Enid Roth of New York City and Amagansett, who had a long career in television, died on Jan. 27 of complications of breast cancer at the Bristal, an assisted-living facility in Holtsville. She was 87.

 In 1950, between her junior and senior years at college, Ms. Roth began what would turn into a 40-year career in television with a job at CBS and a salary of $45 a week. A year later, after she had graduated from Syracuse University, she thought a starting salary of $70 a week at NBC sounded better, and so she signed on, eventually becoming the associate director and then director of NBC’s local news.

Between news assignments, she worked on dramatic and entertainment specials. She traveled all over the country, to witness space shots in Houston and Cape Canaveral, Fla.; and political conventions in San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, and Kansas City. She was a part of the first satellite broadcast, with Telstar, and broadcast variety shows such as “Hullabaloo,” “The Perry Como Show,” “The Steve Allen Show,” and many others.

Several of Ms. Roth’s NBC friends had moved to East Hampton, or were summering on the East End, and she built a house on Skimhampton Road in Amagansett in 1971, staying there from May through late October.

She was born in Brooklyn on Feb. 10, 1930, one of two children of the former Minnie Kaufman and Hugo Roth. Her brother, Jerrold Roth, died many years ago. She grew up in Brooklyn, attending elementary school and graduating from high school before earning a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University.

In recent years, Ms. Roth devoted herself to volunteerism, donating her time to Guild Hall and the Ladies Village Improvement Society. She was also a member of the community supported agriculture program at Quail Hill Farm in Amagansett.

There was no service. Ms. Roth was buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Anita Higgins Salembier, a longtime summer resident of Egypt Lane, died last Thursday at home in Locust Valley. Mrs. Salembier, who was 96, had become ill with pneumonia the week before her death.

As a young woman she had worked for the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, during World War II, translating French and German telegrams. 

Mrs. Salembier was president of the North Country Garden Club of Long Island and the Garden Club of East Hampton. Her family said that in addition to gardening, she enjoyed playing tennis and golf, and skiing. They said that she would be remembered for her energy and quick wit.

A descendant of Jonathan Trumbull, the 16th governor of Connecticut, Anita Higgins was born in New York City on Dec. 10, 1921, to the former Claire Trumbull van Lennep and Charles Higgins, an architect. She attended the Hewitt School in Manhattan and the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pa. In 1941, she made her debut at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City. At Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, she studied languages and earned a bachelor’s degree. 

After Sarah Lawrence, she put her European language skills to use, taking the job with the O.S.S. After the war she moved back to Manhattan, and in 1947 married Charles Coe Townsend Jr. They had five children, four of whom survive. 

The marriage ended in divorce, and in 1973 she married Harold P. Salembier of New York City and East Hampton. They lived in Oyster Bay and East Hampton Village.

Her children Charles C. Townsend III of Barrington, R.I., Frederic Townsend of Lake Bluff, Ill., James B. Townsend of Oyster Bay, and Claire Townsend Bacher of Santa Cruz, Calif., survive, as do 13 grandchildren. Her son Benjamin Hewitt Townsend died before her.

A funeral service will be held on Saturday morning at 11 at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Cold Spring Harbor. She will be buried in the church cemetery. Memorial donations have been suggested to St. John’s Church, 1670 Route 25A, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. 11724.

Anne Gibson Clark Washburn of Palm Beach, Fla., and a longtime summer resident of East Hampton, died in Palm Beach on Jan. 28. She was 98.

She was born in Brooklyn Heights on Dec. 11, 1919, and grew up there in what her family called “the bright city lights of New York’s Roaring Twenties.” She attended Brooklyn Heights Seminary and the Packer Collegiate Institute, where she showed a flair, her family said, for drama and dressing up in school plays. 

She went on to study acting at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., and at McGill University in Montreal, after which she did graduate work at the Yale School of Drama, where she became interested in costume design. While studying in New Haven, she ventured frequently into Manhattan to see the premieres of many Broadway musicals, and performed in several New England summer-stock venues, from the Ivoryton Playhouse in Connecticut all the way up to Lake Sunapee, N.H. Eventually Mrs. Washburn found work in Manhattan theaters herself.

