Eva Ecker, who survived the Nazi period in Hungary during World War II, died on Dec. 29 at home in Springs. She had just finished dinner and was sitting with family.

During the war, Ms. Ecker helped to protect and hide her younger sister, Juidith Leiber, when Jews were called to assemble in the streets of Budapest for deportation. Their father had been sent to a labor camp, but the family was spared after he obtained a Swiss pass, which provided diplomatic immunity. The pass is now in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.

Ms. Ecker was born on Oct. 18, 1918, in Budapest to Emil Peto and the former Helene Spitzer. She and her sister were prohibited from attending university. Instead, Ms. Ecker studied to become a pastry chef and her sister learned to make handbags.

She was first married to Carl Wagoner, who was with the State Department, and she went with him to Brazil and Trans Jordan before she followed her sister to this country. The marriage ended in divorce. She and Joseph Ecker, a New Jersey physician, were married in 1955. In a happy marriage that lasted 49 years, they lived in New Brunswick, N.J., and New York City, and were inveterate travelers.

Ms. Ecker also worked at her sister’s company, Magid Handbags, in the 1960s. Ms. Leiber’s jeweled handbags have since been prized by American first ladies and Queen Elizabeth and are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a private museum in Springs. Ms. Ecker moved to Springs to live with her sister and brother-in-law, Gerson Leiber, who survive, after her husband’s death in 2004.

 A graveside service was held on Sunday afternoon at Shaarey Pardes Cemetery in Springs, with Debra Stein, cantor of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons, officiating. A reception followed at the Ecker and Leiber house in Springs.

Memorial donations have been suggested for the Leiber Foundation, c/o Rochlin, Greenblatt & Chalk, 600 Old Country Road, Garden City 11530.

Tyler Robert Buckley, who was 22 years old, died at Southampton Hospital on Sunday evening after being found  without breath in his mother’s, Susan Buckley’s, house on Crystal Drive in East Hampton. He had been sick for several months, and his family believes he was suffering from pneumonia when he went to sleep and did not wake up. The cause of death is being investigated, but police said no foul play is suspected.

Mr. Buckley was poised to finish a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice at Long Island University’s C.W. Post Campus this spring. He had wanted to follow in the footsteps of a grandfather, a retired Chicago police officer, his family said. He also had empathy for animals and dreamed of working for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals  or a similar organization. He adored his dog, Darla, according to his older sister, Brittany Buckley. “He was one of the best people I ever met,” Ms. Buckley said, calling him a best friend who always came to her aid.

He was born in Chicago on Jan. 30, 1992. When he was just 5 months old, his mother brought him and his sister to East Hampton to start a new life. Their grandparents, Robert Buckley and the late Viola Buckley, helped raise them. He attended the John M. Marshall Elementary School, East Hampton Middle School, and, in 2010, graduated from East Hampton High School. His family said he was a very good student and a star on its playoff-caliber football team in 2009. Some called him “T-Buck” in school, where he was known for a positive spirit and sense of humor.

He was also described as a compassionate young man who was “a social butterfly,” going out of his way to give people a kind word or make them feel comfortable.  “People called him a legend of our town,” his sister said.  “He would be the type that would always look out for the underdog. He had a really big heart.” 

In addition to his mother, sister, and grandfather, he is survived by two uncles, Patrick Buckley of Chicago and Michael Buckley of Florida.

Mr. Buckley was to be cremated. Visiting hours will be at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on Saturday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. A memorial service is being planned.

Donations are being accepted to help with family expenses. Checks can be sent to Susan Buckley, 68 Crystal Drive, East Hampton 11937, or through a Fundly.com fund-raising page in his name by searching “Tyler Buckley Family Support.”

“There’s only two kinds of music,” Jeff Golub reportedly said, “the kind that’s from the heart and the kind that’s not.” That observation was not just an accurate assessment of music, about which the guitarist was so passionate, it served as a blueprint for his life.

Mr. Golub, who lived in New York and Water Mill, recorded and toured worldwide with artists including Rod Stewart, Tina Turner, Vanessa Williams, and Billy Squier. A musician whose work spanned multiple musical genres, from jazz to blues to rock ’n’ roll, he was also a prolific solo artist, releasing many albums as a bandleader, three of them with the Avenue Blue Band.

Mr. Golub, who was 59, died at home in New York on New Year’s Day, three years after he suddenly lost his eyesight and shortly after a diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare brain disorder. The illness had forced his retirement in the fall of 2013.

