Josephine Iacono, the last surviving sibling of the six children who grew up on the Iacono Farm on Long Lane in East Hampton, died at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton on Sunday. She had lived there for the last two and a half years but her family, who visited her there the previous day, said she seemed in good health and her death was unexpected. She was 88.

    Mrs. Iacono had lived in the Iacono house on Long Lane, which was built in 1948, until requiring personal assistance. She was employed for many years as the cashier at Gosman’s restaurant in Montauk, where the Gosman family and hundreds of diners found her a welcoming presence. She had worked for a time as a telephone operator, as well.

    She was born at home on Aug. 29, 1924, to the former Colegera Romano and Emanual Iacono, who bought the property on Long Lane and started a vegetable farm, turning later to poultry. Ms. Iacono’s brother, Salvadore Iacono, who took over the farm, died in 2008. The other siblings were John, Mary, and Angeline Iacono, and Jennie Labrozzi.

    The Rev. William Smart of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton officiated at a service yesterday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. Burial followed at the church cemetery. Contributions in her memory have been suggested for the East Hampton Ambulance Association, 1 Cedar Street, East Hampton 11937.

    A Sag Harbor native who grew up on Bridge Street in that village, then married an East Hampton man and lived on Pantigo Road in East Hampton Village, Barbara P. Lester died on Sunday at the Riverhead Care Center. She was 93.

    Mrs. Lester worked as a housekeeper for many East Hampton residents, including the actress Dina Merrill, her family said.

    She was said to have enjoyed reading, cooking, and embroidery. Travel was also high on her list of pleasures, including several cruises and a trip to Hawaii. Most of all, said the family, she liked to spend time with her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

     She was born in Sag Harbor on April 26, 1919, to Peter Remkus and the former Petronella Kady, and was educated at the Sacred Heart of Mary School in Sag Harbor.

    With her husband, Howard E. Lester, who died before her, she had five children: Howard Lester of Portsmouth, N.H., Margaret Lucyk of Sag Harbor, Peter Lester of Wesley Chapel, Fla., and Sandra Dahl of Clinton Township, Mich.; a daughter, Patricia Wynkoop, died before her. Nine grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren also survive. A brother, Peter Remkus, also died before her.

    A funeral Mass was to be said at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Sag Harbor at 10:30 a.m. today. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

    Mrs. Lester’s family has suggested memorial donations to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, 322 Eighth Avenue, 7th floor, New York 10001.

    Alice Vera Darden, who had been a devoted member of the Bridgehampton First Baptist Church since 1935, died at the age of 101 on Jan. 23 and was eulogized there at a service conducted by the Rev. Frank Bryant on Tuesday.

    Born on Aug. 31, 1911, Mrs. Darden died at the home of one of her granddaughters, Alice Johnson, in Southampton.

    Mrs. Darden had been married in 1931 to Harrison Darden Jr., who died before her. She lived for many years in a house on Suwasset Avenue in Bridgehampton. After selling it, she went to live in 2007 with a daughter in Southampton, Geraldine Johnson, who died in 2009. She then moved to Ellenwood, Ga., to live with a granddaughter, Debbie Johnson, for about a year, before returning to Southampton.

    She was born in Drewyvilla, Va., to the former Alice Wells and Willie Ben Ford. She joined the Baptist church there at an early age. In Bridgehampton, she was a member of the senior choir, senior missionary, silver leaf club, deaconess board, and praise team. Debbie Johnson said her grandmother had lived a full life, loving seafood, travel, and history. Her favorite novel was “Gone With the Wind.”

    The Rev. Henry Faison Jr. of the Southampton First Baptist Church, a former Bridgehampton pastor, was among those who took part in her funeral service. Burial followed at Southampton Cemetery.

    Mrs. Darden is survived by two sons, the Rev. Roosevelt Darden of Fayettville, Ga., and Theodore Darden of Coram. A daughter, Frances Oliver of Brooklyn, also survives, as do eight additional granddaughters. A godson, Ronald Darden of West Chester, Pa., and numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren also survive.

    Sven E. Danielson Jr., whose passion and career, the restoration of historic buildings, were one and the same, died in Castine, Me., on Jan. 17 of metastatic melanoma. He was 70 and had moved to Castine 10 years ago.

    Mr. Danielson lived in Amagansett from 1985 to 1995, where he restored a notable house o Further Lane East He then returned to the Tewksbury area of New Jersey, where he had grown up. He renovated a townhouse there, in which he lived and worked until retiring to Castine, on the coast of Maine, and restoring his final home. In New Jersey, he had developed the Fields of Tewksbury and Bisssell Run and redeveloped a historic site in Hunterdon County called Dart’s Mill into a small office complex and day care center. These projects brought him recognition in such magazines as Better Homes and Gardens, Traditional Homes, and others.

