Nancy Janssen, one of the first female members of the Montauk Fire Department, serving as an emergency medical technician, died of complications of Alzheimer’s disease on Jan. 20 in Lancaster, Tex. She was 76 and had been ill for the last five years.

Her family will remember her as a kind, happy, loving person who enjoyed the outdoors and being around her eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren, said her daughter Dawn Stavola of Montauk. “She was really into the grandkids and great-grandkids,” Ms. Stavola said.

Nancy Theodelinda Janssen was born on Nov. 28, 1938, in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood to Arthur Olsen and the former Erma Hatter. She grew up there and briefly lived in New Jersey before moving to Montauk. She worked as a bookkeeper, first for the Montauk Marine Basin and later for Marshall and Sons, a service station and fuel oil delivery company, also in Montauk. “She really enjoyed both jobs,” her daughter said.

In addition to Ms. Stavola, her grandchildren, and her great-grandchildren, Ms. Janssen’s other three children survive: Kim Clark of Lancaster, Michelle VonBargen of Bayville, and Christian Janssen of Central Point, Ore. A sister, Judy Andrade of Sterling, Conn., also survives.

Ms. Janssen was cremated. A memorial service will be announced at a later date. Her family has suggested memorial contributions to the Alzheimer’s Association, P.O. Box 96011, Washington, D.C. 20090-6011, or alz.org.

Carl Victor King, a Vietnam veteran who came from a large East Hampton family, died on Jan. 3 of complications during heart bypass surgery at the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Manhattan. He was 71.

After he graduated from East Hampton High School, he joined the Army in the mid-1960s, seeing action in Vietnam. When he returned, he moved to Hampton Bays and later Flanders. He was most recently living in Riverhead, where he had moved last year. He worked as a self-employed plumber.

Pauline Mahon of Torrington, Conn., said her brother was proud of his military service. He enjoyed fishing and clamming in Hampton Bays and hunting small game. She recalled how he liked to keep to himself. “He was very easygoing, very happy-go-lucky,” she said.

The 7th of 13 children, Mr. King was born on Nov. 11, 1943, at Southampton Hospital. His parents were Preston M. King, who worked for Schenck Fuels in East Hampton and later as a commercial fisherman, and the former Antoinette Pelis, a homemaker who also worked in a private laundry.

Mr. King had been married briefly.

In addition to Ms. Mahon, he is survived by his siblings Marie Kiembock, Paul King, and Brian King, all of East Hampton, Edwin King of Flanders, and Sharon Peters of Mount Solon, Va. Many nieces and nephews also survive.

He was predeceased by six siblings, Elizabeth Arnold, Carrie Meyer, Viola Buckley, Preston King, David King, and John King.

A military service was held at Calverton National Cemetery, where he was buried. His family has suggested memorial contributions to any V.A. hospital.

John Robert Lemmon, a craftsman who also painted landscapes and seascapes, died of lung cancer on Dec. 5 at the Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin, Vt. He was 69.

Mr. Lemmon had lived in East Hampton his entire life, but spent time at his partner’s, Carrie Kessler’s, farm in Corinth, Vt.

He worked primarily as a carpenter, but also made furniture. Ms. Kessler said he was  enthusiastic and determined in any project he took on, including the chores on her farm, model-boat building, and The New York Times crossword puzzle. “He would put laser focus on the task and finish it well‚” she said.

Ms. Kessler said he shared his “vivid, rich memories of growing up in East Hampton, of great friendships and work relationships over the course of many years. He remembered where every business, open field, and woodlot was in the 1950s and 1960s, who owned it, and the changes that had taken place since then.”

She recalled a story about his “careening down Oakview Highway toward Three Mile Harbor Road‚” seated on the handlebars of a bicycle with no brakes piloted by a friend named Joey. Both survived to tell the tale.

She also said he was an avid reader and had a sense of humor. “Oh, how he enjoyed a good laugh. He was also strong (sometimes absolute) in his feelings of right and wrong‚” she said, adding that even in declining health, he persevered through projects, never giving up.

He was born on Feb. 22, 1945, and adopted by George and Charlotte Brigham Lemmon.

  He graduated from East Hampton High School in 1962 and attended the Island Drafting and Technical Institute in Amityville, where he received certification as an electrician.

 He and Linda Nelson were married in 1964. The couple, whose marriage ended in divorce, had three daughters, who survive: Jodi McHugh of East Hampton, and Autumn Kujawski of Mattituck and Dawn Lemmon of Hampton Bays, who are twins. He also is survived by Ms. Kessler,  one grandchild, and two step-grandchildren.

A memorial service and the scattering of his ashes will take place in East Hampton in the spring.

