Wilson Moore Griffing Jr., a 12th-generation Long Islander and a nearly lifelong resident of Amagansett, died of cardiac arrest on March 23 at a nursing home in Freeport after a prolonged period of failing health. He was 85.

    Mr. Griffing, who was known as Sonny, was born in Amagansett on Aug. 14, 1927, to Wilson Griffing and the former Irene Gosman. He grew up on Main Street. When his father died in 1977, Mr. Griffing inherited the house he was born in and continued to live there until the time of his own death.

    After graduating from East Hampton High School, he served in the Navy for two years. He later attended Clarkson University, graduating with a degree in electrical engineering in 1951.

    Mr. Griffing worked as an engineer at General Electric in Philadelphia in the 1950s. He later worked for the United States Postal Service in both Philadelphia and Amagansett.

    Described by his family and neighbors as a hidden treasure, Mr. Griffing was known as a “self-sufficient . . . gentleman” who led a “frugal, determined, solitary life.” He never had a car or television, and traveled around on an “ancient bicycle.” He was described as a “sort of local icon to some, who admired his determination to live life authentically and as he wished.”

    He was a passionate stamp collector with an impressive collection, sometimes finding his quarries in the recycling bins at the post office or through friends and neighbors.

    His neighbors welcomed the annual harvest of beans and fruits from a large garden that he tended. He was also known for having a sweet tooth, “finding it hard to make the gift of an entire plate of sweets last more than one day.”

    Mr. Griffing is survived by several nieces, a nephew, and many cousins.

    A memorial service is planned for May 1 at 1 p.m. at the Amagansett Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Steven Howarth will officiate.

    Anne Marie Connors, who raised her family in the Cooper Lane, East Hampton, house she and her husband built 59 years ago, died of complications from pneumonia on March 27 at Hope Hospice in Cape Coral, Fla. She was 84 and had been ill for six weeks.

    Born in Brooklyn on March 7, 1929, to Ralph Rodney Mulford and the former Anna Bergen, she grew up in West Hempstead, attending the Chestnut Street School and West Hempstead and Hempstead High Schools. After graduating, she got a job with the Arnold Constable Department Store in Hempstead, where she found more than employment: She met her future husband, Arthur Connors, there. He survives her.

    The two married in August 1948. Both took jobs with the Long Island Lighting Company. The couple raised two sons and two daughters, having lost one son, Michael, at birth. As young newlyweds, they spent as much time as they could at Jones Beach, until they discovered East Hampton.

    Mr. Connors saw an advertisement for a LILCO position here, so the couple took a drive and liked what they found. “She loved everything about East Hampton,” especially the beach, her daughter Pamela Schenck said Monday.

    The fact that they didn’t have a house didn’t stop them. “There used to be a nursery that belonged to the Vetault family. They were selling off lots,” Ms. Schenck said. The couple bought one and built their dream house in 1954.

    “She was a Kool-Aid mom. She always made sure the car was filled with kids when she drove to the beach,” Ms. Schenck said. Her mother’s favorite spot was Wiborg’s Beach.

    At night, “She loved having people over and entertaining,” Ms. Schenck said. She enjoyed cooking for her guests.

    As Mrs. Connors’s children grew older, she returned to work in East Hampton as a secretary for Robert C. Osborne, an attorney, as well as for the law firm of Fallon and O’Connor and the William Salinger plumbing company.

    At Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, she would help out at fund-raising dinners and other functions. She volunteered at St. Andrew’s School in Sag Harbor and was a member of the East Hampton Fire Department’s Ladies Auxiliary. She enjoyed golf, bridge, reading, traveling, and, most of all, her family.

    In the mid-1980s, Mr. and Mrs. Connors lost a son, Donald Connors, in an auto accident. The grief of knowing he was buried across the street from their house, at Cedar Lawn Cemetery, weighed on them, and the couple moved to North Fort Myers, Fla. Mrs. Connors joined the St. Therese Catholic Parish there. But they always looked forward to returning to East Hampton during the holidays.

