Obituaries

Elizabeth de Cuevas of Amagansett and Manhattan, an artist who was known professionally as Strong-Cuevas, died peacefully on Sunday at her apartment in the city. She was 94.

Joan Brill, a keyboardist who ran Brill’s Store on North Main Street in East Hampton for many years, died at home here on March 15 of respiratory failure and Alzheimer’s disease.

Anne V. Porter of Wainscott died on March 4. She was 97. There are no services scheduled. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Beverly Dash, who was a supporter of L.G.B.T.Q.+ rights and resources on the South Fork and with her partner was among the first same-sex couples to obtain a domestic partnership here, died on Feb. 14 in the care of a rehabilitation center in Boca Raton, Fla.

Rosemary Herrick Jackson, a graphic designer and photographer who became an ordained Episcopal priest in her 50s and opened her own retreat center, died on Feb. 14 in Newport, R.I. Known as Posy, she was 75.

The family of Darlene Shields Bartoletta, who died on March 6 in Tampa, Fla., will receive visitors from 4 to 6 p.m. on Friday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. Graveside prayers are on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery.

Margaret Santacroce of Sag Harbor, a skilled seamstress who was called Peggy, died on Jan. 30 at South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore. She was 91.

Anthony Newell Tyson of East Hampton, an interior designer who also worked in construction, real estate, filmmaking, and antiques dealing, died on Feb. 27 of vascular dementia and kidney disease. He was 78.

A memorial service for Andrew S. Rothman of Manhattan and Springs will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at the Sanctuary at All Souls Unitarian Church at 1157 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan.

Judy Lerner, an educator for 30 years who was committed to social justice, died at home in East Hampton on Feb. 28.

John George Burkle Jr., lately of Springs, a former TWA air freight supervisor at Kennedy Airport, died of heart failure on Feb. 5 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. He was 73.

Patricia A. O’Brien, a bookkeeper who lived in Sag Harbor for almost 50 years, died on Dec. 28 at home in Rockaway, N.J., after a brief illness.

Howard M. Epstein, an editor and publishing executive who was president of Facts on File, a news digest and reference publishing company, from 1975 until 1990, died on March 1 in Manhattan of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 96.

Billie Kalbacher, who with her husband started the Kalbacher’s Auto and Marine service shop in Springs, died on Feb. 14 at San Simeon on the Sound in Greenport. She was 95.

Peter Joseph Deleski Jr., who had been a captain of the Sag Harbor Fire Department’s Otter Hose Company and a 21-year honorary member of the department, died last Thursday at the age of 80.

Visiting hours for Patricia Eames of East Hampton, who died on Tuesday, will be held Thursday, March 2, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A full obituary will appear in a future issue.

Christine Stanley, a playwright and poet formerly of Sag Harbor, died of heart failure on Friday at Albany Medical Center. She was 87.

Barbara Brown Albright, visited by generations of students on Flag Day, died in Sagaponack on Sunday, in the house that had been in her late husband’s family since 1720.

Susan Mintzer of Montauk and New York City, a psychoanalyst in private practice, died on Jan. 18 in the city. She was 80.

Barbara Jo Brundige, a teacher, school and summer camp owner and director, real estate broker, and volunteer, died of cancer on Feb. 9. The part-time Sag Harbor resident was 77.

Sonia Gaviola, who helped start a number of Montauk businesses, died of complications of cancer on Jan. 23 in West Virginia.

Kay Simonson Waterbury, who made service to others her life, died at home in East Hampton on Feb. 2.

Maryanne Bennett of Sag Harbor, a nurse for more than 40 years, died of pulmonary fibrosis on Jan. 11 at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, having been ill for a year.

Joan A. Ehren, a former president of the Ladies Village Improvement Society of East Hampton and of the Friends of Guild Hall, died on Jan. 18 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital after having been ill for several weeks.

Linda Suzanne Deeb Metcalf, who owned the Lume candle store in Amagansett for 12 years and lived in that hamlet for more than 20, died of dementia on Dec. 28 at the Bellhaven Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care in Brookhaven.

Alexander Russell, a chef who began working in restaurants as a teenager in East Hampton and went on to work in kitchens from Japan to Florida to New Orleans to Zurich as well as on two yachts, died on New Year’s Day in Sag Harbor.

Visiting hours for David Grimes, who died at home in Montauk on Thursday, will be held on Tuesday from 1 to 3 and from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, with a firematic service at 7. A funeral will be held on Wednesday at 11 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk, with a celebration of his life to follow at the Montauket.

Shirley Wackley, a parishioner at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton who had worked at Osborne Insurance and the Strong Insurance Agency here, died of lung cancer at home in Boynton Beach, Fla., on Jan. 26. She was 87.

Stephen Randolph Gretz, a finance executive who had a house in East Hampton for 50 years, died in Chicago of a stroke on Jan. 21. Known as Randy, he was 74.

Word has been received of the death of Patrick Abrams in Costa Rica in December. He had cancer. A Montauk resident for over two decades, he had lived in Costa Rica since the mid-1990s.