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.

Rosakate Levy Dellon Bonomo, a retired New York City educator who had a house in Springs for nearly four decades, died in the city on July 22. She was 85, and had been ill for about a year.

    Locally, Mrs. Bonomo was active with the Friends of Guild Hall and the Springs Improvement Society. She and her late husband, Michael J. Bonomo, were among the founders of the LongHouse Reserve’s volunteer program, and Mrs. Bonomo also worked on behalf of the East Hampton Day Care Learning Center, now known as the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center.

    A kindergarten teacher and librarian in Manhattan public schools, she had summered in the Clearwater section of Springs from 1975 until 1985, when she and her husband, who was also a teacher, moved there full time. In 1996, she began to spend winters away, but returned each summer until last year, when her health began to fail.

    Mrs. Bonomo was born in New York City on Nov. 21, 1928, to Nathan Levy and the former Celia Flaxman. She grew up in the Bronx, graduating from the Ann Reno Institute and Adelphi College and later earning a master’s degree from Queens College.

    An earlier marriage to Stanley Dellon ended in divorce. The couple had two sons. She was married to Mr. Bonomo in 1975. He died in 2000.

    She is survived by one son, George Dellon of Phoenix, four grandsons, and a sister, Elva Levy of Springs and New York City. Another son, Andrew Marc Dellon, died before her.

    As per Mrs. Bonomo’s wishes, her body was donated to the New York University School of Medicine.

Monte Wolfson, a retail executive who had a key role in engineering some of the most important innovations of the modern apparel industry, died at Calvary Hospital Hospice in the Bronx on July 2 after a brief illness. He was 91.

He was an East Hampton summer resident for over 40 years, building one of the first houses on East Hollow Road in Georgica in 1974, said his daughter, Suzanne Wolfson. “My father loved Georgica Beach and would head over there with his beach chair at around 5 p.m. every day that he could,” Ms. Wolfson wrote. He also lived in Manhattan.

As a senior apparel buyer at Macy’s in the late 1950s, Mr. Wolfson was a member of the first team of retailers that traveled to Asia to successfully import apparel to the United States. In the 1970s, while president of the Netco apparel division of Zayre, he devised breakthrough models of distribution-center efficiency well before the advent of automated warehouse equipment.

As the increase of apparel import programs created inventories too large for conventional retailers to handle, he then conceived the model for T.J. Maxx, the first retail chain to specialize in closeout apparel. Mr. Wolfson was a U.S. government adviser on the retail textile industry since 1982, and in 1990 he formed Monte Wolfson Associates, a retail consulting firm.

Mr. Wolfson was born and raised in the Bronx, the son of Irving and Helen Wolfson. He graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in 1941. In the fall of 1941 he attended the University of Illinois and participated in the R.O.T.C. program there. In 1942 he was called into active service in the Army and was stationed at Fort Sills in Oklahoma. He was honorably discharged and returned to the University of Illinois in 1944, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree. He later earned an M.B.A. from New York University.

He was married to Doris Elaine Hertz on July 3, 1954. She died in 2000. The couple had a love of skiing that they shared with their children. “We would load up into his huge station wagon and the whole family would go to Vermont in the ’60s,” Ms. Wolfson said.

    In addition to his passion for business, he loved sports, theater, and history, citing Willie Mays, William Shakespeare, and Barbara Tuchman as three of the people he most admired. He was a skilled tennis player known for his wicked cross-court forehand, his family wrote, and was a longtime member of the East Hampton Tennis Club, playing well into his 80s.

Mr. Wolfson enjoyed traveling and had been all over the world for both business and pleasure. He was on one of the first trans-Atlantic flights of the Concorde in 1969, his daughter said. “There were few places he had yet to see,” she wrote, and “only regretted not having the chance to get at least to base camp at Mount Everest.”

When in East Hampton, he attended performances at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor and Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater and saw many documentary films at the Hamptons International Film Festival.

In 1981, he was honored by the City of Hope Medical Center in Southern California. He received its Spirit of Life Award for his professional and humanitarian accomplishments, and a research fellowship was established there in his name.

In addition to his daughter, who lives in East Hampton, he is survived by his sons, Jon Wolfson of Marina del Rey, Calif., and Rob Wolfson of Manhattan. He also leaves four grandchildren and an older sister, Muriel Oppenheimer of Manhattan.

A funeral for Robert E. Kalbacher of Springs is to be held today at 11 a.m. at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Amagansett. Mr. Kalbacher, who was 82, died on Saturday. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Visiting hours for Tom Tillinghast, a former East Hampton resident who died on July 14 in Southold, where he had been living in recent years, will be held on Thursday from 3 to 7 p.m. at Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

Burial will be Friday at 11 a.m. at South End Cemetery overlooking Town Pond in East Hampton. An obituary for Mr. Tillinghast, who was 61, will appear in a future issue.

