Obituaries

Ellis Roemer French, a successful and influential Montauk businessman who began the resort there known as the Panoramic View, died at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center on Aug. 10, following complications of open-heart surgery to replace a more than 40-year-old prosthetic mitral valve, one of the oldest original valves still functioning. He was 80 years old and had been hospitalized for 23 days.

James Milton Villas, the author of 12 cookbooks who wrote hundreds of articles during 27 years as food and wine editor of Town & Country magazine and also made frequent television appearances, died in his sleep at his East Hampton home on Friday.

For a generation of neighborhood kids on and around Franklin Drive in Montauk, Mary Ann Noakes was the go-to person for first aid for bumps, scrapes, and bruises.

Mauro Filicori, a graphic and industrial designer, died of kidney failure at his Amagansett residence on May 8. He was 75, and had lived here year round since 1999.

Bruce Douglas Treleaven of Verona, N.J., whose family moved to Amagansett when he was a boy and who grew up there, died unexpectedly of cardiac arrest in his sleep on Aug. 11, while on vacation in Atlantic City. He was 60.

Theresa A. Graf, who with her sister, Margaret Graf, moved to East Hampton in 1993 to live on Boxwood Street with their brother Frank Graf, died in her sleep on Aug. 16 at the Southampton Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing, where she had been for five weeks. She was 82 and had fallen earlier this summer.

A memorial service for Andrew Bonertz, who died on June 15 at the age of 28, will be held at the Maidstone Park pavilion in Springs on Tuesday night at 8.

Rob Roden of East Hampton, the founder of the Antigua and Barbuda Hamptons Challenge Sailing Race, died at his sister’s home in Hampton Bays on Saturday. He was 70 and had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer six weeks ago.

His family said that after he moved to the South Fork in the 1960s, he was one of the original group of surfers at Flying Point, who once converted an ambulance into a “surf-mobile” and drove it across the country with his dog Heidi.

A memorial Mass for Richard F. Jarmain of Montauk will be said at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in that hamlet on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. Mr. Jarmain, a dentist and professor of dentistry, died on March 1 at the age of 78.

William Scott Tiernan of Laramie, Wyo., who spent childhood summers in East Hampton, died on July 27 in a fire at his house there.

Surrounded by her family, Anna Luise Waleko died on Saturday at her son Ray and daughter-in-law Patricia’s house in Wainscott, where she had lived for two and a half years, following a long illness. Called Nana by all who knew her, she was 80 years old.

Bette Jean Jacobs Gifford of East Hampton, a fashion designer, master gardener, and dedicated volunteer for organizations that helped those in need, including the local Meals on Wheels, died of a stroke on March 25 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 89.

Laura Wojciechowski, who came to the United States from Belarus as a teenager and made Sag Harbor her home for more than 50 years, died of a stroke on July 9 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Tucson. She was 84.

Mary Jane Anderson, who was active in East Hampton Town politics and headed its Women’s Republican Club, died on Saturday at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. She had just turned 87 and had a short illness following hospitalization.

Norton William Daniels Jr. of Bridgehampton, who served for many years as an East Hampton Town assessor and helped start the movement to preserve open space and farmland after being elected to the Suffolk County Legislature in the mid-1970s, died on July 19 at his son’s house in Sag Harbor. He was 98.

Rian J. White of Springs died of cancer on July 25 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. He was 62 and had been ill for two years.

Steven Douglas Strauss of Toledo, Ohio, who spent summers since he was a child on Shore Road in Amagansett, died on July 20 at Stony Brook University Hospital of complications from a stroke. He was 52.

Anthony Lee Bowen, formerly of Montauk and Park Ridge, N.J., died on July 4 at St. Catherine’s Hospital in Smithtown. He was 80 and had been unwell since last autumn.

Edward Paul Miller II, a computer specialist who recently had been ordained as a minister with Universal Life Ministries of Glen County, Ga., died of renal failure on June 30 in Brunswick, Ga., where he lived. He was 43 and had been ill for four years.

A Mass for Nicholas Sennefelder, a former Montauk resident who died on June 27 in Abingdon, Va., will be said on Friday, Aug. 3, at 11 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk. An obituary in last week’s paper had the wrong time for the Mass.

Rita Paon, who lived for about 80 years in Montauk, died there on July 16. She was 105.

Barbara S. Cirami of East Hampton, an activist for gay and lesbian causes who had a 30-year career with IBM in Westchester, died of cancer at her winter residence in North Fort Myers, Fla., on July 10. She was 72.

Betty Goldman Schlein, a political activist who helped found and later led the Long Island chapter of the National Organization for Women and was a founding member of Eleanor’s Legacy, an organization named for the first lady that helps recruit and train female Democratic candidates, died of a stroke at her Manhattan home on June 29. A Southampton resident as well, she was 87.

Nicholas Sennefelder, a former Montauk resident, died on June 27 in Abingdon, Va., of cancer. He was 50 and had been ill for 18 months.

Phyllis Clemenz of Montauk died on July 1 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton of complications of dementia, which she had for five years. She was 87.

Thomas A. Theuret, the former owner of Quality Seafood in Queens and, later, a dispatcher for Scan Security of Southampton, died at home in Springs on July 10 with friends and family present. He was 69 and had Parkinson’s disease.

Barbara Kantor, whose love of boating and fishing drew her to Montauk as well as North Palm Beach, Fla., died of advanced Parkinson’s disease and dementia on June 29 after an eight-year illness.

Christian Bermeo was “a simple guy,” his oldest brother, Franklin Bermeo, said. He lived in his brother’s house on Hollyoak Avenue in Springs with his brother’s family and their parents. He worked hard and saved his money to send to his 5-year-old son back in Ecuador, where he planned to build a house.

Visiting hours and a service will be held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on Saturday for Danielle Cynthia Bertagna, who died on June 29 in Las Vegas at the age of 34. The immediate cause of death was not provided.

A graveside service for Gary G. King of Miller Lane West in East Hampton, who died on Friday at Southampton Hospital, will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Cedar Lawn Cemetery here. Mr. King was 69. An obituary will appear in a future issue.