A memorial Mass for Hedwig Lukas, who died at home in the Ditch Plain area of Montauk on Sunday, will be said at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk today at 10 a.m. Mrs. Lukas, who was 101, was known as Heddy.

Burial will be at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

    James Thomason died on Monday at home in Sag Harbor. He was 66 and the owner of the Morris Studio, a photo lab in Southampton. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Tibor Klein, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor and seasonal Montauk resident who kept a boat at Navy Road there for many years, died yesterday at Chilton Hospital in Pompton Plains, N.J. Known as Teddy, he was 82 and had suffered from heart disease for many years.

Mr. Klein loved fishing, both from the beach and from his boat, and was proud of a trophy he earned for a striped bass he caught while surfcasting. He enjoyed fixing things and giving new life to items he found at the Montauk recycling center. He also enjoyed growing vegetables, cooking, and entertaining.

Born in Budapest on Jan. 30, 1932, he was the son of Izidor Klein and the former Karolina Steiner. He grew up there and became a master electrician, with training in cardiac monitors. He had played soccer in his native country, gone on long-distance bike rides, and was in a singing group.

In 2012, Mr. Klein spoke of his experiences during the Holocaust at a Yom Ha’Shoah remembrance at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons in East Hampton. He fought in the Hungarian revolution of 1956 and drove an ambulance back and forth to Austria before coming to the United States.

In February of 1957, he was married to Barbara Cantor. The couple later separated, but remained cordial. Ms. Cantor survives.

After immigrating to this country, Mr. Klein became a chief maintenance engineer at Beth Israel Hospital in Passaic, N.J. He lived in Paterson, N.J., from 1956 to 1958, and then in Clifton, N.J. He was a member of Passaic County Elks Club and the New Jersey Sportsmen’s Club, and he was a Mets fan who loved watching the team’s games.

Mr. Klein is survived by three children, Charlotte Klein Sasso of Amagansett, Michael Klein of Cranbury, N.J., and Harry Klein of North Caldwell, N.J. A brother, Eugene Klein of Miami, and three grandchildren also survive.

A service will be held this morning at the Jewish Memorial Chapel in Clifton, with Rabbi Eric Wisnia of Congregation Beth Chaim in Princeton Junction, N.J., presiding. Burial will follow at the Menorah Cemetery in Clifton.

Memorial contributions have been suggested to the Deborah Hospital, deborahfoundation.org, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, jdrf.org, or the Jewish Center of the Hamptons, 44 Woods Lane, East Hampton 11937.

Hedwig Lucas, who began vacationing in Montauk in 1960 and became a full-time resident in 1997, died on July 27 at her Ditch Plain residence. Known to her friends as Heddy, she was 101 years old.

Her only child, Joseph Lukas of Montauk, said the family used to come to the hamlet every summer. “They stayed at Deep Hollow Ranch for many, many years,” and also camped at Hither Hills State Park. His mother “loved to walk around the Lighthouse,” he said.

Born in Ridgewood, Queens, on Dec. 15, 1912, to Louis and Grace Russwurm, Mrs. Lukas was one of eight children. She grew up in Glendale, where she met her future husband, Joseph S. Lukas, at the bookbinding company where she worked. They were married in 1938, and lived at first in Glendale, then in East Meadow.

In 1974, the younger Mr. Lucas built a house on Hoppin Avenue. His father died in 1994, and three years later the son built a house for his mother on the lot next door to his, where she spent the rest of her long life. She was a member of St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church and of the Friends of the Montauk Library, as well as the Montauk chapter of AARP.

Homemaking skills were important to her, her son said. She enjoyed baking and crocheting, and was a great reader.

A memorial mass was held at St. Therese of Lisieux last Thursday, followed by burial at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale.

Karen L. Heaney, a co-founder with her late husband, Dennis Heaney, of East Hampton Electric, died on Aug. 4 in Florida after an illness. She was 70.

Mrs. Heaney, who loved to travel, was especially fond of Disney World in Orlando. She made it a point to visit there at least once a year. Her family said that even if she did not have anyone to join her, she would book a nice room and entice someone, perhaps an eager grandchild, to join her. As far as anyone could recall, the gambit never failed. Nearing her last days, Mrs. Heaney attended a character breakfast at a Disney resort in Vero Beach, Fla., with her four grandchildren.

Mrs. Heaney, who was born on Jan. 18, 1944, in Greenport, met Mr. Heaney there. After falling in love and marrying, the pair moved to East Hampton, where Mr. Heaney was from, about 40 years ago.

