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Obituaries

Joan Hagen Anderson Stone Joan Anderson Stone

Joan Hagen Anderson Stone, an 11th-generation native of East Hampton, died at home on Sunday surrounded by her family.

Aug 3, 2011
Kate MacNiven Mass

    A funeral Mass for Katharine E. MacNiven will be said Monday at 11 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton. Ms. MacNiven died on July 25 at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx. She was 49 and had lived in Amagansett.

    A complete obituary will appear in a future issue.

Aug 3, 2011
William B. Gleckman

William B. Gleckman of Apaquogue Road, East Hampton, and New York City died at the Good Shepherd Hospice in Port Jefferson on July 25 at the age of 79 following a stroke.

Aug 3, 2011
Arthur J. Rossi, 90

Arthur J. Rossi, who lived on Tyrone Drive in Springs for many years, died in Oldsmar, Fla., last Thursday at the age of 90.

Jul 28, 2011
Joan Marie Reyes

Joan Marie Reyes of Sag Harbor and Middlebury, Vt., died there on Oct. 20, 2010, after a yearlong bout with esophageal cancer at 75.

Jul 28, 2011
Aug. 6 Memorial

    A memorial for Frederick L. Butts Jr., a former East Hampton Town assessor, who died on March 20 in Dunedin, Fla., will be held at St. Andrew’s Cemetery in Sag Harbor at 11 a.m. on Aug. 6.

 

Jul 21, 2011
Emmett Foran

    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.

Jul 21, 2011
Helen O. Anderson

    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.

Jul 21, 2011
Lucy C. Macdonald

    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.

Jul 21, 2011
Elizabeth Burns, 85

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

Jul 14, 2011
Estelle Edwards Adams

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.

Jul 14, 2011
Danny DeBoard

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.

Jul 7, 2011
Edmund Carpenter, 88

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

Jul 7, 2011
Gertrude Mayer

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

Jul 7, 2011
Jenny S. Riha

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

Jul 7, 2011
Rose Enrione

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.

Jul 7, 2011
Susan Ferraris

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.

Jul 7, 2011
Services and Memorials 06.30.11

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

Jun 30, 2011
Hartstein Service

    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.

Jun 23, 2011
Miriam S. Eldar

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.

Jun 23, 2011
Daniel DeBoard

    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.

Jun 16, 2011
Gwendolyn Dukette

    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.

Jun 16, 2011
Marguerite Shannon, 98

    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.”

Jun 16, 2011
Melvin Riddick

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

Jun 16, 2011
John Helmuth, 70

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.

Jun 13, 2011
Anna C. Mott, 91

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.

Jun 9, 2011
Frances Hockman

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.

Jun 9, 2011
Helen Williamson

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

Jun 9, 2011
Leonard Memorial

    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.

Jun 9, 2011
Angela Buckhout

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

May 26, 2011