Obituaries

Jim Ruthenberg, who lived and worked for many years in East Hampton, Montauk, and Amagansett, died on May 25 at UPMC Cole, a hospital in rural Pennsylvania near where he lived in Port Allegany. He was 76.

Whether in the beauty industry, as a real estate broker, or in language sales and consultations, Joan C. Laufer enjoyed working with people from diverse backgrounds, and she loved to travel. Ms. Laufer, who was 86, died of heart failure on June 6 at Stony Brook University Hospital.

Michael Zingarelli of Sarasota, Fla., a former resident of East Hampton and Southampton, died at home on Sunday in Sarasota, one day before his 77th birthday.

William Arthur Dreher Sr. of East Hampton Village, a life trustee of Guild Hall, died on June 5 of metastatic prostate cancer. He was 91.

Constance Miller Hoagland of East Hampton Village had a successful career in Greenwich, Conn., as a real estate broker, but many here will remember her from the Monogram Shop on Newtown Lane. She died at home on May 30.

Donna M. Zingarelli, who in 1976 opened Michael’s Restaurant in Maidstone Park with her first husband, died on June 3 at the Westhampton Care Center of complications from a 2020 stroke. She was 77.

A celebration of life for Wendy Elizabeth Flanagan of Sag Harbor will be held on Saturday at 3 p.m. at Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island. Mrs. Flanagan, who was 51, died on May 18.

Joseph Francis Early of East Hampton, who died in his sleep on May 13, “touched many people in his short time on earth,” wrote his sister, Vicky Dominski of Sag Harbor. He was 58.

Word has been received of the death of Robert A. Brody, a podiatrist who lived year round on Sulky Circle in East Hampton. Dr. Brody died of cancer in New York City on April 18.

Susan Ellen Dottin of Southampton, a former resident of East Hampton and Sag Harbor, died on April 23 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 68, and had been ill for a year.

John T. Fix Jr., a summer resident of Springs who ran his family’s hardware store in Westchester County, died at the Bayberry Care Center in New Rochelle, N.Y., on May 17.

Constance Miller Hoagland, a lifelong resident of East Hampton Village, died on Monday at home on Jericho Road. She was 98. A memorial gathering will be held on the Maidstone golf course this summer at a date to be determined.

A memorial service for Betty Mazur, a former chairwoman of the East Hampton Town Democratic Committee who died last summer, will be held on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at the ocean beach between Clinton Academy Lane and Treasure Island Drive in Amagansett.

Frederick C. Mitchell, a Sag Harbor volunteer fireman for nearly 60 years and onetime fire chief, died of congestive heart failure at home on May 13. He was 83.

Howard Matthew Green, a handyman, painter, and mechanic who grew up in East Hampton, died of pneumonia and a bacterial infection on April 22 in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 55 and had been ill for six weeks.

Michael Dehn Breault, whose business endeavors ranged from insurance to advertising and public relations to being a brand manager for British Airways, died on May 24 in Clarksville, Mo., a few days before his 54th birthday.

Sara Carey Matthiessen, the daughter of the late writers Peter Matthiessen of Sagaponack and Patsy Southgate of Springs, died at home in Northport on May 23 at the age of 67.

Torin James Gleeson, an East Hampton native, mechanical engineer, and inventor, died early on Saturday in a motorcycle accident in York, N.Y. Mr. Gleeson, who lived in nearby Linwood, in Livingston County in the northwest corner of the state, was 29.

Ursula Kalish of Bridgehampton and New York City, who had long careers in art and fitness, died at home in Bridgehampton on May 7. She was 92.

A retired East Hampton Village police officer who spent 20 years on the force, William George Anderson was also an active member of the East Hampton Fire Department. He died on May 6 at Stony Brook University Hospital of an undetermined infection.

Thomas Joseph Byrne, a retired chief petty officer with the United States Navy, died of heart failure on May 8 at home in Springs. He was 86. God, family, and country were driving forces throughout his life, his family said.

Wendy Elizabeth Flanagan “could often be heard saying, ‘I love my life!’ ” A Montauk prekindergarten teacher, mother, and wife, and more recently a Pierson High School volleyball coach, she brought “boundless love and energy” to everything she did, her husband wrote.

William Cuthbert, who died on May 11 of metastatic bladder cancer, was a sensitive, caring man of high principles, his partner of 21 years said.

Marie Antoinette Zerilli, a talented seamstress who learned the craft from her father, developed a lifelong passion for textile design at an early age and parlayed that into a successful career at Leron Inc., a purveyor of handmade European custom linens. 

Dennis Patrick Longwell, a curator and author, died in his sleep at home in Sag Harbor on April 24. The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease.

A memorial service for Beverly Schanzer, who died on Feb. 14, will be held on Friday, May 20, at noon at the Clubhouse in Wainscott.

Dennis Patrick Longwell of Sag Harbor, a writer and curator, died at home on April 24 of complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 83.

Diane Antell, a former director and former board chairwoman of East Hampton Meals on Wheels, died at home last Thursday. The cause was respiratory failure.

Dwayne A. Denton, a decorated volunteer firefighter who served the Amagansett Fire Department for 33 years, died at home of cardiac arrest on April 8. He had been ill for about a month with lung cancer. He was 61.

A memorial service for Gregg J. Veltri of Montauk, who died on Feb. 27, will take place on May 14 at 11 a.m. at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Amagansett.