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Obituaries

Sophie Mistkowski

Sophie Mistkowski of East Hampton, who was congratulated by Pope Francis and then-Governor Cuomo when she turned 100 in 2017, died on Dec. 28 at the age of 106.

Feb 1, 2024
Morton Fischer

Morton Pete Fischer, who started the Fischer Bearing Company of Mamaroneck, N.Y., and ran it for more than 45 years, died of colon cancer on Jan. 15 in North Carolina. Mr. Fischer, who had lived on Gravesend Avenue in Montauk, was 86.

Jan 25, 2024
Barbara Mark

Barbara Mark, who worked at the front desks of the Ocean Beach Resort and the Royal Atlantic in Montauk for many years, died at home on Friday in Amagansett, where she had recently moved with her son. She was 90.

Jan 25, 2024
Richard Gambino

Richard Gambino, recently of North Haven and Southampton, who rose to prominence in academia with his books on Italian-American history, died on Jan. 12 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital at the age of 84. He had dementia and lymphoma.

Jan 25, 2024
Julio Florencio Teo Gómez

Julio Florencio Teo Gómez, a carpenter who came to the United States from Guatemala in 2010 to find work, died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Dec. 30, after being struck by a car on County Road 39 in Southampton that afternoon. He was 48.

Jan 18, 2024
Ruth Margaret Johnston

Ruth Margaret Johnston, who took her “love of family gatherings, baking, traveling, and playing games” wherever she lived, whether Springs or Florida, died on Jan. 7 at the age of 92.

Jan 18, 2024
Joshua R. Kulp

Joshua Robert Kulp, an automotive mechanic in Port Jefferson Station who had attended East Hampton High School and Longwood High School, died on Saturday of complications of diabetes. He was 30.

Jan 18, 2024
For Frazer Dougherty

A celebration of Frazer Dougherty’s life will take place at LTV Studios, the public-access television station of which he was a founder, on Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m.

Jan 11, 2024
Charles W. Gallanti

Charles W. Gallanti, who started his own HVAC company in Bridgehampton, died on Dec. 22 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 77 and had Lewy body dementia.

Jan 11, 2024
Christian Johnson

Robert (Christian) Anton Johnson, an actor and musical theater performer who later was a D.J. and program director for WLNG Radio, died in his sleep on Dec. 13 at the Westhampton Care Center. He was 85.

Jan 4, 2024
Anna Palmer

Anna Elizabeth Gorton Palmer, a nurse who worked for two decades at the East Hampton office of the Suffolk County Health Department, died on Dec. 7 in Beverly Hills, Fla. She was 94.

Jan 4, 2024
Walter Schwab

Walter Schwab, who for 50 years ran a uniform company in New York City that his father had founded, died at home in Sagaponack on Dec. 15. He was 94.

Dec 28, 2023