In 1947, she married George Washburn of New York City, a naval officer who had been in command of the naval destroyer escort U.S.S. Vammen during the Okinawa invasion. The Washburns had been married for 57 years when he died in 2005. The couple could really cut a rug, said her family, acquiring the nickname of “the Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire of East Hampton.” 

The Washburns first started spending time here around 1952. They lived off Main Street and, among their other memorable social moments, staged cast parties for Philip Barry’s Village Vanities theater productions at Guild Hall in the 1950s and 1960s. Mrs. Washburn acted in the John Drew Theater Players and was a member of the committee that planned the John Drew summer season in those years, as well as being a longtime member of the Maidstone Club, the Devon Yacht Club, the Garden Club of East Hampton, and the Ladies Village Improvement Society.

About 25 years ago, the Washburns began spending more time in Florida during the winter, but Mrs. Washburn stopped coming to East Hampton only recently.

She is survived by her sister, Tupper Limbert of Glens Falls, N.Y., by her daughters, Constance Washburn Castle of Lagunitas, Calif., and Lynn Hanke of New York City, and five grandchildren. 

Mrs. Washburn was cremated. A memorial service will be held in the summer at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, in East Hampton, of which she was a member for many years, with the Very Rev. Denis C. Brunelle officiating.

Vincent A. D’Angelo of East Hampton died unexpectedly of a heart attack on Jan. 8, while on his way to Sammy’s Beach, where he had gone to hunt. He was 73 and, while he had not been ill, he had had heart-bypass surgery some 30 years ago.

Mr. D’Angelo was a member of the Maidstone Gun Club and loved hunting, his family said. “He lived for his grandchildren,” they said, taking the children out crabbing and clamming in Three Mile Harbor, and fishing farther afield on his 13-foot Boston Whaler. 

He took pride at Christmas, they said, in producing homemade ravioli and pizzelle, waffle-like sweet biscuits. 

He also enjoyed jigsaw puzzles and the television quiz show “Jeopardy,” and he was a “great family man,” his family said. He enjoyed drinking an old-fashioned with Scotch whisky, no oranges, and extra cherries.

Mr. D’Angelo fell in love with East Hampton as a child after his parents built a house on Three Mile Harbor in the late 1940s. Later, he “fell in love with a local girl,” his family said, marrying Susan McGuire, whom he met when she was 13 and who survives. 

He was born in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 28, 1944, one of three sons of the former Mildred Hollingsworth and Michael Charles D’Angelo. He graduated from Holy Cross High School in Flushing, and went on to graduate from Queens College, eventually going into business at his father’s accounting firm, M.C. D’Angelo and Company. The D’Angelos spent winters in Queens and summers in East Hampton until moving here year round in 2002.

Mr. D’Angelo also served in the Army National Guard Reserve for six years.

In addition to his widow, his daughter, Nicole Marlow of Atlanta, survives, as do his sons, Christopher D’Angelo and Michael D’Angelo, both of Rockville Centre. A brother, Peter D’Angelo of East Islip, survives, as well as six grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. His brother Michael D’Angelo died in 1999.

The family received visitors on Jan. 11 at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, where a funeral was held the next day. Burial was private. Memorial donations have been suggested to Meals on Wheels, 33 Newtown Lane, East Hampton 11937.

Alfred G. Osterweil, an attorney who represented all of the police unions in the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and most police unions in Bergen County, N.J., died of pneumonia on Jan. 29 in Many, La. He was 86.

The law was not only Mr. Osterweil’s work, it was his passion. “He loved the practice of law and won cases that changed laws in New Jersey,” his wife, Cynthia Anne Osterweil, wrote. He had recently won a case in New York regarding the right of “non-domiciled residents to own firearms,” she said. 

Mr. Osterweil began practicing public-sector labor law when it was a burgeoning field. In addition to the police unions, he also represented nurses at Englewood Hospital during their first strike. 

He had a law office in Edgewater and lived in Hackensack, N.J. From 1995 to about 2001, he and his wife lived in Amagansett, first on Hedges Lane and later on Cross Highway to Devon. When they made Amagansett their year-round residence, Mrs. Osterweil volunteered as an emergency medical technician for the Amagansett Fire Department’s ambulance squad and Mr. Osterweil volunteered as an ambulance driver. 

