Irvin Choron, who was “bitten by the Montauk bug when he caught a record-breaking striper off the beach at Atlantic Terrace in the 1960s,” died on Aug. 31 at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Conn. He was 86 and had been ill with pneumonia for a week.

Mr. Choron lived in Rye, N.Y., and had a second home on Old Montauk Highway in Montauk starting in the 1970s, “spending as much time there with his wife and family as possible, casting into the surf on the Hither Hills beaches,” his family said.

A Holocaust survivor who emigrated to New York after World War II, he was born in Lithuania on Feb. 23, 1928, to Boris and Bertha Choron. When he was 11, the family was put in a ghetto, and later sent to Dachau. His mother died days before the camp was liberated.

He came to New York as a teenager with his father and brother, Morris, unable to read or speak English and with only enough money for a three-day hotel stay, his family wrote. He studied hard, not only to learn the new language but to become an American citizen. “His first job was at a Russian deli, where he made the bargain to work strictly for food,” said the family. He later took jobs as a waiter in the Catskills, with the dream of one day owning his own business.

On June 14, 1952, he married Lee VonDorfer, also an immigrant, who during the war had been smuggled out of Austria to England by train at the age of 8. They had met just 10 days earlier, said a granddaughter, Deborah Choron, and had tried to marry even sooner.

By the time their two sons, Gregory and Douglas, were born, the Chorons had achieved their American dream, establishing the Grand Department Store in Pelham, N.Y., a 5&10 and variety store.

Later in life Mr. Choron became interested in boating and obtained an advanced marine pilot’s license.

His family said they “will forever be inspired by his legacy.”

He is survived by his wife, his sons, Gregory Choron of Rye and Montauk and Douglas Choron of Rye, and by three granddaughters. His brother died before him.

A graveside service was held on Sept. 1 at Sharon Gardens in Valhalla, N.Y., Rabbi Norton Shargel officiating.

Anneliese Schieferstein, who lived on Rolling Woods Court in Wainscott for about 25 years, died there last Thursday, five days shy of her 90th birthday. She had been in declining health for some time and in hospice care for about two weeks, said her son, Ernest George Schieferstein Jr.

His mother was always socially conscious, he said. She made blankets for refugees in Europe, prepared food for those in need, and volunteered for what used to be known as the “migrant lunch program” for Catholic Charities on the South Fork, despite not being a Catholic. In time, she ran the program. “She instilled in us a consciousness about the world,” Mr. Schieferstein said.

Born in the small German village of Schlierbach, in the Black Forest, on Sept. 9, 1924, Mrs. Schieferstein came to America at the age of 10. Her father, Baldwin Weiss, had gone to New York to work as a shipbuilder, and sent for his wife, Elsa Berenfeld Weiss, and their three children. They settled in Richmond Hill, Queens.

Despite knowing no English, Mrs. Schieferstein learned the language quickly, becoming an honor student at P.S. 54 within a year. She valued education, her son said, and always called it “the greatest gift.” She loved to read and had a keen interest in history.

When she was 16, she met Ernest George Schieferstein at a Richmond Hill High School dance. They married four years later, on May 4, 1944 during World War II, just before Mr. Schieferstein was deployed to England, and celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary this year. Her husband survives.

After he returned from the war the couple lived for a time in Queens before moving to Baldwin, where they raised two children. Mrs. Schieferstein taught Sunday school there, and took pride in her garden. Locally, she was a member of Incarnation Lutheran Church in Bridgehampton.

They Schiefersteins moved to the South Fork, where they had long visited friends, after Mr. Schieferstein retired. His wife volunteered for many years at the Southampton Hospital thrift shop, in addition to Catholic Charities.

Besides her husband and her son, who lives on North Haven, she leaves a daughter, Kristine Kim of Wainscott, and three grandchildren. Her siblings, Margaret Smith and Fredrick Weiss, twins, predeceased her.

A service was held on Monday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor. Burial followed at Calverton National Cemetery.

The family has suggested memorial donations for East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.

Joan A. Schellinger was many things — a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a friend, a volunteer — and will be remembered as a woman who cared deeply about her family, letting them know they were at the center of her life, they said.

A native of Bridgehampton who lived in Springs for many years, Mrs. Schellinger died on Aug. 30 at Southampton Hospital, surrounded by her family. She was 78 and had cancer.

Born to Chester and Julia Lewandowski in Bridgehampton on April 5, 1936, she graduated from the Bridgehampton School with high honors, receiving an award for an essay about the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Shortly thereafter, in 1954, she married Stanley Schellinger, who went by Pep. They raised their four children in Springs. He died in August 2011. On Sept. 5, the couple would have celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.