    Besides her husband, who lives in North Fort Myers, and Ms. Schenck, who lives in East Hampton, she is survived by another daughter, Cynthia Quigley of Sayville, a son, Jack Connors of Slidell, La., and five grandchildren.

    Mrs. Connors was buried at Cedar Lawn Cemetery. A service in her honor will be held at Most Holy Trinity on June 20 at 11 a.m. Memorial donations have been suggested for the East Hampton Fire Department, 1 Cedar Street, East Hampton 11937.

    Those who knew Marilyn Abel, and many here did through her work at the East Hampton Historical Society, book clubs, volunteer activities, and a range of other interests and passions, will remember her for her devoted friendship and dedication to social activism and the First Amendment.

    The long-time resident of East Hampton died on April 5 in Southampton Hospital after a brief illness. She was 74.

    At the time of her death, Ms. Abel was the office manager of the historical society and of the Thomas Moran Trust. Richard Barons, the director of both organizations, praised her “people skills, publishing know-how, and enthusiasm.”    “She leaves a void,” said Mr. Barons.

    Before moving to East Hampton full-time about a decade ago, Ms. Abel, who was born to Robert and Lauretta Cole Abel on June 21, 1938, in Detroit, had a long love affair with books and publishing, beginning when she was a student at Marygrove College in Detroit and working in a bookstore. Later, she enrolled in a graduate program in book publishing at New York University. Her first job out of school was with the American Booksellers Association; other positions followed at Wayne State University Press, New American Library, Viking Penguin, the University of Chicago Press, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

    She also worked for the IntraMed division of Sudler & Hennessey in medical conference management.

    In 1975, Ms. Abel co-founded the Educational Paperback Association, now the Educational Book and Media Association, and was its executive director for 35 years. The association has made an annual contribution in her name since her retirement, which will continue in her memory.

    An ardent supporter of free speech, Ms. Abel could also be counted on to volunteer at a church soup kitchen or come to the aid of battered women at the Retreat. Mr. Barons called her “one of the great liberal Democrats, and a firm supporter of liberal causes.” She kept her Obama magnet on her car throughout the president’s first term, and it was the first thing she transferred to her new car right after buying it.

    Books were another love. She was a regular member of Rowdy Hall’s Rowdy Readers book club and finished every book. “She might have said afterward, ‘Gee, I wish I hadn’t read that,’ but she never gave up on it, because of the possibility that the words on the printed page might lead you to a place you’d never been before,” said Mr. Barons.

    Ms. Abel “would have made a great scoutmaster,” he said. “She had a marvelous sense of charging forward. If a tree fell in the path she would walk around it, or if an alligator jumped out of the swamp she would tell it to get out the way and we would all just troop behind her.”

    Such tenacity saw her through the restoration of a 135-year old house that she rejuvenated with her companion, Ward Mohrfeld. Along with books, theater, opera, and art it became another of her passions, said a friend, Ellen Murphy Bonn, who also mentioned her dedicated support of the National Coalition Against Censorship.

    Ms. Abel leaves a sister, Anne Marie Searer, a niece and a nephew, and three grand-nieces. Mr. Mohrfeld predeceased her, as did another sister, Helen.

    A funeral Mass will be held at Most Holy Trinity Church in East Hampton on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. with a reception to follow. Burial will be private. A celebration of Ms. Abel’s life will be held next month in East Hampton, at a date to be announced.

    Memorial contributions have been suggested for Most Holy Trinity Outreach Ministry, 79 Buell Lane, East Hampton 11937; the East Hampton Historical Society, 101 Main Street, East Hampton 11937, or the National Coalition Against Censorship, 19 Fulton Street, Suite 407, New York, N.Y. 10038. In the spirit of Ms. Abel’s commitment to social justice, her family has suggested that her friends “reach out to someone today.”

    Helen Louise Freytag, a bookkeeper who had made Springs and East Hampton her home since World War II, died on Friday at Southampton Hospital. She was 86 and had been in declining health for the past couple of years.

