Joanne Shea Cole, whose family said she dedicated her life to healing practices and service to others, died on Friday in Albany. She was 69 and had pancreatic cancer for three months.

Ms. Cole, who divided her time among Malibu, Calif., Hollywood, Fla., and East Hampton, was a lifelong vegetarian and yogi who was in the process of becoming an addiction counselor before her death.

“She loved the beach and the ocean, and no place was more special to her than the Hamptons, where she spent many happy years,” her family said.

She was born in the Bronx on Feb. 9, 1946, and grew up there. She is survived by her partner of 25 years, Sandy Cole, her son, David Shea of East Chatham, N.Y., and two granddaughters.

Private memorial services for family and friends on the South Fork and in California will be planned at a later date. Memorial donations have been suggested to the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, P.O. Box 901, Wainscott 11975, to The Daily Word, at dailyword.com/donate, or to Science of Mind, at scienceofmind.com.

Jody Lee Kalafut, who grew up in Montauk and with her husband operated Jody’s Country Kitchen on the hamlet’s Main Street from 1978 to 1982, died on Oct. 25 at her East Hampton house, where she and her family had lived since 1989. Her death was unexpected and the cause may have been a heart attack, her sister, Marcia Edelstein Darrow of Pelham, N.Y., said. Ms. Kalafut was 56.

“She was an extraordinary cook and baker,” her sister said. “She did incredible holiday baking — Christmas cookies and rugelach.”

Ms. Kalafut was born on Nov. 29, 1958, in Manhattan to Harvey Edelstein and the former Ruth Salzberg. She graduated from East Hampton High School before earning a degree in hotel technology from Sullivan County Community College in Loch Sheldrake, N.Y.

She and Kenneth Kalafut, who survives, were married on Oct. 16, 1982. The couple ran the restaurant and catering business that bore her name. Ms. Kalafut became a stay-at-home mother after the birth of her second child, and also worked in distribution for The New York Times for 10 years. 

She was an active parent, her sister said, serving as a Girl Scout leader, a member of the PTA, and “a class mother extraordinaire” for her daughters throughout their years at the John M. Marshall Elementary School.

In addition to her husband and sister, Ms. Kalafut’s daughters, who survive, are Dr. Sarah Kalafut of Manhattan and Rachel Kalafut of East Hampton. A brother, Richard Edelstein, died in 2012. Her parents also died before her.

The family has suggested contributions toward a memorial tree for Ms. Kalafut. Contributions can be sent to the Memorial Tree Fund, East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society, 95 Main Street, East Hampton 11937 or lvis.org.

Hy Brodsky, a public relations man, jazz historian, and Montauk community activist, died on Sunday at Southampton Hospital. Mr. Brodsky, who was 89, had not been ill, his family said.

Mr. Brodsky moved to his Montauk residence year round after marrying the former Arlene Goldberg on June 13, 1999, following, she said, “a 25-year courtship.” He had lived before then in Trenton, N.J., and more recently in Great Neck, while establishing his own firm, Triangle Public Relations.     

His heart, though, was in the easternmost hamlet, which he first visited as a young man and where he had many friends. As a member of the Concerned Citizens of Montauk and the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee, he made his voice heard on any number of topics, from the need for long-term resident parking to the meaning of Memorial Day to the threatened placement of a carousel at the memorial garden on the village green. He had strong opinions about the place he loved and was not shy about making them known, at town board and other meetings, and in letters to The Star.

In one letter — there were many over the years — he fumed that “despicable and deplorable aren’t strong enough to describe the arrogant act of Public Service Enterprise Group Long Island, an unbridled bureaucracy, that as a new kid on the block took it upon itself to chop down our trees without asking the taxpayers whether we liked the idea. . . .” In another, about the carousel proposal, he wrote that “words like disgraceful, reprehensible, insensitive, disbelief, and disgusting don’t come close to describing my stomach-turning anger.”

Mr. Brodsky was born in Brooklyn on May 9, 1926, to Harry and Bessie Sadofsky Brodsky, and grew up there and in Trenton. He graduated from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and earned a degree in public relations from the New School in Manhattan. He served with the Navy in World War II aboard the U.S.S. Adirondack in the Atlantic Theater.