“He was like a rock star, but you wouldn’t know it,” said Peter (Bosco) Michne, a guitarist who lives in Southampton. Mr. Michne, who is also a teacher, gave lessons to one of Mr. Golub’s sons for a few years. “You wouldn’t think he was a guy that had toured around the world. He was like any of my students’ dads — a really good dad, really happy. He always greeted me with a big smile and was always very, very nice.”

Jeff Golub was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1955 to Peter and Pearl Golub. When he was 8, his father took him to a Grand Ole Opry concert there, and a performance by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs inspired him to take up the guitar. He studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, leaving after a year for individual instruction.

Through Bobby Chouinard, a drummer whom he met while performing in Boston, he was hired as a member of Mr. Squier’s band. Mr. Golub went on to record seven albums and participated in three world tours with the artist. He later worked with Ms. Turner and Ms. Williams as well as with Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band, John Waite, Gato Barbieri, and Bill Evans, among others.

In 1988, Mr. Golub released the album “Unspoken Words.” The same year, he auditioned for Mr. Stewart, who reportedly stopped him minutes into a performance of the song “Maggie May” to say, “You’re hired, let’s go to the pub.” Mr. Golub played with the singer for a decade while continuing to record and perform his own music. More collaboration included work with Sonny Landreth, Robben Ford, Marc Cohn, and Kirk Whalum.

Even after losing his sight, Mr. Golub continued to record and tour, releasing the album “Train Keeps a Rolling” in 2013. “He would go to the city by himself on the train!” Mr. Michne said. “I don’t know what the word for that is.”

Mr. Golub is survived by his wife, Audrey Stafford Golub, whom he married in 1997, and two sons, Chris and Matthew. His mother, Pearl Golub of Copley, Ohio, also survives, as do a brother, Pete Golub of Copley, and a sister, Patti Hippler of Massillon, Ohio. He leaves 10 nieces and nephews.

A memorial service is set for 1 p.m. today at the Society for Ethical Culture in New York. A previously scheduled benefit concert featuring several of the artists with whom he collaborated will serve as a tribute to Mr. Golub and fund-raiser for his family. It will be held on Jan. 21 at the B.B. King Blues Club and Grill in New York.

A fund has been established to help with educational and other specified expenses for Mr. Golub’s sons. Contributions can be made at jeffgolub.com. The family has also suggested donations to the Foundation for PSP, CBD, and Related Brain Diseases at curepsp.org.

Joyce L. Coleman, a nurse’s aide and an expert scallop-shucker, died on Dec. 29 at home on Spring Lane in Sag Harbor. Her family said the cause was a pulmonary embolism. She was 62.

Ms. Coleman worked for many years taking care of residents at the Huntting Lane Rest Home in East Hampton Village. She later went to work at the Todd Nursing Home in Southampton, which became the Southampton Nursing Home.

During scallop season she took her place at the shucking tables for Calvin Lester and Brent Bennett and was known as one of the fastest in all of Bonac at cutting the sweet morsels from their shells.

Ms. Coleman sang in several church choirs and was a volunteer emergency medical technician with the ambulance company of the Springs Fire Department. She loved cooking and had won ribbons at the Riverhead County Fair for her pies. She also enjoyed reading, writing poetry, crossword puzzles, and crocheting, making many blankets for friends and loved ones.

She was born at Southampton Hospital on May 15, 1952, to Leona Faye King Smith and Bruno Kappi, and grew up in a house on Abraham’s Path in East Hampton.

When she was 15 she met Robert H. Coleman of Mystic, Conn., who became her best friend, bringing a bicycle on three ferry rides to visit her. They were married on Aug. 9, 1969, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton. Her family said the couple “represented what true love really means, always by each other’s side, through thick and thin.”

They had four daughters, Dawn Marie Coleman Moyer of Sag Harbor, Catherine Faye Coleman Benton of Springs, Bobbi Jo Coleman, who died in 1975, and Bobbi Rene Coleman Edwards of Springs. She is also survived by eight grandchildren, who, her family said, meant the world to her.

In addition to her immediate family, she is survived by two sisters, Maureen Semb of East Hampton and Sharon King of Springs, and many nieces and nephews.

“Her generous heart filled her home with love, fun, family, and friends, including an attitude that there was always room for one more,” her family said. “She leaves her husband, children, and grandchildren with the knowledge that they were truly loved.”

She was very close to her extended family, which included her in-laws, Terry and Benjamin Coleman and Rachel and Della Pinkham of Connecticut, and Kenneth Coleman of Mastic.

Memorial donations have been suggested to the Springs Fire Department, 179 Fort Pond Boulevard, East Hampton 11937.

A service was held on Friday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

Nancy Brunn, who taught art and a high school-level art history class at the Montauk School, died at home on Accabonac Road in East Hampton on Dec. 31. She was 67 and had primary progressive aphasia, a degenerative brain disease, her family said.