    Known to her friends as Louise, she was born on Dec. 22, 1926, in Greenfield, Mo., to Russell William Brooks and the former Anna M. Barnard. She grew up in Oakland, Calif., where her parents moved when she was a child.

    “She was very athletic,” her daughter, Diana F. Wunschel, said yesterday. She played basketball and softball. During the war, she would go figure-skating at a rink in Oakland. It was there that she met her future husband, Warren H. Freytag. He was a professional hockey player, a goalie in the New York Rangers minor league system, who was serving in the Navy and stationed in San Francisco.

    Mr. Freytag’s parents lived in the Maidstone Park section of East Hampton, and the couple moved there, eventually buying a house on Harbor View Lane. Besides Mrs. Wunschel, they also had a son, Douglas A. Freytag. He died in December.

    As a child, Mrs. Wunschel remembers skating with her parents on Town Pond. “It was a lot colder in the 1950s and 1960s,” she said. She recalled figure skating on one end of the pond with her mother while her brother would practice hockey on the other end with their father.

    Mrs. Wunschel recalled going with her parents to friends’ homes, where the adults would have dinner and play cards while the children played together.

    While raising her two children, Mrs. Freytag worked as a bookkeeper in Town Hall and for a number of businesses in East Hampton.

    The Freytags divorced in 1967. Mrs. Freytag remained in East Hampton. She lived on Spinner Lane for the past 30 years.

    In the 1970s, she opened up a tavern on Newtown Lane called the Crescendo Pub. She attended St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and was active in the American Legion Auxiliary.

    She was a yard sale person, her daughter said. “She would always come home with treasures.” For the past 25 years, she was active at the East Hampton Town Senior Citizens Center.

    In addition to her daughter, Mrs. Freytag is survived by her sisters Vivian Marie Tollefson of Walnut Creek, Calif., and Annalee Smith of Apache Junction, Ariz., and by three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

    Mrs. Freytag was cremated. A service for her will be announced in the near future. Donations in her name have been suggested for the East Hampton Town Senior Citizens Center, 128 Springs-Fireplace Road, East Hampton 11937.

    “Montauk is filled with magic, mystery, and miracles,” Eugenia Rice Bartell once wrote. She shared her love of the place with the children of St. Therese of Lisieux church before embarking on a career in real estate, while keeping up on all the hamlet’s doings as the community editor for the Montauk Pioneer newspaper. After the Pioneer folded, said her daughter Carla Markson, she dreamed of starting a newspaper in the hamlet herself, but it was not to be. She died on April 4 at her Garfield Avenue residence of complications from emphysema. She was 75.

    She was born in New York City on June 19, 1937, the daughter of Willard K. Rice and the former Eugenia Sellenings. She attended Friends Seminary in the city until the family moved to its summer home in Port Jefferson. She graduated from Earl L. Vandermullen High School there and went on to graduate from the State University at Oneonta.

    Soon after, she married her high school sweetheart, Michael Caraftis. The couple had two children, Ms. Markson, who lives in Mount Sinai, and Timothy Caraftis of Port Jefferson.

    The couple lived for a year in Mannheim, Germany, while Mr. Caraftis served in the Army. When they returned to Port Jefferson, she finished her education at C.W. Post College and began teaching second graders. “My mother loved to teach, and the children responded well to her enthusiasm,” her daughter said.

    Another daughter, Genia Silva, who lives in Pennsylvania, was born during her second marriage, to Edward Bartell, who died about 15 years ago.

    Her mother often said her “real” life began with a single trip to Gurney’s Inn in 1968, Mr. Markson said. “She was quick­ly assimilated into this easy-going community, reading to children at St. Therese’s Nursery School, managing the gift shop at Guild Hall, and becoming a real estate agent with the firm of Monte and Monte.”

    In addition to her three children and Mr. Caraftis, who lives in Port Jefferson, Ms. Bartell is survived by her brother, Willard K. Rice Jr. of Nashua, N.H., and five grandchildren.