From the age of 15, his wife said, he loved jazz. One year, the great bassist Percy Heath, who also had a house in Montauk, asked him to organize a jazz festival in conjunction with a Montauk Artists Association dinner. It turned into a highly successful three-day affair, held at Upstairs at the Downs, the state golf course.

Mr. Brodsky is survived by three sons of a former marriage, Russell and William Brodsky of Great Neck and Philip Brodsky of Danville, Calif., and by three stepchildren, who are Mark Abrahams of Oyster Bay, Ed Abrahams of Great Barrington, Mass., and Susan Abrahams of Traverse City, Mich. Ten grandchildren survive as well, as does a sister, Annette Itzkan of Boston.

Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman and Cantor Debra Stein of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons were to officiate at 10:30 this morning at funeral services, with burial following in Wellwood Cemetery in Wyandanch. Memorial contributions have been suggested for the Montauk Fire Department Ambulance, 12 Flamingo Road, Montauk 11954, the Montauk Playhouse Foundation, P.O. Box 1612, Montauk, or the Jewish Center, 44 Woods Lane, East Hampton 11937.

Alfred Howell Conklin, who on Oct. 27 reached his 100th birthday, a milestone he had been looking forward to with great anticipation, died at his Dayton Lane home less than a week later, on Nov. 2. Mr. Conklin, a lifelong resident of East Hampton Village, worked into his 99th year as the owner of Home Sweet Home Moving and Storage.

He was just 21 when his 44-year-old father died unexpectedly, leaving him, as the oldest of four children, to take over the family business. At that time it consisted of a taxi company, a moving company, and a school bus service; it was also the dealer for Graham “motor cars” and Reo trucks.

Mr. Conklin led the company successfully through the Depression — with guns aboard his trucks to defend against hijacking — and returned to it after World War II, during which he served in the Army transporting troops and teaching recruits how to drive heavy vehicles. He was furloughed for a week, his family said, to oversee the emptying-out of the Montauk Manor, then a luxury hotel with 300 rooms full of elegant furniture, so it could be used for Navy barracks.

Born in 1915 to Francis M. Conklin and the former Marjorie Howell, Mr. Conklin met his wife, Mildred Brennan, not long after the war began at a dance at St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in Bridgehampton. They had been married for 70 years when she died, in 2012. “He was devoted to her,” said the family, and had cared for her all through the illness that preceded her death.

Home Sweet Home received some outlandish requests through the years, Mr. Conklin told The Star in a 1999 interview. In the ’50s a family had its son, with his broken leg suspended in traction, shipped from Southampton Hospital in the back of a moving van, hospital bed and all, to a beachside estate, where the bed was rolled (very carefully) down a truck ramp and into the house. In the ’60s, the company took apart an entire merry-go-round and transported it, in pieces, to the Waldorf Astoria for its April in Paris ball.

There were notable customers, too, among them Jackson Pollock. Mr. Conklin regularly picked up Pollock’s paintings from his Springs studio — sometimes while they were still wet, he said — to deliver to galleries and patrons in the city. “He treated his employees like family,” said his family, and was rewarded with their loyalty “and, in many cases, decades-long service.”

Mr. Conklin held a number of offices, both elected and by acclaim, in service to the East Hampton community. He was at various times a member of the East Hampton Town Board, president of the chamber of commerce, and president of the Lions Club, where he was responsible for purchasing and operating the village’s first free ambulance. He belonged to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, for which he drove the church bus.

In a letter to The Star written a few months before his 85th birthday, by which time the Conklins were spending seven months a year in Lighthouse Point, Fla., Mr. Conklin reflected on the changes he had seen in the town he loved. “We hit the scene when there were 5-and-10-cent stores where you bought things for 5 and 10 cents,” he wrote. “Marmador sold ice cream cones for a nickel. For a nickel, you could make a telephone call, or mail a letter and two postcards. You could buy a new Chevy coupe for $600, but who could afford one? A pity, too, because gas was 11 cents a gallon. In our days cigarette smoking was fashionable, grass was mowed, coke was a cold drink, and pot was something you cooked in.”

