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Obituaries

Susan Mintzer, Ph.D.

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

Feb 23, 2023
Barbara Albright, 95

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.

Feb 23, 2023
Kay S. Waterbury, 94

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

Feb 16, 2023
Barbara Jo Brundige

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.

Feb 16, 2023
Sonia Gaviola, 64

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

Feb 16, 2023
Linda Metcalf, 79

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.

Feb 9, 2023
Alexander Russell, 55

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.

Feb 9, 2023
Maryanne Bennett, 64

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.

Feb 9, 2023
Joan A. Ehren, 90

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.

Feb 9, 2023
Services for David Grimes, 42, of Montauk

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.

Feb 6, 2023
Catherine V. Babcock

Catherine Babcock of East Hampton, a manager at Main Beach for 18 years, a school crossing guard, and a police matron starting in the 1960s, died at home on Dec. 12. She was 98.

Feb 2, 2023
Shirley Wackley

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.

Feb 2, 2023