    Mr. Danielson studied urban planning at New York University and worked in northern New Jersey for three years as a county planner. He had also attended St. Bernard’s School in Gladstone, N.J., and Moravian College in Pennsylvania. He was born in Somerville, N.J., on May 23, 1942, the son of Sven Danielson Sr. and Hazel Hoffman Danielson.

    In addition to restoring buildings to their original state (but with modern conveniences), Mr. Danielson became known for his knowledge of antiques and his ability as a decorator.

    In keeping with his wishes, his ashes are to be buried in a family plot in Lebanon, N.J. Donations in his memory have been suggested for the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, P.O. Box 901, Wainscott 11975.

    Claude Simon Sarfati, who owned the Huntting Inn in East Hampton for a season and managed the Bridgehampton Club for six years, died after a brief illness on Sunday at his house in East Hampton, three days short of his 83rd birthday.

    Born in Oran in French colonial Algeria in 1930 to Jacob Sarfati and the former Rachael Cohen, he was forced by the Vichy government’s anti-Semitic policies to leave school in the third grade. He often said that the landing of the United States Army’s Ninth Division in North Africa on Nov. 9, 1942, saved him and his family from the Nazis. He was part of the cheering crowds that greeted the G.I.s. When he was 13, the Army put Mr. Sarfati to work as an interpreter. He spoke five languages fluently.

    After the war, he joined the French paratroopers, making his first jump at 16 years old. He emigrated from France to the United States in 1958, becoming a citizen the following year.

    Mr. Sarfati worked for a time as a bartender at Howard Johnson’s in Times Square, where he met Elizabeth Eblen. They liked each other, but Mr. Sarfati married Jeanine Prouteau not long after. Living in Queens, he rode the subway to his job in Manhattan, where he first tended bar at the Century Association and then became maitre d’ hotel and sommelier in the main dining room of the Yale Club.

    He had been divorced when, by chance, he and Ms. Eblen met again on a New York street. They married in May 1977. Wanting to leave the city, the couple bought a restaurant called the Seafood Shanty in Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard, but sold it after three years, still searching for an ideal location. They hit upon East Hampton. It was 1979, and the Huntting Inn was for sale.

    They bought the inn, and a house on Dayton Lane as well, but resold the inn within a year and returned to Manhattan, this time for a five-year sojourn. Mr. Sarfati purchased a French restaurant, the Cafe du Soir, and began a tradition of having all living members of the Ninth Division dine there every Nov. 9, in honor of the day Algeria was liberated. It became a tradition for many former soldiers, among whom his shrimp dish was said to be a favorite. He was eventually named an honorary life member of the Ninth Division. Wanting to spend his time with his wife in East Hampton, he sold the restaurant and became manager of the Bridgehampton Club.

    “We wanted an East Hampton life, smalltown,” Mrs. Sarfati said on Monday. “We loved to walk on the beach.” Her husband was a great reader and a very good cook, she said. “He loved to shop for food.” Music and singing were also a big part of his life. He could sing “Carmen” in its entirety, she said. In the city, Mr. Sarfati was a member of the Abravanel Lodge of Masons.

    In addition to Mrs. Sarfati, he leaves three children from his first marriage, a son, Dominique Sarfati, who lives in Virginia, and two daughters, Myriam Sarfati of Queens and Jacqueline Single of Pleasant Hill, Calif. Two grandchildren survive as does a sister, Yvonne Levy of Israel. According to Jewish tradition, he was buried the day after he died, with a graveside service at the Chevra Kadisha Cemetery in Sag Harbor.

    The family has suggested memorial donations for the Animal Rescue Fund, 90 Daniel’s Hole Road, Wainscott 11973; East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978, or Temple Adas Israel, P.O. Box 1378, Sag Harbor 11963.

    William Martin Stahl, M.D., a surgeon and professor of medicine who was considered a master teacher by his peers and legions of students and residents whom he trained, died at home in Larchmont, N.Y., on Dec. 22, at the age of 90. His family described his death as natural and peaceful.

    Dr. Stahl was a scientist, whose medical publications numbered in the hundreds, a physician who had dedicated himself to quality care for the poor, and a lifelong musician. In Montauk, where he bought property 45 years ago, he loved the ocean and swam as often as possible. He also had enjoyed surfcasting.