Mrs. Heaney was described as personable and gregarious, and she had many friends. She never missed the annual East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society summer fair.

In addition to her fondness for Disney visits, she traveled to Europe and Mexico and enjoyed going on cruises.

East Hampton Electric continues in operation, run by her son Sean P. Heaney of Southampton. In addition to her grandchildren, another son, Ryan B. Heaney of Vero Beach, survives.

Visiting hours will be at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. A funeral service will take place there at 10 a.m. on Saturday.

Pauline Wittmer, who had lived with her daughter on Manor Lane in East Hampton for the past 10 years, died of renal failure on June 29 at San Simeon by the Sound Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Greenport. She was 83 and had been ill for some time.

Mrs. Wittmer was born in Hewlett on Nov. 13, 1931, to Allen Smith and the former Gladys Morrison. She grew up and attended high school there, said her daughter, Jerilyn Giaime.

She was married to Bill Wittmer on Aug. 29, 1948. The couple and their three children lived in Valley Stream, Babylon, and, for 30 years until Mr. Wittmer’s death in 2000, East Hampton. Her mother was a homemaker and a homebody, said Ms. Giame.

Mrs. Wittmer’s father was a military veteran, her daughter said, and she and her husband were friendly with the members of American Legion Post 419 in Amagansett.

In addition to her daughter, a son, Scott Wittmer of East Hampton, survives, as do four grandchildren. Another son, Gary, died before her, as did two brothers.

Funeral services were held on July 2 at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, the Rev. Denis Brunelle officiating. Mrs. Wittmer was cremated.

The family has suggested memorial contributions to San Simeon by the Sound, 61700 Route 48, Greenport 11944.

Dorothy T. King, who was in charge of the East Hampton Library’s Long Island Collection for 31 years, died at Southampton Hospital on Saturday following a stroke. She was 84.

A resident of Gerard Drive in Springs for 43 years, Ms. King retired from the library in 2002 but continued to volunteer there until 2005. She was “a gold mine of information,” Ann Chapman, a library board member, told The Star for a story about Ms. King after her retirement.

“There aren’t very many people not only with a store of firsthand personal knowledge — she is a King, after all — but also the professional ability to get that information out,” Helen A. Harrison, curator of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, told the reporter. Ms. King’s forebears were among East Hampton’s Town’s first settlers.

The Long Island Collection, started by Morton Pennypacker in 1930, contains one-of-a-kind documents including letters, deeds, town trustee records, whaling logs, and more. Ms. King helped to collect, catalog, organize, and protect thousands of documents at a time when grants and other funds were not available for such tasks. In 1997, she helped oversee the expansion of the Long Island Collection.

After the collection began to be digitized in 1999, Ms. King helped people from all over the world find information on their genealogical roots or for historical investigations. She not only assisted in research on material within the library’s walls, but helped to connect researchers with people living in the community.

Over the years, she helped filmmakers looking for historical background for movies such as “Amistad” and “Grey Gardens,” and countless authors. She used to keep track of all the acknowledgements she received in books, but eventually abandoned the idea when there were too many. “Origins of the Past: The Story of Montauk and Gardiner’s Island” (2013), the fifth volume of a series relating to the history of East Hampton Town, was dedicated to Ms. King.

Tom Twomey, the library board’s chairman, said that “Ms. King has had a profound influence on generations of amateur East Hampton historians. I remember the rainy Saturday that I wandered into the Long Island Collection and met her for the first time. As with so many others, Dorothy got me hooked on local history.”

She knew “not only where each item was located, but its provenance and related documents as well,” Mr. Twomey said. “History was in her blood. She devoted her life’s work to making the Collection accessible to all the professional and amateur historians in the community.”

Ms. King was born on Sept. 27, 1929, at her grandparents’ house on Fireplace Road in Springs. Her parents were Clarence E. King and the former Elizabeth Baker. In 1936, her father drowned at sea while trying to save a friend who had fallen overboard. Her mother later married Charles A. Raynor.

Having always had an interest in East Hampton’s history, Ms. King began working for the library while a high school student, earning 25 cents an hour. After graduating from East Hampton High School in 1947, she went on to earn a degree in library science from the State University at Geneseo, and worked as a school librarian in Valley Stream. From 1948 to 1952 her home was on Gardiner’s Island, where her mother and stepfather were caretakers.