Mr. Conklin, who was cremated, is survived by two children, James Conklin and Diana C. Freeman, both of East Hampton, two grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. All three of his siblings died before him. The Rev. Steven E. Howarth of the Amagansett Presbyterian Church, a friend of the family, will officiate at a memorial service there at 1 p.m. on Nov. 28. Memorial contributions have been suggested to the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, P.O. Box 901, Wainscott 11975, or to the church, 350 Main Street, Amagansett 11930.

Visiting hours for Vivian Holder of Three Mile Harbor Road in East Hampton, who died on Friday at Southampton Hospital, will begin Saturday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home here at 11 a.m. Her funeral will take place at Yardley and Pino at 1 p.m., with burial to follow at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton. An obituary for Ms. Holder, who was 86, will appear in a future issue.

Jeffrey S. Taylor, a real estate developer and the mayor in Chatham Township, N.J., for eight years, died on Oct. 18 at home in East Hampton. He was 11 days shy of his 70th birthday and suffered a heart attack in his sleep.

Mr. Taylor’s participation in civic life in Chatham was notable. He served as a member of the town committee for 10 years before becoming mayor, built low-income housing, handled a severe waste management crisis, and brokered the conversion of an abandoned elementary school into a municipal building. He also served as a trustee of the Chatham Township Volunteer Fire Department and as technical adviser to the Children’s Institute, a school for children at risk.

“He was absolutely brilliant and could look at something, digest it, and be able to be right on point about dealing with it,” his wife, Linda Edythe Taylor, said. “That made him a successful politician and businessman.”

As a developer, Mr. Taylor worked with several shopping malls and maintained partnerships with Sage Realty, Lincoln Properties, Olympia and York, London and Leeds, and Rockefeller Center. He also was a consultant for the University of Massachusetts Memorial Hospital and the City of Springfield, Mass.

He was born on Oct. 29, 1945, in East Orange, N.J., to James Taylor and the former Beverly Kurtzman. He attended the Governor’s Academy in South Byfield, Mass., graduating in 1963, and earned a degree in history from Princeton University in 1969 and an M.B.A. from New York University in 1972.

He and his wife were married in 1969. They had met at a mutual friend’s sweet-sixteen birthday party in East Hampton several years earlier. While making Chatham Township their year-round home, they were frequent visitors to East Hampton, where Mr. Taylor’s family had owned a house for more than 50 years. The couple moved to East Hampton part time in 2006 and settled here full time in May. 

Mr. Taylor was a member of the Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett and the International Council of Shopping Centers, among other organizations. He loved 16-millimeter movies, and amassed a collection of about 250, including films by Busby Berkeley and those starring Frank Sinatra or Gene Kelly.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by his sons, Jonathan Taylor of Hamburg, N.J., and Chris Taylor of East Hampton, and two grandchildren.   Burial will be private, and a memorial will be planned for the spring. Memorial donations in Mr. Taylor’s name have been suggested to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 18 James Lane, East Hampton 11937.

Jean Gollay, a writer and editor, whose work appeared in The Readers Digest and The New York Times as well as The East Hampton Star, died in Venice, Fla., on Nov. 4, about a month shy of her 98th birthday. She had had several mini-strokes and suffered from cognitive problems, but retained an amazingly accurate memory of her earlier days, according to her son, Fred Block.

Ms. Gollay, who wrote under the name Jean Libman Block, lived in Springs for more than 30 years. Ben Gollay, a Manhattan lawyer who had been coming here since the 1930s and helped many Springs artists, baymen, and community groups with their legal affairs, introduced her to the area. They were married in 1966 and bought a house on Louse Point Road in the ’70s, where they spent weekends and summers. They later donated about nine acres to the Nature Conservancy’s Accabonac Harbor Preserve. Mr. Gollay was a patron of the arts, and after he died in 1983, his widow donated their collection to the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts.

She was born Jean Libman in New York City on Dec. 7, 1917, to Rose Strauss and Charles Libman. Her father had a modest income as an insurance salesman but was often forced to rely on relatives, and the family struggled through the Depression. Her son wrote that she never forgot those early years; she always saved her teabags for reuse and frequented thrift shops. She learned from her mother at an early age how to sew, and made many of her own clothes, but was also lucky to have a rich aunt who gave her not only fashionable dresses but advice on how and where to wear them.

