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Bobby Charles Shea

Bobby Charles Shea

Bobby Charles Shea
Bobby Charles Shea

    A service for Bobby Charles Shea will be held today at 3 p.m. at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton. The Rev. Denis Brunelle will officiate and a reception will follow at the church hall.

    Mr. Shea, 23, the son of Sally Egbert, an artist, and Danny Shea, a musician, was very creative, his family said.

    Born in New York City on Jan. 6, 1988, he grew up there and in East Hampton and graduated from East Hampton High School.

    As a boy he took up drumming and enjoyed playing with his father. More recently, he studied film editing at the New York Film Academy. He earned a paralegal degree from Manhattan Community College and was to begin studying architecture at the New York Institute of Technology this fall.

    Mr. Shea died on Aug. 9 in East Hampton. The cause of death has not been determined, according to his family.

    A generous and caring young man, Mr. Shea was quick-witted and very funny, his family said. He loved the water and enjoyed clamming, swimming, and snorkeling. He also loved snowboarding and spent winters close to the slopes in Killington, Vt.

    He is survived by his mother and stepfather, Luigi Colarullo, of East Hampton, his father, who lives in East Hampton and New York, a grandmother, Rose Marie Shea of St. Louis, and by aunts, uncles, and cousins.

    Mr. Shea was cremated.

 

Arthur J. Rossi, 90

Arthur J. Rossi, 90

    Arthur J. Rossi, who lived on Tyrone Drive in Springs for many years, died in Oldsmar, Fla., last Thursday at the age of 90. His wife, Ann Fulvio Rossi, recalled this week that she and her husband were the first residents of the then-new Clearwater Beach Two neighborhood.

    Mr. Rossi was born on Sept. 29, 1920, in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., to Bartholomew and Margaret Ocnelli Rossi. He attended Notre Dame, Iowa State University, and the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, and served with the Navy during World War II.

    After the war Mr. Rossi had a long career as a mechanical and nuclear engineer. He was a member of the American Legion in Florida, and of the American Society of Engineers.

    Besides his wife, he leaves two children, Bart Rossi of Old Bridge, N.J., and Jacquelyn Donlon of Milton, Mass. He is also survived by a brother, Edward Rossi of East Hampton. A sister, Louise Intravia of East Hampton, and a daughter, Diane DeAngelis of West Hempstead, predeceased him.

    A Mass to celebrate his life was said on Saturday at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton, followed by burial at Pinelawn Memorial Park in Farmingdale.

    Donations in memory of Mr. Rossi can be sent to All Saints Church, 2801 Gurlew Road, Clearwater, Fla. 33761, or to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.

 

Kate MacNiven Mass

Kate MacNiven Mass

    A funeral Mass for Katharine E. MacNiven will be said Monday at 11 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton. Ms. MacNiven died on July 25 at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx. She was 49 and had lived in Amagansett.

    A complete obituary will appear in a future issue.

Beverly Rodenbeck

Beverly Rodenbeck

    Beverly Ann Rodenbeck, who lived in East Hampton for many years, died in Brick, N.J., on July 10 after a four-year battle with cancer. She was 72.

    Born in Manhattan on June 12, 1939, to John Baldwin Meeker and the former Emily Ann Rice, who later moved to East Hampton, Ms. Rodenbeck graduated from East Hampton High School and Union Junior College in Cranford, N.J. On Nov. 19, 1966, she was married to Donald Rodenbeck. They moved to Westfield, N.J., and lived there for 31 years. For much of that time Ms. Rodenbeck worked at Breuninger Brothers, an insurance firm.

    “She enjoyed baseball, cats, and jewelry,” said her family. Ms. Rodenbeck is survived by her husband and a brother, John Meeker of Roswell, Ga.

    Ms. Rodenbeck was cremated. Her ashes will be buried at Monmouth Memorial Park in Monmouth, N.J., after her husband dies.

 

Joan Anderson Stone

Joan Anderson Stone

Joan Hagen Anderson Stone
Joan Hagen Anderson Stone

    Joan Hagen Anderson Stone, an 11th-generation native of East Hampton, died at home on Sunday surrounded by her family. A graveside service will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton.

    She and her twin sister, Jean Snow, were born at the family homestead on Indian Wells Highway in Amagansett on Oct. 8, 1932. She was one of 11 children born to Herbert Keith Anderson Sr. and the former Sybil Rae Fithian.

    She was a descendant of William Fithian, a native of Wales and one of the first settlers to arrive in East Hampton in 1648.

    She went to the Amagansett School and graduated from East Hampton High School. She married Robert E. Stone Sr. in 1957. Mr. Stone survives.

