Obituaries

Jehovina Kelsall, a collector of and dealer in antiques who at one point owned a store in East Hampton with her late husband, Trevor Kelsall, died at home in East Hampton on Dec. 23 of a presumed heart attack. She was 81.

John Ely of North Haven died at Stony Brook University Hospital on Jan. 1 of leukemia. He was 70 and had been ill since July.

Josephine Valenti Johnson, an artist and art historian who lived in Springs during its Abstract Expressionist heyday, died at her Southampton home on Dec. 29. She was 90.

Ruth Elizabeth Gaynor of East Hampton, who was a domestic employee for a number of celebrities for over 50 years, died of pulmonary failure at home on Town Lane on Dec. 30. She was 84, and had been ill for two weeks.

Shana Rimel Conron, who held top legal posts with Citibank and was chairwoman of the board of directors for Citibank Delaware before retiring to Sag Harbor in 2004, died on Dec. 19. She was 79 and had been in declining health.

Clarke Whitehead, a public school teacher in New York City who spent summers in Sag Harbor, died of heart failure at his home in Brooklyn on Dec. 8. He was 48, and had been ill for two years.

Visiting hours for Elizabeth Carroll, 82, of East Hampton, who died on Monday, will be held today from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

Harvey J. Horowitz, a corporate lawyer and longtime resident of East Hampton, died at the New Jewish Home, a rehabilitation facility in New York City, on Dec. 22 of complications of lymphoma. He was 75 and had been ill for six months.

James W. Lester, a lifelong bayman, fisherman, and Amagansett resident, died at home after a long illness on Dec.10 at the age of 77.

A graveside service for Jehovina Kelsall will be held on Wednesday at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton.

Visiting hours for Rose Tekulsky of East Hampton will be held tonight from 6 to 8 at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

Gail M. Murray, an award-winning breeder of Siamese cats, died of Alzheimer’s disease in Great Barrington, Mass., on Dec. 3. A longtime East Hampton homeowner, she was 88 and had been ill for several years.

Jay P. Jarboe, who was a pilot for the heavy metal bands Motley Crue and Def Leppard and later for commercial airlines, died of a cardiac aneurysm in Naples, Fla., on Dec. 14. A frequent visitor to Montauk, he was 64.

Josephine Wilson Murphy, 92, died on Dec. 7 at her New York City home.

Alfred Dumais died on Nov. 16 of complications following hip surgery at Mount Sinai-St. Luke’s Hospital in New York. He was 91. A service was held on Nov. 19 at the Church of St. John Nupomucene in New York and his family will decide on the disposition of his ashes at a later date.

Frank Dickinson died of pneumonia at the age of 94 on Dec. 11 at the Long Island State Veterans Home at Stony Brook University.

Frederick Rutledge Smith, an adventurer, sportsman, and a founding editor of Sports Illustrated, died at his Wainscott home on Dec. 14. He was 93 and had been in declining health for some time.

Laurel Planz, 55, died at home in East Hampton on Dec. 2 after a two-week bout of flu. She was cremated.

Mary Bayes Ryan, an artist who in the 1970s purchased the former Fire Place Lodge summer camp in Springs, opening it for use by local farmers, pop-up summer camps, and an extended community of family, friends and neighbors, died at home overlooking Gardiner’s Bay on Sept. 21. She was 85.

Sarah Jane Leddy Spell, who grew up in East Hampton and had worked at the Montauk Downs Golf Club and the Biltmore Hotel in Manhattan, died on Saturday at home in Apopka, Fla. She was 81 and had cancer for a year, her family said.

Timothy Patrick Sullivan of East Hampton died at home on Dec. 8 of lung cancer that was diagnosed in September. He was 84.

Dianne L. MacDonald, a clinical social worker for four decades after graduating from Columbia University, died after a brief illness on Dec. 10 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 71 and had been in declining health.

Mrs. Stoll died of complications from an impact injury sustained at her Manhattan home on Nov. 26. She was 93, and had been ill for eight weeks.

James Oxnam died on Dec. 5 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan where he had been treated in the last few weeks for the sudden onset of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 86 and had been healthy, active, and engaged until then, his friends said.

John Pantelis Karoussos, who opened a popular restaurant named Jason’s in Washington, D.C., after attending Catholic University there, died on Monday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital of prostate cancer. He was 74 and had been ill for a year and a half.

Bettie B. Wysor, a novelist and playwright who also was an East Hampton real estate broker, died of the complications of Alzheimer’s disease last Thursday at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care on Quiogue. She was 90.

Diana V. Bianchi, who had been a waitress at Michael’s restaurant in Springs, died of liver and kidney failure at Doctors Hospital of Sarasota, Fla. on Nov. 27. She was 65.

A memorial service for Steven Paul Marcus, who died in April, will be held next Thursday in the faculty room of the Columbia University Law Library at 4:15 p.m.

Mrs. Fugazzi died of colon cancer on Nov. 27 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care on Quiogue after two years of ill health.

Mr. Cooley died of cardiac arrest on Oct. 4, his family said. He was 74.