Obituaries

Paula Dankowski of Plattsburgh, N.Y., formerly of Wainscott, died on Aug. 3 at the Visiting Nurse Association Respite House in Colchester, Vt.

James Joseph McLaughlin of East Hampton, who founded the Wall Street bond-trading firm McLaughlin, Piven and Vogel Securities, and continued to run the company after moving to Amagansett in the 1980s, died at home on Aug. 9 with his wife at his side.

A celebration of Kevin Raymond Young’s life was held on Cousin’s Island in Falmouth, Me., on Friday, which would have been his 56th birthday.

Patricia A. Arceri, who had been ill for only a short time, died at home in Amagansett on July 14, with her husband and family at her bedside.

John M. Arms of New York City and Bridgehampton, an architect who was an associate partner at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill for 37 years, died of heart failure on Friday at home in Bridgehampton.

Donald Norton, who was born at home in East Hampton Village in 1923, died on July 29 at East End Hospice in Westhampton Beach at the age of 93.

Phyllis Adams will be honored in a memorial Friday in Amagansett at 10 a.m.

A memorial gathering for Deborah A. Miller, an 11th-generation Bonacker who died in San Francisco on Dec. 20, 2016, of pneumonia, will take place on Aug. 21 at 11 a.m. off Landing Lane at Accabonac Harbor in Springs. She had requested that a memorial be held that day, her birthday, and a reception will be held during the solar eclipse at the family house at 517 Accabonac Road, Springs.

She would have been 65.

Geraldine B. Taylor of East Hampton died unexpectedly on July 29 in Ireland, where she had been vacationing, accompanied by two of her children and a son-in-law. She had gone to a hospital to be treated for an infection, and died there.

Funeral services for Trudy L. Lester of East Hampton will be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, 675 Scuttlehole Road in Water Mill.

Ms. Lester, who died on Friday at Southampton Hospital, was 61. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

A graveside service for Peter Frances Rucano Sr. of Springs will be held Thursday at Calverton National Cemetery at 11 a.m. Mr. Rucano died at Southampton Hospital on Aug. 1 at the age of 91.

His family plans to gather at Yardley and Pino Funeral Home on Pantigo Road in East Hampton at 9 a.m. for a procession to the cemetery.

An obituary will appear in a future issue.

The Star has received word of the sudden death of Geraldine B. Taylor of East Hampton, 78, while on vacation with her children in Ireland.

Margaret Zukas, who immigrated to this country with her family when she was 2, died at home in East Hampton on Monday.

Beatrice Loretta Neill, who grew up in a house on Louse Point Road in Springs and for many years worked in the Bulova watchcase factory in Sag Harbor, died of breast cancer on July 26 at home in Essex Junction, Vt., her family said. She was 72.

Lynda Marie Havens-Horn, a former resident of Sag Harbor, died in Salt Lake City on July 20 from metastatic breast cancer, at the home of her son, Father Justin Lawrence Havens, a Christian Orthodox priest.

Linda Washburne Finney of East Hampton died of liver cancer on July 23 at Southampton Hospital.

A funeral Mass will be said on Aug. 5 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Sag Harbor for Kathleen Barry of Sag Harbor and Jupiter, Fla., who died on Dec. 31 at the age of 72.

Jacob Nelson Foran “was a man of many passions,” wrote Richard Swift, his partner of 35 years.

Visiting hours for Beatrice L. Neill, a Springs native who died at home yesterday in Essex Junction, Vt., will be tomorrow from 4 to 6 p.m. at the A.W. Rich Funeral Home there.

Edward J. McGuire Jr., a Montauk resident since 2002 with his wife of 20 years, Kathleen Smith, died on Monday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.

Jean Edmond Lanier of Wainscott, who was instrumental in founding L’Arche Long Island, a Riverhead branch of an international organization that creates communities for people with intellectual disabilities and those who care for them, died on July 19 in New York City, surrounded by his family. He was 71 and had been ill for only a short time.

Meredith Arnoux of Wainscott died on July 8 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. A former guidance counselor at the Westhampton Beach Middle School, she was 69 and had had cancer for two and a half years.

The Star has received word of the death of Patricia A. Arceri of Amagansett, who was 85, on July 14. A memorial service is planned for Sept. 16.

A celebration of the life of Clara B. Windsor, who died at age 90 on Feb. 24, will take place on July 29 at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on James Lane in East Hampton Village.

Christopher Holden, who was said to have beaten throat cancer within the past year, died at home in Montauk of a heart attack on May 11.

Meredith Arnoux of Wainscott died on Saturday.

John J. Lehmann, who grew up in Sag Harbor and served in the Navy, died at home in Cuba, N.Y., on June 30. He was 27.

Gloria Appel, an Upper West Sider whose family had been year-round weekenders on the South Fork for over 40 years, died of ovarian cancer at the age of 74 on July 1.

Edgar C. Grimes Jr., who had cancer, died on June 20 at the Good Samaritan Lutheran Health Care Center in Delmar, N.Y.

When Eleanor A. Miller was diagnosed with ovarian cancer 12 years ago, she was told she would live another three years at most. She was determined to “fight as long and as much as she could,” her family reported, and with the help of the local organizations Fighting Chance and Lucia’s Angels, survived to see four grandchildren born. She died on June 15 at Southampton Hospital.