Harry F. LaMonda

Harry F. LaMonda, a dairy farmer at the old Dune Alpin Farm in East Hampton and a World War II Army veteran who served in Japan, died last Thursday at the Riverhead Care Center in Riverhead. He was 89, and had Parkinson’s disease.

Mr. LaMonda was born on a Vermont farm, and came to the East End to work for Abe Katz, the owner of Dune Alpin and another farm in Bridgehampton, where Mr. LaMonda first worked and lived.

A son of Wesley Stephens LaMonda, a dairy farmer, and the former Lois Jane Dewing, he was born in Sheldon, Vt., on June 20, 1926, and attended school through the eighth grade. He was married to the former Greta Arlene Lafoe, who predeceased him, and the couple, who lived first in Brownington, Vt., and then in Orleans, Vt., had seven children.

The family eventually settled in East Hampton. After Dune Alpin Farm was sold, Mr. LaMonda stopped  working, but, at around the age of 70, his daughter Diana Darrell of East Hampton said, he got bored and went to work as a handyman at McDonald’s restaurant in Southampton. He retired on his 80th birthday.

Mr. LaMonda was a member of the Everit Albert Herter Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in East Hampton, to which memorial contributions may be sent. Its address is P.O. Box 5033, East Hampton 11937. Donations in his memory have also been suggested to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, P.O. Box 5014, Hagerstown, Md. 21741.

Besides Ms. Darrell, he is survived by three other daughters, Mary Lou Zuchelli of North Massapequa, Pamela LaMonda Jaffie of Hicksville, and Sherill Naster of Chandler, N.C., and by two sons, Harry LaMonda of Shirley and Leonard LaMonda of Middlebury, Vt. Fifteen grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren also survive. One of his children, Leslie LaMonda, died before him, as did his siblings.

A wake was held on Sunday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. Mr. LaMonda’s ashes, and those of his wife, will be buried in Brownington Center.