Mrs. Schellinger was fond of bingo, scratch-off lottery tickets, crossword puzzles, card games, yard work, and comedy TV shows, and had a deep appreciation for nature. As a young adult, she chaperoned field trips and helped with Girl Scout meetings, and enjoyed watching the various sports played by her children and grandchildren.

She volunteered at the blood drive in Amagansett for more than 25 years and at the East Hampton Healthcare Center, where she was a familiar and welcoming face.

Mrs. Schellinger is survived by her children, Charles Schellinger and Yvonne Wood of Springs, Evelyn Shields of Amagansett, and Wendy Schwob of Vero Beach, Fla. Seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren also survive her, and she leaves three siblings: Eleanor Weber of Connecticut, Marsha Weaver of Florida, and Leon Lewandowski of Colorado.

The family has suggested donations in her name to the Springs Fire Department Ambulance Fund, 179 Fort Pond Boulevard, East Hampton 11937, or the East Hampton blood drive, which is run through American Legion Post 419 at 15 Montauk Highway, Amagansett 11930.

Douglas Mulaire, an artist, educator, and fishing and gardening enthusiast, died of pancreatic cancer on Monday at home in East Hampton. He was 65.

A professor of photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, he lived in Brooklyn as well as East Hampton. He “loved the light and beauty of the East End,” his wife, Susan Taylor, wrote.

Mr. Mulaire was born in Stamford, Conn., on Sept. 28, 1948, to Victor J. Mulaire and the former Vera Walden. He graduated from Boston College and earned his master’s degree in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Ms. Taylor said her husband was “appreciated and remembered as a kind, thoughtful, and calm friend, teacher, and colleague.”

“He loved food and nothing brought him more pleasure than cooking, using what he could harvest or catch from the ocean or pick from his garden for friends and family.” She also remarked on his “wonderful sense of humor and delightful storytelling.”

In addition to his wife, Mr. Mulaire is survived by a sister, Juanita Cullen of Vienna, Va., and two brothers, Vic Mulaire of Easton, Conn., and Larry Mulaire of Barnstable, Mass.

The family has suggested donations to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978. A memorial service will be held in Brooklyn at a later date.

Mia Bella Zingarelli, the daughter of Noah Zingarelli and Francesca Buffo, died on Sept. 1 at Boston Children’s Hospital, “in her mother’s arms, her favorite place in the world,” her family wrote. She was 7.

Mia Bella was born with a rare metabolic disorder, pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency, at Stony Brook University Hospital on Feb. 10, 2007. She spent the first two months of her life in the neonatal intensive care unit there before being transferred to Boston Children’s Hospital, where she was cared for by Dr. Gerard Berry, head of the pediatric metabolism program.

Her parents, who are both from the South Fork and had lived in Bridgehampton before her birth, opted to stay in Newton, Mass., outside Boston, when Mia Bella was finally well enough to go home so that the family could be near the hospital. Even at home, she required around-the-clock care.

“Despite all odds, Mia Bella thrived and her strong spirit grew, inspiring all who were lucky enough to be a part of her life,” her family wrote. She loved spending time with her parents, and she loved attending the Campus School at Boston College, where she learned and experienced “many wonderful things.”

Her parents said she enjoyed listening to music, going for walks outside, and “cuddling with Mom and her binky on the couch.” She had “a true love for life, and never let her disabilities limit her enjoyment of everything her parents, teachers, and caregivers shared with her. Her only wish was to be accepted and loved, and she received both in kind.”

In addition to her parents, Mia Bella is survived by her grandparents, Martha and Jerry Buffo of Bridgehampton, Michael and Marilyn Zingarelli of Southampton, and Donna Zingarelli of East Hampton.

A memorial service will be held at Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Bridgehampton on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m.

Her family has suggested donations to help defray expenses to the Mia Bella Memorial Fund at gofundme.com/miracleformia, or P.O. Box 1463, Bridgehampton 11932.

A funeral for Harold R. Simmons Jr. will be held at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton on Sunday at 3 p.m., with the Rev Denis Brunelle officiating. Mr. Simmons died at home in East Hampton on Aug. 12. He was 74. An obituary for him that appeared in last Thursday’s issue incorrectly listed the date of his funeral.

A celebration-of-life gathering will be held at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Barbara Osborn Babinski Meyer, a lifelong Wainscott resident who died at home on Sunday. She was 89. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Visiting hours for Carl Darenberg Jr., who died on Sunday in Montauk, will be today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

His funeral will be tomorrow at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk at 10 a.m.; the Rev. Bill Hoffmann of the Montauk Community Church will officiate. Burial will be at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton.

Mr. Darenberg’s family has suggested that memorial contributions be made to a shark fishing tournament of which Mr. Darenberg was founder and annual organizer. Donations can be made at sharkseyetournament.com/donate. The annual no-kill contest has been renamed the Carl Darenberg Tag and Release Shark Tournament in his honor.