She received a master’s degree as a library media specialist from Long Island University in 1971, the same year she took over the management of what was then known as the Pennypacker Collection. In a 1998 interview with The Star, Ms. King credited Hazel Griffin, who was Mr. Pennypacker’s assistant, with indexing the collection and becoming her mentor.

She kept busy in retirement, volunteering for the food pantry at the Springs Presbyterian Church and Meals on Wheels and as a member of the Springs Historical Society and the Accabonac Protection Society. She remained a member of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton, where her mother had belonged.

She enjoyed gardening, knitting, walking on Gerard Drive, and attending the yoga program at the East Hampton Town Senior Citizens Center twice a week. And, of course, she loved to read. “She was an avid reader, sometimes a book a day up until last week even. The library had a hard time keeping her in books,” said her niece Deanna Tikkanen of Springs.

There was also the business of moving bricks for small patios on her property. Brick by brick, she would rearrange them, even recently.

“She was a very kind and gentle lady,” Ms. Tikkanen said. Her aunt never married and had no children, and her nieces and nephews were like children to her, she said.

In addition to Ms. Tikkanen, she is survived by another niece, Carol MacPherson Elms of East Hampton, and five nephews, four of whom, John C. MacPherson, Clarence E. King III, David M. King, and Sidney Fields, live in the East Hampton area. Barry MacPherson lives in Virginia. Ms. King was predeceased by both her siblings, Clarence E. King Jr. and Alice Bell MacPherson Field.

Visiting hours were at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on Monday, with funeral services the next day at the Springs Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Anthony Larson officiating. Burial followed at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton.

The family has suggested memorial donations for the East Hampton Library, 152 Main Street, East Hampton 11937, the Springs Library, P.O. Box 1860, East Hampton 11937, or the Springs Presbyterian Church, 105 Old Stone Highway, East Hampton 11937.

Elia Millan, a native of Colombia who made Montauk her home for 30 years, died at Southampton Hospital last Thursday. Diagnosed with cancer several years ago, she had not been really ill until two months ago.

Known to her friends as Rosa, Ms. Millan was born on Jan. 31, 1942, and grew up in Colombia before coming to this country. She lived first in Florida, where she worked as a nanny for a family, helping to raise their child, Ana Baldino. The two remained close for the rest of her life. She learned to speak English with the goal of one day becoming an American citizen, which she achieved.

In Montauk she took various jobs, working as a seamstress, cleaning houses, and watching over summer residences during the cold months. The hamlet was the perfect place for her. “She loved to fish. She would go as often as she could,” said Deirdre Luisi-Hands, a friend. “She was my clamming buddy.”

Ms. Millan liked to wake up early in the morning to take walks, and prided herself on her cooking.

Always concerned about the welfare of others, she volunteered at the Montauk Food Pantry at the Outreach Center at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic  Church for many years. She worried about four-footed creatures too, and always found time to care for animals in distress. She was a frequent donor to the Animal Rescue Fund.

She is survived by one daughter, who lives in Colombia. Ms. Baldino lives in Boca Raton, Fla.

“She worked hard her whole life. She didn’t have it easy. But she was a pure Montauk person,” said Ms. Luisi-Hands.

Funeral services were held at St. Therese on Monday, with burial following at Fort Hill Cemetery in Montauk.

Ms. Luisi-Hands suggested donations in her memory be made to ARF, P.O. Box 901, Wainscott 11975, or the Montauk Community Food Pantry, c/o Fran Ecker, P.O. Box 317, Montauk 11954.

Arthur Prager of Sag Harbor and New York City died on Friday morning at home on Washington Square in Manhattan. He would have been 92 in August.

Well known in literary circles here and in New York, Mr. Prager was a raconteur of first rank and had a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in the fields of politics and publishing. His stories ranged from his bombing missions during World War II, when he served as a navigator on B-17s flying over Germany, to tales of the many literary figures he had known. He was a regular at the American Hotel’s Friday night salon of writers and journalists in the 1980s and at the fabled Lion’s Head in Greenwich Village, where he made his home since the 1960s. He was also a member of the Century Club.

He was the author of “The Mahogany Tree: An Informal History of Punch” in 1979, about the British satirical magazine, and “Rascals at Large, or, The Clue in the Old Nostalgia” in 1971, an affectionate look at children’s books of the 1930s. Both books captured Mr. Prager’s sense of whimsy and wit. For many years he reviewed books for The Saturday Review and, later, The East Hampton Star.