Donald T. Foley, a fighter pilot during World War II who was instrumental in developing the Montauk Airport and had overseen the opening of nine airport terminals at Newark, LaGuardia, and Kennedy Airports, died at his Montauk home on June 30. He was 93 and his health had been declining over the past year.  

Mr. Foley’s long career in aviation dates back to his graduation from Curtis High School on Staten Island when he joined the Air National Guard. Enlisting in the Air Force, he was trained as an aerial gunner and then assigned to the 82nd Fighter Group after Pearl Harbor. He flew combat missions in a Lockheed P-38 Lightning over Africa, Eastern Europe, and Germany for 10 months, saying years later that he didn’t expect to see his 21st birthday. He was discharged as a captain and spent the next 25 years in the Air Force Reserve, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. Among his awards were the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with 14 oak leaf clusters.

After the war, Mr. Foley planned a career in design. He graduated from the New York Phoenix School of Design in 1952. While in school, however, he worked for the Port Authority as an operations supervisor at Newark Airport. He worked his way up quickly to become assistant manager of LaGuardia Airport and later, manager of Kennedy Airport. After retiring from the Port Authority, he worked for seven years for the United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization, helping airports in the Middle East and Africa meet international standards. He spent the last three years of his aviation career with the Swedish Aviation Group, where he was responsible for introducing Cold War inventions, such as microwave instrument landing systems, to commercial aviation.

He was born on May 25, 1921, on Staten Island to Arthur Foley and the former Sarah Price Solomon. His family owned a riding academy, and Mr. Foley exercised horses after school and on weekends. With his first wife, the former Grace Chemnitz, who died in 1985, Mr. Foley had been invited to visit Montauk in the 1970s by Dr. Leon Star of Startop Ranch, with whom he owned racehorses. The couple became Montauk weekenders, then settled year-round on Signal Hill there in 1976. His love of horses drew him to open Flying Horse Ranch, which offered lessons and trail rides.

In 1991, Mr. Foley and the former Regina Nichols of Springs were married. Mr. Foley was by that time an enthusiast of the Honda Goldwings motorcycle. The couple  courted by motorcycling up and down the Eastern Seaboard. His wife said that following a serious accident, he retired to a convertible.

Mr. Foley, an East Hampton Town Republican committeeman, frequently wrote pointed but succinct letters to The Star. He was an advocate of the incorporation of Montauk as a village of its own and of East Hampton Airport, which he claimed others wanted to close. He wrote letters critical of East Hampton Star editorials and in support of national Republican leaders.

Mr. Foley was a member of the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Quiet Birdmen, and numerous other veterans and aviation organizations.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by two stepdaughters, Donna Nichols and Karen McCaffrey of Springs, and two granddaughters.

A memorial service is planned for a later date.

William E. Matthews enjoyed fishing, especially freshwater fishing in Maine. He took up decoy carving in his retirement, and he enjoyed golf and photography, but “everything else was secondary to his grandchildren,” his son, Dave Matthews, said.

He had two grandsons and twin granddaughters, now ranging in age from their teens to 20s, who visited him and his wife, Catherine, every summer in East Hampton. “He loved to spend time with them,” Mrs. Matthews said.

Mr. Matthews died on Monday at Southampton Hospital. He was 78 and had been diagnosed with brain cancer at the end of last summer.

The son of William H. Matthews and the former Catherine Ramsay, he was born in Mount Vernon, N.Y., on Jan. 20, 1936. He grew up there, graduating from A.B. Davis High School and later from Manhattan College. He served in the Army from 1955 to 1957.

He married Elizabeth DeCarlo on Sept. 7, 1957, at St. Catharine’s Church in Pelham, N.Y., and moved with her to nearby Eastchester, where the couple raised their son and two daughters. Mr. Matthews worked for the telephone company, first New York Telephone and later AT&T, for his entire career, eventually retiring as a division manager.

In the mid to late-1980s, the couple followed friends to East Hampton and bought a summer house. When Mr. Matthews retired in 1997, they sold that house and their house in Eastchester and bought one on Atlantic Street in East Hampton. They spent winters in New Smyrna Beach, Fla. Mr. Matthews played golf there and at the Sag Harbor Golf Club.

He was a member of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, where a Mass will be said next Thursday at noon. A second service is planned for July 27 at 1 p.m. at Tutto Bella restaurant in East­chester.

In addition to his wife and son, who lives in Edgewater, N.J., Mr. Matthews is survived by his daughters, Lynn M. Mahoney of Eastchester and Kathleen Forcello of Guilford, Conn.

His family has suggested donations to Most Holy Trinity Church, 79 Buell Lane, East Hampton 11937, or to a charity of choice.

Faith Dewitt Heppenheimer Chase, a summer resident of East Hampton and a direct descendant of William Bradford of the Massachusetts Plymouth Colony, died last Thursday in Tucson after a short illness. She was 80.

Ms. Chase, a member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants, was active in the community, her daughter, Christina Chase Simonds of Lancaster, Pa., wrote. She was a volunteer for the Ladies Village Improvement Society, Guild Hall, East End Hospice, the Community Council of East Hampton, and Southampton Hospital.

