Obituaries

Loretta Orion, a retired anthropology professor, author of two books, and former French teacher who developed the gardens at the Home, Sweet Home Museum in East Hampton Village, died on July 25 at home in Amagansett. She was 77 and had been in declining health after having been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease about 10 years ago. 

Alex J. Rosenberg, a New York appraiser, art dealer, and civil rights activist, died of a heart attack at home in Manhattan on Friday at the age of 103. Since 1978, he had a house in Southampton.

Alice Netter, a leading force behind the fund-raising efforts of the Ackerman Institute for the Family, died of pancreatic cancer at home in East Hampton on July 22. She was 87.

Barbara Ann DiGate Webb of Amagansett died of congestive heart failure on July 18 at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead. She was 73.

Loretta Orion, a retired anthropology professor, author of two books, and former French teacher who developed the gardens at the Home, Sweet Home Museum in East Hampton Village, died on Monday at home in Amagansett.

Robert D. Brown, a master tradesman who enjoyed golfing, snowmobiling, boating, and spending time with his grandchildren, died of a heart attack at home in Springs on July 9. He was 75.

Fabio Velez, who in recent years worked as a real estate agent with Corcoran in East Hampton and also in South Florida, died at Stony Brook University Hospital on July 2 following a short illness. He had liver cancer.

Lawrence Raymond of Montauk and Manhattan, a 30-year employee of the I.B.M. Corporation and a member of Concerned Citizens of Montauk, died on June 29 at home in Manhattan. The cause was complications of throat cancer.

Carol-Ann Morgan died on June 30 in East Hampton, with her children by her side. She was 81 and had been in declining health.

Helen Anne Spanierman, who helped run the Spanierman Gallery on Newtown Lane in East Hampton for many years, died of respiratory distress on Saturday in Morristown, N.J. She was 89.

Jason Spielberg, a former East Hampton resident and landscape business owner here, died on July 9 at Thompson Health Center in Canandaigua, N.Y., of respiratory failure resulting from pneumonia.

Her family was with her when Mary Margaret Struk Niggles died at home in Wainscott on July 6 after a long illness. She was 91.

Sally Matson Edwards died on Monday at home on Hook Pond Lane, East Hampton, a family residence for 70 years, less than a month shy of her 96th birthday.

Joseph H. Pombo, a lifelong resident of East Hampton, died on Tuesday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. He was 93.

Larry Wartur, an engineer on a number of major public projects in the metropolitan area, died at home in Springs on June 27 at the age of 88.

Robert Lachmann of Montauk and Longboat Key, Fla., a former co-owner of the Montauk I.G.A., Boathouse Restaurant, and Lido Motel, died of a heart attack at his summer residence in Montauk on July 1. He was 86.

A funeral for Roger Walker, a former East Hampton Town justice, will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church. Mr. Walker, who was 91, died at home in Wainscott on Sunday and will be buried at the Wainscott Cemetery. A full obituary will appear in a future issue.

Zoia Foster, the daughter of the Rev. Dr. Katrina D. Foster, formerly of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Amagansett, and Pamela Kallimanis, died peacefully at home on Saturday.

Andrew Volet, a fashion-industry executive turned East Hampton real estate agent who lived on Accabonac Road, died on June 19 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. The cause was cancer. He was 87.

Laurie Nell Frick of Springs, a singer with the Choral Society of the Hamptons, died on June 8 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 79.

Esther Keller, formerly of East Hampton, died of congestive heart failure on June 16 at the Trustbridge Hospice in Delray Beach, Fla., just a few days shy of her 95th birthday.

Visiting hours for Brendan Clavin, a former Sag Harbor resident who died on June 10 at home in Hampton Bays, will be tomorrow from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor. A memorial service will start at 8 that night.

Jessie Hall of East Hampton, who had been a second-grade teacher at Douglas Grafflin Elementary School in Chappaqua, N.Y., for 30 years, died of complications of Parkinson’s disease last Thursday.

John Vincenzo, a bank executive and former president of the Kiwanis Club of East Hampton, died of cancer on April 12 at home in East Hampton. He was 61.

Paula Ivy Liss of East Hampton, the head librarian and a popular faculty member at Southampton High School for 26 years, died of cancer on June 10 in Douglaston, Queens.

Simon Perchik of Springs, “one of the best-kept secrets in contemporary American poetry,” died of Covid-19 on June 14. He was 98.

Barbara Lynn Weinman, a real estate broker who lived in East Hampton for more than 40 years, died on Sunday at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan. Ms. Weinman, who was 74, had lymphoma.

A writer, musician, athlete, filmmaker, skateboarder, and scientist, Brendan Clavin of Hampton Bays died unexpectedly at home on Friday at the age of 33. His cause of death has not yet been determined.

Carmela Winslow, a resident of Amagansett since 1955, died at home on May 21. She had had heart problems, but was seriously ill for only two months.

Dennis Samuels, a textile stylist and full-time resident of Springs since 1997, died of respiratory illness at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on June 2. He was 87 and had been ill for four weeks.