An obituary for Mr. Darenberg will appear in a future issue.

A celebration of the life of the late David Carney was held at the Bridgehampton Senior Center last Thursday. A former United Nations economist who retired to Sag Harbor in 1985, Dr. Carney died in Southampton on May 8.

Dr. Carney, who arrived in this county from Sierra Leone in 1953 for a professorship at Lincoln University, earned five degrees between 1945 and 1952. Earlier in life he had been a high school teacher, a high school headmaster in Ghana, and a statistician for the Nigerian government.

In addition to Lincoln University, a historically black university in Pennsylvania, Dr. Carney taught at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania, and Antioch College in Ohio. He returned to Sierra Leone as a government economic advisor in 1961, and, between 1963 and 1984, worked in West Africa, East Africa, and the West Indies through the United Nations Development Programme, the World Health Organization, and the Food and Agriculture Organization.

The author of several books on economics, philosophy, and religion, he also wrote a literary memento mori to his first wife, Helen, after her death in 1976. He was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, Rotary International, and a lifetime member of the Royal Economic Society.

In retirement, Dr. Carney pursued a wide range of interests from alternative medicine to philosophy. In the electronic age, his personal mission was the preservation of the written word, his family said. He was always ready with a word of advice for those close to him, they wrote, and had been active in the Coalition of Neighborhoods for the Preservation of Sag Harbor. He also volunteered with the Sag Harbor Food Pantry.

A profilic writer of letters to The East Hampton Star over the years, Dr. Carney addressed a wide range of topics including domestic and foreign policy, immigration, and science. He was a harsh critic of the George W. Bush administration and particularly the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In a March 2000 letter about the National Rifle Association, Dr. Carney wrote, “Only a perverted mind would treat causing death, to nonhuman and human animals, as a ‘sport.’ And since there is no way to prevent perverted minds from coming into being, we can at least make it less likely for such minds to follow through with corresponding action by rigorously controlling and restricting general access to death-dealing weapons by the entire population, criminal-minded and not.”

Dr. Carney is survived by a daughter who has asked that her name not be used, by one other child, and by two grandchildren. His second wife, Ellen, died before him.

Memorial donations have been suggested to the Bridgehampton Senior Center, P.O. Box 1059, Bridgehampton 11932, the John Jermain Memorial Library, 34 West Water Street, Sag Harbor 11963 or johnjermain.org, or to UNICEF, 125 Maiden Lane, New York 10038,  or unicef.org. 

James D. Griffin, who built a house in Montauk in 1984, died last Thursday at Southampton Hospital. He suffered a fatal heart attack after a morning of fishing while heading back into Montauk Harbor, his family said.

Mr. Griffin was a dedicated fisherman who docked his boat Next Move, a 28-foot BHM, at the Montauk Marine Basin. “He loved being out on the water,” said his daughter Cara Griffin of Astoria, Queens. “He enjoyed teaching his grandchildren to fish, too. In the wintertime he did a lot of crossword puzzles, biding his time until he could get his boat back in the water,” she said.

“His family takes some comfort in knowing that he left this earth while out on his boat on the water in the place he loved so much, Montauk,” his daughter wrote. She thanked the Coast Guard, the Montauk Fire Department, the East Hampton police, Southampton Hospital staff, “his fishing buddy Artie, and everyone else who made an effort to save him on the morning of his death.”

Mr. Griffin first visited Montauk as a child when his father brought him out from White Plains, N.Y., to fish. Later, when he had a family, he kept a boat in Westchester and used to drive it out with them, docking at Snug Harbor Marina.

He and his wife of 46 years, Roberta Griffin, a nurse at the Southampton Hospital emergency room, moved to their Agnew Avenue house in Montauk full time in 2002. They had sold their house in Armonk in 1997, and lived for a time in Valhalla, N.Y., before moving to Montauk.

He was born on March 4, 1947, in White Plains, to John A. Griffin and the former Helen Sheehan. He graduated from White Plains High School in 1965. When his father died in 1970, he took over the family business, John A. Griffin Sons Moving Company, and ran it until 2002. “He was never one to sit behind a desk,” his daughter said.

Mr. Griffin traveled with his wife in retirement, and liked to read mystery books. Mainly he was always down by the docks or fishing for fluke or striped bass with friends, his daughter said.

In addition to his wife and daughter Cara, he is survived by another daughter, Julie Gomes of Warwick, R.I., and a son, James Griffin Jr. of Forest Hills. He also leaves four grandchildren, a brother, John Griffin of Florida, and  a sister, Geraldine Griffin of Washington State.

A wake will be held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m. A Mass will be said at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk on Saturday at 11 a.m. He will be cremated.

His family suggested memorial contributions to the Montauk Food Pantry at St. Therese, 50 South Dorset Drive, Montauk 11954.