Obituaries

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.