Obituaries

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.