Ernestine Lassaw of Springs died at Southampton Hospital on Friday. She was 101. A memorial will be announced for a date in the fall. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Patricia A. Reilly Dunn, who lived on Newtown Lane in East Hampton for 50 years and in that time managed the Sea Spray Inn and worked as a real estate broker at the Windward and Devlin McNiff agencies, died on Aug. 13 at home in Ridge after a brief illness. She was 89.

In 1957, she and her husband, Joseph F.X. Dunn, whom she had married on March 9, 1952, moved with their three children to East Hampton, eventually settling on Newtown Lane in the village. They had three more children while living there.

“She was loyal, selfless, and loving,” her family said. They also remembered her as a talented writer and as someone who loved art.

Over the course of 50 years here, she was part of the community as a member of the Ladies Village Improvement Society and through her involvement with the public schools. Her family said she enjoyed her friends, a bridge club, long days at Main Beach, the Nature Trail in the village, and Amagansett’s Fresh Pond. She also enjoyed crossword puzzles, cards, bingo, boccie, and shuffleboard.

 “She celebrated the simple things in life and embraced every moment,” her family said.

Born on April 14, 1925, in Brooklyn, her parents were Anna and Patrick Reilly. “Along with her twin sister, Joan M. Wrzesinski, they entered the world full of life, energy, and love for one another,” her family wrote.

She attended St. Anselm Elementary School and Bishop McDonnell High School in Brooklyn. She then attended secretarial school and went on to work for New York Life Insurance and Bethlehem Steel.

Mrs. Dunn is survived by her six children: Christopher S. Dunn of Louisville, Ky., Elizabeth I. White and Margaret E. Dunn of East Hampton, Bernadette C. Danieley of Somis, Calif., Joseph P. Dunn of Ventura, Calif., and Eileen A. Moran of Merrick. Thirteen grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, and her twin sister, who lives in Brooklyn, also survive.

In addition to her husband of 47 years, two brothers, Robert Reilly and Joseph Reilly, and a granddaughter, Kendra Dunn, died before her. She was also predeceased by a brother-in-law, John J. Wrzesinski, whom her family called one of her “best pals.”

A Mass was said at St. Mark’s Catholic Church in Shoreham on Aug. 18, followed by burial at Calverton National Cemetery.

Her family has suggested that memorial contributions be made to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978, or St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, Tenn. 38105.

William G. Abel of Baiting Hollow Road in East Hampton died at home on Friday at 92. No service is planned. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Rena Hewie Stoutt, who owned Jamaica Specialties on North Main Street in East Hampton, died at Stony Brook University Hospital on Aug. 12, two days after her 64th birthday. A wake was held on Tuesday at Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton and a funeral was held yesterday at Calvary Baptist Church, also in East Hampton. Burial was at Cedar Lawn Cemetery on Cooper Lane. A full obituary will appear in a future issue.

Nancy Ann Lazar had faced cancer with such grace over the past four years that her family tried to convince her to write a book titled “Top 10 Ways to Look Hot While You Have Cancer” to share what they called “her recipe for success.”

Her secrets: “Get your hair done, dress fashionably, walk three miles every day, always have a pedicure, go to China because you want to, dance on New Year’s, spend every Thursday night on the beach with friends, and wake up every morning to say to yourself in the mirror, ‘You’re beautiful. I love you.’ ”

Ms. Lazar, who lived on Aberdeen Lane in Sag Harbor for 27 years, died on Aug. 14 at the age of 57.

“Nancy was equally as tough as she was warm-hearted,” her family wrote. “She was strong, and brave, and caring,” they said, adding that she taught many to confront cancer with the same attitude. 

She was born on May 18, 1957, in Queens to Joseph Szukalewicz and the former Ann Gudonis, both of whom died before her.

She “was notorious for starting food fights, waking people up early on their birthday, staying up late to watch thunderstorms, and jumping out of a closet to scare you,” her family remembered. A graphic designer, she was creative and pursued her career with “unfaltering self-confidence and knowledge of her own self-worth.” Her two daughters said she was a role model for them. She was also a dedicated gardener who spent hours “growing vegetables that she used to prepare huge and delicious meals.”

Ms. Lazar is survived by her husband, Peter Lazar, her son, Chris Lazar of Duxbury, Mass., and her daughters, Jen Lazar of Richmond, Vt., and Morgan Lazar of Sag Harbor.

A wake was held on Friday evening at Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor, and a Mass was said at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Sag Harbor on Saturday morning, followed by burial at Pinelawn Cemetery in Farmingdale.

During the last year of her life, Ms. Lazar and her family received support from Lucia’s Angels, a foundation that supports women and their families through the late stages of terminal cancer. Her family suggested donations be made in her name to the foundation online at luciasangels.org.

Ellen Emma Dracker, who lived in East Hampton for 67 of her 88 years, died on Saturday at Southampton Hospital. She had suffered a broken femur and a series of strokes in May.