Ms. Brunn began her 32 years at the Montauk School after receiving a master’s degree in education from Southampton College. Her undergraduate degree was a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the New York Institute of Technology. There was a short stint teaching art in Amesville, Ohio, and then she found the Montauk post in 1973. Older graduates of the Montauk School may remember her as Mrs. Doherty; she reverted to using her family name after a divorce.

Outside of the classroom, Ms. Brunn was a member of the board of the Music for Montauk concert series and would work to tie its programming and performances into student activities at the school.

She was a supporter of Guild Hall in East Hampton, becoming its director of education after her retirement from teaching in 2005 and organizing its annual student art exhibits. She was also a gourmet cook, serious gardener, and world traveler, leading a trip for educators to Costa Rica in 2003.

Ms. Brunn was born on Dec. 23, 1947, in East Meadow to George Brunn and the former Lillian Batton. She grew up in Bethpage.

She is survived by a brother, George S. Brunn of Virginia, and three nephews, including Todd Brunn of East Hampton, who teaches sixth grade at the Montauk School and with whom she worked during her final years there. His brothers, Douglas and Keith, and their sister, Christine Mauro, became very close with her after their mother’s death when they were young adults.

“She was always looking to help people out,” Mr. Brunn said. “She was a tremendous, caring person.”

Visiting hours for her were on Friday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. There was no service.

Ms. Brunn’s family has suggested donations in her memory to Music for Montauk, P.O. Box 846, Montauk 11954, or to the Nature Conservancy at support.nature.org.

“She was the strongest woman I ever met,” Jenna Vertullo’s mother, Gail Lia, said Tuesday of her daughter.

At 18 months of age, Ms. Vertullo, a lifelong East Hampton resident, was diagnosed with infant neuroblastoma, a cancer of the nerve cells that few survived at the time. “She defied every doctor’s prognosis with sheer strength of will and determination,” her sister Jessica Vertullo Maher wrote. “Her adult life was spent battling the repercussions of her illness in a body that refused to heal,” she wrote, but “her courage and tenacity kept her with us until the age of 42.”

Ms. Vertullo died on Friday at New York Hospital Queens. A service will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church, with a reception following in the session house.

Jenna Joy Vertullo was born in Southampton on Nov. 14, 1972. She graduated from East Hampton High School and attended college in Florida for a time before returning to East Hampton.

“She loved the beach, swimming, water, sunsets, sunrises, simple pleasures,” her mother said. She also enjoyed horseback riding, movies, and the arts. Because her health challenges limited what she could do, “she read everything she could,” said her father, Richard Lia. “She probably could have been a book reviewer,” he said.

Her parents “rarely left her side and cared for her day in and day out,” wrote Ms. Maher, who described herself as her sister’s best friend and confidante. Her sister’s husband, David Maher, was like a brother to Ms. Vertullo, her family said, and her dog, Maximus, “brought her peace and joy through her hardest times.”

“She taught those who knew her the meaning of forgiveness, compassion, and the strength to love,” wrote Ms. Maher, who lives in Southampton and Manhattan.

Also surviving Ms. Vertullo are another sister, Nancy Lia of Stuart, Fla., and a grandmother, Emily Barber of Eastport. Her parents live in East Hampton.

The family has suggested contributions to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis 38105, or online at stjude.org.

A memorial service will be held on Jan. 17 at 2 p.m. at the Southampton Presbyterian Church for Charlotte Fordham Rogers Smith of Water Mill, who died of pneumonia at Southampton Hospital on Dec. 14 at the age of 95.

Mrs. Smith, a pianist, organist, and teacher who was the choir director of the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church for more than 40 years, founded the Choral Society of the Hamptons in 1946 with a brother, Henry Fordham, and remained its driving force for many years. Known among her students as a taskmaster as well as an inspiration, she underwrote the society’s 50th anniversary summer performance, explaining that she wanted to be around to see the results.

She was born in Southampton on May 18, 1919, to Henry Halsey Fordham and the former Charlotte Post. She had seen Toscanini conduct in New York City at the age of 11 and was said to have chosen to attend New York University, from which she graduated with a degree in education in 1941, because it was near Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Opera. She taught for a time in Campbell, N.Y., after graduation.

In 1942, she was married to Harold Hildreth Rogers, a Water Mill poultry and potato farmer who reportedly had as many as 2,000 laying hens at one time, and she took on farm chores while also having a busy teaching career. After his death, she and Dinwiddie Smith of Bridgehampton were married in 1985.

Mrs. Smith remained active as an organist and teacher until her 80s and also played host at Sunday morning chamber music sessions at home. Although her life was dedicated to music, she was proud of her local farming and whaling heritage, and had written her memoirs.

