Obituaries

Leroy Everett DeBoard, one of East Hampton’s great athletes, an educator, and a two-term East Hampton Town councilman beginning in the mid-1980s, died on Sept. 21 at the age of 89.

Robert Kalfin, a director, producer, and co-founder of the Chelsea Theater Center in New York City, died on Sept. 20 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. The cause was complications from leukemia. Mr. Kalfin, who lived on Harbor View Lane in Springs, was 89.

Anne Jennett Edwards Kelsey loved photography, reading, and arts and crafts, but her favorite thing to do was spend time with family, her children wrote.

John Joseph McFarland, who was affectionately called Johnny Boy, was “the life of any party or gathering,” his family wrote. He loved being around people, loved music — especially Whitney Houston — and was a great dancer, they said.

A funeral service for Robert Otto will be held on Oct. 8 at 9 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton.

Mary Louise McHugh Nelson, a former trustee and missionary board member of Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton, died at home on Sept. 8 in Dalzell, S.C., where she had been living since 2011.

A musician, singer, actor, and interior designer, Peter Johannes van Hattum of East Hampton died on Sept. 20 at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset. He was 90.

A celebration of Louis Arceri’s life will take place on Oct. 8 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Springs Presbyterian Church.

Nancy Orshefsky, an art teacher and working artist formerly of Sagaponack, died of cardiopulmonary arrest on Aug. 14 in Great Neck, where she had been living since 2015.

Donald R. Klein, who ran a company called EastEndTech to service computers from Montauk to Manhattan until he retired in 2018, died in New York City on Sept. 16. He was 77.

Derek Miller, a 2000 graduate of East Hampton High School who lived here and in Jacksonville, N.C., died at home in Jacksonville on Sept. 10. He was 41.

Visiting hours for Derek Miller of East Hampton and Jacksonville, N.C., who died on Sept. 10 at age 41, will be on Friday, Sept. 30, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A graveside service will take place the following day at 10:30 a.m. at Green River Cemetery in Springs.