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.

    Raphael David Silver of East Hampton and New York City, a real estate developer and the producer of such films as “Hester Street” and “Crossing Delancey,” died at a hospital in Salt Lake City on March 4, two days after a skiing accident in Deer Valley, Utah. He was 83.

    The founder and president of Midwestern Land Development Corporation, which built and managed hotels and office buildings, Ray Silver was also president of Silverfilm, an independent company he and his wife, the filmmaker and screenwriter Joan Micklin Silver, established together. Their very first movie, “Hester Street,” made on a shoestring and released in 1975, was an unexpected box-office smash. She directed that film and he produced it; in later ventures they occasionally reversed roles.

    The couple, married for 57 years and devoted to each other both at work and away, followed the success of “Hester Street” with a series of films starring big-name actors, among them John Heard, Jeff Goldblum, Mark Ruffalo, Stiller and Meara, and Amy Irving, whose performance in Silverfilm’s 1988 “Crossing Delancey” earned her a Golden Globe nomination.

    Mr. Silver’s contributions to the independent film world in the 1970s and 1980s were significant. “Well before they had a name for it, Ray Silver was one of the original truly independent filmmakers,” said Ira Deutchman, the chairman of Columbia University’s film program. “He more or less invented the entrepreneurial approach to filmmaking, creating a business environment where intimate, character-driven films became possible.” Mr. Silver was a longtime director of the Independent Film Project, which fosters the development, production, and promotion of hundreds of feature and documentary films a year. “He was passionate about the cultural value of an American independent cinema that did not rely on the Hollywood studios for financing,” said the project’s founder, Sarah Schulberg.

    Jeff Lipsky, a producer and director who worked with Mr. Silver on the distribution of “Hester Street,” recalled that at the time, “with no prior show business experience, Ray demonstrated a keen abundance of good taste, a desire to challenge the status quo, and, most important, a heart and soul that landed the respect of both business people and artists.” Mr. Silver was closely involved with Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute from its earliest days as a creative and business adviser, and was also on the board of the Big Apple Circus.

    The Silvers were often away on their various projects, but they spent as much time as possible at their house here. They built it in the early ’70s long after being shown a barren lot with a breathtaking view of Georgica Pond — “You could wait a year then, and the land would still be there,” Ms. Silver said — and loved picking out and adding, bit by bit, trees and shrubs. They kept a canoe, and she said her husband particularly enjoyed watching the changing light across the water.

    Mr. Silver was born in Cleveland on Jan. 18, 1930, the son of Virginia and Abba Hillel Silver, and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Business School. He was working for a coffee importing firm in New York City when he met his wife, then a student at Sarah Lawrence College. They were married in Omaha, her hometown, in 1956 and made their first home in Cleveland before moving to Manhattan.

    During the last decade, said his wife, Mr. Silver devoted himself to writing fiction. His first novel tells the story of a temple embroiled in a battle over succession and the fraught relationship between the outgoing rabbi and his son. The author’s own father, a prominent Zionist leader, was rabbi for 46 years of one of the nation’s largest Reform congregations. The novel, “Congregation,” will be published posthumously.

    Mr. Silver was cremated. In addition to his wife, he is survived by three daughters, Dina, Marisa, and Claudia Silver, all of whom live in Los Angeles, and by five grandchildren. A memorial celebration of his life is to be held in the fall, at a date to be announced.

    Elizabeth Elting Rogers, a pianist and jazz aficionado who was known on the South Fork as a person of grace and generosity, died on March 7 at home in Bridgehampton. Her death was caused by a brain aneurism, her family said. She was 76.

    Ms. Rogers was called Bumpy. She played in jazz groups with Barry Harris, a pianist and composer, in New York City and in Rome, and had held celebrations in his honor at her home every summer. She also had accompanied Aras Ames’s Conservatory of Ballet and Danse Arts, in Bridgehampton, and contributed occasional reviews of jazz and classical concerts to The East Hampton Star. She was to have played the piano at a service of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork on March 10.

    Before settling in Bridgehampton in 1976, Ms. Rogers had played the piano for Maria Tallchief’s master ballet classes and the American Ballet Theatre, among others. In addition to her life in music, she was a writer, an activist, and a gardener. She was a member of the Ocean Zendo in Sagaponack, and regularly provided it with flowers.

    Ms. Rogers was born in Chicago on Oct. 23, 1936, to Winston Elting and Marjorie Horton Elting. She attended the Chatham Hall school in Virginia and went to Vassar as a music major in 1954. Her marriage to Bernard Fowler Rogers III in 1957 brought her back to Chicago, however, and she graduated from the University of Chicago. Friends said she was a true intellectual, but comported herself modestly in everything she did.