Ms. Gollay attended public schools in the city and Hunter College, until her junior year, when she transferred to Barnard. She majored in French, and went to France to work in 1938, returning home reluctantly the year after when her anxious mother repeatedly cabled that war was on the horizon.

She took up a career as a publicist for early radio, then branched out into freelance writing and went on to publish many articles. One forward-looking piece, titled “I Refuse to Chauffeur My Children,” featured a photo of her daughter, Elizabeth, getting on a bicycle to go to school. 

She also addressed such diverse subjects as violence in prisons, the origins of baby food, and attitudes toward sexual behavior. 

In 1940 she married Frederick H. Block, who was then in the Army. The marriage ended in 1964.

The family moved from New York City to Rye, N.Y., where Ms. Gollay continued to write. She became known for interviewing first ladies, among them Pat Nixon, Betty Ford, and Nancy Reagan. Her son said she was very proud of her articles on health topics, some of which led to books. One article, about a young woman with terrible facial abnormalities, led to the establishment of the Debbie Fox Foundation, which has helped many others with similar disfigurements.

When her daughter was old enough to prepare dinner, Ms. Gollay joined the communications staff at Revlon. “She was one of the very rare mothers in the suburbs who had a career,” Mr. Block recalled. “It was cool to have a mother that was different.” 

In 1978, Ms. Gollay became the articles editor of Good Housekeeping, a job she managed part time until 1982. She continued to write on a freelance basis while lecturing on writing, teaching it at New York University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and writing both novels and nonfiction. She was the first woman president of the Society of Magazine Writers, now the American Society of Journalists and Authors. 

Throughout the ’80s and ’90s, and into the early 2000s, Ms. Gollay contributed “Guestwords” columns to The Star.

After her husband died she sold the Louse Point house, but kept a smaller house on the property and renovated it with the late architect Edgar Tafel, who had become her partner of nearly 20 years. She sold it in 2002 and moved to Aston Gardens in Venice, Fla., where, said her son, she made many friends. She spent part of the summer in East Hampton in 2005 with a friend, and visited one last time in 2010, he said. 

In addition to her son, who lives in Berkeley, Calif., and her daughter, Elizabeth Block of London, she is survived by a stepdaughter, Elinor Gollay of Portland, Ore., and two grandchildren.

Ms. Gollay was buried in Green River Cemetery in Springs next to her husband, near many of the artists they knew. A memorial service will be held on Feb. 14, 2016, in Sarasota, Fla. 

Carol Jane Crowley, a lifelong Bridgehampton resident who grew up on a potato farm on Scuttlehole Road, died at the age of 93 on Nov. 1 at home on Lumber Lane.

Born two days before the Fourth of July in 1922 at Southampton Hospital to Alonzo Raymond Young and the former Wynola Conklin, Mrs. Crowley’s roots went back to the earliest settlers on the East End. She drove a truck on the farm while still a child, her daughter, Lynn Cotter, said yesterday, recalling  one of her mother’s favorite stories about the time she ran a truck into a gulley, dumping all the potatoes, and then running all the way home. The family eventually left the farm, moving to Lumber Lane.

During the summer, the family took advantage of the proximity of the beach, setting up camp at the end of Ocean Road in Bridgehampton with sleeping and cooking tents, photographs reveal. 

After graduating from Southampton High School, she attended Centenary College in Hackettstown, N.J., graduating with an associate’s degree.

In 1943, she and William A. Crowley were married, and they settled in a house on Bridgehampton’s Hildreth Avenue, where they raised three children, all of whom survive: Ms. Cotter, who lives in East Hampton, Elizabeth Bahret of Murrells Inlet, S.C., and Terry Crowley of Sagaponack. 

Ms. Cotter said her mother loved gardening and cooking and had been a waitress in some of East Hampton’s best restaurants, such as Gordon’s and the Maidstone Arms.