That spirit of community service continued after she moved to Tucson, where she volunteered for the Sunrise Neighborhood Assistance Program, helping the disabled and senior citizens to live in their own homes safely and independently, the Tucson Museum of Art, and Peppi’s House, the Tucson Medical Center Hospice.

“Faith made many friends wherever she went and was loved by everyone she touched,” Ms. Simonds wrote. “She had a tenacious personality and believed life never ends, it just changes locations.”

Ms. Chase was born on Aug. 28, 1933, in Manhattan, to William C. Heppenheimer Jr. and the former Frances Ruxton. She grew up in Bedford, N.Y., attending the Rippowam Cisqua School there, and later the Garrison Forest School in Owings Mills, Md. She was a graduate of Bennett College, a former women’s college in Millbrook, N.Y.

Ms. Chase’s marriage to Peter Chase ended in divorce. In addition to Ms. Simonds, another daughter, Phyllis Chase of West Hollywood, Calif., survives, as do three grandchildren. A brother, William C. Heppenheimer III, died in 2010.

Funeral arrangements have not been determined. The family has suggested memorial contributions to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.

Jeffrey Steven Bogetti, 46, died of brain cancer in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on May 30 following a four-and-a-half-year illness.

Mr. Bogetti, a roofing contractor who surfed and passed on his love for the water through his work with the East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue Squad and as an instructor of junior lifeguards here, was born on Sept. 25, 1967, in Bronxville, N.Y.

He spent his childhood in Tuckahoe, in Westchester County, and in Montauk, which “he considered his home as much as Tuckahoe, if not more so,” according to one of his close friends, T.J. Calabrese.

After graduating from Tuckahoe High School, he went to the School of the Visual Arts in New York City, and “while he was not a practicing artist, he always had an artistic eye,” said Mr. Calabrese.

Mr. Bogetti and his wife, Stephanie, met in Montauk, and were married in a Greek Orthodox ceremony on the Island of Corfu on Sept. 3, 1994.

They were members of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Hamptons in Southampton, and lived in East Hampton and in Rincon, P.R., where they were at the end of May when Mr. Bogetti, who had successfully undergone surgery about a month before, took a turn for the worse.

Following Mr. Bogetti’s death, many of his friends here made a strikingly beautiful casket of driftwood and beach glass and a Greek Orthodox cross encrusted with beach glass from Rincon. A story about that communal endeavor, with photos by Dell Cullum, appears elsewhere on these pages.

The various panels illumined his life. “Jeff was a surfer, a fisherman, and a free diver . . . a unique and really funny guy, which was why he had so many friends,” said Mr. Calabrese.

Among the survivors are his wife, their two children, Zachary, 17, and Georgica, 15, his parents, John and Joyce Greco Bogetti of Tuckahoe, and two brothers, John Bogetti of Great Neck and James Bogetti of Montauk.

He was buried at Fort Hill Cemetery in Montauk.

Memorial contributions have been suggested to Paddlers for Humanity, P.O. Box 2555, East Hampton 11937.

Michael Ehrhardt, a travel writer for Conde Nast for 30 years, died on Feb. 4 at St. Barnabas Hospital in Short Hills, N.J., The Star has learned. A former resident of Old Orchard Lane in East Hampton, he was 64 years old and lived in Roseland, N.J.

He was being treated for a recurrence of multiple myeloma and had been hospitalized for about a month when he had a heart attack, according to Howard Cavallero, his companion of 23 years.

Mr. Ehrhardt was an inveterate trans-Atlantic traveler. He particularly loved Italy, where he had lived for a time. He enjoyed being a guide for his friends and encouraging them to feel as if they had found some undiscovered place, Mr. Cavallero said. “Michael always made you feel that way,” he said.

Mr. Ehrhardt also enjoyed cooking, national politics, and movies. He was a member of a movie club in Manhattan that critiqued films.

Born on May 2, 1949, in New York City, his parents were Frederick and Theresa Ehrhardt. He grew up in Manhattan and earned a degree at St. John’s University in 1971.

Mr. Ehrhardt visited the South Fork for about 40 years and owned several houses, including ones in Amagansett and East Hampton. He moved here full time in 1985 and volunteered with Meals on Wheels, preparing food, and the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons. He and Mr. Cavallero sold their house in East Hampton in 1999.

It was here that he and Mr. Cavallero first met through mutual friends. The couple were married in New York in February 2012 and were looking forward to doing so in New Jersey, where they relocated six years ago from upstate New York.

“He was my superhero,” Mr. Cavallero said. Mr. Ehrhardt had been his caretaker during an illness and an injury, he said.

In addition to Mr. Cavallero, Mr. Ehrhardt is survived by three sisters, Lilian Eckert of Lynbrook, Martha Merton of Kingston, N.Y., and Julie Ehrhardt of Old Westbury.

His ashes were scattered in East Hampton.