Obituaries

Maureen Patricia Babin, who grew up in East Hampton but lived for a long time in South Bound Brook, N.J., died on April 26 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Somerville, N.J.

Nathaniel Wilkins Creamer, whose father, the late Francis B. Creamer Jr., was the rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton from 1978 to 1996, died of cancer at the Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care in Towson, Md., on April 14, a little over a year after his father’s death.

Richard G. Wolf, a producer and director of documentary films, television series, and commercials, died of kidney and heart failure on April 30 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 81.

Mr. Wolf started his career in the late 1950s as a soundman and crewmember “on every conceivable type of production, from features to spots to TV series,” he wrote in his résumé. “You name it, I did it!”

Susan Oliner Russotti, an architectural consultant who had a house in Springs, died on April 5 at New York University Hospital in Manhattan of complications of ovarian cancer, her family said.

Susann Farrell, the children’s and family services librarian at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor for the last 12 years, died of lung cancer last Thursday at the age of 47.

Anthony L. Panzeca, who retired with his wife to East Hampton in 1994 to be closer to their daughter and grandchildren, died at Southampton Hospital on April 23. His health had been declining within the past year, his family said. He was 88.

Boating and taking his Jeep on the beach with friends were two of David S. Hill’s great joys, his wife, Jean Hill, said this week. He kept a CB radio in his Jeep, and his handle, Snoopy, also became his nickname around town, Mrs. Hill said.

Mr. Hill died on April 11 at South­ampton Hospital after a long illness. He was 80.

A resident of East Hampton for nearly 60 years, he lived in a house once owned by his grandmother Esther Anderson.

A graveside service for Timothy Reutershan, a former East Hampton resident who died on Feb. 17 in Tucson, will take place on Saturday at 2 p.m. at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery on Cedar Street in East Hampton.

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.