Obituaries

    Between 1978 and 2003, the years that Lucy Macdonald lived in East Hampton, she found the local art scene to be a rich environment for her artwork, her family said. Her work was shown at Ashawagh Hall in Springs, Lizan Tops in East Hampton, and the Elaine Benson Gallery in Bridgehampton and she was a member of Guild Hall and the Jimmy Ernst Artists Alliance.

    In 2000, Ms. Macdonald was invited to participate in a show titled “Expatriates,” at the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art in her hometown in Kentucky.

    Emmett Lawrence Foran, a resident of Noyac and formerly of Ireland, died at home on July 18 after an illness. He was 42.

    He was born on Sept. 17, 1968 in Dublin to Thomas Lawrence Foran and the former Margaret Tierney.

    Mr. Foran was married to the former Emily Brown on Sept. 17, 2005, at Trout Pond in Noyac.

    Helen Anderson, a longtime resident of South Fairview Avenue in Montauk, died at the Heritage Hill Senior Community in Weatherly, Pa., on July 11. She was 91.

    In 1984, two years after she retired to Montauk, Mrs. Anderson founded Surf Realty, a real estate business that focused solely on Montauk properties, and still does today.

Elizabeth Jane Burns, a homemaker who enjoyed quilting, sewing, and crafts, died at Southampton Hospital on July 7 after a 10-month illness.

Estelle Edwards Adams, a former Orient resident who was born in Amagansett in 1913, died on June 17 at Asbury Solomons retirement home in Solomons, Md. She was 97.

Susan Ferraris, a Sag Harbor resident for four decades, died at home on Kola Drive on June 29 following a long illness. She was 64.

Jenny Riha of Bridgehampton died at Southampton Hospital on Friday after a lengthy illness. Mrs. Riha was 84 years old.

Mr. Carpenter, who was known to friends as Ted, was an anthropologist, art historian, and media theorist, among his many callings.

Rose Gillio Enrione, who immigrated from Italy with her mother in 1928 and ran the Holiday Acres Motel on Montauk Highway in East Hampton for many years, died of pneumonia on May 18 at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn. She was 90.

Mrs. Mayer died at home on Sunday. She was 83 and had been in poor health for the past few years.

Danny DeBoard, a lifelong resident of East Hampton and a longtime employee of the town Parks and Recreation Department, died of cancer on June 14 at Southampton Hospital. He had been diagnosed just a few weeks earlier.

Neuhaus Service

    Visiting hours for Norma Neuhaus of Oakview Highway in East Hampton, who died on Tuesday at 85, will be today from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A funeral will be held there tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. Burial will follow at Green River Cemetery in Springs.

    A complete obituary will appear in a future issue.

Joan Mueller Memorial

    David Hartstein of Montauk, 35, died on Friday at Southampton Hospital after a short illness. A celebration of his life will be held today at 2:30 p.m., at Solé East on Second House Road in Montauk. Donations to East End Foundation in Mr. Hartstein’s name can be sent to P.O. Box 1746, Montauk 11954.

    A full obituary will appear in a later issue.

Miriam S. Eldar, a retired architect and author who loved to hunt for wild mushrooms, died on May 29 at home in Water Mill. She was 86.

    Daniel DeBoard of East Hampton died on Tuesday at the age of 67. Visiting hours will be held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton tomorrow from 7 to 9 p.m. A funeral service will take place at Calvary Baptist Church here on Saturday at 11 a.m., with burial following at Cedar Lawn Cemetery.

    A full obituary will appear in a future issue.

Melvin Eugene Riddick, the treasurer of Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton from 1979 to 1994, died in North Carolina on April 19.

    Gwendolyn C. Dukette, who in 1952 was one of the first African-Americans to build a summer house in Sag Harbor, died on June 7 at St. Luke’s Hospital in Manhattan. She was 88.

    During World War II she worked for the Customs Service in Washington, D.C. In that city she met her future husband, William Henry Dukette, who was a student at Howard University’s dental school. They were married on Dec. 27, 1945, in New York City.

    Marguerite Shannon, who lived on Spinner Lane in East Hampton for the past six years with her daughter, Marguerite Leeney, died on Sunday at the age of 98. Mrs. Shannon had a stroke after Memorial Day.

    “I wanted to get her to 99 or even 100,” said Mrs. Leeney. “But it didn’t turn out that way.”

    Mrs. Shannon was born in Brooklyn on Aug. 25, 1912, to Nunzio Pisane, a monument engraver, and the former Teresa Barba. “She grew up on the Great South Bay,” said her daughter. “In those days, it was very beautiful there.”

John Lockman Helmuth Jr. died on May 15 in Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, two days after having a massive stroke. The former East Hampton resident was 70 years old.

Helen Williamson died at home in East Hampton on May 26. She was 93.

    A memorial to celebrate the life of Eleanor Sage Leonard will be held on Sunday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Lotos Club, at 5 East 55th Street in Manhattan.

Anna Clark Mott, whose family house was at one point the closest dwelling to the Montauk Lighthouse, died on May 16 at Southampton Hospital surrounded by her family. She was 91.

Frances Hyatt Hockman, who had moved to the house she and her husband built in the early 1980s on North Haven when her husband retired, died on May 26 at home of complications because of Parkinson’s disease. She was 70 years old.

Judith Ann Militare, who was devoted to community theater here, died of cancer last Thursday. She was 61 and had been ill only a short time.

Angela Buckhout, the president of WLNG radio, died at home in East Hampton on Saturday. She was 66

    A funeral Mass for Elva Lourdes Klein Leo, who was known as Nubbie to many here, will be celebrated at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton on Saturday at 10 a.m. It will be officiated by the Rev. Charles Ehrhart, a former priest there and longtime family friend.  Burial will follow at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery on Cedar Street in East Hampton.

    Mrs. Leo died on May 3 at home in Charlotte, N.C. She was 90. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Julia Gargiulo, who had been a social worker with the elderly in Greenwich, Conn., and a psychotherapist, died on Friday in Stamford, Conn. Ms. Gargiulo, who lived in East Hampton from 1994 to 2006, was 78 and had ovarian cancer.

Best known in East Hampton for the years he spent as a gas station attendant at the Y Pay More station on Three Mile Harbor Road, Frederick Askin, known as Rick, died on April 25 in Riverhead after a short bout with cancer. He was 58 years old.

oseph H. Brubaker Jr., an auditor with Aetna Insurance for 30 years, died at home in East Hampton on Sunday of complications from heart disease. He was 76.

Christopher Taaffe Schiaffino died at home on Muir Boulevard in East Hampton on Friday morning at the age of 35. The cause of death is still unknown, according to his family.