Obituaries

Albert J. Catozzi of East Hampton died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Monday. He was 71. 

JoAnn C. Morse of Montauk, a high school special education teacher, died of complications of heart failure last Thursday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 81. 

Due to the lack of an available venue there will not be a memorial gathering for Hortense Carpentier, who died on June 17. Those who wish to pay their respects have been invited to join the family at a graveside service on Aug. 10 at 11 a.m. at Green River Cemetery.

Albert S. Hedges, whose more than 50 years of active service to the Bridgehampton Fire Department also included time as captain and as a Fire District Commissioner, died on June 24 at the Peconic Bay Medical Center’s Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Riverhead, surrounded by family. He was 84 years old and had congestive heart failure.

John D. Kelly, who operated the first commuter seaplane flights between Manhattan and East Hampton in the 1990s, died of cancer last Thursday at home in Guilford, Conn. He was 72.

Brian Grinnel to be remembered Saturday and Sunday in Montauk

Barbara Oeffner, an East Hampton native and a 10th-generation descendant of Nathaniel Dominy, one of the town’s early settlers renowned for his woodworking and clockmaking skills, died on Jan. 24 in Moore Haven, Fla. She was 74.

Mildred Doughty Granitz died at home on the Circle in East Hampton on Friday. She was 98. The family will hold a memorial service at a date to be announced. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Nina Sara Hirschman died on Saturday at her Highland Lane house in East Hampton in the company of her sister, Joan Laufer, and her children, Stephanie Wade and Keith Hirschman. She was 73.

Betty Rose Morici, who owned Betty’s Bloomers flower shop in Montauk, died of cancer at home in that hamlet on June 14. She was 79 and had been ill for several years.

Maureen Maran Wikane, the longtime director of the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center, formerly the East Hampton Day Care Center, whose caring guidance is remembered by numerous East Hampton children, parents, and teachers, died at the East End Hospice Kanas Center in Quiogue on June 18.

Hortense R. Carpentier, a longtime Springs resident whose varied career spanned music, film, literature, real estate, retail, and medicine, died on June 17 at the New York State Veterans Home in upstate Oxford, surrounded by her family. Death was attributed to cardiac pulmonary arrest after a more than four-year illness. She was 93.