She is survived by four children, James Hildreth Rogers of Newnan, Ga., Ann Rogers Morgan of Fort Myers, Fla., and Susan Rogers Grun and Paul Fordham Rogers, both of Water Mill. Paul Rogers, an architect, lives in the historic house on the Rogers farm. Mrs. Smith also is survived by six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Her family has suggested memorial donations to a charity of one’s choice or to the East End Special Players, 1514 Montauk Highway, Water Mill 11976, or the Choral Society of the Hamptons, P.O. Box 1031, Bridgehampton 11932.

Correction: Charlotte Fordham Rogers' memorial service will be held on Jan. 17, contrary to what was originally reported. 

Yaeko Lawler, who lived in East Hampton with her husband, Thomas H. Lawler, in the late 1950s and early ’60s and kept a house here until the 1990s, died in Bowie, Md., on Dec. 22 after a long illness. She was 82.

Mrs. Lawler was born in Osaka, Japan, on Oct. 15, 1932, to Eitarou Yukawa and the former Ikuno Ohe. She grew up in Japan and was married in June 1956 to Mr. Lawler, an East Hampton native. The couple lived on Three Mile Harbor Road from 1957 to 1963, when they relocated to Bowie.

She is survived by their sons, Mark Lawler of Millersville, Md., and Thomas Lawler of Bowie. She also leaves six grandchildren, a great-grandchild, and two sisters, who live in Japan. Her husband died before her, as did a third son, Johnny Lawler.

A service was held on Dec. 31 at the Evans Funeral Home in Bowie.

Susan Ellen Akin of Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., a part-time resident of Montauk until 2002, died of emphysema on Jan. 3 at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Sleepy Hollow. She was 78 and had been in declining health since 2007.

Known as Ellen, she was born on Dec. 9, 1936, in Charles Town, W.V., to Laurence W. Lloyd and Susan Ellen Jones Lloyd and grew up there, eventually attending Duke University in Durham, N.C. She married Robert M. Akin III on July 2, 1960, and they began coming to Montauk after their marriage. Mr. Akin died in 2002.

 The couple had three children, Susan E. Akin and Johanna Akin of Sleepy Hollow and Robert M. Akin IV of Manhattan Beach, Calif. In addition to her children, five grandchildren survive, as does a brother, Laurence W. Lloyd Jr. of Charles Town.

The family has suggested memorial contributions to Phelps Memorial Hospital, 701 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow 10591. A small gathering of friends and family will take place on Saturday in Sleepy Hollow.

Sydney Steven Griffin, a longtime resident of Northwest Landing Road in East Hampton and a dedicated merchant seaman, died on Christmas Day at Southampton Hospital. He was 76 and had been in declining health for several years.

Mr. Griffin graduated from the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point in 1960, going to work on tankers and freighters. At 25, he achieved master ranking, becoming the youngest person to captain ships of unlimited tonnage since World War II. After leaving the merchant marine, he went to work in 1965 on Columbia University research vessels. One of his sons, Sydney Griffin Jr. of Hampton Bays, recalled how excited he was when his father took him along. The task was to scoop up material from the ocean floor so that scientists could examine it.

Mr. Griffin worked for Columbia for 10 years, eventually contracting with the Navy’s Military Sealift Command to transport troops and supplies to ports around the world. Navy Commodore J.W. Arens commended Mr. Griffin for his performance during the Persian Gulf War, writing that his ship, the U.S.N.S. Antares, had “performed to the highest standards.”

Toward the end of his seagoing career, Mr. Griffin ran cruise ships around the Hawaiian Islands, which, his sister Kathleen Griffin of Hilton Head, S.C., said in an email, was probably his favorite assignment.

He was born in the Bronx on Aug. 8 1938, to Sydney Griffin and the former Catherine McEnery. “His parents purchased a cottage on Northwest Creek in 1952,” his sister said, which was without running water or electricity. He was 14 at the time, and the cottage was his magical escape from the housing projects in the Bronx where he was growing up. Spending teen summers in East Hampton, surrounded by water, nurtured his love of the sea.

Mr. Griffin has lived in the Northwest Woods house for the past 38 years, calling it home for at least part of the year for the past 60 years. He is survived by his life companion of the last 25 years, Margery Hadar, and three children, who, in addition to Sydney Griffin of Hampton Bays, are a son, Luke Griffin of Tucson, Ariz., and a daughter, Spencer Shea of Pittsburgh. He also is survived by another sister, Mary Hall of Seaford, and by four grandchildren.

The family plans to hold a memorial service on Aug. 8, his birthday.