Less well known is that he was the ghostwriter of one of the “Coffee, Tea or Me” sequels, short, breezy novels about the escapades of two stewardesses in the Swinging Sixties and Seventies. As Mr. Prager might have been called a ladies’ man of the old school, he was suited to this book as well. He was quirky, intellectual, and a gentleman whose joviality and impeccable manners made him a frequent guest at dinner parties in the Hamptons.

Mr. Prager’s fondness for children’s books can be seen in one anecdote he told about himself. During World War II when he was in the Army Air Forces, he was the lead navigator on 22 bombing missions over Germany — always a dangerous enterprise. Navigators were given alternate missions if the weather made visibility difficult. One day it was raining over the intended target, and he was given a choice of other nearby sites. One was Nuremberg. Mr. Prager said he had a fond memory of the 1930s children’s classic “The Nutcracker of Nuremberg” by Alexandre Dumas and knew that the town dated to medieval times. He chose another target.

Long before men looked upon cooking as a manly art, Mr. Prager had mastered the pot-au-feu, and froze the leftovers and the broth and added it to the pot the next time he served it to one of his lady friends. In 1981, he published a piece about it in The New York Times that began, “My pot-au-feu reaches its majority this week. Older than Brooke Shields, better-seasoned than Mariel Hemingway, it has been child, wife and mistress to me for 21 years. I nurtured it through its turbulent teens, cared for it, loved it. Now at its coming-of-age I bestow 21 kisses and one to grow on. We plan to spend our Golden Years together.” They did.

Mr. Prager bought a house on Rogers Street in Sag Harbor in the 1960s, and was a good neighbor and citizen of the village. He served for two years on the board of historic preservation and architectural review when it was formed, and wrote its ethics rules.

Mr. Prager was awarded the Air Medal with two oak leaf clusters for his service in World War II. After the war, he stayed in the Army Air Forces through its conversion to the U.S. Air Force, serving in various capacities and finally as a military attaché with the rank of captain in Taiwan and Hong Kong, for which he received an award from the Queen of England. The citation read it was for “services that cannot be named.” Mr. Prager never revealed them, even to his closest friends. Although he tended to say that his duties in China were perfunctory, the Chinese issued a wanted poster for him, one of which he displayed in his apartment in Greenwich Village.

After retiring from the Air Force, Mr. Prager taught air sciences at New York University, joined the Office of the Mayor in New York City, specializing in emergency planning, from 1961 through 1982, and worked for Herman Badillo’s mayoralty campaign. His time in England during the war turned him into an Anglophile, and he retained many connections in England.

Upon retirement from the City of New York, he became the president of the Royal Oak Foundation, a nonprofit that raises money for English historic houses, and after that was president of the American arm of the Irish Georgian Society, a nonprofit that does the same for Irish historic houses.

Mr. Prager was born in Queens on Aug. 15, 1922, to Elsie and Joe Prager. His marriage to the late Peggy Romano Fybish ended in divorce. He was the father of Emily Prager, a former New York Times columnist and novelist who now lives and works in Islamabad, Pakistan. He is also survived by one grandchild and a stepdaughter, Nora Elcar-Verdon.

There will be a memorial for him on Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. at the American Hotel in Sag Harbor.

Mary Ann Gauger, a lifelong resident of Sag Harbor, died at home in her sleep on July 22. She had been diagnosed with cancer years ago, her family said. She was 80 years old.

The only child of James Santacroce of Sag Harbor and the former Gladys Radley, a native of Iowa, Mrs. Gauger graduated from Pierson High School and from the Katherine Gibbs secretarial school in Manhattan. She met Wayne Gauger, who was then in the Navy, in 1954 during a visit to Florida. They married six months later, eventually settling in a house on Suffolk Street, where they raised four children.

Mrs. Gauger had a gift for language, said the family. In addition to writing poetry, she copy-edited manuscripts for a number of writers, among them the playwright and fellow Sag Harbor resident Joe Pintauro.

The family said she shone in the role of wife and mother, and made their Suffolk Street house a gathering spot for friends, relatives, and neighbors, who shared meals and stories and debated philosophy. This continued even during her illness, when she received a succession of visitors, from the preteen children of weekend neighbors to her elementary school classmates.

She is survived by her husband and children, Ann Gauger of Binghamton, N.Y., and Stephen Gauger, Christopher Gauger, and Joseph Gauger, all of Springs. She leaves six grandchildren.

Memorial donations have been suggested to the Sag Harbor Ambulance Corps, P.O. Box 209, Sag Harbor 11963, or to the John Jermain Library, earmarked for book purchases, at 34 West Water Street, Sag Harbor 11963.