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Obituaries

Julian Eisenstein

Julian Calvert Eisenstein, a professor of physics, died at home in Washington, D.C., on April 27 at the age of 95.

May 12, 2016
For Eugene A. Damon

Funeral services for Eugene A. Damon, who lived for many years on Egypt Lane in East Hampton and who died on Nov. 11 in Jacksonville, Fla., at 86, will be held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton at 1 p.m. on May 21.

May 12, 2016
For John D. Tilley

Visiting hours for John D. Tilley, formerly of Springs, will be from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

May 5, 2016
Harold Josephs, 91

Harold Josephs was known as an artist not just in East Hampton, where he was a part-time resident since 1960, but also in New York City, where he had an award-winning career as an art director and commercial artist for four decades, and in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he spent many winters.

May 5, 2016
Ann B. Wolfe

Ann Brignoli Wolfe, who had spent summers at her Springy Banks Road, East Hampton house since the early ’60s, died of cancer on April 21 at home in Bayside, Queens.

May 5, 2016
JoAnne W. Carter, 81

JoAnne W. Carter died at home in Sag Harbor on April 17 after surviving stage-four ovarian cancer for four years.

May 5, 2016
Sandra Roman

Sandra Roman, a longtime Montauk resident who lived most recently with a daughter in Medford, died there on April 17 after an illness that began four years ago with complications from surgery.

Apr 28, 2016
Frank Albert Hanna II

Frank Albert Hanna II, who started the Frank Hanna Cleaning Company in East Hampton as a resident here during the 1960s, died at his home in the Bahamas on April 14 of complications from pneumonia and cancer.

Apr 28, 2016
Bailey Smith

Word has been received of the death of Bailey Smith, formerly of East Hampton, on April 6 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., of cancer. He was 84.

Apr 28, 2016
Anthony DiSunno, Architect, Was 69

Anthony DiSunno, an architect who helped form A.I.A. Peconic, the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and had served as its president, died on April 8 of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Apr 21, 2016
Florence Germano, 92

Florence A. Germano, a decades-long East Hampton resident, died at home of kidney disease on April 16. She was 92.

Apr 21, 2016
Charles P. Turlinski

Charles Paul Turlinski of East Hampton, a former chief executive officer of the Limited Stores, died on April 13 at the age of 69.

Apr 21, 2016
Peter Schaefer, 54

Peter Schaefer, a graduate of Pierson High School who was a key player on the school’s only state championship basketball team, died on March 17 after collapsing at his home.

Apr 7, 2016
Eric Lance Erwin

Eric Lance Erwin died on Nov. 26 in Nashville. He was 53 and had been ill with cancer for more than a year.

Apr 7, 2016
Frank Albert Hanna III

Frank Albert Hanna III, the proprietor of Frank Hanna’s International Cleaning Company in East Hampton, an Army veteran and an East Hampton native, died at home here last Thursday.

Mar 31, 2016
Donna Marie Passamonte

Donna Marie Passamonte, who lived on Gingerbread Lane in East Hampton Village until 2002, died at the Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead on March 16 at the age of 57.

Mar 31, 2016
Sean Bos, 40

Sean Bos, who grew up in Springs and had worked as a commercial fisherman out of Montauk Harbor at one time, died in Northbrook, Ill., on March 21 of a heart attack, his family said.

Mar 31, 2016
Katharine Babinksi, Registered Nurse

Katharine Topping Babinski, a lifelong resident of Sagaponack, died at her home, which was built by her father in 1909, on March 17.

Mar 31, 2016
For Barbara Peyton

Barbara Peyton of East Hampton died on Monday at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton.

Mar 31, 2016
Lawrence Munson, Management Consultant

Lawrence Shipley Munson, a founder of the East Hampton Healthcare Foundation and the author of a book on corporate management that was published in  two editions and many languages, died on Sunday at Brookdale Assisted Living in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was 96 years old and had had a very bad cold.

Mar 31, 2016
For Katharine Babinski

A memorial service for Katharine Babinski of Sagaponack will be held on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.

Mar 24, 2016
William H. Jackson

William H. Jackson of Main Street in East Hampton Village died on Monday.

Mar 24, 2016
Anne Harvey Gerli, 92, Figure Skating Official

Anne Harvey Gerli, a past president of the Garden Club of East Hampton, third-generation member of the Maidstone Club, and the granddaughter of William H. Woodin, secretary of the treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, died on March 3 in Manhattan, two days after suffering a stroke.

Mar 24, 2016
John Horvath

John Horvath, a filmmaker, advertising producer, and house designer who lived in Amagansestt and Sagaponack during the 1970s and ’80s, died at a nursing home in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on Feb. 20 of the complications of Alzheimer’s disease.

Mar 17, 2016
Ruth McCrea, 94, Writer and Illustrator

Ruth D. McCrea, a writer and illustrator who had worked for all the major New York publishing houses, died at home in East Hampton on Feb. 27, surrounded by her family.

Mar 17, 2016
Gerard J. Kucker, 57

Gerard J. Kucker, the owner of a tree removal and contracting company, died at his Sycamore Drive, Springs, home on Feb. 24. He was 57 years old and his family said he had a heart attack.

Mar 10, 2016
John Hudson, 61, Montauk Fisherman

John Hudson, a longtime resident of East Hampton who worked as a fisherman in Montauk, died of cancer on Feb. 10 in Virginia Beach, Va., where he had moved in the last year.

Mar 10, 2016
Charles E. McKenney, Attorney and Golfer

Charles Emerson McKenney, 84, a Wainscott resident since the late 1970s who had a long career as a patent lawyer with the Manhattan firm of Pennie & Edmunds, died on March 1 at Palm Beach Hospice in Florida after a weeklong illness.

Mar 10, 2016
Frederick B. Onderdonk

Frederick Bridges Onderdonk, who lived in Amagansett for many years before moving to Baldwinsville in 2008, died of an unexpected illness on Feb. 21 at Longwood Regional Medical Center in Fort Pierce, Fla., surrounded by his family. He was 81 and had been vacationing in Vero Beach. 

Mr. Onderdonk, a tenor, sang in the St. Luke’s Episcopal Church choir in East Hampton for 30 years, starting in the 1970s. A funeral will be held there  at 11 a.m. tomorrow and he will be buried at St. Luke’s Memorial Garden.

Mar 10, 2016
For Frederick B. Onderdonk

A service for Frederick B. Onderdonk of Amagansett and Baldwinsville, N.Y., who died on Feb. 21, will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton.

Mar 7, 2016