Obituaries

Michael Loos Jr. of Sag Harbor, who had been a goat farmer prior to working in construction on the East End, died on March 1 of respiratory complications from acute myeloid leukemia at Stony Brook University Hospital. He was 54 and had been ill for several years. 

Lorraine L. Bittner of Oakview Highway in East Hampton died on March 10 at her daughter’s house in Wake Forest, N.C., where she had been receiving hospice care. She was 83.

Born on Oct. 16, 1936, to Claude Ballance and the former Mildred Scott Parker, she grew up in a house on Abram’s Landing Road in Amagansett and graduated from East Hampton High School. When she was young, the family lived for a time in Connecticut, where her father, a Coast Guardsman, was stationed.

Patricia M. King of East Hampton, a retired executive assistant and loving mother, grandmother, and aunt, died at home on Feb. 16 at the age of 92.

Later in her life, in East Hampton, she was known to take daily walks, care for her beloved Yorkies, and knit and attend occasional lunches with friends. She also volunteered at R.S.V.P. in Amagansett.

Scott R. Bennett, an Amagansett resident and longtime commercial fishing captain, died at home on Feb. 25 after being ill for several years with multiple afflictions.  

Herbert August, an architect and abstract painter, died on Feb. 25 at home in Water Mill. He was 90.     

Joan Harrison, who was employed for almost 20 years in East Hampton as the personal assistant to Anthony Duke, the founder of Boys and Girls Harbor, died on Feb. 27 at home in Fort Collins, Colo. She was 88.     

Joseph Michael Fitzgerald, a custom home builder, died last Thursday of complications from pneumonia at Port St. Lucie Hospital in Jensen Beach, Fla. The former Amagansett resident was 83, and had been ill for three months.     

James Lipton, the renowned host of the television series “Inside the Actors Studio,” died on Monday at home in Manhattan.

Marguerite Fullerton Johnson, the founder of the former Session House Nursery School in East Hampton, died on Feb. 23 at the Woodstock Terrace assisted living facility in Woodstock, Vt. She was 89.   

Thomas W. Horn, the oldest member of the Sag Harbor Volunteer Fire Department, died at Stony Brook South­ampton Hospital on Feb. 25 of congestive heart failure and heart valve stenosis.

Joan Westin Wendt, a summer resident of East Hampton, was a childhood survivor of polio, a game show winner, a mother, a hostess, a civic leader, and a successful real estate agent. After a long and quite storied life, Ms. Wendt died of respiratory failure on Feb. 21 at The Gatesworth, an independent living center in Ladue, Mo.

Edith Frischmann Storm, a former Amagansett resident and administrative secretary at Pierson High School in Sag Harbor, died on Feb. 13 at Fernandina Beach Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Fernandina Beach, Fla.    

Thomas W. Horn Sr., one of the most familiar faces on Sag Harbor Main Street, where he dutifully sat in front of the firehouse selling raffle tickets and paraphernalia to benefit the village’s Fire Museum on summer evenings, died on Tuesday evening at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

George James Gregory, a former part-time resident of Amagansett and retired college professor who loved fishing on Napeague, died last Thursday at Alaris Health at the Atrium in Jersey City. He was 83 and had complications of dementia.     

Eugene L. Wishod, a lawyer who represented Robert David Lion Gardiner in his lengthy legal battle with relatives to regain access to Gardiner’s Island, died on Feb. 14 at home in Ridgefield, Conn.

Barbara Elaine Smith, a former model and restaurateur whose sense of style and love for entertaining helped her create a business empire that included books, a magazine, and a television show, died on Saturday of Alzheimer’s disease at home in East Hampton.

George Walker Stewart of East Hampton, a graphic designer who had a passion for art, theater, and opera, died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Saturday.

Visiting hours for Scott R. Bennett of Amagansett, a longtime member of the hamlet’s Fire Department, a former East Hampton Town trustee, and a bayman who died on Tuesday, will be held on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A graveside service will follow at Cedar Lawn Cemetery here, and from 2 to 6 p.m. family and friends will gather at the Amagansett Firehouse. An obituary will appear in a future issue. 

Jack Youngerman, an important American artist for more than six decades, died on Feb. 19 at Stony Brook University Hospital of complications from a fall.

Jack Youngerman, a significant American artist for more than six decades, died on Feb. 19 at Stony Brook University Hospital of complications from a fall. He was 93.     

Robert T. Schorr of Montauk, a retired police officer, died of heart failure on Sunday at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 93.

Douglas Alfred Glazebrook, a former Sag Harbor Village police officer and Southampton Town parks and recreation employee, died in his sleep on Jan. 2 at home in Canton, Ohio. He was 67 and had experienced complications of diabetes.     

Wesley David Miller, a former East End real estate broker and developer, died of organ failure on Feb. 12 at a hospital in Miami. He was 90 and had been ill for five years.     

Marianne Charlotte Menonna, a former cook at Herb’s Market in Montauk, died on Feb. 10 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care on Quiogue.     

On Feb. 10 Harry G. Lester died of congestive heart failure at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. The last member of his immediate family, he was 93 and had been ill for five days.     

Shirley Elizabeth Anderson, a devoted parishioner of the East Hampton Presbyterian Church and frequent patron of the East Hampton Library, died on Feb. 1 at home on Newtown Lane.

Frances W. Carter of East Hampton died of renal failure on Jan. 20 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue.

Visiting hours for Cynthia A. Hamiwka of Springs, who died on Saturday at the age of 77, will be tomorrow from 1 to 3 and 6 to 8 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor.

Christina J. Tercy, who had lived in East Hampton for 50 years, died on Friday at the Yorktown Assisted Living Residence in Cortland, N.Y.

Claudine Helene Michel of East Hampton was a talented sketch artist who would often draw portraits for friends and family “or render beautiful East End landscapes as a hobby."