    Mrs. Stone was a gifted cook famous for her clam pies. She played sports in and out of school, especially basketball and baseball. She was a fan of the Yankees. Ms. Snow lives in Natick, Mass., and became a Boston Red Sox fan. “It was always really fun,” Mrs. Stone’s daughter Nancy Gibson Stone Rowan said yesterday.

    In addition to her husband and Ms. Rowan, who lives in East Hampton, Mrs. Stone is survived by three other children, Florence Fithian Stone of East Hampton, Robert E. Stone Jr. of East Hampton, and Marion Anderson Stone McMahon of Amagansett. She leaves nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

    She also leaves a brother, Robert B. Anderson Sr. of East Hampton, and two sisters in addition to her twin, Ruth McDonald of Boynton Beach, Fla., and Charlotte Tosh of Manitoba, Canada. She was predeceased by six other siblings.

    Memorial contributions were suggested to the East Hampton Presbyterian Church, 120 Main Street, East Hampton 11937, or the Amagansett Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 764, Amagansett 11930.

 

William B. Gleckman

William B. Gleckman

    William B. Gleckman of Apaquogue Road, East Hampton, and New York City died at the Good Shepherd Hospice in Port Jefferson on July 25 at the age of 79 following a stroke.

    Mr. Gleckman was an architect who designed several houses in East Hampton, Amagansett and Sagaponack, among them a famous — some said infamous — stainless-steel-roofed house in Sagaponack near the ocean. “Stainless steel doesn’t pit or rust like other metals,” Mr. Gleckman said when the house went up in the late ’80s. “And it is so beautiful.” Architectural Digest apparently thought so too; the magazine featured the metal house respectfully and prominently in its February 1990 issue.

    Born on Sept. 11, 1931, in New Bedford, Mass., Mr. Gleckman attended New Bedford High School and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1954 with a degree in architecture. After army service in Germany he did postgraduate studies in city planning in Switzerland, and later worked for several architectural firms in Lausanne, Geneva, and Zurich, where he met his wife, the former Magdalena Hafter, who survives. They were married on Aug. 15, 1959.

    Back in the United States, Mr. Gleckman started his own architectural practice in Manhattan. His work consisted primarily of apartment-building renovations, restaurants, and foreign consulates.

    Apart from a lifelong passion for architecture, he was a keen reader, a history buff, and loved classical music and crossword puzzles.

    Besides his wife he leaves a daughter, Suzanne Gleason of New York City, a son, Nicholas Gleckman of Corte Madera, Calif., and five grandchildren. Mr. Gleckman was cremated. His ashes will be spread on the ocean in a private family ceremony.

 

Emmett Foran

Emmett Foran

    Emmett Lawrence Foran, a resident of Noyac and formerly of Ireland, died at home on July 18 after an illness. He was 42.

    He was born on Sept. 17, 1968 in Dublin to Thomas Lawrence Foran and the former Margaret Tierney.

    Mr. Foran was married to the former Emily Brown on Sept. 17, 2005, at Trout Pond in Noyac.

    He owned Noyac Deli and “had a zest for life, was a friend of everyone he ever met and was loved by one and all,” his wife said. At the end of the day, she said, he rushed to get home to his two dogs, Dublin and Comen, who accompanied him everywhere when he was not working.

    He is survived by his father and stepmother, Joan Cotter, of Land O’ Lakes, Fla., and his mother, who lives in Kinnegad, Ireland. He also leaves a sister, Jane Foran of Kilbeggan, Ireland, and a brother, Thomas Foran of Auckland, New Zealand, his wife’s sister, Holly Brown, who was like a sister to him, and a niece and great-niece.

    Visiting hours will be at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor today from 5 to 7 p.m. The family has suggested memorial contributions to the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, P.O. Box 901, Wainscott 11975, or the Humane Society of the United States, 2100 L Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20037.

    In September, Ms. Foran will travel to Ireland to celebrate her husband’s life with friends and family. “Known best as the Irish Man, he will never be forgotten,” she said.

 

Helen O. Anderson

Helen O. Anderson

Founder of Surf Realty

    Helen Anderson, a longtime resident of South Fairview Avenue in Montauk, died at the Heritage Hill Senior Community in Weatherly, Pa., on July 11. She was 91.

    In 1984, two years after she retired to Montauk, Mrs. Anderson founded Surf Realty, a real estate business that focused solely on Montauk properties, and still does today.

    Mrs. Anderson was born in Queens in 1919 to Leon Olszweski and the former Mary Ann Smolenska. She was a graduate of Hofstra University, with a degree in business education, and studied toward an M.B.A. at Adelphi University. She was a member of Phi Alpha Sigma and Alpha Sigma Lambda, two national honor societies, and went on to become an instructor at Suffolk Community College.

