Albert H. Khoury, 85

Albert Halim Khoury, a career executive with Mobil Oil, died of a heart attack at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx on May 11. He was 85 and had been ill with Alzheimer’s disease for many years.

Mr. Khoury and his wife, the former Barbara Maloney, bought one of the first houses in Settlers Landing in East Hampton, in the late 1960s, not long after the area was developed. They owned it for about 45 years, using it on weekends and during the summer more and more after 1994, when they both retired. 

A graduate of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, he lived in Pittsburgh afterward but then moved to New York City. A niece, Liz Dryden, said that photography, golf, and jogging were among his many pastimes. After he retired, she said, he took up day trading on the stock exchange, and was able to supplement his income quite satisfactorily.

Mr. Khoury was born on Sept. 11, 1932, in Cleveland, one of six children of the former Halla Ibrahim and Halim Houry, who had immigrated to the United States from Lebanon. His father changed the spelling of the family’s last name, dropping the “K” in order to sound more American, Ms. Dryden said, but Mr. Khoury changed it back, because, she said, he was proud of his Lebanese heritage.

In addition to his wife and Ms. Dryden, who lives in Orlando, Fla., Mr. Khoury is survived by a sister, Minerva Gressley of Willowick, Ohio, a brother, Edward Houry of Fairfax City, Va., and many nieces, nephews, great-nieces, and great-nephews. Another brother and two sisters, Robert Houry, Georgette Busch, and Jenny O’Dell, died before him.

Mr. Khoury was cremated. Memorial donations have been suggested to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.