    He was born on Nov. 6, 1922, in Danbury, Conn., to William M. Stahl and the former Isabel Sarah Walker, and knew from the time he was 12 that he wanted to be a doctor like his father. He attended Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School, graduating from each in three years under an accelerated program. He was then commissioned as a captain in the Army Medical Corps and stationed on the Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands under the United States Atomic Energy Commission. There, he became the only doctor for nearly 1,000 men and directed a mobile surgical hospital.

    Returning to civilian life in 1952, Dr. Stahl did his residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. He then had a surgical practice in Danbury and went on to become an associate professor and vice chairman of surgery at the Vermont Medical School. In 1966, he joined the faculty of the New York University Medical School. From then until his retirement in 1997, he was engaged as a professor or director of surgery at several New York City institutions, including New York Medical College, Metropolitan Hospital, and Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center. According to his family, his early work at Bellevue “opened his eyes to what was possible and seeded his desire to teach and conduct research.”

    In Montauk, Dr. Stahl first lived adjacent to Gurney’s Inn on the bluffs. He and his first wife, Alice Miller, then bought a large, wild tract on the ocean, south of Deep Hollow Ranch. Moving their three small structures there was said to be quite an endeavor, with a three-quarters-of-a-mile-long road having to be cut through the brush and utility lines lifted to allow the buildings to pass along Old Montauk Highway. Some of the property was used by Deep Hollow Ranch for grazing, but the tract was eventually divided. One parcel, between the Stahls’ and the Warhol Estate, was donated to the Nature Conservancy. In more recent years, Dr. Stahl sold that property and moved back to Old Montauk Highway, with a house at Davis Drive that also has an ocean view. His family plans a memorial gathering there in early summer.

    Greg Donahue of East Hampton, who met Dr. Stahl in Montauk in the early 1970s and said they would stop to have “nice chats” for the next 30 years, remarked that he was an honorable and delightful man. “Just to think of Bill puts a smile on my face,” he said.

    Dr. Stahl played the clarinet and sang in a band at Dartmouth College called Barbary Coast. He later played clarinet with the Hudson Valley Wind Symphony and soprano sax with the Westchester Saxophone Quartet. His true love, his family said, was the tenor sax, which he played for 15 years with the Wednesday Night Big Band.

    Dr. Stahl is survived by his wife, Patricia Maloney, and their children, Matyas Stahl and Elizabet Stahl, of Larchmont and Montauk. Also surviving are his children from his first marriage, William M. (Skip) Stahl III of Portland, Me., Katherine A. Stahl of Washington, D.C., and Springs, Sarah Jaffe Turnbull of Bridgehampton, and Elizabeth Stahl Parkinson of Phoenix. A brother, Frederick A. Stahl of Boston, also survives, as do seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. In addition to his first wife, Dr. Stahl was predeceased by his second wife, Mary Elizabeth Stahl, and by a son, Jonathan Stahl.

    Susan Alling Miller, a summer resident of Amagansett for many years, died in her sleep at home in Stamford, Conn., on Jan. 17. She was 85.

    Born Helen Susan Alling in Newark, N.J., on Dec. 21, 1927, she was the oldest daughter of Dr. Frederic A. Alling and Helen Stearly. Her maternal grandfather was the Rt. Rev. Wilson Stearly, the fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark.

    In the 1930s, her family moved to Montclair, N.J., where she lived for most of her life. The family spent summers on Buzzards Bay, Mass., and in Quiogue.

    Mrs. Miller attended the Kimberley School (now part of Montclair Kimberley Academy), where she graduated in 1945. Her family described her as pretty, vivacious, intelligent, outspoken, and with a ready laugh, and said she made many lifelong friends.

    She played the piano and sang, appearing once in a school production of “Iolanthe” that left her with an abiding fondness for Gilbert and Sullivan. At Vassar, she majored in political science and also sang with the Gold Dusters, graduating in 1949. She was a loyal member of her class and participated actively in her 60th reunion.

    In 1950 she married Paul R. Miller Jr., who was known as Tony, also from Montclair, where they lived from 1952 to 1971.

    After getting a certificate at Montclair State, Mrs. Miller worked briefly as a teacher. Although she stopped teaching to concentrate on raising four children, she never lost her interest in education. She was appointed to the Montclair Board of Education and served as its vice president during the tumultuous years of social change in the 1960s. Her passion for education and civil rights never left her.

    In 1971, after she and her husband moved to Weston, Mass., she went back to school, earning a master’s degree at Boston College in 1974. She then became a high school counselor, concentrating on college counseling, at the Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Mass., and later at Weston High School.

