Elizabeth V. Rossuck
Elizabeth Vogt Rossuck of East Hampton, a longtime parishioner, ruling elder, and clerk of session at the Amagansett Presbyterian Church, died on Oct. 22 at Southampton Hospital. She was 82 and had been in increasingly frail health for the past few months.
Ms. Rossuck, who came to East Hampton initially to visit an aunt and uncle, the late Mary and Alexander Vogt, had a number of interests, including theater and the ballet. She enjoyed reading biographies and attending performances by the Choral Society of the Hamptons, and loved animals. Over the years, she adopted many dogs from the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons.
She was born on July 29, 1936, in Flushing, Queens, the only child of Albert C. Vogt and the former Eleanor McGee. She grew up there and in Bayside Gables, a neighborhood of Flushing, graduating in 1954 from the Knox School in Cooperstown, N.Y. She went on to Pine Manor Junior College, which in the year of her graduation, 1956, was still on the Wellesley campus in Massachusetts. A year later Ms. Rossuck completed a course at the Berkeley Secretarial School in Manhattan.
She was an executive secretary at McCann-Erickson and also at Ted Bates Advertising in Manhattan.
She and Louis A. Rossuck married on April 30, 1966, at Sacred Heart Church in Bayside. From 1969 to 1972 she volunteered at the New York Foundling Hospital in Manhattan, and later at the Long Island Association for AIDS Care. Her husband died on Christmas Eve, 1991, after which she joined the church in Amagansett, which, she told an acquaintance, had received her warmly and offered much comfort in the weeks and months after her husband’s death.
In addition to her duties at the church, which included membership on its records and oversight committee, she served from 2001 to 2004 as chairwoman of the Long Island Presbytery.
The Rev. Donald P. Hammond, minister of the Amagansett Presbyterian Church, prepared her obituary for The Star. There are no survivors, he wrote, “but she leaves many dear friends.”
Mr. Hammond will officiate there at her funeral, tomorrow at 5 p.m., along with Robert B. Stuart, the church’s pastor emeritus. Burial will be at a family plot at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Valhalla, N.Y.
Memorial donations may be directed to the Amagansett Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 764, Amagansett 11930.