More recently, the couple lived in Louisiana and summered in Summit, N.Y. 

Mr. Osterweil was born in Newark on June 30, 1931, to Jack Osterweil and the former Freida Lane. He grew up in Newark, graduating from Central High School before going on to Rutgers Law School. He served with the Army in Germany following his graduation and opened a law office in Edgewater after his discharge. 

Mr. Osterweil married Cynthia Anne Rollenhagen on Jan. 2, 1983. In addition to his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Marla Collins of Westfield, N.J., and two grandchildren. A son, Hal Osterweil, died before him. 

A burial service in Summit and a memorial service in New Jersey are planned for the spring. Condolences can be left for the family at levinememorialchapel.com.

John Pellegrino “embodied the zeitgeist of the times he lived through,” Frank Voso, a friend from Southampton, wrote. A former model, actor, and high school teacher, Mr. Pellegrino had traveled and lived all over the world before finally settling in Chiang Mai, Thailand, a decade ago. 

He was diagnosed with cancer a year ago and died in Chiang Mai on Jan. 24. He was 76.

Mr. Pellegrino, who lived on and off in East Hampton and Springs from the 1970s through the early 2000s, was “a man who, in the immortal words of Frank Sinatra, ‘Did It My Way,’ ” wrote his brother, Nicholas Richard Pellegrino of Utah. 

Born in Hempstead on Oct. 25, 1941, to Nicholas Thomas Pellegrino and the former Louise Velente, he grew up in Lynbrook and earned an English degree at Hofstra University. 

“His father owned a car dealership, and John usually had some sort of sports car or convertible,” Mr. Voso wrote. 

As a younger man “he was the impossibly handsome and personable guy driving the English sports car with an equally impossible beautiful girl riding shotgun,” his brother recalled. 

Mr. Pellegrino taught English in the United States Virgin Islands. He had toured Europe in a convertible Sunbeam, lived on a houseboat in Sausalito, Calif., modeled in Manhattan and Miami, and lived in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in Ischia and Umbria in Italy, and in New Paltz and High Falls, N.Y., as well as in San Francisco, among many other places. He held dual citizenship in the U.S. and Italy. Ultimately, he “embraced life in Thailand: the food, the people, and the culture,” wrote another friend, Fred Fickera. 

“He was an avid reader, movie lover, and foodie long before the term existed,” Mr. Voso wrote. 

Mr. Pellegrino was married in 1967 to the former Diane Williams, who died before him. In addition to his brother, he is survived by a sister, Rosemary Eichenfield of California. 

He was cremated and a service was held on Jan. 29 on the grounds of McKean Hospital in Chiang Mai. His ashes are to be spread at Wat Palad on Doi Suthem Mountain there

Geraldine Frances Tomitz, who ran a taxi company and a cake business in Montauk, died in Henderson, Nev., on Dec. 28 of injuries after being hit by a car in a parking lot. She was 79.

Mrs. Tomitz, who was known as Gerri, was born on Sept. 3, 1938, at Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica, Queens, one of six daughters of the former Frances Taylor and Warren Forster. She grew up in Queens, graduating from Grover Cleveland High School in Ridgewood.

In 1960 she married Edward Tomitz and they moved first to Howard Beach, where she raised her son, Daniel Tomitz, who survives. In 1982, they moved year round to the summer house they had bought earlier in Montauk. Mr. Tomitz died before her. 

In Montauk, Ms. Tomitz owned the Holy Mackerel Taxi company for four years and then worked as a real estate broker at the Corcoran Group for eight years, a job that overlapped with her baking business, Kiss My Cakes, which she did for about 15 years, baking cakes for many of her former real estate clients.

In addition to her son, who lives in Virginia, Ms. Tomitz is survived by four of her sisters, all of whom live in New York State, Lynne DeRienzo, Jeanne Forster Rodriguez, Patricia Dolan, and Marianne Forster. A fifth sister, Suzanne Forster, died last year. Her Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons dog, Slugger, also survives.