    Ms. Bartell was a member of the Montauk Community Church, where a memorial service will be held on May 4. Memorial contributions have been suggested for the Animal Rescue Fund, P.O. Box 901, Wainscott 11975.

    “He arrived in Montauk in 1979 on a houseboat and stayed for 25 years, loving every moment and everyone he met,” Richard J. Hall’s sister, Carol Hall Murray, wrote.

    Mr. Hall died on March 26 in Huntington of complications related to diabetes. He was 82.

    He was born on June 18, 1930, in Armonk, N.Y., to Esther and Warren Hall, and attended Armonk public schools. Later in life, he worked with antiques and sold magazines. He loved fishing, animals, and scavenging for treasures at local estate sales. 

    While in Montauk, Mr. Hall also lived at the Montauk Motel and the Avalon Lakefront Hotel and Motel. After leaving the hamlet, he spent three years at the Woodhaven Center of Care, an assisted living facility, in Port Jefferson Station. For the last two years of his life, Mr. Hall was deaf and blind.

    His final years were spent at the Hilaire Nursing Home in Huntington, near Ms. Murray, who saw him every day and was with him when he died.

    Mr. Hall was cremated and buried near Armonk. 

    In addition to his sister, who lives in Huntington, he leaves two brothers, Geoff Hall of Stamford, Conn., and Lynn Hall of St. Mary’s, Ga., and many nieces and nephews.

    Friends and family of William G. Field have been invited to a celebration of his life to be held at the American Legion post in Amagansett on April 28 at 2 p.m. Mr. Field, who was born in Springs and had been an East Hampton resident before moving to Ellenton, Fla., died on Jan. 7 at the age of 80.

    Justine Kornelussen died on March 8 at home in East Hampton, where she lived for almost 50 years. She had been ill with lung cancer for a year and also had dementia, her son, Frank Kornelussen, said on Monday. She was 87 years old.

    She was born to Frank Barosa and the former Margaret Voit in Brooklyn on Jan. 14, 1926. Her mother died when she was a small child, and her father abandoned her. After growing up in an orphanage, “She left and went out on her own, and worked,” her son said, adding that she was dealt some hard knocks as a child.

    When World War II broke out, she got a job as a switchboard operator for the New York Telephone Company, a job she loved, her son said.

    After the war, she met John Kornelussen, who had just returned from serving in the Navy as a petty officer. The two married in May 1946. They raised two children as they lived in several places in Queens.

    After a hard time in her childhood years, “She bonded to her family and her marriage,” her son said.

    In the mid-1970s, after their children had become adults, the Kornelussens “scraped together their pennies to buy property” on Peter’s Path in East Hampton. “They sold their house in Queens and built the house here.”

    Mr. Kornelussen would go fishing once a week, and his wife would cook the catch of the day. “She loved to cook, particularly Italian food,” her son said. “She loved to go down to the water. They loved the serenity and the quiet of East Hampton.”

    At first the couple were snowbirds, splitting time between their Peter’s Path house and one in Fort Myers, Fla., but around 2000 they chose to make East Hampton their full-time home.

    Her husband died in 2004 of complications from heart disease, and Mrs. Kornelussen nursed him during his illness. She then began going to the East Hampton Town Senior Citizens Center.

“She always wore a blue hat to the center,” her son said, and she came to be called Blue Hat.

    Her dementia began to set in about the time her husband died, her son recalled. Her cancer was diagnosed last year. Her son credited East End Hospice with making her last days peaceful ones.

    Besides her son, who lives in East Hampton, she is also survived by a daughter, Malena Kornelussen of Shirley, and a granddaughter, Juliet Kornelussen of Brooklyn.

    Mrs. Kornelussen was cremated. Memorial contributions have been suggested for the East Hampton Town Senior Citizens Center, 128 Springs-Fireplace Road, East Hampton 11937, or East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.

    Audrey Bateman Georges, a summer resident of Amagansett, died in her sleep in the early morning of March 6 from complications associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or A.L.S. She was diagnosed with the disease in 2009.