Mrs. Crowley was a lifetime member of the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, where she had at one time served as a deacon, and where a funeral service was held on Nov. 3. She was buried in Edgewood Cemetery in Bridgehampton.

Norman Charles Pickering, an inventor, musician, musical instrument maker, and acoustical researcher, died at home in East Hampton on Nov. 18. He was 99.

Mr. Pickering invented the Pickering phonograph cartridge. In November 1945, he founded Pickering and Company, which produced phonograph pickups and related equipment. His work in recording led to associations with Les Paul, Capitol Records, George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra, and many other musicians. He also was a founder of the Audio Engineering Society and its first secretary.

 A violinist, Mr. Pickering was a past president of the Violin Society of America and, after 1980, devoted himself to the study of the acoustics of violins and their bows, serving as a consultant to a firm that manufactured their strings. In 1970, he became technical director of a laboratory at Southampton Hospital, which developed high-resolution ultrasonic imaging. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, the Newark College of Engineering, now the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Mr. Pickering was well known in the local music community, having helped initiate Pianofest in 1989, which brings talented young pianists to the East End to study and perform. He remained a Pianofest board member, creative consultant, and adviser until his death.

He was born in Brooklyn on July 9, 1916, and did graduate work at the Juilliard School, in addition to graduating from the Newark College of Engineering. He joined the newly formed Indianapolis Symphony in 1937 and remained with it three seasons, teaching at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Mich., during the summer.

In early 1940 Mr. Pickering was asked to join a research group at C.G. Conn in Elkhart, Ind., where the development of wind instruments involved the highest quality sound recording available at the time. The work was interrupted by Pearl Harbor, and the plant was converted to making aircraft instruments for the Sperry Gyroscope Company. He then joined the Sperry Research Laboratory in Garden City and spent the war years there.

Following a hostile takeover of the Pickering Company, Mr. Pickering turned to aviation, making use of his wartime experience and becoming vice president and technical director of Avien Inc. and later of Robintech. He continued to play professionally as a freelancer.

Mr. Pickering is survived by his wife of 36 years, Barbara Goldowsky of East Hampton. Also surviving are four children from two previous marriages and two of Ms. Goldowsky’s sons. They are Judith Crow of Winston-Salem, N.C., David Pickering of Queen Creek, Ariz., Frederick Pickering of Sag Harbor, Rolf Pickering of Evergreen, Colo., and Alexander Goldowsky and Boris Goldowsky, both of Boston.

Mr. Pickering was cremated. A memorial service will be held at a date to be announced. Donations in his memory have been suggested to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978, or to the East Hampton Library, 159 Main Street, East Hampton 11937.

Vivian Holder was “a very elegant and sophisticated woman,” said her daughter, Corey Ann Holder of East Hampton. Ms. Holder, who came from Brooklyn to East Hampton in the 1980s to care for her mother and thereafter lived on Three Mile Harbor Road, died on Nov. 13 at Southampton Hospital of complications following a stroke.

A breast cancer survivor, she had been ill for several years with diabetes, kidney disease, and dementia. “She had a silent strength that you wouldn’t see immediately,” her daughter said, “but if you got to know her, to see her in her life, you’d see how amazingly strong she was.”

Ms. Holder was born on July 21, 1929, in Brooklyn to William Williamson and the former Gladys Williams. She grew up there and graduated from Girls High School, an 1886 Victorian Gothic structure in the borough’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood that is now a designated New York City landmark.

She loved horseback riding, skiing, and traveling to Barbados. At one time, she owned and operated a dress shop in Brooklyn. When her mother died in 1992, Ms. Holder inherited the Three Mile Harbor Road property and managed it as well as other properties in East Hampton and Brooklyn, her daughter said.

Ms. Holder’s marriage ended in divorce in the 1970s. Her former husband died in 2002. In addition to her daughter, Ms. Holder, who was an only child, is survived by three cousins and their seven children, with whom she was very close.

A funeral took place on Saturday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, followed by burial at Cedar Lawn Cemetery, also in East Hampton.

Ms. Holder’s daughter has suggested memorial contributions to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, 2600 Network Boulevard, Suite 300, Frisco, Tex. 75034 or nationalbreastcancer.org.