A service was held on Jan. 4 at Hites Funeral Home in Henderson. Ms. Tomitz’s ashes will be buried by her sisters. Her friend Jon Giswold, who was her neighbor in Montauk, will lead a memorial service there in early May.

Leona Needleman was “clear-headed, funny, and relentlessly ethical, with a vast heart whose love she showered on her friends, siblings, children, and grandchildren,” her family wrote on legacy.com. 

Ms. Needleman, a resident of East Hampton for many years before moving to Pompano Beach, Fla., died in Fort Lauderdale on Jan. 31 of lung disease. She was 86.

“After several years of firmly and gracefully managing ongoing compromises to her health, she decided to let down her defenses,” her family wrote. “She died as she had lived: resolutely, with understanding and self-determination.”

Known as Lee, she was born in Brooklyn on Jan. 16, 1932, to Benjamin Malitz and the former Sarah Ginsberg. She grew up in Brooklyn and graduated from Samuel J. Tilden High School in Flatbush. 

“A Dodgers fan who never forgave that team’s departure for Los Angeles, she switched her allegiance to the Mets, whose every move she followed with the eyes of a raptor, and whose every misstep she first catalogued and then accepted with Solomonic forbearance,” her family wrote. 

She was married to Robert Needleman, with whom she had two children. She raised her children in Chappaqua, N.Y., and worked for many years as a school bus driver there. Her husband died in 1976. 

She later moved from Westchester to East Hampton with a partner, Doris Bednar. “Lee and Doris were nearly inseparable, whether at home or in their many joyful travels around the world,” her family wrote. Together for 32 years, they eventually married. Ms. Bednar survives, as do Ms. Needleman’s children, Barry Needleman of Hopkinton, N.H., and Sara Needleman of Portland, Me. She also leaves four grandchildren. 

A service will be held in Florida in late February or early March, with an additional service in New York at a future date. 

The family has suggested donations to the Nature Conservancy’s Long Island chapter at 250 Lawrence Hill Road, Cold Spring Harbor 11724.

William P. Rayner, a watercolorist and travel writer who was the editorial business manager of Condé Nast for 30 years, died in New York City on Jan. 22 at the age of 88. His death was attributed to cardiac arrest, although it has been reported that this was precipitated by an injury that had come during an anniversary trip to France with his wife, Katharine Johnson Rayner.

Mr. Rayner, who was known to friends as Billy, lived on West End Road, near Georgica Pond, in a house of celebrated beauty called Woody House. Together with his wife, he split his time between Woody House and the Upper East Side, wintering in Palm Beach, Fla. Regardless of where he was, his friends said, Mr. Rayner painted every day. His watercolors were exhibited at various galleries, most recently in November at the Chinese Porcelain Company in Manhattan. 

His other beloved occupation was travel. On many trips with his wife, and for his work, he saw the world, visiting such far-flung countries as Bhutan, Syria, Libya, China, Egypt, Cambodia, India, and Russia. 

“I started traveling extensively when I was around 30 years old,” he told The East Hampton Star in 2013, “both for Condé Nast and on my own account.” His memories of these voyages were published that year in a two-book set, “Notes and Sketches: Travel Journals of William P. Rayner.” 

In a 2001 article in the Palm Beach Daily News, when his paintings were in a Florida exhibition, he explained that he had, at first, begun to paint because it was a more accurate way of memory-keeping than simply taking diary notes. “I could remember things I’d seen more accurately,” he said. “I could almost smell the things by looking at the paintings.” 

After Mr. Rayner’s death, Edwina Sandys, a British artist and sculptor, extolled his virtues as an artist, telling The Palm Beach Daily News, “He was a very good artist. Watercolor is a most difficult medium. You’ve got to be brave and fluid, which he was.”

Mr. Rayner also wrote a book of essays, “Wise Women: Singular Lives that Helped Shape our Century,” which was published in 1983. 

He was born to Emily and Archibald Rayner on Feb. 21, 1929, in Washington, D.C., and was educated at the Taft School in Watertown, Conn., and the University of Virginia.

