Obituaries

Milton M. George Jr. of Amagansett’s Lazy Point, a former car salesman, died on April 16 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. He was 74.

Anthony Janssen, who was chief of the Montauk Fire Department in 1981 and 1982, a volunteer firefighter for 35 years, and an ambulance driver for 15, died in Hot Springs, Ark., on April 24. He was 85.

Michael Howard Dext, a commercial fisherman who lived in Springs, died on April 25 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. The cause was heart failure. He was 67 and had been ill for the past year.

A funeral service for Michael Howard Dext of Montauk will be held on Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. Mr. Dext, who was 67, died on Tuesday.

RoseMarie Boyle Raffel, a Wainscott neighborhood mom and former waitress at John Duck’s restaurant, died of lung cancer on April 8 in Port St. Lucie, Fla. She was 84.

John Owen Habib, who spent summers in Amagansett and had many close friends here, died on April 11 following a catastrophic fall while hiking in Morocco. He was 21.

Cheryl Lee Behringer, who grew up in East Hampton and was an assistant teacher in Southampton for many years, died on March 19 in Charleston, S.C. The cause was an aortic aneurysm. She was 60.

Maureen Gaviola, formerly of Montauk, died at home in Pompano Beach, Fla., on Saturday. She was 68. Visiting hours will be on Sunday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A funeral Mass will be said on Monday at 11 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk.

Suzann Briand of Montauk, an auditor and fisherwoman, died of liver failure on April 14 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 52 and had been ill with Graves’ disease for a few years.

Phyllis Raphael of Amagansett and New York City, a writer, died on March 28 at her apartment on the Upper West Side. She was 87.

Word has been received of the death of Elaine Greene Weisburg, who had a long career in the magazine industry, at home in San Diego on Nov. 23. Ms. Weisburg, formerly of Sag Harbor and Manhattan, had been ill for a brief time. She was 98.

Anthony G. Stavropoulos, who owned Anthony’s Pancake House in Montauk for 68 years, died on April 6 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton. He was 94.

Clorinda Gorman, a colorful resident of East Hampton whose professional name as a designer was Clorinda Whitcomb, died on Friday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 94.

Vito Brullo of East Hampton died on Monday at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead. He was 78. Visiting hours will be Monday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

Else Anna Grimm, a year-round resident of Montauk since 1991, died on March 29 at home after a two-month illness. She was 92.

Ann Burack-Weiss of Montauk and New York City, an author and gerontologist, died of complications of metastatic breast cancer at home in Manhattan on April 3. She was 86. 

Beverley Mountain Galban, an amateur artist who was inspired by the beauty of the East End, died on April 9 at home in Summit, N.J., after a long illness. A resident of Sagaponack for several months each year, she was 85.

Pat DeRosa of Montauk, who over a long career performed with legendary musicians including John Coltrane, Lionel Hampton, Dick Hyman, Glenn Miller, Toots Thielemans, Boyd Raeburn, Tex Beneke, and Percy Faith, died on March 30 at the age of 101.

Shelba Kay Midgett, a chambermaid and house cleaner, died at home in East Hampton on March 18. She was 78 and had lived on Bayview Avenue for 46 years.

Salvatore Vacca of Sagaponack and New York City, who was a successful importer of Italian food products, died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on March 22. He was 93.

Claudia Grace Walter, who had lived in Montauk for many years and relocated to Estero, Fla., in 2014, died of cancer on March 6. She was 86.

Van Kay Quick, who retired as a captain after a 35-year career in the East Hampton Town Police Department, had been a president of the East Hampton Police Benevolent Association and the Police Association of Suffolk County and spearheaded the computerization of the department's records in the late 1980s.

William Ward Carey, an investment banker who lived on Dunemere Lane in East Hampton Village, died on Saturday at the Landing at Laurel Lake, an assisted living facility in Lee, Mass. He was 85 and had Parkinson’s disease.

Dolores Klaich, a journalist, editor, and educator formerly of East Hampton, died on March 8, International Women’s Day, in the Brattleboro, Vt., home where she had lived since 2004. She was 86.

Elizabeth de Cuevas of Amagansett and New York City, who used the name Strong-Cuevas as an artist, died on March 19 at her Manhattan apartment. She was 94 and had been unwell for only a few days.

Teresa Carlin Kratzman of Augie’s Path in East Hampton, an executive and philanthropist who was passionate about education, died on March 18 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. She was 59.

Ann Virginia Porter, who was a social worker at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City before retiring to Wainscott, died on March 4 at home there. She was 97 and had cancer.

Patricia Eames, who was active in Amagansett’s commercial fishing community for many years, died at home in East Hampton on Feb. 28. She was 85.

Priscilla Alden Duer Cohen of Sag Harbor and Manhattan, called Alden by those who knew her, died at home on Sullivan Street in Manhattan on March 12 after a brief illness. She was 96.

Andrew Steven Rothman of Springs, who had a 40-year career in television, died of cancer at home in New York City on March 13. He was 62.