Obituaries

Phyllis Newman, a Tony Award-winning actress and founder of the Women’s Health Initiative of the Actors Fund, died of primary pulmonary hypertension at her Manhattan home on Sept. 15.

Gerald Brenner, a former sales manager for fashion designers, died of a diabetes-related infection at home in East Hampton on Saturday.

A funeral service for Joanne Conforti of East Hampton will be held on Saturday at 9 a.m. at Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel at 1076 Madison Avenue in Manhattan. Her ashes will be buried at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery in East Hampton.

James Salant, an author who lived in Springs as a young boy and returned often to stay with grandparents in Amagansett, died of a heart attack on Aug. 25 in Brooklin, Me.

Lydia Salant, a therapist and healer who had lived part time on the South Fork for many years, died at home in Blue Hill, Me., on Aug. 3.

Max Rampe, a former New York State Department of Transportation highway supervisor, died on Sept. 22 at home in East Hampton. He was 66. The cause was esophageal cancer, his family said.

A graveside service for Brian J. King of East Hampton will be held at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery on Cedar Street in East Hampton on Saturday at 10 a.m. Mr. King died of cancer on July 22. He was 68.

Barbara Bolton Dello Joio died on Sept. 24 at Stony Brook-Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport after a brief illness, with her two children holding her hands. Always playful, Ms. Dello Joio referred to herself as a member of the 1925 Birthday Club at Peconic Landing, the retirement community in Greenport.

Patricia Ann Shaw, who helped to shape and organize the East Hampton Independence Party when it was first formed in the early 1990s, died of lung cancer at her Amagansett home last Thursday. She was 70.

Michael F. Ver Snyder, who had a long career as a policeman on the South Fork and with Suffolk County, died on Sunday after having a heart attack in his sleep. A resident of Bridgehampton for 20 years, he was 78.

Hugh Thomas Quigley died suddenly and unexpectedly on Sunday of cardiac arrest at his family’s cabin in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, in the hamlet of Lyndonville.

Theresa Scannella Vogel, a master gardener and longtime member of the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons, died at home in East Hampton on Friday. She was 88.

Ronnie Chalif, a two-time Best in Show award winner at Guild Hall’s annual artist-members exhibition and a longtime resident of East Hampton and Water Mill, died of respiratory failure on Sept. 7 at her home in Manhattan.

Jeffrey Miller Hoagland of East Hampton, a lifelong fan of the New York Yankees, died of kidney failure on Saturday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. He was 68.

Catherine Mary Foley, a longtime Montauk resident who co-owned a surf shop and a health foods store there, died at home on Sept. 3, surrounded by her family. She was 57.

Mark Wesnofske, a mechanic and accomplished amateur motocross racer, died last Thursday at his residence in Riverhead. He was 40.

William Depew Hedges, a descendant of one of East Hampton’s oldest families who summered here for many years, died on Aug. 29 at the Oak Hammock retirement community at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He was 95.

Janet Eileen Beman Hendrickson, a former head of the East End chapter of the National Organization for Women, died of a heart attack at her Bridge­hampton residence on Aug. 6. She preferred to keep her age to herself.

Claude Robert Maeder, a lifelong resident of Sag Harbor, died on July 28 at the Westhampton Care Center. He was 87.

Word has been received here of the death of Stephen Barton, a screenwriter and director, on Aug. 12 in Hollywood, Calif. The former Sag Harbor and East Hampton resident was 56.

Calixte Stamp, a therapist who lived and worked in East Hampton and New York City, died on Saturday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 61 and had been diagnosed with breast cancer some years ago.

Kenneth J. Bialkin, one of the leading corporate lawyers of his generation and the chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations from 1984 to 1986, during which time the conference was instrumental in winning freedom for Soviet Jews before the collapse of the Iron Curtain, died of a stroke on Aug. 23 in Manhattan.

Catherine Mary Whelan-Foley died at home in Montauk with her family at her side on Tuesday. She was 57. The family will receive visitors at Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton tomorrow from 4 to 7 p.m. A Mass will be said at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk on Saturday at 10:30 a.m., with burial following at Fort Hill Cemetery.

A full obituary will appear in a future edition.

John Carl Loewen, a former pastor of five United Methodist churches in Pennsylvania, died of heart failure on Aug. 11 at the Green Ridge Village senior citizens living community in Newville, Pa.

Joan Black Bakos, a former East Hampton resident who loved gourmet cooking and had a long career with a restaurant publication, died of heart failure on Aug. 26 after a brief illness.

Barbara Ann Watson, a real estate agent and entrepreneur, died of congestive heart failure on July 27 at home on Gibson Island, Md. The East Hampton Village summer resident, who had a house at Pudding Hill, was 81 and had been ill for three years.

Mary Ella Reutershan, whose lifelong political associations, both national and local, began during World War II when she was a confidential secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, died on Aug. 14 at the age of 98 at Peconic Landing, the retirement community in Greenport.

Mary Lee Abbott, a noted American painter and art teacher who was one of the few women artists in the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and ’50s, died on Friday at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care on Quiogue after a brief illness.

Richard Rosenthal, a longtime advocate for people with disabilities and the former chairman of East Hampton Town’s Anti-Bias Task Force, died of complications from pneumonia on Aug. 17 at home in East Hampton. He was 93.

Henry William Breyer III, the owner of a high-end fishing tackle company, died on July 24 at home in Palm Beach, Fla. The former East Hampton resident was 88 and had been in declining health for several months, his family said.