Obituaries

Visiting hours for Paul J. Slevinski of East Hampton, who died on Monday, will be held on Sunday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

Brian Grinnell, a former mate on the Pontos and Donna Lee fishing vessels in Montauk, died of brain cancer on April 8 at home in Harpswell, Me. He was 61. 

Joseph Durand Scheerer Jr., a former resident of Amagansett and East Hampton who had a career as a stockbroker and president of a dairy company, died of heart failure on June 12, surrounded by family at his house in Duxbury, Mass. He was 92, and had been ill for only a short time.

Betty R. Morici died at home in Montauk on Friday.

Mildred Pafundi Rosen, whose distinguished legal career included a seven-year stint as commissioner of the New York State Labor Relations Board under Gov. Nelson Rockefeller — the first woman to hold that position — died on June 9 in New York City. The East Hampton summer resident was 89 years old. 

It is not hyperbole to say there was nothing Chick Bills could not make, fix, or take apart. The East Hampton artist, fabricator, and polymath died at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset on May 5. He was 68 and had been in poor health since a heart attack more than three years ago.

Maureen Wikane of East Hampton died of pancreatic cancer on Tuesday at Quiogue’s Kanas Center for Hospice Care.

Michael P. Miller, a grocery and deli clerk at the I.G.A. supermarket in East Hampton for many years, died of cancer on May 25 at home in Micco, Fla. He was 60 and had been ill for three years.

Services for Gertrude Barnard of East Hampton will be held tomorrow at the First Baptist Church in Southampton, with a viewing at 11 a.m. and the funeral at noon. Burial will follow at Calverton National Cemetery, and a gathering will be held back at the church at 4 p.m.

Marjorie Reese Ludlow, an active member of the Bridgehampton community and its Methodist Church, and a Southampton Hospital volunteer for more than three decades, died last Thursday at her Bridgehampton home. She was 101.

Richard Guenther Davis, who served as executive vice president and director of research for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, died in Southampton on April 20 after a brief illness. A resident of Amagansett since the early 1970s, he was 85.

Teresa Barsdis Boothe, who was raised in East Hampton, died at the Aurora Senior Living of Manokin in Princess Anne, Md., on May 29. She was 90 and had been ill.