    Ms. Rogers and her husband, who later divorced, became parents of four boys. Her son Paul Rogers said their love of the South Fork was engendered when, beginning in the 1960s, she piled them in a station wagon and drove here from Chicago to spend summers. She also found time to own a women’s fashion boutique in that city and to produce “People of the Wind,” a documentary about the Bakhtiari people of Iran, which was nominated for an Academy Award.

    In addition to her son Paul, who lives in Sag Harbor, Ms. Rogers’s surviving sons are Chris Rogers, also of Sag Harbor, who is Paul’s twin, and Michael Rogers of Mount Tremper, N.Y. Her son Mark Rogers died before her. Also surviving are two siblings, John Elting of New York City and Audry Elting of Godfry, Ill., and a half brother, Lach Elting of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

    Donations in Ms. Rogers’s memory have been suggested for the Choral Society of the Hamptons, P.O. Box 1031, Bridgehampton 11932. A memorial service is to be held on June 1 at St. Andrew’s Dune Church in Southampton, with the Rev. Peter M. Larsen officiating.

    She could have remained forever known as Richard Burton’s first wife, thrown over for Elizabeth Taylor after a slew of other affairs, but Sybil Williams Burton Christopher was not satisfied being a footnote in someone else’s biography.

    “I’m not famous,” she told The Star in 1994, “I’m notorious.” But she was resolute in not wanting “to talk about that nonsense” surrounding her first marriage, which lasted 14 years, despite the affairs.

    Instead, Ms. Christopher, who died in New York City on March 9 at the age of 83 from heart disease, decided in 1965 to move to New York, where she became a successful nightclub owner. The club, on 54th Street in the old El Morocco space, was named Arthur and was co-owned by Edward Villella, a ballet dancer, and the actor Roddy McDowall.

    Tony Walton, an art director and production designer for film and theater, who also designed the club, recalled that “when the Beatles first came to America one of the journalists asked George Harrison, ‘What do you call that haircut?’ He said, ‘Arthur.’ ” The joke was later used in the movie “A Hard Day’s Night.”

    At about the same time in a space upstairs, Ms. Christopher helped create the New Theatre, where, Gen LeRoy-Walton recalled, Mike Nichols and many others put on plays. Ms. LeRoy-Walton remembers meeting Ms. Christopher around that time. The club “was the place to be. I remember her dancing and Jordan [Christopher, her second husband] playing guitar, it was so romantic. There was a line to get in, but I don’t remember it being a long line and everybody was well behaved. Inside there was great music. It was the first of its kind.”

    Mr. Walton, who was previously married to Julie Andrews, remembered meeting Ms. Christopher in 1960 at the first reading of “Camelot,” in which both of their then-spouses were starring.

    Locally, she was best known as a co-founder of the Bay Street Theatre with Steve and Emma Walton Hamilton in 1991. For Ms. Christopher, whose first calling was as an actress, transforming a former dance club into a theater was especially satisfying, she told The Star in 1994.

    “Emma and Steve had been living in Sag Harbor and wanted to have a theater,” Ms. LeRoy-Walton said. They suggested that the couple include Ms. Christopher for her vision and her years of contacts. “Emma and Steve had a great Rolodex, but when Sybil called, everyone would call right back.”

    At Bay Street, her artistic direction contributed to a roster of plays by Terrence McNally, Lanford Wilson, Marsha Norman, Christopher Durang, Joe Pintauro, and Jon-Robin Baitz, performed by equally accomplished actors such as Alec Baldwin, Mercedes Ruehl, Richard Dreyfuss, and Dana Ivey. She left her position in December, due to failing health, and moved to New York City full-time.

    Ms. Christopher was born in Wales to a coalmining official and a singer on March 27, 1929, and was orphaned by the time she was 15. She moved to Northampton to live with a half sister.

    “I worked in a dress shop at the time,” she told The Star, and would go to the community theater with her family every week — “52 plays a year.” Ms. Christopher, who performed in church plays as a child, caught the acting bug early and moved to London at the age of 18 to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.

    There, she was given a choice, use her Welsh accent or lose it. She chose the former and was cast in plays such as “Harvey,” in which she played an American nurse with a Welsh accent, and later in 1951 as the Welsh princess in a Stratford-on-Avon production of “Henry IV, Part II,” with Richard Burton.

    She had married the fellow actor, who was also from a mining family in Wales, when she was 19. They met on the film set of “The Last Days of Dolwyn” in 1947.

    Her acting career slowed after her daughters were born, Kate in 1957 and Jessica in 1959. “I was always interested in being part of the theater,” she told The Star, “but I was not necessarily so ambitious.” She filed for divorce in 1963. She married Mr. Christopher, the leader of her nightclub’s house band, the Wild Ones. Their daughter, Amy, was born in 1967. He died in 1996. Her daughters survive her.