Alfred Charles Hines, a retired tool and die maker who made some of the dies for parts of a popular 1950s children’s toy called Robbie the Robot and built a telescope that won a prestigious prize, died in Springs on New Year’s Day. He was 93 and had been in good health until that morning, said his son Patrick Hines of Amagansett.

Mr. Hines’s lifelong interest in metal crafting began as a child playing with an Erector Set. As a teenager at Brooklyn Technical High School, he and friends built and flew model airplanes. He enlisted in the Navy at the start of World War II, and was assigned as a diesel mechanic in the engine room of the U.S.S. Snowden, a destroyer escort.

After the war, Mr. Hines worked as a machinist at a firm called Toolcrafters in Farmingdale, where he was quickly promoted to tool and die maker. A few years later, he bought the company with a fellow worker and ran it with him for two decades. In addition to dies for Robbie the Robot, which was based on a character in the film “Forbidden Planet”  and its sequel, “The Invisible Boy,” in 1960 he made a die that created a wind-up key for another popular robot toy, Mr. Machine.

Mr. Hines sold the business in 1970 and retired to Springs, where he designed and built what his family described as his “dream house” overlooking Gardiner’s Bay on Isle of Wight Road. Even after he retired he had a small machine shop at his house, where he could create any metal part he might want. He was a member of the board of directors of the Lion Head Beach Civic Association in the 1970s, and until last week walked two miles a day around the development. He had apparently been out for a walk the morning of his death,  his son said, and was found in his driveway.

He was born in New York City on Aug. 1, 1921, to Alfred Vincent Hines and the former Irene Lemilin. He grew up there, rising at 4 a.m. as a high school student to deliver newspapers before the start of the school day.

He was married on Aug. 29, 1947, to Loretta Marie Quigley. The couple raised three sons in Massapequa and later East Islip. She died in 2008.

A boater and member of the Jones Beach Power Squadron, he took his family on boating vacations every summer. He was also a dedicated fisherman, who would go out every Sunday morning, rain or shine, in East Islip as well as here, with three close friends, Bill Fisher, Herman Kornehrens, and Dick Rath. He enjoyed shark fishing off Fire Island Inlet, and had once bagged a 152-pound mako “that jumped completely out of the water seven times,” his family recalled. 

When his eyesight was better, he was a regular at the Maidstone Gun Club in East Hampton, using a Ruger Mini-14 target rifle, his family said.

His longtime interest in astronomy prompted him in 1958 to  design and build what was at the time one of the biggest amateur telescopes in the world, grinding the 12.5-inch lens himself. It was featured in leading astronomy magazines and won a prestigious award, according to his family.

He is survived by three sons, Charles Hines of Manhattan, Patrick Hines of Amagansett, and Jeffrey Hines of Springs, and by a granddaughter. He also leaves a sister, Mary Lucas of Williston Park.

Mr. Hines will be cremated and his ashes placed in a shrine next to those of his wife. In keeping with his wishes, no memorial service was held.

Funeral arrangements for John Stavola of Montauk, who died on Friday, have been announced. 

Visiting hours will be on Sunday  from 2 to 4 p.m. at Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. There will be a prayer service for him at the funeral home on Monday morning at 10. A graveside service will follow at  Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church Cemetery on Cedar Street, East Hampton.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday for Charlotte Rogers Smith of Water Mill, the choir director of the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church for more than 40 years and the founder of the Choral Society of the Hamptons. Ms. Smith died of pneumonia on Dec. 14 at Southampton Hospital. She was 95.

The service will take place at the Southampton Presbyterian Church at 2 p.m. In last week’s paper, the service was reported to be on Jan. 10.

Alice Cole Lazarus, a longtime summer resident of Barnes Landing in Springs, died on Dec. 27 at the Alzheimer’s Resource Center in Plantsville, Conn. She was 90.

Mrs. Lazarus, who was known as Allie, first came to the South Fork with her husband, Budd Lytton, in the summer of 1947 to visit her parents, Leon (Tut) and Dorothy Cole, who were renting on Atlantic Avenue in Amagansett. Two years later, the Coles bought a summer cottage in Barnes Landing and the Lyttons bought a bungalow nearby.

They and their three children, along with her brother, Tom Cole, his wife, Connie, and their children, Jess, John, and Matthew, spent many summers together at Barnes Landing, particularly enjoying the beach. Later, Mrs. Lazarus took great joy in travel and gardening. She took her family camping across the United States twice and on a trip to Europe once, with her husband joining at intervals.

The family spent the rest of the year in Larchmont, N.Y., where she became involved in education, serving as a PTA president. In the 1960s, the Lyttons took in relatives of her parents’ housekeeper who had fled East Germany. After Mr. Lytton died in 1972, she taught kindergarten in Westchester County and later worked at the College of New Rochelle.