He grew up surrounded by art. His mother was a social figure in Palm Beach from the 1940s to 1960s, as well as a director of the Worth Avenue Gallery there. The woman he married, Katharine Rayner, is the daughter of Anne Cox Chambers, who is listed as one of Forbes magazine’s 500 wealthiest Americans. His aunt was Betty Parsons, a New York art dealer with whom he spent many summers on the East End and through whom he met leading artists such as Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock. It was Parsons who introduced him to the idea of keeping a visual diary. (“Her diaries were strictly painting,” he told The Star. “At first, mine were watercolor-driven; then I began to make notes — I was a writer, after all — and then started to paste things in.”)

The Rayners’ garden at Woody House, which is nestled among the ocean dunes at Georgica Pond, was described as a magical oasis by Vogue magazine in 2016. Architectural Digest, last year, said that the loveliness of the house, peppered with exotic antiques and textiles from the couple’s travels, had reached “near-mythical stature.”

On the South Fork, Mr. Rayner will be remembered as a champion of good causes. He was the president of the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons for 10 years and on the board of the Parrish Art Museum. He also was a member of the boards of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Henry Street Settlement in New York City and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Audrey Gruss, a friend and Southampton resident, said Mr. Rayner always was “a joy to be around. He had a great sense of humor, but always in a gentle way and at no one’s expense.” 

A funeral service was held last Thursday at St. James Episcopal Church in Manhattan.

After a successful career as a telecommunications sales executive, Maurice Eugene Curran retired to the South Fork, where he had summered as a child, and took up beekeeping. 

He was “passionate about doing his part” to help “the planet heal,” wrote his girlfriend, Bridget Brosseau, and he understood the importance of honeybees in that equation. 

“His love for beekeeping expanded, and he placed hives on many friends’ properties,” sharing his knowledge with all these “intern beekeepers,” Ms. Brosseau said. He had considered selling the honey and had hoped to take a teaching hive with plexiglass windows to schools, as well. 

“He was also a connoisseur of teas from around the world and loved to match his different honey harvests with different teas,” Ms. Brosseau said.

Mr. Curran died in his sleep on Dec. 21 in Westchester County. The cause has not been determined. He was 60. 

Known as Moe, he had been an entrepreneur from his early years. Among his many endeavors was working as a seafood broker between New York City and the East End, but at Cortel Business Systems, a telecommunications company in New York City, he had a career. He created a new division at Cortel for which he recruited recent college graduates, teaching them how to succeed in the New York City business world. What began with just four employees grew to include some two dozen. 

Mr. Curran married Virginia Best on April 21, 1995. The couple brought up their four children in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., where Mr. Curran served on the Pocantico Hills School Board from 2007 to 2010. Robert Balog, the president of the school board during Mr. Curran’s tenure, described him as “clear and forceful in his commitment to make the school better.” Another former board president, John Conrad, described him as “sincere, intelligent, principled, straightforward, and, most of all, courageous.”

Mr. Curran had a quick wit, “a great sense of humor, and an infectious smile,” Ms. Brosseau wrote. He was “well read and was known for his kind nature, always looking for a chance to help others when an opportunity was presented.” 

He loved waterskiing, snowboarding, riding his bicycle, and cruising on his many Harley-Davidson motorcycles, among other outdoor activities. He enjoyed cooking healthy meals, with fish and East End bay scallops among his favorite ingredients. 

Mr. Curran was born in New York City on Jan. 8, 1957, to Maurice and Barbara Curran. He grew up in Inwood in Nassau County and spent summers in Wainscott as a boy. His fond memories of the area drew him back after his divorce. He and Ms. Brosseau lived in Springs. 

In addition to Ms. Brosseau, he is survived by his children, Maurice Clark Curran and Kayla Curran of New York City and Tyler Curran and Patrick Curran of Westchester County, and by his mother, who lives in Florida. He leaves two sisters, Kim Curran of Westchester County and Kate Curran of Florida, a brother, Matthew Curran of Florida, and a grandson. 

A funeral was held at Emanuel Lutheran Church in Pleasantville, N.Y., on Dec. 30. His ashes will be buried at Wainscott Cemetery alongside those of his father and two sisters who died before him, Bess and Jamie. 

A memorial celebration will be held in the summer at the beach in Wainscott.