Obituaries

Gloria Isabelle Schuerlein, who devoted her life to her large family and to her church, died on Nov. 7 at home in Farmingville. The former East Hampton resident, who was 89, had been in declining health and was in hospice care.

Mary Margaret McCaffrey of Wainscott, who served the Wainscott School for 19 years as secretary and district clerk, died on Nov. 18 at Southampton Hospital surrounded by family. She was 56 and had been diagnosed five months ago with metastatic lung cancer.

Maurice Richard Blowe, who grew up in East Hampton and attended East Hampton High School, died at home in Phoenix on Nov. 14. He had been ill for about 15 years with various ailments, his family said.

Owain Gardner Collingwood Hughes of Water Mill, an author and entrepreneur, died on Nov. 19.

Stewart Miller Cullum, who grew up in East Hampton, died on Nov. 9 at Good Shepherd Hospice in Port Jefferson. He was 78 and had been ill with cancer for three years.

A memorial service for Denise Gorgone, the former owner of Sam’s Auto Service and Mrs. Sam’s Bait and Tackle in East Hampton, will take place on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. at Sam’s Auto.

Mary Terry Briganti of Montauk, a former elementary school teacher, died of a chronic lung infection on Nov. 13 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton.

Mary McCaffrey, the Wainscott School's secretary and district clerk for 19 years, died on Monday. Services will be held on Friday and Saturday.

Paul George Neff of Montauk, a former owner of O’Murphy’s Pub there, died of heart failure at home on Friday at the age of 87.

Henry Charles Schwatzman of Bridgehampton, a former builder and crane operator who had helped set the steel on the old World Trade Center towers, died on Oct. 14 at the Oasis Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Center Moriches following a stroke. He was 86.

Patricia Hally Mohlere of Sag Harbor, a former president of the Bridgehampton Association, died of lung cancer on Nov. 5 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. She was 73.

Renee Genevieve Alversa, 61, a longtime Montauk resident who worked in hotel management there for many years, died at home in Calverton on Nov. 1. Her family did not yet know the cause of death.

William R. Anderson, a Marine Corps veteran who was actively involved in his Laureldale, Pa., community, died at his home there on Oct. 26. The former East Hampton resident was 76 years old and had kidney failure.

A memorial service for Nan Noell of East Hampton, who died on Oct. 6, will take place on Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Cormaria Retreat House at 77 Bay Street in Sag Harbor.

A funeral Mass for Renee G. Alversa of East Hampton, who died on Friday, will be said today at 10 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk. An obituary for Ms. Alversa, who was 61, will appear in a future edition.

The Rev. Walter Silva Thompson Jr., Calvary Baptist’s pastor, called Mr. Haney “a conscientious man who wanted to make a difference.”

Andrew Andry, a children’s book author, died of heart failure on Sept. 28 at home in East Hampton. He was 83.

Denise Gorgone, the former owner of Sam’s Auto Service and Mrs. Sam’s Bait and Tackle in East Hampton, died on Oct. 20 at the Crystal Coast Hospice House in Newport, N.C.

Henry L. Haney of East Hampton, who hosted a show on LTV for many years, died on Tuesday. He was 88.

Nan Noell’s work life had many twists and turns, including years spent in restaurant management, addiction counseling, and estate management.

Albert Edward Bevan of Shelter Island, a former guidance counselor at East Hampton High School, died of complications from pneumonia on Oct. 13 at Stony Brook University Hospital. He was 89.

Gary L. Babin, who grew up in Montauk and went to East Hampton High School, died at home in Smyrna, Del., on Sept. 27. He was 71 and had been diagnosed with mesothelioma in April.

Eugene H. Thommen Jr., an aviation electrician who worked on the Apollo 11 moon landing mission, died on Oct. 9 at the University Hospital in San Antonio, Tex., of complications from a head injury sustained during a fall. The longtime East Hampton resident was 82.

Joanne Conforti, an advertising executive who split her time between Manhattan and East Hampton, died at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan on Oct. 8. She was 75 and had Lewy body dementia.

John C. Specht, a longtime local bayman who also worked as a carpenter, painter, and groundskeeper, died on Oct. 4 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital at the age of 78.

Robert G. Goelet, a business and civic leader, naturalist, and philanthropist, who with his wife, Alexandra Creel Goelet, had been steward of Gardiner’s Island in East Hampton since the 1980s, died on Oct. 8 at his home in New York City.

Ernest Clark Jr., a former owner of the E.T. Dayton Insurance and Real Estate Agency in East Hampton, died of congestive heart failure at the Moorings Park health care facility in Naples, Fla., on Sept. 25. He was 94.

A funeral service for Joanne Conforti of East Hampton will be held on Saturday at 9 a.m. at Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel at 1076 Madison Avenue in Manhattan. Her ashes will be buried at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery in East Hampton.

Gerald Brenner, a former sales manager for fashion designers, died of a diabetes-related infection at home in East Hampton on Saturday.

James Salant, an author who lived in Springs as a young boy and returned often to stay with grandparents in Amagansett, died of a heart attack on Aug. 25 in Brooklin, Me.