 In 1975, she married Robert Brill, a pathologist, and became stepmother to his three grown children. Dr. Brill died in 1981, and in 1984 she was remarried to Rudi Lazarus, a real estate broker and developer in Stamford, Conn. They settled there, although they often came to Barnes Landing. The couple shared a love of travel and visited such far-off destinations as India and the Galapagos Islands. They spent winters on Longboat Key in Florida. He died in 1996.

Mrs. Lazarus played tennis into her 80s. Locally, she was a member of the Accabonac Tennis Club. She had a subscription to the New York Philharmonic for decades, often went on Audubon expeditions, and did collages, botanical prints, and needlepoint.

“Allie was devoted to her family and an always optimistic, steadfast friend,” her family wrote. She had a loyal circle of friends, some from as far back as her youth or college, whom she raised her children with, or kept in touch with through letters and over the phone. “Their children still stay in touch,” her family said.

She was born on March 10, 1924, in New York City and grew up there and in Pelham, N.Y. After graduating from Horace Mann (which was then a private high school for girls) and Mount Holyoke College, she married Budd Lytton, a lieutenant commander in the Navy, in 1945.

Mrs. Lazarus is survived by three children from her first marriage, Rameshwar Das of Springs, Richard Lytton of Winnewood, Pa., and Laura Lytton of Cheshire, Conn., and by five granddaughters, a grandson, and a great-grandson. A sixth grandchild, Anna Mirabai Lytton, died in 2013. She also leaves stepchildren from her two subsequent marriages, Dawn Duques of New York City and Madison, Conn., Robert Brill of Boulder, Colo., and Susan Brill of Arizona, and five step-grandchildren and seven step great-grandchildren. Judy Lazarus, another stepdaughter, died before her, as did her brother, Tom Cole, and his son, Matthew.

A memorial gathering will be held in the spring. Contributions have been suggested to the Anna Mirabai Lytton Foundation, P.O. Box 625, Amagansett 11930 or the Nature Conservancy at nature.org.

John James Stavola Sr., a longtime resident of Montauk, died at home last Thursday. He was 93.

Mr. Stavola, who worked as a construction supervisor for the New York Telephone Company, had a summer house in Montauk since the 1960s, and retired there full time 35 years ago. He loved clamming and fishing, his family said.

Born in Manhattan on Nov. 4, 1921, to Fillipo Stavola and the former Maria Lombardi, he grew up in the Bronx, and served in the Navy during World War II.

He was married on Sept. 24, 1949, to Catherine Keohane. The couple raised their three sons in the Bronx. Mr. Stavola was a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Boys Club of New York, and the Montauk Friends of Erin.

His wife survives, as do their three sons, John Stavola Jr. of Melville and James Stavola and Daniel Stavola of Montauk. He also leaves six grandchildren, one niece, and one nephew.

Visiting hours were on Sunday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A prayer service was held at the funeral home on Monday morning. Burial followed at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery in East Hampton.

Jesse F. James, a master carpenter who lived on Hog Creek Road in Springs, died at Southampton Hospital on Jan. 5 at the age of 81. The cause of death was pulmonary arrest.

Mr. James worked for many local builders, among them Wesley Miller, Ed Pospisil, Dell Cullum, and Gene Futterman. Later in life he was a caretaker for the late Susan Tepper, an artist and philanthropist who founded the East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art. Most recently he worked for Sandpebble Builders until retiring just last year.

A cancer survivor, he recovered from leukemia 20 years ago and from several other forms of cancer since then. According to his family, he was a quiet, gentle man with the ability to listen intently to others, “Offering conversation when he had something to say, he didn’t just talk to talk,” his family wrote. His favorite pastimes were fishing and visiting his friends at the Commercial Dock on Three Mile Harbor.

Mr. James was born in Covington, Va., on Oct. 31, 1933, to Jesse James and the former Elizabeth Gosney. He moved to East Hampton at the age of 12 to live with his mother and stepfather, Thayer Macomber. He attended the Springs School and East Hampton High School before serving as a corporal in the Army at Fort Benning, Ga.

On Dec. 17, 1955, he married Anna Mae James, who survives him, as do two daughters, Jill James of East Hampton and Jody Griczewicz of Charlotte, N.C. A brother, Ralph James of Sag Harbor, a sister, Donna Gabbert of Plano, Tex., and three grandchildren also survive.

A private memorial will be held at a later date. 

Raymond Hildreth Halsey, a farmer who was an owner of the Green Thumb in Water Mill, died on Friday at home in that hamlet. He was four days shy of his 89th birthday.

A wake will be held at the O'Connell Funeral Home in Southampton on Monday, Jan. 19, from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.

His funeral will be held at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church on Tuesday, Jan. 20, at 11 a.m.