Obituaries

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ernest George Schieferstein Sr., a chemical engineer and industrial pipe designer, died at home in Wainscott last Thursday. He was 98.

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.

Jane Simms Reutershan, who worked in the children's department of the East Hampton Library for 33 years until her retirement in 2011, died in her sleep at home in East Hampton on Sept. 4. She was 96.

Joyce Flohr, a longtime librarian at the East Hampton Library, died at home in Springs on Sept. 13. She was 83.

Laura MacNamara Warn, of Hampton Bays and formerly of Montauk, died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Sept. 7 following a heart attack. She was 51. 

Family was Linda Ann Leland's "number-one priority," and it was family — her husband, William H. Leland, her sons, Daniel and Justin, Daniel's wife, Alana, and her granddaughters, Abigayle and Norah — who brought her the greatest joy.

Lynn Cucci, an owner of the Puff 'n' Putt Family Fun Center in Montauk, died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, at home in Huntington on Aug. 24. She was 78 and had been ill for a year.

The family of Linda Ann Leland of East Hampton will receive visitors today from 2 to 4 and from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

Gus Antell, a high school teacher and the author of several textbooks on economics and the history of Western civilization, died on Saturday at home in East Hampton. He was 95.

Lucia Margaret Naimoli, known as Lucy to family and friends, died on Aug. 8 at home in Montauk of respiratory failure from complications of Alzheimer's disease. She was 95 and had been ill for three months.

Mark Mangini, one of New York City's most active and respected choral conductors and the music director of the Choral Society of the Hamptons for more than 20 years, died of cancer at home in Astoria, Queens, on Sunday. He was 69.

Joan Butler of Brooklyn and Tenafly, N.J., who had a long career in finance administration, died on Aug. 30 surrounded by family at the home of a daughter in Carmel, N.Y. A lifelong summer visitor to Amagansett and East Hampton, she had been ill for a year with cancer. She was 67.

Nancy Nagle Kelley of Springs, a lifelong advocate for land preservation and stewardship on the East End, died on Saturday of complications of multiple system atrophy. The director of the Long Island chapter of the Nature Conservancy for over 22 years, she "shared an uncommon bond with the lands and waters that she called home," her family wrote.

Patricia Taylor Siskind, a part-time resident of Meadow Way in East Hampton Village since 1967, died on Friday in New York City. The cause was cancer. Ms. Siskind, who had been ill for around six months, was 87. 

Pauline Nathlie Mohan, an East Hampton native and a homemaker, died of cancer on Friday at home in Torrington, Conn. She was 72 and had been ill for eight months.

Ann Schafer-Wolf died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on April 12 after experiencing mitral valve insufficiency related to congestive heart failure. She was 87.

Jean Washburn Clarke of East Hampton Village and Amagansett died of cardiorespiratory failure on July 9 at Peconic Landing in Greenport. Mrs. Clarke was 96 and had been ill for three months. 

John J. Dworsak, who was known as Jack and lived in Springs, died of complications of Alzheimer's disease on Aug. 14 at the Brookhaven Health Care Facility in East Patchogue. He was 78.

John Stanley Sosinski died on July 31 of cardiopulmonary arrest; he had had a stroke and had suffered from emphysema for some time. He was 80.

Lula Blackwell-Hafner, who pivoted from a career as a dancer to one in landscape design, died of cancer on Aug. 10 at home in Kingston, N.Y. Once of Springs, she was 74.

Marion Griffing Arnold, an Amagansett native and elementary school teacher, died on Aug. 16 at an assisted living community in San Antonio. She was 94, and had been ill with Parkinson's disease and Covid-19. 

Myrna H. Klein, who was 92, died on Aug. 8 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. Friends and family described her as "a force of nature," and even her primary care doctor said she "was a warrior," her family said. 

Word has reached The Star of the death of Cora Brody Marcus at Southampton Hospital two years ago today. Ms. Marcus, a former resident of East Hampton, was living in Sag Harbor at the time of her death. The cause was a heart attack, following a long illness. She was 80.

Harold Eriv of East Hampton, the chief executive officer of Foundation Press, a publisher of law books, died of heart failure on July 20 at Delray Medical Center in Delray Beach, Fla. He was 91.