    Born in Brooklyn to Russell Glenn Bateman and the former Ruth Watson, Ms. Georges grew up in Brooklyn. She attended Randolph Macon Woman’s College in Virginia, then majored in English and drama at Connecticut College for Women, graduating with a B.A. While enrolled there, she sang and recorded an album with the Conn Chords and performed with them on a television quiz show and at Carnegie Hall. She also served as president of her alumni class.

    Ms. Georges, who preferred not to disclose her birth date, married Leon-Paul Georges on Oct. 2, 1959. The couple lived in Geneva, where Mr. Georges attended medical school and she worked for the United Nations.

    After his internship in Brooklyn, Mr. Georges was drafted into the Navy, beginning a career that took the couple to Key West, Portsmouth, Va., and Bethesda, Md. Ms. Georges became a member of the Navy Doctors’ Wives Club and president of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Faculty Wives Club.

    A government employee for 17 years, Ms. Georges held three jobs at the National Institutes of Health, serving mainly as administrative lab manager at the National Eye Institute. She was also a one-on-one public speaking coach and taught a public speaking class. Ms. Georges was president of the Capital Speaker Club for 20 years.

     With a lifelong interest in dancing and theater, Ms. Georges was also a member of the Glen Echo Park Dance Committee and worked as a model and as an extra in movies and on television. She was also a Play in Progress reader for the Bethesda Writer’s Center.

    Her passion for volunteering led to positions such as chairwoman of the Wildflower Committee at Landon School and scheduling officer for Bethesda Help. She also volunteered at the Nuclear Energy Institute and was a Red Cross volunteer at the Naval Hospital Library.

    She and Mr. Georges divorced in the 1980s after 20 years of marriage, and Ms. Georges remained in Bethesda.

    While on the East End, Ms. Georges enjoyed hosting annual family reunions. She is survived by her sons, Christophre Georges of Clinton, N.Y., and Cameron Georges of Franklin, Mass., and a daughter, Kirsten Georges of Hoboken, N.J. Five grandchildren also survive, as does a dear friend, John S. Friedhoff.

    A service will be held on May 4 at 10:30 a.m. at All Saints Episcopal Church in Chevy Chase, Md. An additional service will be held at 10 a.m. on July 6 at the Amagansett Presbyterian Church, where Ms. Georges was a member. The Rev. Steve Howarth will officiate.

    Her ashes will be buried at Green River Cemetery in Springs.

    Memorial contributions have been suggested to the First Presbyterian Church of Amagansett, P.O. Box 764, Amagansett 11930 or the A.L.S. Association at alsa.org.

    Dorothy Jean Goldfarb, who had a career in nursing before moving to East Hampton in the early 1990s, died on Saturday in New York City of a rare form of cancer. She was 81.

    She was born on Nov. 26, 1931, to Margaret S. Johnston, whose maiden name was Steele. Her father’s full name was not provided. She was born in Lonaconing, Md., and grew up there.

    In 1953, while a nurse at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, she met and married Dr. Morton Goldfarb, who survives. The couple raised a family in Massapequa before moving to East Hampton. In addition to her husband, Ms. Goldfarb is survived by her children, Dr. Steven Goldfarb of Rochester and Southampton, Dr. David Goldfarb of Cleveland, Susan Ross of Scarsdale, N.Y., and Dr. Amy Goldfarb of Providence, R.I. She leaves eight grandchildren.

    Her family said she was a tireless volunteer for World ORT, a Jewish organization that promotes education and training in over 100 countries. In later years she volunteered for the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton.

    She was a tennis player and a member of several book clubs here. She traveled extensively with her husband.

    A funeral service was held on Tuesday at Zion Memorial Chapel in Mamaroneck, N.Y. A service will be planned in East Hampton later this spring. Memorial contributions were suggested for the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society, P.O. Box 1633, Amagansett 11930 or to the AMerican Macular Degeneration Foundation, P.O. Box 515, Northampton, Mass. 01061-0515.