    She and her husband, Henry V. Anderson, raised their family in Dix Hills. For over 40 years, Mrs. Anderson functioned in a management capacity at Hartmann Systems of Dix Hills, Standard Oil of New Jersey, and the Radio Corporation of America (R.C.A.) and the United Nations, both in New York City. Her husband was a New York City police detective.

    When Mr. and Mrs. Anderson retired in 1982, they moved to Montauk. Mrs. Anderson was active in the community and was a member of the Montauk Village Association, Concerned Citizens of Montauk, Friends of the Montauk Library, and St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church. She loved to write. Several of her articles appeared in local publications, and she was a member of the Montauk Writes writing club, and volunteered as a literacy teacher at the Montauk Library.

    Her husband died in 1994. Mrs. Anderson is survived by her three children, Christopher H. Anderson of Boonton Township, N.J., and Montauk, Pamela T. Kydes of Arlington, Va., and Denise H. Konopka of Lafayette, N.J. She also leaves five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

    Mrs. Anderson will be buried next to her husband, a veteran of World War II, at Calverton National Cemetery.

    A memorial Mass will be celebrated on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Weatherly, Pa.

    The family has requested that donations in Mrs. Anderson’s memory be sent to the Heritage Hill Senior Community, 800 6th Street, Weatherly, Pa. 18255, attention Denise Langman, executive director.

    Those who would care to send condolences or memories to the family can do so online at www.griffithsfuneralhomes.com.

 

Lucy C. Macdonald

Lucy C. Macdonald

    Between 1978 and 2003, the years that Lucy Macdonald lived in East Hampton, she found the local art scene to be a rich environment for her artwork, her family said. Her work was shown at Ashawagh Hall in Springs, Lizan Tops in East Hampton, and the Elaine Benson Gallery in Bridgehampton and she was a member of Guild Hall and the Jimmy Ernst Artists Alliance.

    In 2000, Ms. Macdonald was invited to participate in a show titled “Expatriates,” at the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art in her hometown in Kentucky.

    On the South Fork, she also belonged to the East Hampton Presbyterian Church and was a volunteer with the East Hampton Meals on Wheels organization, in which her husband served as president for many years.

    Ms. Macdonald was born in Owensboro on May 7, 1919, to James Stanton Cottrell and Achsah Haynes Cottrell. Educated at Gulf Park College in Gulfport, Miss., and a graduate of the University of Kentucky, she met Peter R. Macdonald of Boston, a second lieutenant, at Fort Knox where he was stationed. They were married on Dec. 15, 1944, in Florida and spent just six weeks together before Lt. Macdonald left for active duty in Europe.

    Ms. Macdonald died on July 2 in Hopkinsville, Ky., where she had lived since 2003. Her husband died in 2000. She is survived by her three children, Ann Macdonald Raubicheck of Brooklyn, Peter Cottrell Macdonald of Hopkinsville, and John Kevin Macdonald of Southampton. She also leaves four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

    A private memorial service will take place later this summer in East Hampton. The family has asked that donations in her name be made to The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund, 4 Chase Metrotech Center, Brooklyn 11245.

 

Joan Marie Reyes

Joan Marie Reyes

    Joan Marie Reyes of Sag Harbor and Middlebury, Vt., died there on Oct. 20, 2010, after a yearlong bout with esophageal cancer at 75.

    She was born on Feb. 9, 1935, to John Ozalis and the former Mildred Hand-Richardson in Sag Harbor, and grew up in Philadelphia.

    Ms. Reyes attended Olney High School in Philadelphia and the Sacred Heart Academy in Sag Harbor. While in Philadelphia, she was a cellist in the Youth Symphony Orchestra and was also in the youth choir.

    Ms. Reyes worked at Cablevision in East Hampton and provided child care to several families in Sag Harbor in her later years. She played the organ at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton for many years and was a member of the Sweet Adelines in the Hamptons. Her family said she enjoyed music, poetry, and reading.

    She is survived by her former husband, Anthony Reyes of East Hampton, and her two children, Cassandra Reyes Richard of Panton, Vt., and Mark A. Reyes of Brentwood. Ms. Reyes was predeceased by her sister, Florence Field, and is survived by a sister, Mildred Vagranos of Zephyrhills, Fla., along with two grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

    A funeral service will be held at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor on Friday, Aug. 5, the Rev. Mark Philips presiding, followed by burial at the Most Holy Trinity Cemetery in East Hampton. “We waited for the summer because that was her favorite time. She loved to hang out out at Long Beach, and she spent many hours there writing poetry,” her family said.

    The family suggested donations to the John Jermain Memorial Library’s archive department, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor 11963.