Herbert August, an architect and abstract painter, died on Feb. 25 at home in Water Mill. He was 90.
Herbert August, an architect and abstract painter, died on Feb. 25 at home in Water Mill. He was 90.
Joan Westin Wendt, a summer resident of East Hampton, was a childhood survivor of polio, a game show winner, a mother, a hostess, a civic leader, and a successful real estate agent. After a long and quite storied life, Ms. Wendt died of respiratory failure on Feb. 21 at The Gatesworth, an independent living center in Ladue, Mo.
James Lipton, the renowned host of the television series “Inside the Actors Studio,” died on Monday at home in Manhattan.
Marguerite Fullerton Johnson, the founder of the former Session House Nursery School in East Hampton, died on Feb. 23 at the Woodstock Terrace assisted living facility in Woodstock, Vt. She was 89.
Thomas W. Horn, the oldest member of the Sag Harbor Volunteer Fire Department, died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Feb. 25 of congestive heart failure and heart valve stenosis.
Barbara Elaine Smith, a former model and restaurateur whose sense of style and love for entertaining helped her create a business empire that included books, a magazine, and a television show, died on Saturday of Alzheimer’s disease at home in East Hampton.
George Walker Stewart of East Hampton, a graphic designer who had a passion for art, theater, and opera, died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Saturday.
Visiting hours for Scott R. Bennett of Amagansett, a longtime member of the hamlet’s Fire Department, a former East Hampton Town trustee, and a bayman who died on Tuesday, will be held on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A graveside service will follow at Cedar Lawn Cemetery here, and from 2 to 6 p.m. family and friends will gather at the Amagansett Firehouse. An obituary will appear in a future issue.
Jack Youngerman, an important American artist for more than six decades, died on Feb. 19 at Stony Brook University Hospital of complications from a fall.
Edith Frischmann Storm, a former Amagansett resident and administrative secretary at Pierson High School in Sag Harbor, died on Feb. 13 at Fernandina Beach Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Fernandina Beach, Fla.
Thomas W. Horn Sr., one of the most familiar faces on Sag Harbor Main Street, where he dutifully sat in front of the firehouse selling raffle tickets and paraphernalia to benefit the village’s Fire Museum on summer evenings, died on Tuesday evening at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.
George James Gregory, a former part-time resident of Amagansett and retired college professor who loved fishing on Napeague, died last Thursday at Alaris Health at the Atrium in Jersey City. He was 83 and had complications of dementia.
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