Obituaries

Sarah Jane Leddy Spell, who grew up in East Hampton and had worked at the Montauk Downs Golf Club and the Biltmore Hotel in Manhattan, died on Saturday at home in Apopka, Fla. She was 81 and had cancer for a year, her family said.

Timothy Patrick Sullivan of East Hampton died at home on Dec. 8 of lung cancer that was diagnosed in September. He was 84.

Dianne L. MacDonald, a clinical social worker for four decades after graduating from Columbia University, died after a brief illness on Dec. 10 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 71 and had been in declining health.

Mrs. Stoll died of complications from an impact injury sustained at her Manhattan home on Nov. 26. She was 93, and had been ill for eight weeks.

James Oxnam died on Dec. 5 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan where he had been treated in the last few weeks for the sudden onset of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 86 and had been healthy, active, and engaged until then, his friends said.

John Pantelis Karoussos, who opened a popular restaurant named Jason’s in Washington, D.C., after attending Catholic University there, died on Monday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital of prostate cancer. He was 74 and had been ill for a year and a half.

Bettie B. Wysor, a novelist and playwright who also was an East Hampton real estate broker, died of the complications of Alzheimer’s disease last Thursday at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care on Quiogue. She was 90.

Diana V. Bianchi, who had been a waitress at Michael’s restaurant in Springs, died of liver and kidney failure at Doctors Hospital of Sarasota, Fla. on Nov. 27. She was 65.

A memorial service for Steven Paul Marcus, who died in April, will be held next Thursday in the faculty room of the Columbia University Law Library at 4:15 p.m.

Mrs. Fugazzi died of colon cancer on Nov. 27 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care on Quiogue after two years of ill health.

Mr. Cooley died of cardiac arrest on Oct. 4, his family said. He was 74.

Maureen Wiles, who had worked at the North Main Street Cleaners and the North Main Street I.G.A. in East Hampton before moving to Virginia, then to Spring Hill, Fla., died on Nov. 10 after a heart attack, her family said. She was 72.

Nicola Curwin Lombardi, an export and international marketing executive in the cosmetics industry, died at her East Hampton home on Nov. 14. She was 78, and had Lewy Body dementia for two years.

Yves Henri Robert of East Hampton, who was born in Hong Kong to French parents, died of pneumonia at Southampton Hospital on Dec. 2 at the age of 91.

A wake for Helene Fugazzi, 79, of Montauk will be held on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A funeral Mass will be said on Monday at 10:30 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk. Mrs. Fugazzi died on Tuesday of colon cancer.

A full obituary will appear in a future issue of The Star.

Wakes for Rosa Elizabeth Cox, who worked at the Stop and Shop supermarket in East Hampton for decades, will be held on Sunday from 2 to 4 and from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Scott Rothwell Funeral Home in Hampton Bays, where she lived.

Leslie Okin, a publisher of Craft Horizons magazine and a professor of English, died at his Amagansett home on Nov. 4. He was 94 and had been in ill health following the death of his wife, Sheila Okin, in 2013.

Paul Moss, who got a job in his late 20s at the Control Corporation, a company that made custom precision parts, and worked his way up to become president, died of congestive heart failure at his Accabonac Road home in East Hampton on Nov. 9. He was 90 and had been ill for six months.

Denyse E. Reid, who aided the allied forces in Belgium during World War II and was a community activist after settling in Princeton, N.J., in 1955, died on Nov. 14 at the Acorn Glen Assisted Living Facility in Princeton, where she had lived for eight years.

Joan Alice Croan of Sag Harbor, a real estate broker, died on Nov. 9 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton. She was 89 and had been in failing health.

Joan T. Card, a lifelong resident of Amagansett and East Hampton, who was said to delight in local seafood, including lobster, scallops, and clams, died of pulmonary disease at her home in East Hampton on Nov. 11. She was 86.

Ms. Rasmussen died at home on Fresh Pond Road in Amagansett on Sunday. She was 51.

Charles Hitchcock, an educator, scholar, and activist who lived on the South Fork for 49 years, died on Oct. 24 at Cathedral Village, a retirement community in Philadelphia, of small cell lung cancer. He was 79.

A funeral Mass for Anne Vasti, formerly of Montauk, will be said on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church there. The Rev. Tom Murray will officiate, with burial following at Fort Hill Cemetery.

Joan V. Otto of Jupiter, Fla., died on Sept. 13 at home there. She was 86 and had been in good health until about six months ago.

Sarah de Havenon-Fowler of Amagansett and New York City died on Oct. 26 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue of brain cancer, her family said. She was 58. Ms. de Havenon-Fowler was the founder of French Presse Linens at Amagansett Square.

She was born in New York City on July 18, 1960, to Gaston de Havenon and Rebecca Anna-Lou de Havenon. She had five siblings. She grew up in New York City and East Hampton, where she spent weekends and vacations. 

Ms. McKinstry died on Oct. 23, 2018, at the Sarah Neuman Home in Mamaroneck, N.Y., from complications of a stroke at the age of 80. She had been married for 45 years to Gerald C.

Elizabeth Vogt Rossuck of East Hampton, a longtime parishioner, ruling elder, and clerk of session at the Amagansett Presbyterian Church, died on Oct. 22 at Southampton Hospital. She was 82 and had been in increasingly frail health for the past few months.

Gretchen Joan Parks, a former photo editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and a cabaret dancer, died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital following a heart attack on Sept. 28. She was 84, and had heart disease, her family said.

Kenneth E. Scott, who was superintendent of the East Hampton Town Parks and Recreation Department from 1990 to 2005 and also had a long naval career, died at home in Springs on Oct. 16 after a series of protracted illnesses. He was 74.