Obituaries

Visiting hours and funeral arrangements have been announced for Zbigniew (Ziggy) Lutrzykowski, an employee of the Bridgehampton School for the last 10 years. He died on Saturday at the age of 48.

A memorial service for Grace Elizabeth Price, a former librarian at the East Hampton Library who had since moved to Brewster, Mass., will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Christ Episcopal Church in Harwichport, Mass.

Sidney B. Silverman, a longtime resident of Amagansett, died at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan on Nov. 4. A trial lawyer for many years, none of his cases satisfied him more than representing the East Hampton Town Baymen’s Association in its victory over the General Electric Company.

Joseph John Kristopowitz Jr., a native of Wainscott, settled upstate after attending the Central City Business Institute in Syracuse and loved the auto racing scene there. He died at home in Liverpool, N.Y., on Oct. 22 at the age of 72.

Heidi Limonius, a co-owner of Buckley’s Flower Shop and Garden Center in East Hampton Village for nearly 60 years, died at home in East Hampton on Nov. 3. She was 83 and had been ill with Alzheimer’s disease.

Linda Holmes of East Hampton died at home on Hand’s Creek Road on Oct. 7. The cause was lung cancer, which was first diagnosed three years ago and returned after a period of remission. She was 77.

Minna Kotkin, a lawyer and professor of law who lived in Brooklyn and on Red Dirt Road in Springs, died on Sept. 30.

Jimmy O'Mara of Amagansett died of pancreatic cancer at home last Thursday with his daughter by his side. He was 83.

A memorial service for Kate Crosby, who had lived in East Hampton for many years, will be held on Friday, Oct. 29, at 2 p.m. at the Maidstone Park pavilion in Springs. Ms. Crosby died on Oct. 17 in Barrington, R.I.

Sheila Mary Clancy will be remembered, her family said, as a caring mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and aunt to her five children, six grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, one sister, and 37 nieces and nephews.

Duane C. Dauch, who had a long career in the insurance field, worked at the East Hampton Post Office for a few years, and was a founding board member of the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, died on Sept. 24.

“My mom touched a lot of people,” said Marjorie Elizabeth Gosman's son Bryan Gosman. Ms. Gosman died at home in Montauk on Sept. 30.

William Pickens III, a retired corporate executive and former national director of the N.A.A.C.P., who eventually ran the consulting firm Bill Pickens Associates, died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Sept. 27. He was 85.

Zach Cohen, a Springs resident who became a dedicated, unelected participant in East Hampton Town government, died on Oct. 7 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 72 and had been ill with glioblastoma for over two years.

Willard A. Mahar, a former heavy equipment operator for the Bistrian Gravel Corporation, died of cancer at home in Amagansett on Friday. The Amagansett native was 91 and had been ill for about two years.

A graveside service for Linda Holmes of East Hampton will be held on Saturday at 10 a.m. at Cedar Lawn Cemetery here. Ms. Holmes, who was 77, died last Thursday. An obituary will appear at a later date.

Zachary Cohen of Springs died last Thursday at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 72. A gathering to celebrate his life is planned for Oct. 24 at Duck Creek Farm in Springs.

Kevin John Keane of East Hampton, an educator who worked for many years with deaf and hearing-impaired students, died of complications of multiple myeloma on Sept. 27 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 74.

Funeral services for Philip G. Spitzer of Springs, who died on Tuesday, will be held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral home in East Hampton on Sunday at noon. The family has requested that all attendees be vaccinated. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Gloria Elizabeth Williams, formerly of Bridgehampton, was famous for her homemade rolls, baked beans, lemon meringue pies, coconut pies, and Hawaiian cakes. A devout Christian from an early age and a "natural-born caregiver for many children of the community," according to her family, Mrs. Williams died at her home in Barco, N.C., on Sept. 11, with family members by her side. She was 81 and had had cancer.

Chet Lane, an advertising executive, died of colon cancer on Monday at home in Amagansett. He was 87 and had been ill for four years. 

Helena Marie Gaviola, who had lived in Montauk for many years, died on Monday at home in Stuart, Fla., where she had lived since 2014. She was 89 and had been ill with cancer for eight years. 

For 25 years, Susan Ann Bennett was a secretary at the Springs School who went above and beyond her usual duties. She approached her job through the lens of motherhood, her family, friends, and former colleagues said, and helped screen new employees, worked on school plays, and provided snacks for hungry students who didn't have any food.

William Earl Frame, formerly of Montauk and East Hampton, died at Redwood Memorial Hospital in Fortuna, Calif., on Sept. 27. He was 68 years old.

John Thomas Vigorita died in his sleep of a drug overdose in the early morning of Sept. 25 at his family home in Amagansett. He was 25.

Marie Frances Therese Eileen McDonald Fitzgerald Jones died peacefully at home in Port Charlotte, Fla., on Sept. 15 "in the arms of her niece, Karen Payton, and daughter, Regina Fitzgerald Totaro." She was 89. 

A veteran of the investment banking industry, a past president of the Maidstone Club, and a great sportsman, Carl Menges died on Sept. 8 at home in East Hampton, surrounded by family on a terrace overlooking Hook Pond, which his family said was "his very favorite place." The cause was heart failure after a two-year illness. He was 90 and died just nine days before his 91st birthday.

A memorial service for Eugene D. Beckwith, a former Montauk Fire Department commissioner who died on Jan. 2, will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk.

A funeral service for Marie Frances Therese Eileen McDonald Fitzgerald Jones will be held on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk, where she was the first child to be baptized and where she was married to William Fitzgerald. Burial will follow at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery in East Hampton.

Fernando Sanabria, the former owner of a carpentry and painting company and a resident of East Hampton for many years, died on Sept. 5 at age 90.