Obituaries

An East Hampton Village’s resident, Nancy E. O’Brien, died on April 24. She was 91, and had been ill with Alzheimer’s disease for a long time.

 Mrs. O’Brien was born on Nov. 11, 1925, on Main Street, and continued to live in the village all her life.   Her father, Raymond Mott, was a direct descendant of the Mott family from England, who arrived in East Hampton in the 19th century. A World War I veteran, he lived in Springs, and his name is listed on the Ashawagh Hall war monument there.

Patia Rosenberg, a writer, translator, and musicologist who grew up among the New York artists who settled on the South Fork in the 1950s, died on March 20 at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in New York City following a heart attack. She was 74.

Rodney Scott Rodriguez of Springs died on April 21 at Southampton Hospital, two weeks after being diagnosed with cancer. He was 83.

Sandra Joy Fryman, who lived in East Hampton with her husband, Norman, died on April 27 at Stony Brook University Hospital after a long illness. She was 85.

Mrs. Fryman was described by her family as blessed with a sharp and self-deprecating sense of humor, an infectious laugh, and an innate compassion and generosity. Her “spirit, curiosity, attention to detail, judgment, and boundless optimism  affected and changed the world around her,” they said, adding that it was a gift and a responsibility which she left to her children and grandchildren.

Visiting hours for Anthony Panzeca of Amagansett, who died on Sunday at the age of 88, will be today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

Nancy E. O’Brien of Dayton Lane, East Hampton, died on Monday. She was 91 and had been in failing health for some time.

A service to celebrate the life of Ted Hubbard, who died on Feb. 20, will be held on Monday at 11 a.m. at the Montauk Community Church.

Herbert E. Field of Springs and more recently Amagansett, whose early youth was interrupted when his father, two uncles, and a family friend were killed in the 1938 Hurricane while tending their traps behind Gardiner’s Island, died last Thursday at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in South­ampton.

Ione Martin Marston, who owned and operated the Carousel Shop children’s clothing store in East Hampton Village in the early 1950s with her first husband, Benjamin M. Stoddard, died at home in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Saturday.

Mary Giordano Stewart, who first came to Montauk before the Hurricane of 1938 and played an important role in that community for most of her life, died at the Affinity Skilled Living and Rehabilitation center in Oakdale on April 17.

Mary Jane Coy Osborne, a former East Hampton resident who was a frequent visitor regardless of where she lived, died on March 30 in San Diego.

Pietro Nivola, who was considered a scholar and a kind and gracious man by colleagues and friends, died at home in Springs on April 5.

A memorial service will be held on May 6 for Timothy Reutershan, a “true Bonac entrepreneur,” his family said, who had several businesses in East Hampton.

Ruth Victoria Van Dyke Vega of East Hampton, who was known as Vicki, died on March 9, just weeks ahead of her 98th birthday.

Andrew Clark Ingraham Jr., who was the East Hampton Town attorney in the early 1980s and maintained a law practice here for many years, died of cancer after a long illness on April 5, in Beaufort, S.C.

The Star has learned that Mary Stewart of East Hampton died on Monday.

James Anthony McCann, a longtime resident of East Hampton who moved three years ago to Spokane, Wash., died there on April 8 of renal failure.

John L. Damiecki, a member of a Bridgehampton potato-farming family, died of complications of pneumonia in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Jan. 26, with several family members by his bedside.

Morton Deutsch, who founded the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Columbia University (now renamed for him) died on March 13 in New York City.

Sondra E. Anderson, who was, in her neighbor Gordon Ryan’s words, “a real old-time Lazy Pointer,” died in her sleep at home there on March 19.

Anita Ober, who had had a house in Springs since the late 1960s, died in Philadelphia at the Hahnemann University Hospital on Feb. 2 at the age of 81.

Barbara Ann Marasco, a conservationist, gardener, and birdwatcher, died of pneumonia on April 1 in Stuart, Fla., at the age of 82.

Charles Garrett, a physicist, author, and educator in scientific research and a 47-year resident of Fithian Lane in East Hampton, died of cardiac failure on Saturday at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton.

A memorial service for Daria Deshuk will be held at Guild Hall on April 22 at 7 p.m.

Michael William Varese, who restored fine furniture in his East Hampton workshop for 35 years and wrote over 300 columns about furniture for The New York Times and Country Living magazine, died on March 27 in Lantana, Fla., at the age of 91.

The Star has received word that Wanda Rosado of East Hampton died on Sunday. She was 57.

Visiting hours for Barbara Marasco, who died on Saturday in Florida, will be tomorrow from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

Barbara Tobin Reid, who taught children with learning disabilities at New York’s St. Luke’s Hospital as well as privately until her retirement in 2000, died at her Amagansett house on Wednesday morning, just before her 81st birthday, with her family by her side.

Cathy Matus, who grew up walking to the beach in Port Jefferson and rediscovered her love of the beach and nature in Amagansett died at home in Amagansett on March 21.

David Patrick O’Shea of Kingston, N.Y., a former resident of East Hampton, died on March 22 of an opiate overdose