Ruth Schiffman, an author and retired teacher who for many years split her time between East Hampton and New York City, died in New York on June 9. She was 99.
Ruth Schiffman, an author and retired teacher who for many years split her time between East Hampton and New York City, died in New York on June 9. She was 99.
Mina Ellen Cory Kahofer, an executive assistant at Community United Methodist Church in Jackson Heights, Queens, for 23 years, and a Wainscott resident for 30, died at home on July 21. She was 90.
Victoria Montague Helmuth, a native of East Hampton, died on Nov. 7 in Minnesota. She was 78.
A service for Carol H. Rogers of Montauk will be held on Tuesday at 5 p.m. at St. Michael's Lutheran Church in Amagansett.
Jerome Tauber of Montauk, a mathematician and lawyer, died of pneumonia on July 3 at the age of 79.
Neil Hausig, well known in East Hampton for his advocacy of affordable housing and his long career in real estate, died of cancer on July 13. He was 80.
Nathan Halsey Dayton, an East Hampton native and Navy veteran who lived in North Fort Myers, Fla., died on June 28 at the age of 99.
Joan L. Loria of Belmont, Mass., an artist who had a long career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a curator, museum director, and author, died in hospice care in Minnesota on May 8. A frequent summer visitor to East Hampton, she was 88.
Ella Adele King, who turned a late-in-life crocheting and crafting hobby into a business selling her handmade goods at craft shows, died on May 3 in hospice care in Port Jefferson. Formerly of Sag Harbor, Amagansett, and East Hampton, she was 76.
Martin Ligorner, once “the unofficial mayor of Napeague,” died at a memory care facility in Northampton, Mass., on July 9. He was 89.
John Burr Northrop Jr., an armed services veteran and bond salesman who played an unlikely role in the Watergate scandal, died on May 1 in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 96 and had been a summer resident of East Hampton for many years.
Joseph M. Schuttler, a postal worker who served in the East Hampton Fire Department and the ambulance association, died on June 29 at the GrayBrier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Trinity, N.C. He was 85.
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