    In 1984, the family moved back to New York City, where she worked in the admissions department at Columbia University and at the United Nations International School. After her husband died in 1991, she continued to volunteer her talents, counseling students at Martin Luther King High School and individually in the city.

    She and Mr. Miller entertained often in Montclair and at their summer house on Furthereast Lane in Amagansett. While in Amagansett she attended summer services at St. Thomas Episcopal Chapel.

    Later in life, when she moved to the Edgehill retirement community in Stamford, she remained active, serving on the Residents Council and never losing her interest in current affairs and social justice. She was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Riverside, Conn.

    Mrs. Miller loved life, family, and friends. Her lifelong love of music never diminished; she regularly attended the opera in Manhattan and classical music concerts there and in Greenwich, Conn. The night she died, she had attended a New York Philharmonic concert with George Davis, whom she considered a dear friend,.

    Ms. Miller is survived by a brother, Fred Miller of Marblehead, Mass., and a sister, Stearly Alling Holt, of Knoxville, Iowa. Her youngest brother, Wilson Miller, died in October.

    Also surviving are four children, Fred Miller of Port Washington, Darcy Miller Powers of Mount Vernon, N.Y., Daniel Miller of New York City, and Paul Miller of Takoma Park, Md. She leaves five grandchildren.

    A service will be held for her at 11 a.m. on Saturday at St. Paul’s Church, 200 Riverside Avenue in Riverside. The family has suggested donations in her name to the Annual Fund for Scholarships at Vassar College, Box 725, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 12604, or to the Greenwich Chamber Players, P.O. Box 35, Greenwich, Conn. 06836.

    William R. Peters, a corporate lawyer and businessman who had lived in East Hampton for the last 12 years, died on Jan. 21 after a sudden, short illness. His wife of 22 years, Shelley McBee Peters, was by his side. He had just turned 67.

    Mr. Peters was born on Jan. 18, 1946, in Great Neck, and grew up there. He was a graduate of the University of Rochester, where he received a bachelor’s degree, and of New York University Law School, where he earned juris doctor and master’s degrees. During the Vietnam era, he served in the Army.

    Following law school, Mr. Peters joined Davis, Polk, and Wardwell in New York, where he practiced corporate law for a number of years. In the late 1970s, he became the assistant general counsel, secretary, and director of acquisitions at SCM Corporation, where he spent 10 years.

    He then moved to Colgate Palmolive as associate general counsel, assistant secretary, and vice president for corporate law, with the corporate and regulatory departments reporting to him.

    After going through the advanced management program at Harvard Business School, Mr. Peters resigned from Colgate in 1992. With a partner, Richard Donahue, he formed a private equity firm. Eventually, the partnership bid successfully for Maine Trailer, and Mr. Peters became the company’s chief executive officer. He guided the company through two recessions and a period of unprecedented volatility in fuel prices.

    Away from work, Mr. Peters enjoyed the water. He was an active and enthusiastic sailor for most of his life, participating in a number of open ocean races and at one time serving as skipper in the Bermuda Race and winning his class. He was a member of the New York Yacht Club and of the Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett. He and his wife enjoyed many happy hours on Long Island Sound and cruising along the New England coastline, on their own boat or on a friend’s.

    According to a friend, John Townsend, “Mr. Peters’s sharp intellect, his talent for intellectual combat — invariably lighthearted — and his fun-loving style were a source of delight for his friends and family.”

    “Like most,” Mr. Townsend said, “he had little taste for pomposity and bombast, but when he encountered them, he was more often amused than annoyed. Disagreement with him was never disagreeable.”

    In addition to his wife, whom he married on Oct. 12, 1991, Mr. Peters is survived by a brother, Ron Peters of Oneonta, N.Y.

    Mr. Peters was cremated. A celebration of his life will be held at 11 a.m. on Feb. 16 at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton, the Rev. Timothy Lewis of St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in Bridgehampton presiding.

    Memorial donations have been suggested to the National Maritime Historical Society, P.O. Box 68, Peekskill, N.Y. 10566, the Island Institute, P.O. Box 648, Rockland, Me. 04841, or the National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine Street, New Orleans, La. 70130.

    Robert Bruce Anderson Sr., a World War II veteran and descendant of one of East Hampton’s founding families, the Fithians, died on Friday at Southampton Hospital. He was 90 and had lived on Cooper Lane in East Hampton for most of his life.

    He was born on the family homestead on Indian Wells Highway in Amagansett on Jan. 9, 1923, one of 10 children of Herbert Keith Anderson and the former Sybil Rae Fithian. He attended grade school in Amagansett and graduated in East Hampton High School’s class of 1940.

