Obituaries

Arnold T. Rosenberg, who had an extensive career as a food photographer, with work in magazines and newspapers such as Gourmet, Food and Wine, Martha Stewart Living, as well as with columns in The New York Times and cookbooks by Craig Claiborne and Pierre Franey, died at Southampton Hospital on March 21 at the age of 85.

Capt. Clifford Lewis Bekkedahl, a retired naval officer, Arctic explorer, and editor of The Polar Times, died of congestive heart failure at his New York City residence on Sunday, with his family by his side. He was 86 and had been in declining health for the last few years.

Michael Varese, who lived with his wife, Elizabeth, for more than 35 years on Osborne Lane in East Hampton, died at home on Monday in Lantana, Fla.

Daria Deshuk, an artist and presence on the South Fork art scene since the 1980s, died on March 9 in Bridgehampton.

Karl William Horlitz died on Saturday at Southampton Hospital, to which he had been admitted after a fall at his East Hampton house. According to his son, Karl Steven Horlitz, his father, who was 95, was still “the same old spicy guy on Friday and died peacefully a week later.” The younger Mr. Horlitz recalled that “two weeks ago he was reciting the Gettysburg Address, which he knew by heart.”

Ken Robbins, a photographer who captured the landscape, wildlife, and people of the East End for four decades, died at home in Springs on March 9.

Michael John Hegarty, a former president and chief executive officer of Flushing Savings Bank who had houses in Montauk and Glen Head, died on Jan. 29 at home in Glen Head.

Sally McGraw-Silverstone, a Montauk resident for three decades who was known as Pooch, died on March 13 at Stony Brook University Hospital after a short illness.

Florence E. Papas Merrill of East Hampton died on Feb. 19 at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead of complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder.

A memorial service for Sally McGraw of Montauk, who died on Monday, will be held at the Montauk Library next Thursday from 2 to 4 p.m.

Gail B. McManus, a former East Hampton resident who moved to Florida with her husband, James McManus, 22 years ago, died at home in Barefoot Bay, Fla., on March 1 from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Jeffrey Edward Fisher of Warwick, N.Y., and Montauk, a history teacher for 30 years and a lifelong blood donor, died on Feb. 22 at St. Anthony Community Hospital in Warwick.

Ken Robbins, a photographer who lived in Springs, died at home last Thursday.

Ruth Andrina Metz of Wainscott, the matriarch of a large extended family and an indomitable bicycle rider until the age of 92, died at home on March 7.

Barbara Halliday King, a 12th-generation member of the Schellinger family, died at home on Widow Gavits Road in Sag Harbor on Feb. 18, her 62nd birthday.

David Joseph Buckley, who settled in East Hampton after serving in the Air Force first at the Montauk station in 1948 and then in the Korean War from 1950 to 1952, died in Boynton Beach, Fla., on Friday.

David M. King died on Feb. 11 at Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 62. His family, friends, and fellow Springs firefighters remembered him as being “fiercely loyal, dedicated, committed, and generous.”

Fritz Hubner of Montauk died at home on Feb. 17. He was 84 and had been in and out of the hospital for the past few years.

George Damien Mullan, an Irishman who served with the U.S. Air Force in Arizona for three years and ultimately settled in Montauk, died on Feb. 26 in Jupiter, Fla., after a short illness. He was 75.

Clara Bennett Windsor, who traced her roots to the early settlers of East Hampton, died of congestive heart failure on Friday at the Iroquois Nursing Home in Jamesville, N.Y. She was 90

Jose Lenin Sanchez, a resident of Montauk for 32 years, died on Feb. 22 in West Palm Beach, Fla., where he and his wife wintered every year.

Ruth M. Steckowski, who worked for many years at the Amagansett Farmers Market, died on Monday at Southampton Hospital, where she had been admitted the previous day. She was 88.

Barbara J. King, who was born Barbara Halliday, died at her home in Sag Harbor on Saturday. It was Feb. 18, her 62nd birthday.

Eileen Mary Kim, a Montauk native and member of the large Kenny family there, died at the age of 64 at home in Queensbury, N.Y., on Feb. 18.

A service is to be held today at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor, from 12 to 2 p.m., for Percy King, a former resident of Sag Harbor and East Hampton, who died in his sleep at his apartment in Selden on Feb. 15 of an apparent heart attack. He was 70 years old.

Ted Stanley Hubbard, a Montauk landscaper who was inspired by the natural world and all things Native American, died on Monday in Montauk. Mr. Hubbard, who was 49, was “a free spirit,” his family said, who had traveled across the United States and into Mexico. He settled for a time near Gardner, Colo., where he volunteered at a wolf sanctuary, picked sage, lived in a yurt, and embraced a simple life.

Betty S. Miller, a lifelong member of the Amagansett Presbyterian Church who was proud of her Bonac roots, died at Southampton Hospital on Jan. 27 of congestive heart failure. She was about a month shy of her 87th birthday.

David M. King, a former chief and longtime member of the Springs Fire Department and an owner of C.E. King and Sons, an awning and marine canvas company in Springs, died on Saturday morning at Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 62. His family received visitors at a firefighters’ service yesterday. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Elspeth Banks Furlaud, an artist and longtime summer resident of Dunemere Lane in East Hampton, died surrounded by her family on Feb. 5 at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She was 92.

A celebration of life for Richard Shumway, a Southampton resident and owner of Atlantic Collaborative Construction Company in Bridgehampton who died on Feb. 8, will be held at the Southampton Inn on Hill Street in Southampton on March 4 at 2 p.m.