Amy Spector of Concord, Mass., and Jonathan Spector of Woodstock, Vt., also survive, as do six grandchildren.

Mr. Spector was a founding member of the New Shul, a progressive Jewish community center in Manhattan, where his memorial service was held on Dec. 13. Contributions in his memory have been suggested to the Deer Isle Memorial Ambulance Corps, P.O. Box 387, Deer Isle, Me. 04627.

Frances Shilowich, an accountant with the Markowitz and Preische firm in East Hampton for many years before opening her own practice, counted not only many local businesses but also the artist Willem de Kooning among her clients and friends. 

A resident of East Hampton since 1964, she died at home on Dec. 30 surrounded by family. Mrs. Shilowich was 87 and had been diagnosed with cancer two years ago. 

Known as Franny, she was born on Feb. 16, 1928, in Brooklyn to Joseph Giglio and the former Rose Bianca. She grew up there, marrying the “the love of her life,” Walter Shilowich, in September 1947. In their early married years, the couple and their children lived in a three-family house in Brooklyn owned by Mrs. Shilowich’s family. Her son Richard Shilowich of East Hampton remembered big Sunday dinners there with the large extended family. 

In the 1950s, the couple’s love of the beach led them to East Hampton, where they rented a cottage on Sammy’s Beach for many summers before building a summer house in the Clearwater Beach area of Springs in 1960. They moved there full time four years later and eventually bought a large house on Manor Lane in Springs. 

Mr. Shilowich died in 1974, leaving Mrs. Shilowich a young widow with three children. She supported them working as an accountant and bookkeeper, developing a loyal client base, including several, like de Kooning, who followed her when she went out on her own. She continued to work into her late 70s, but also took time to travel whenever she could. She had been to Italy countless times and to England and other parts of Europe, as well as to Nova Scotia, among other places. Travel and her family were her great joys, and she was generous, almost to a fault, Richard Shilowich said. “Her generosity and her kindness, that was her,” he said. 

Mrs. Shilowich enjoyed gardening, reading, watching tennis, and card playing and was an accomplished knitter. “Every one of her children’s families has an afghan or two to remember her by,” her family wrote. 

In addition to her son in East Hampton, she is survived by another son, Walter Shilowich of Voorhees, N.J., and a daughter, Barbara Bennett of Southport, N.C. She “adored and doted on her six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren,” her family wrote. 

Donations in Mrs. Shilowich’s memory have been suggested to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.

Janine Marie Strong, familiar to many as a dental assistant in East Hampton offices of Dr. Gerald Sexton and later Dr. Michael Edwards, died at home in East Hampton on Saturday. She was 59 and had multiple symptom atrophy.

Known as Nina, she was “kind, loving, and always had a smile on her face,” her family wrote. “She had countless friends and all who knew her loved her. She always stayed positive and even through her disease kept her sense of humor that we all loved.”

Mrs. Strong was born on June 5, 1956, in Southampton to Bill and Hazel McNamara, one of seven children. She grew up in Water Mill, and graduated from Southampton High School in 1974. Two years later, she married her high school sweetheart, Tom Strong. The couple traveled across the country, living briefly in Colorado while he completed his schooling, but eventually returned to the South Fork and settled in East Hampton, where they raised two children. 

Mrs. Strong worked with Dr. Sexton from 1987 until his retirement in 1999, and then began in Dr. Edwards’s office, where she remained until “her disease left her no option but to retire,” her family said. “Nina took great pride in her work and loved all ‘her’ patients as if they were family.”

She enjoyed spending time with  friends and family, especially her grandchildren. 

Mrs. Strong and her husband had traveled frequently, her family said, driving across the country twice in their younger years and visiting England, South Africa, and many destinations in the Caribbean. She often pitched in to help breast cancer charities.

She is survived by her husband, her children, Tom Strong Jr. of East Hampton and Britni Strong-Swartz of Grand Cayman in the Caribbean, and by three grandchildren. She also leaves four siblings, Jim McNamara of Sag Harbor, Dan McNamara and Donna Adreassi of Water Mill, and Terry McNamara of Southampton. Her parents died before her as did her brothers Gary and Mick McNamara. 

A memorial gathering will be held in Water Mill on Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. Details are available through the family. They have suggested contributions to the East Hampton Fire Department, 1 Cedar Street, East Hampton 11937 or to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.

Rose Millevolte, an artist who owned and operated Gallery East in East Hampton for 25 years, died in Naples, Fla., on Dec. 20 following what her loved ones described as a “long and courageous battle with Alzheimer’s disease.” She was 85.

