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Obituaries

William H. Mann

William H. Mann, who lived in Southampton and Palm Beach, Fla., and was a member of the Maidstone Club here, died of pneumonia on Sunday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

Aug 31, 2017
Ronald Heller, 86, Fashion Designer

Ronald Heller, a fashion designer who at one time had his own boutique in Bergdorf Goodman, died at home in East Hampton on Aug. 7 at the age of 86.

Aug 26, 2017
William Belber Jr.

William Belber Jr., a commercial fisherman who grew up in Montauk’s old fishing village on Fort Pond Bay, died on Aug. 11 in Port St. Lucie, Fla. He was 86 and had been in poor health for 10 years.

Known as Bill, he was born in Greenport to William Belber Sr. and the former Ellen Berg and moved to Montauk as a boy. His father had a small restaurant, Bill’s Inn, in the fishing village there, and later moved it to Edgemere Road.

Aug 26, 2017
Taryn Enck, 25

Taryn Lynn Enck, who had struggled for more than 10 years with hereditary angioedema, a rare genetic disease, died on Aug. 9 at home on Mulford Avenue in Montauk. She was 25 years old.

Aug 24, 2017
Donald Norton, 93

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.

Aug 17, 2017
For Phyllis Adams

A memorial service will be held at the Amagansett Presbyterian Church tomorrow at 10 a.m. for Phyllis Adams, a native of that hamlet who was born there on Aug. 28, 1922. Mrs. Adams died on June 8 in Augusta, Ga., where she had lived in her final years. She was 94.

Aug 17, 2017
James J. McLaughlin, 91

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.

Aug 17, 2017
John Anthony Sasso

John Anthony Sasso of Montauk, who had a long career in business and was a music arranger and brass instrument instructor, died at home at noon on Sunday of an unexpected heart attack.

Aug 17, 2017
John M. Arms

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.

Aug 17, 2017
Kevin Raymond Young

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.

Aug 17, 2017
Patricia A. Arceri, 85

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.

Aug 17, 2017
Paula M. Dankowski

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

Aug 17, 2017
Phyllis Adams Memorial

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

Aug 14, 2017
For Deborah Miller

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.

Aug 10, 2017
For Trudy Lester

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.

Aug 10, 2017
Geraldine B. Taylor, 78

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.

Aug 10, 2017
For Peter F. Rucano Sr.

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.

 

Aug 9, 2017
Beatrice L. Neill

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.

Aug 3, 2017
Geraldine B. Taylor

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.

Aug 3, 2017
Linda W. Finney

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

Aug 3, 2017
Lynda M. Havens-Horn

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.

Aug 3, 2017
Margaret Zukas, 91

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

Aug 3, 2017
Edward J. McGuire Jr.

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.

Jul 27, 2017
For Beatrice L. Neill

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.

Jul 27, 2017
For Kathleen Barry

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.

Jul 27, 2017
J. Nelson Foran

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

Jul 27, 2017
Jean Edmond Lanier, Member of L’Arche

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.

Jul 27, 2017
Meredith D. Arnoux

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.

Jul 27, 2017
Patricia A. Arceri

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.

Jul 27, 2017
Christopher Holden

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.

Jul 20, 2017