Obituaries

Gary L. Babin, who grew up in Montauk and went to East Hampton High School, died at home in Smyrna, Del., on Sept. 27. He was 71 and had been diagnosed with mesothelioma in April.

Eugene H. Thommen Jr., an aviation electrician who worked on the Apollo 11 moon landing mission, died on Oct. 9 at the University Hospital in San Antonio, Tex., of complications from a head injury sustained during a fall. The longtime East Hampton resident was 82.

Joanne Conforti, an advertising executive who split her time between Manhattan and East Hampton, died at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan on Oct. 8. She was 75 and had Lewy body dementia.

John C. Specht, a longtime local bayman who also worked as a carpenter, painter, and groundskeeper, died on Oct. 4 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital at the age of 78.

Robert G. Goelet, a business and civic leader, naturalist, and philanthropist, who with his wife, Alexandra Creel Goelet, had been steward of Gardiner’s Island in East Hampton since the 1980s, died on Oct. 8 at his home in New York City.

Ernest Clark Jr., a former owner of the E.T. Dayton Insurance and Real Estate Agency in East Hampton, died of congestive heart failure at the Moorings Park health care facility in Naples, Fla., on Sept. 25. He was 94.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.