    Mr. Anderson was studying engineering at both the University of Nebraska and the University of South Dakota when the United States entered World War II. He enlisted in 1943 having already received training in the schools’ Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, and was assigned to the First Infantry Division, which was known as the Big Red One. When the war ended Mr. Anderson served as a security guard during the Nuremberg war crimes trials in Germany. He left the Army in 1946.

    In 1957, he married the former Delores Fanning, a distant cousin who was also a descendant of the Fithian family. Mrs. Anderson died before him.

    Two years after the couple married, Mr. Anderson began a career managing the Golden Eagle art supply and paint store in East Hampton. He retired in 2003 at the age of 79. He enjoyed his regular customers and counted the former Beatle Paul McCartney among them. In the 1960s and ’70s he painted and hung wallpaper for many families in East Hampton.

    The Andersons had five children, Patricia Doyle of Phoenix, Az., Sandra Welsh of Edwardsville, Ill., Susan Grimes of Montauk, April Mason of Cape Cod, and Robert B. Anderson Jr. of East Hampton, all of whom survive.

    He is also survived by his sisters, Ruth McDonald of Florida, Jean Snow of Massachusetts, and Charlotte Tosch of Canada, and nine grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

    His siblings Marion Smith, Herbert Anderson Jr., George Anderson, Marjorie McGuire, Joan Strong, and Paul Anderson died before him.

    His family said that Mr. Anderson considered his greatest accomplishment raising five children who he was very proud of. He was a Giants, Mets, and Knicks fan, but most of all he loved to cheer on the East Hampton High School Bonackers sports teams whenever possible, they said.

    Mr. Anderson will be buried today at 1 p.m. at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton. Memorial contributions have been suggested to Fighting Chance, a counseling center for cancer patients, 34 Bay Street, Sag Harbor 11963, or to Southampton Hospital, 240 Meeting House Lane, Southampton 11968.

    Robert Harold Levenson, who was as famous for his taglines in the golden age of advertising as he was for his roses in East Hampton, died in New York City on Jan. 16. He was 83 and had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

    Mr. Levenson was eulogized in print and blogs in the last week by the advertising industry as a visionary and a generous mentor who told copywriters to imagine they were writing a letter and describing something to an intelligent friend who knew less about the product than they did.

    He came of age in his field during the time fictionalized on television’s “Mad Men.” He was elected to the Copywriters Hall of Fame in 1972 and won every major award in the advertising industry several times, according to his family.

    In a career spanning most of the last half of the 20th century, primarily at Doyle Dane Bernbach, he rose from copywriter to creative director to chairman of its international operations over 26 years. A friend of Bill Bernbach, one of the founders of the agency, Mr. Levenson wrote “Bill Bernbach’s Book: A History of Advertising That Changed the History of Advertising” in 1987.

    His most memorable campaigns include work for El Al airlines with a tag line “My Son, the pilot,” the Volkswagen Beetle, and the jingle: “Everybody doesn’t like something, but nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee.” He also was in charge of a highway safety campaign for Mobil called “We Want You to Live.”

    Mr. Levenson also was a friend of The East Hampton Star, writing and contributing a full page advertisement in 2007, “Welcome to the Neighborhood.”    His caricature on the wall at the former Della Femina restaurant on North Main Street in East Hampton was one of many drawn by his second wife, the late Kathe Tanous, with whom he lived in East Hampton. Until moving to East Hampton in 1986, he had lived in New Rochelle, N.Y., and in New York City. His most recent address was in Bokeelia, Fla., where he lived on an island, which his family said was very dear to him.

    Mr. Levenson was born to William and Frieda Levenson on Nov. 23, 1929, in the Bronx and was raised there. He had an undergraduate and graduate degree in English from New York University and had served in the United States Air Force.

    He worked at Doyle Dane Bernbach from 1959 to 1985. He also held positions at Saatchi and Saatchi and at Scali, McCabe, Sloves, according to The New York Times.

    He is survived by his wife, Anna Jane Warshaw. His marriage to Elaine Berk, with whom he had two sons, Keith Levenson of Pound Ridge, N.Y., and Seth Levenson of Park City, Utah, ended in divorce. He is survived by his sons, a stepdaughter, Katherine Warshaw-Reid, and a step-granddaughter.

     The family has suggested memorial contributions to his step-granddaughter’s education fund: Kyra Wilkowski, 76 White Birch Road, Pound Ridge, N.Y. 10576. A memorial service will be held at a later date.