Mrs. Dracker was fun-loving and family-oriented, her children wrote, always welcoming guests with her latest home-baked treat, as warmly as if they were members of the family. Among her specialties were brownies, sour cream twists, and stollen, a traditional German cake.

Born in Queens on April 16, 1926, to Werner Graulich, a carbonic gas and beer distributor, and the former Ella Smith, Mrs. Dracker took up ballet and tap-dancing as a child and later demonstrated her skills in an instructional film for Paramount Pictures. She also worked as a hat and hand model, and as a telephone operator for the New York Telephone Company in Brooklyn. She enjoyed horseback riding in Central Park and going to the movies, her family said.

Writing letters to servicemen from her neighborhood who were fighting in World War II, she came to know her future husband. When George Dracker, who survives, returned from the war, they were married, on Aug. 28, 1945. They lived in Carmel, N.Y., later settling in East Hampton when Mr. Dracker took a job as a linotype operator at The Star.

After living on Main Street for several years, the couple built a house on Dayton Lane, where their six children grew up. Mrs. Dracker served as a Brownie and Girl Scout leader and volunteered for the Dominican Sisters and the Altar Society of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church here.

In addition to her husband of 69 years, she is survived by her children, Barbara Dracker and Pune Dracker of New York City, Patricia Dracker and George Dracker of East Hampton, Ellen Dracker Mullen of Hyattsville, Md., and Merilyn Dracker Bellafiore of Sag Harbor. Four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren also survive, as do many nieces and nephews. A brother and sister died before her.

A funeral Mass was offered yesterday at Most Holy Trinity before burial in the church cemetery. The family has suggested memorial donations to Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, 79 Buell Lane, East Hampton 11937, or Smile Train, which provides training and funding for local doctors in developing countries to provide free cleft-lip repair, at P.O. Box 96231, Washington, D.C. 20090-6231, or smiletrain.org.

“In honor of Ellen’s beautiful life,” her family wrote, “hand-write a letter to someone you love or enjoy a dish of chocolate ice cream, old-fashioned Hershey’s if you can get it, with whipped cream and a cherry on top.”

Dominick Puglisi took a long and varied path to realizing his life’s dream but when he made it a reality by opening an Italian restaurant, he met with unexpected, though not entirely unforeseeable, success.

A childhood in the kitchens of his Sicilian grandmother and mother left him with a love of food and a sense of how cooking and sharing a meal can create true bonds among people. But it was not until he and his wife had built what they thought would be their retirement house in Arizona that it would come together at last.

Mr. Puglisi opened the Italian Peasant in Tubac, Ariz., in July 2010, initially as a modest place to get real, New York-style pizza. In preparing for the opening, he had been tutored by Michael Mosolino, the owner of Deli Counter Fine Foods in Southampton, whom he knew from his time working as the service manager at Country Imports, a BMW dealer nearby, his wife, Kim D. Rocco Puglisi, said.

Quickly, the Italian Peasant gained a loyal following and demand grew. Mr. Puglisi was able to secure more space and added tables, serving both year-round residents and wintering people from the coasts. Ms. Puglisi attributed the restaurant’s success as much to the food, much of which was made from recipes passed on by his mother and grandmother, as to his outgoing and welcoming personality.

Mr. Puglisi died of multiple myeloma at his house on Blue Jay Way in East Hampton on Aug. 8. He was 59.

He was born in Brooklyn on July 11, 1955, to Alfred A. Puglisi and the former Clara Calutti. The family moved to Selden and then to Patchogue. He graduated from Patchogue-Medford High School.

Later, he went to trade school in Colorado before returning to Long Island to work as a mechanic at a service station. That job ended when an expansion project on the Sunrise Highway required the place to be bulldozed. He then ran his own service station in Islip.

During that period, he met and proposed to his future wife, who worked for a large bank. They moved east when she was assigned to a branch in Sag Harbor and married on May 17, 1987.

They bought their property in Tubac in the late 1990s, Ms. Puglisi said, and built the house in 2004. In the four years that he ran his restaurant, it grew to have 27 employees and about 80 seats. Staff members, some of whom flew east for his Aug. 13 funeral in Patchogue, now run it in his absence.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by his brothers and sisters, Anthony Puglisi of Patchogue, Nancy Puglisi of North Miami Beach, James Puglisi of Fort Pierce, Fla., and Concetta Puglisi of Homestead, Fla., and many nieces and nephews.

He was buried at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Coram.

Geraldine G. Webb, whose life was devoted to her family, her church, and traveling the nation’s roads and waterways with her husband, Richard F. Webb, who survives her, died at home in Punta Gorda, Fla., on July 14. She was 82 and had been ill for the past few years, her family said.

Mrs. Webb was born in East Hampton on May 24, 1932, to Norman and Abigail Gould, and lived on Toilsome Lane while growing up. After attending East Hampton High School, she graduated from Skidmore College in 1954. On Dec. 18, 1954, she married Mr. Webb, whom she knew growing up and called her “sandbox sweetheart.” The couple moved to Port Washington in 1955 but continued to spend summers in Montauk at the home of her husband’s father, Richard B. Webb Sr.