    The Waltons, who used to host her when she rented out her house for the summer, remembered her seductive and hearty laugh and her observation that “she liked to do something new every 25 years. When she was not at full speed on a new ambitious scheme, she would be a little mole, tucked away in her room, reading,” Ms. LeRoy-Walton said.

    As per her request, there was no funeral or memorial service. Her ashes will be scattered in Wales.

    A service for Richard T. Johnson, a former Montauk resident who died on Feb. 21 in Greenport, will be held Saturday at 4 p.m. at Fort Hill Cemetery in Montauk.

    Ella N. Collins, a retired nurse who lived on Maidstone Avenue in East Hampton Village with her husband, Irad S. Collins, for many years, died on March 20 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton of pulmonary hypertension, her family said. She was 91.

    Mrs. Collins worked as a nurse at Southampton Hospital for many years. She later worked at what was formerly the Southampton Nursing Home.

    After retiring at 85, Mrs. Collins stayed active by mowing her own lawn, painting, and raking leaves, her family said. She also loved to read.

    Mrs. Collins, who went by Nancy, was born on August 7, 1921, in Newark, N.J. to the former Helen Renaud and William Carter. Her father was from a Sag Harbor family.

    On Feb. 9, 1946, she married Irad S. Collins of East Hampton, in East Orange, N.J. Shortly after marrying, the couple moved to East Hampton, where they spent their lives and raised a daughter.

     Her daughter, Nancy Cunningham of East Hampton, survives her as do three grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

    Visiting hours were held earlier this week at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor.

    The family has suggested that donations be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, Tenn. 38105

    Gerald E. McCarthy, a retired detective with the New York Police Department and a devoted member of the Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Bridgehampton, died on March 16 at Good Shepherd Hospice in Port Jefferson. His death was caused by leukemia, which was the result of myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood disease.  

    Dedicated to his chosen career in law enforcement, Mr. McCarthy worked as a police officer for New York City and also as assistant commissioner with the New York State Division of Criminal Justice. He lived in Tarrytown, N.Y., before relocating permanently to Noyac.

    Mr. McCarthy was an active golfer before he fell ill, enjoyed reading and book groups, and belonged to such organizations as the Police Anchor Club, National Law Enforcement Associates, Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and the Holy Name Society.

    With his wife, Margaret, who survives, he spent summers in Sag Harbor for over 30 years before becoming a year-round resident of Noyac six years ago.

    Married 30 years, he and his wife spent the winter months in Florida and traveled frequently, in this country and in Europe. They were socially active, and had a large group of friends on the East End.

    Born on Oct. 11, 1936 in New York City to J. Russell McCarthy and the former Anne Ayres, Mr. McCarthy attended St. Francis Preparatory School and St. John’s University.

    “He had a wonderful sendoff,” Mrs. McCarthy said,, which included a N.Y.P.D. honor guard. His funeral, which a large group attended, was on March 21 at the Queen of the Most Holy Rosary. Visiting hours had been held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor the previous day and burial was at St. Andrew’s Catholic Cemetery in Sag Harbor.

    Two stepdaughters, Maureen Rossi of Bethesda, Md., and Elizabeth Kirwan of Sag Harbor, also survive, as do two sisters, Patricia Vozab of Amenia, N.Y., and Sheila Maher of Ohio.

    Ann F. Walker, who was a director of nursing at New York Presbyterian’s Babies and Children’s Hospital in New York City before moving to Springs, died at home in Jupiter, Fla., on Sunday. No cause of death was given. She was 86.

    Mrs. Walker was known as Rusty. She was born in Haverstraw, N.Y., on Aug. 8, 1926, the daughter of Edward Freyfogle and the former Anna Brady. Her aunt and uncle, Kathryn and Irving Rose, adopted her at an early age and raised her.

    She graduated from Haverstraw High School and St. Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing in New York City, and soon after began her career at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. There she met her future husband, Dr. Nelson C. Walker, a family physician from New Jersey and the first director of Hackensack Hospital’s department of emergency medicine.

    When Dr. Walker retired in the mid-1980s, the couple began splitting their time between their home in Hackensack and their house on Fireplace Road in Springs, where the couple liked to tend their raised garden. Mrs. Walker moved to Florida after her husband’s death in 1992.

    She is survived by her children, Judith Yettito of West Palm Beach, Fla., Jean Gardner of Wayne, Me., Joan Gustavson of Orient, Dr. Nelson Walker II of Storrs, Conn., and David Walker of Jupiter, Fla. She leaves 10 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, and 2 great-great-grandchildren. A brother, Edward Freyfogle, predeceased her.

    A memorial service will be held on Long Island at a later date.