Robert Salpeter of Manhattan and Montauk, a pioneering graphic designer who began his career at IBM and started his own studio, died on Sept. 8 at the age of 88. He had been ill with pancreatic cancer.
Robert Salpeter of Manhattan and Montauk, a pioneering graphic designer who began his career at IBM and started his own studio, died on Sept. 8 at the age of 88. He had been ill with pancreatic cancer.
Janet L. Grossman came from a long line of medical doctors in a family that valued education. It made sense, then, that she would go on to travel extensively and study design and architecture abroad, and later became the first woman in her family to earn a Ph.D., specializing in human resources and adult education at the Fielding Institute in California in the late 1980s. She died of pulmonary fibrosis at home in Sag Harbor on Aug. 27. She was 89.
Louis E. Sherry Sr., who grew up on Sherry’s Dairy Farm in Southampton and worked as a milkman from East Hampton to Montauk for many years, died on June 25. Most recently of LaGrangeville and Berkshire upstate, he was 86.
Tim Tibus was a rock-and-roll kind of guy who liked to have a good time, with his black cowboy boots, long hair, silver rings, and heavy-metal T-shirts. But he was also kind and loyal, friends recalled this week. A Springs resident since the 1990s, he died of a heart attack at home on Saturday. He was 61.
A remembrance gathering for Anne Bronson Bradley, formerly of Sagaponack, will be held on Sept. 28 from noon to 3 p.m. at 116 Lawrence Road, Fairfield, Conn. Ms. Bradley died on Sept. 9 in Ribiers, France. Memorial donations have been suggested to the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, P.O. Box 2616, East Hampton, 11937.
Richard B. Spero Jr., a lifelong resident of East Hampton who ran a pool service company here, died of cardiac arrest at home in East Hampton Village on Aug. 28. He was 57.
Jean Greenlees Ruggles, who had a long career teaching at the Montauk School, died at home in Montauk on Sept. 1. She was 96.
A conservationist who was fond of birds and dogs in particular, Polly Bruckmann devoted many years to organizations that benefited the environment and the community. Mrs. Bruckmann, of Lily Pond Lane and Manhattan, died on Sept. 3 following a fall. She was 90.
A. Philip Dinkel Jr., the owner of the Montauk I.G.A. for almost 30 years, died on Aug. 23 in Easton, Md., at the age of 89.
Friends of Allan Weisbecker will gather Thursday afternoon at 3 at Montauk's Ditch Plain Beach for a paddle-out in his memory, with an exhibition of his photographs to follow at 6 at the 484 Gallery on West Lake Drive.
Peter Greene of Sag Harbor, an academic turned working pilot, died of a heart attack on Friday. He was 85.
Barry Kohlus, a Montauk fisherman whose career on the water spanned 68 years, died of cancer at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Aug. 25. He was 82.
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