Ms. Millevolte was a watercolorist whose work was exhibited at galleries throughout the Northeast, including the Salmagundi Club in New York City, the Parrish Art Museum, and the Munson Gallery in Chatham, Mass.

Before embarking on a career as an artist and gallery director, Ms. Millevolte worked for 25 years as a teacher in the Valley Stream School District, where she was a dedicated supporter of the Title IX Education Amendment of 1972, which prohibited gender discrimination in federally funded education programs and activities. In 1973, she organized and directed a symposium at Hofstra University on the interpretation and implementation of the law. Some 500 women educators attended.

In East Hampton, she ran Gallery East with her partner of 42 years, Rosemary Terribile, who survives. They lived on Shipyard Lane in Springs and had a winter house in Naples, eventually settling there full time after selling the house and gallery here.

Ms. Millevolte loved golfing and was an active member of the Women’s Golf Association at the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett, where she served on the board of directors.

She was born on Oct. 11, 1930, to Carmen Millevolte and the former Florence DeCabia. She grew up in Hicksville, earning a bachelor’s degree from the State University at Cortland, and a master’s from Adelphi University.

There was no service.

Contributions in her memory have been suggested to Avow Hospice, 1095 Whippoorwill Lane, Naples, Fla. 34105.

Mike Kirshenbaum, a retired director of personnel for the Department of the Navy, died at Southampton Hospital on Friday at the age of 96. The cause was attributed to congestive heart failure and pneumonia.

Over his 36 years as a civilian employee of the Navy, Mr. Kirshenbaum rose through the ranks, starting as a messenger and becoming director of personnel for the Military Sea Transportation Service, Atlantic Area. His career was inspired by disappointment, his family said, at not being able to enlist during World War II. He had a contracture in his foot, the result of early childhood polio.

His given name was Moe Kirshenbaum, but everyone called him Mike, said his wife, Elaine Kirshenbaum. He was born on Dec. 12, 1919, in Brooklyn, was raised there, and graduated from Brooklyn College.

He met the woman who was to become his wife, a student nurse, while a patient at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital for what she said was nothing too serious. The couple dated for a few years before marrying and settling in Valley Stream.

The Kirshenbaums visited Ama­gansett for more than 30 years, renting first, and eventually buying in the East End Residents Association on Napea­gue. They became full-time residents a decade ago.

Mrs. Kirshenbaum had an antique store, Elaine’s Room Antiques, on Pantigo Road in East Hampton for several years, and he was often there.

His family said he had a great sense of humor and a kind spirit and was well liked. His Jewish heritage was important to him, and he enjoyed celebrating the Jewish holidays with his extended family.

In retirement, Mr. Kirshenbaum enjoyed reading, going to the Amagansett Library, and eating pizza at the nearby Astro’s. He often sent friends and family newspaper clippings and articles of personal interest.

A dedicated family man, in addition to his wife, the former Elaine Sandlofer, to whom to he was married for 63 years, he is survived by his daughters, Joan England of Chevy Chase, Md., and Susan Kaye of Manhattan Beach, Calif. Three grandchildren also survive.

Antoinette O’Connor, a part-time resident of Montauk for 43 years who was called both Rose and Toni, died on Dec. 5. She was 85 and had had a respiratory illness for about eight years.

Mrs. O’Connor was a resident of Pomona, N.Y., at the time of her death. She had previously lived in Garrison, N.Y., where she taught social studies in a junior high school for more than 20 years. In Montauk, she helped her sister and brother-in-law, Bella and Vincent Ierardi, run Luigi’s restaurant, which is now Muse.

Mrs. O’Connor was born on May 1, 1930, in Queens to Charles and Frances Rizzotti. She graduated from Newtown High School in Queens and the State University at New Paltz.

Her family said she had many interests, itemizing some, including the beach, gardening, knitting, cooking, music, dancing, films, family reunions, and animals. They said she engaged in activities “with zest and enthusiasm.” She loved Christmas in particular, and was also known for her sense of humor, for supporting the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and for being a good conversationalist. She followed politics and had a hand in two successful proceedings, including a November 1999 decision in favor of Montauk’s Culloden Shores Association, whose members had opposed bulkheads being built by several neighbors. (A state judge eventually said they would have worsened erosion of a community beach.)

Mrs. O’Connor is survived by her husband of 43 years, John O’Connor, who lives in Pomona, and by her sister, who now lives in the Oakland Gardens section of Queens. She is also survived by a daughter, Jodie L. Bardin of Westwood, Mass., a granddaughter, and many nieces, nephews, and other relatives. A brother, Patrick Rizzotti, died before her.

Donations in memory of Mrs. O’Connor have been suggested to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, Tenn. 38105.