Obituaries

Alice Shira Caputo, a lifelong resident of Sag Harbor and a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Red Hat Society, died on Feb. 18 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton after a long illness.

The Rev. Francis B. Creamer Jr., who was the rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton for nearly 20 years, died on Sunday at home in Waldoboro, Me., of pancreatic cancer.

Cindy Jones, a well-known hairdresser who worked at salons from South­ampton to Sag Harbor over the years, died on Jan. 12 at Stony Brook University Hospital.

Robert Curtis, known Bob, a leather designer who set up shops and sold his wares across the East End, died on Feb. 10 from complications related to a 2011 motorcycle accident that left him paralyzed.

Joseph E. Vollers Jr., a former Amagansett resident and pioneer in software systems design, died of esophageal cancer on Feb. 17 at his home in Louisburg, N.C., surrounded by his family.

Marie Burns “had a full life,” said her nephew and godson James Burns. Interested in a range of subjects and always busy with something, “she wasn’t able to sleep at night because her mind was always moving on to the next project. She wanted to accomplish something every day.”

Jeremiah Raymond Lester, a potato farmer and master carpenter, died at Southampton Hospital on Monday following a short illness. He was 94.

Ralph Carpentier, a well-known landscape painter whose paintings are in public and private collections throughout the country, and the former director of the East Hampton Town Marine Museum, died from complications of diabetes on Feb. 19 at the New York State Veterans Home in Oxford, N.Y.

Donald M. Marks, a decorated World War II veteran and longtime principal in the New York public school system, died on Valentine’s Day in a hospice in Potomac, Md.

Chester Lamar Lane, a deacon of the Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton who lived on Spinner Lane, next door to the church, died at Southampton Hospital on Feb. 15.

John Glover Girdler, a summer resident of Montauk, died in his sleep on Feb. 10 at an assisted living facility in Seattle.

A funeral Mass for Marie Burns of Sag Harbor will be said at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in that village on Saturday at 10:30 a.m.

Msgr. Thomas J. Hartman, a Catholic priest who was deeply devoted to his ministry, which included appearances with Rabbi Marc Gellman as half of “The God Squad” televison program, died on Feb. 16 at the TownHouse Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Uniondale from complications related to Parkinson’s disease.

Scott Ward Freese, an East Hampton native who had moved to Sebastian, Fla., died on Feb. 3 in Sebastian at the age of 57.

Mary Huntting Rattray, who died Monday morning on Old Stone Highway in Springs after a long decline precipitated by a stroke some years ago, loved nothing more than to walk the cliffs of Montauk, retracing journeys she had made as a small girl on motoring expeditions with her grandfather, in his Model T, when roads were few and wild grapes were many.

Anna Eileen O’Halloran Burke was known as the loving matriarch of her family, a Noyac mother of 5, grandmother of 13, and great-grandmother of 14.

Dorothy Freedman, a member of the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society and a competitive bridge player who loved the arts, died at her East Hampton house on Feb. 14 with two of her children nearby.

As a child Barbara Bishop Bartle spent summers in East Hampton Village in a French provincial house near the corner of Woods Lane and Ocean Avenue.

Jean R. Sinenberg, an antiques dealer who owned Georgica Creek Antiques in Wainscott for 30 years and organized shows on the South Fork for four decades, died at her daughter’s home in Bridgehampton on Monday of respiratory failure.

Elive Arnán, who lived in East Hampton for about 10 years in the 1970s and had visited her extended family here frequently, died on Feb. 7 in her hometown of Fort Collins, Colo.

Thomas B. Dornhofer, a maritime engineer who had traveled the world by sea, died on Feb. 1 at the Woman’s Christian Association Hospital in Jamestown, N.Y., after a heart attack. He was 67.

Msgr. Thomas J. Hartman, a Catholic priest affiliated with the Diocese of Rockville Centre who was known as Father Tom, died on Tuesday night.

Margaret Fromm, a longtime resident of Amagansett who was known for her handmade crafts, died on Feb. 13 surrounded by family at the Gardens of North Port, an assisted living home in Florida.

James Peter Fabrizio, a former resident of Springs, died on Saturday in Madison, Wis., three days after his 25th birthday.

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, professor emerita at the University of Michigan, a historian of early 19th century France and the French Revolution, who was known for research on the early printing press and was the first resident scholar, in 1979, of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress, died at home in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 31 at the age of 92.

John G. Nicholas, an advertising executive and producer whose credits included the first television commercials for the Ford Mustang, died of congestive heart failure on Sunday at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Conn.

Carol Ann Bradley, a 35-year resident of Springs and an active member of St. Peter’s Chapel there, died on Dec. 30.

George T. Dracker, who made East Hampton his home for almost 70 years and worked as a linotype operator for The East Hampton Star for 14 years, died on Feb. 3 at his house on Dayton Lane.

Frank A. Almeraz of Springs was a union-trained electrician who built his own business from the ground up to support his family and was proud of having worked on several high-profile projects on the South Fork.

Visiting hours for George T. Dracker of Dayton Lane in East Hampton will be on Sunday.