Richard Rosenthal, a longtime advocate for people with disabilities and the former chairman of East Hampton Town’s Anti-Bias Task Force, died of complications from pneumonia on Aug. 17 at home in East Hampton. He was 93.

Mary Lee Abbott, a noted American painter and art teacher who was one of the few women artists in the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and ’50s, died on Friday at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care on Quiogue after a brief illness.

Barbara Ann Watson, a real estate agent and entrepreneur, died of congestive heart failure on July 27 at home on Gibson Island, Md. The East Hampton Village summer resident, who had a house at Pudding Hill, was 81 and had been ill for three years.