During the summers, the Webbs traveled throughout the Northeast and Midwest on a Krogen trawler, which they lived on. They also took to the road in a motor home owned by David and Gail Webb of Montauk, her brother-in-law and sister-in-law.

In 1996, the couple moved to Punta Gorda, where Mrs. Webb was a deacon in the Burnt Store Presbyterian Church and a member of its handbell choir. She was also a member and past president of the P.E.O. Sisterhood, which provides educational opportunities to women, and was active in Meals on Wheels.

According to Mrs. Webb’s daughters, who composed a statement for the funeral service, “Her creative abilities were boundless. She could throw a clambake, sew a wedding dress, write poetry, build a dollhouse, and anything else she set her mind to.”

In addition to her husband, Mrs. Webb is survived by three children, Pamela Bunn of Hawaii, Wendy Kimball of Doylestown, Pa., and Holly Gerraughty of Duxbury, Mass. A brother, Charles Gould of Water Mill, and eight grandchildren also survive. Her daughter Lori Webb predeceased her.

A funeral service was held on July 18 at the Burnt Store Presbyterian Church, led by the Rev. Tim Stewart, the church’s pastor. Her ashes were buried at Fort Hill Cemetery in Montauk.

The family has suggested donations to the Burnt Store Presbyterian Church, 11330 Burnt Store Road, Punta Gorda, Fla. 33955, or to Tidewell Hospice, 900 Tamiami Trail, #111, Punta Gorda, Fla. 33950.

Raymond J. McCarthy, a cabinet and furniture maker who lived in Montauk and Sag Harbor for more than 30 years, died of kidney failure related to prostate cancer complications on Saturday at Hyder Family Hospice House in Dover, N.H. He was 67 and lived in Wolfeboro, N.H.

Mr. McCarthy moved to Montauk from Kearny, N.J., in 1972 primarily because of his love of the water. He became close friends with many of the local fishermen and cooked at several Montauk restaurants, including the Westlake Fishing Lodge, the Montauket, and the Montauk Yacht Club, where he met his wife, Denise Bernier McCarthy, who survives him.

For 20 years, until he moved to New Hampshire in 2005, he operated Ray McCarthy Custom Woodwork and left his “brand” on a number of pieces on the South Fork. After moving to Wolfeboro, he worked as facilities manager for the Wright Museum, where he built display cases and other custom furniture for the museum’s World War II-related collections.

Mr. McCarthy was born in Kearny on Sept. 9, 1946, to Raymond J. McCarthy and the former Isabel McCauley. He served in the Army in Vietnam from 1965 to 1967. He married Denise Bernier on Jan. 29, 1979. While living here, he had several magazine articles published and was a regular contributor to The East Hampton Star’s fiction column. A self-taught pedal steel guitar player, he performed with a band in New Hampshire.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by two children, Matthew McCarthy of Wolfeboro and James McCarthy of East Wakefield, N.H., and four siblings, Sue Ackerson and Jeanne Stout of Toms River, N.J., MaryAnn Ragany of Princeton, N.J., and Lorraine McCarthy of Atlantic City.

A funeral service will be held today at 10:30 a.m. at First Christian Church in Wolfeboro, of which he was a member. The Rev. Thom Christian will preside. Mr. McCarthy will be buried at Lakeview Cemetery in Wolfeboro.

The family has suggested memorial contributions to Hyder Family Hospice House, 285 County Farm Road, Dover, N.H. 03820.

John Sadowsky Jr., who at one time managed East Hampton Bowl, died on Aug. 6 at home in Onancock, Va. He was 75. The cause of death was liver disease, his family said.

Mr. Sadowsky was born on Dec. 18, 1938, at Southampton Hospital, to John Paul Sadowsky and the former Antonia Wazlo. He grew up in East Hampton, graduating from East Hampton High School.

He was in the United States Navy for two years, stationed in Virginia. He then worked for Grumman Aircraft before becoming the manager of the East Hampton bowling lanes.

Moving on, he went into business for himself as a contractor and builder. In the mid-1990s, he built a waterfront house in Virginia and moved there to live shortly after. He worked until his illness was diagnosed, about a month before his death.

His family said he loved the blackjack tables at the Harrington, Del., and Atlantic City casinos. Other interests included “fast cars, furniture-making, gardening, and spending long holidays with his children here in East Hampton.”

Mr. Sadowsky’s first marriage, to Phyllis Dellgren of East Hampton, ended in divorce. They were married from 1960 to 1975. His partner of 25 years, Mary Alice Condon, died in 2011.

Three daughters and a son survive. They are Barbara Lester of East Hampton, John W. Sadowsky of Sagaponack, Donna Vorpahl of East Hampton, and Heidi Cavallo of Southold. He leaves nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Mr. Sadowsky had been a member of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton. His ashes will be buried in the church cemetery in the fall.

Memorial donations have been suggested to Hospice and Palliative Care of the Eastern Shore, 165 Market Street, Suite 3, Onancock, Va. 23417.