Obituaries

Michael Bye, an East Hampton native who left Riverhead for Florida on his 35-foot powerboat in late October, went missing off the Carolina coast on Nov. 21 and is presumed dead, his family said this week.

Alberto Herszage, the owner of a fine foods import business in Hawaii, died of renal failure on Dec. 6 at home in Springs. He was 81 and had been ill for five years.     

Marcia F. Gowen, a former managing director of the Center for Specialty Care, a medical group practice in Manhattan, died of cancer on Dec. 14 at home nearby on East 76th Street. The East Hampton summer resident was 83 and had been ill for nearly five years.     

Michelle J. Sucsy, who had cancer for almost 12 years, died peacefully at home in Springs on Oct. 3. She was attended in her final days by her husband of 34 years, Mark C. Sucsy, her younger daughter, Kestral Anne Sucsy, and her longtime friend Mary Ellen Von Anken of Greenport and Manhattan.

Philip J. Priolo, a summer resident of East Hampton who worked as a trainer of racehorses, died at home with his family in Howard Beach, Queens, on Dec. 5.  

Betty L. Cobb, an 11th-generation native of East Hampton, died on Dec. 4 at the Springs house of her daughter, Diane Goncalves, following a lengthy illness. She was 89.

John Arnold de Sousa Sr., an Air Force veteran, retired plumbing contractor from Montauk, and former member of the East Hampton Republican Committee, died on Dec. 2. He was 85.

John M. Wood Jr. of Springs, a retired East Hampton Town Highway Department crewman who loved his job operating heavy machinery, died at home on Dec. 2.

Mary Margaret Hostetter Sherrill, an artist and preservationist who was descended from a long-established East Hampton family, died on Oct. 14 at her home in Mount Pleasant, S.C., surrounded by family, of metastatic lung cancer.

Bernard Stoll, a former advertising executive who in 1968 built one of the first houses in the dunes on Marine Boulevard, died on Nov. 7 in New York City. He was 98.

Beverly Shilhan Deichert, a member of the Ladies Village Improvement Society of East Hampton for many years, died of cardiac arrest at home in Bronxville, N.Y., on Nov. 19. She was less than a week shy of her 81st birthday.

Visiting hours for John A. de Sousa Sr. of Montauk will be tomorrow from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. Mr. de Sousa, who was 85, died on Tuesday.

Michael Thomas Hinkemeyer of East Hampton, an author of suspense, mystery, and historical romance novels, died of cardiopulmonary arrest last Thursday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. He was 79 and had been in declining health for more than a year.

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.