Obituaries

Sherrill Clark Webb, who taught industrial arts at East Hampton High School for 40 years, died on Sept. 24 at his house on Meadow Way in East Hampton.

Walter Allan Lee, a bank trust officer who grew up in East Hampton, died last Thursday at his winter residence in The Villages, Fla. He was 83 and had been in declining health for several years.

A graveside service in memory of Bonnie Lee Cullum, who died in February at the age of 71, will be held on Oct. 10 at 11 a.m. Ms. Cullum, who had cancer, was a 1961 graduate of East Hampton High School. She worked as the office manager at Robert E. Otto Glass in Wainscott for 33 years. The memorial service will take place at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton. Her family said it will be a simple service, and casual attire has been requested.

Michael C. Volk loved Montauk and his East Lake Drive residence, and had no interest in living anyplace else. One of the aspects of the hamlet that most thrilled him, his son said yesterday, was playing a round of golf at Montauk Downs.

“Despite the challenges he faced, he was a good-hearted man,” his son, Michael Volk of Honolulu, said. “He was always helpful. There was not a bad bone in his body.”

Mr. Volk died on Sept. 15 at Stony Brook University Hospital of complications following a fall. He was 62.

Sloane Shelton, an actress who had voluminous credits but may be best known on the East End for having portrayed the fierce mother of a Bonac fisherman in the world premiere of Joe Pintauro’s adaptation of Peter Matthiessen’s “Men’s Lives” at the Bay Street Theater, died at her Wainscott home on Sept. 17 of pulmonary fibrosis after a long illness. She was 81.

Earl Edmund Arrington, a successful real estate broker for over half a century, died on Sept. 9 at home in Sag Harbor.

Harvey M. Brown of Worcester, N.Y., who grew up in East Hampton and once worked at the Startop Ranch in Montauk, died on Aug. 21.

Maryse Armin Wyatt, who graduated from East Hampton High School in 1949 after having spent her childhood in Brooklyn, died on Sept. 11 at home in Greenfield, Mass.

Nancy S. Weintraub, who, along with her husband, Max Weintraub, was well known among East Hampton restaurant goers as one of the duo behind Cafe Max, died on Monday after a long illness.

Visitation and a funeral service for Earl Edmund Arrington, a longtime Sag Harbor resident who died on Sept. 9, will be on Sunday at J. Foster Phillips Funeral Home at 179-24 Linden Boulevard in Jamaica, Queens. Visiting begins at 11 a.m., with the funeral to start at noon.

An obituary for Mr. Arrington, who was 82, will appear in a future issue.

Elizabeth McGuire, who had been a familiar presence in a number of East Hampton’s popular restaurants over the years, died at home on Sept. 8 in Melbourne, Fla.

A celebration of the life of Deborah Ann Light, formerly of Amagansett, East Hampton Village, and Sag Harbor, will be held at the Peconic Land Trust’s Quail Hill Farm orchard in Amagansett on Saturday.

Gregg Denis de Waal died unexpectedly after collapsing at the Whalebone Market in Noyac on Sept. 3.

Harry F. LaMonda, a dairy farmer at the old Dune Alpin Farm in East Hampton and a World War II Army veteran who served in Japan, died last Thursday at the Riverhead Care Center in Riverhead.

Joan S. Heitner, a retired professor who taught at La Guardia Community College for more than 25 years, died on Sept. 6 in New York City.

Michael de Vlaming Flinn, a lawyer and former member of the Connecticut House of Representatives who grew up on Lily Pond Lane in East Hampton, died on Aug. 1 at his house in Greenwich, Conn.

William Becker, whose vision and financial savvy helped bring modern European film to American audiences, died of kidney failure at his house in Southampton on Saturday. He was 88.

Antoinette D’Angelo, a longtime resident of Sag Harbor and North Haven who once ran Sag Harbor’s Emporium Hardware Store with her husband, was a true Rosie the Riveter, joining the war effort by helping manufacture planes for the Navy at the Grumman plant in Bethpage after the United States entered World War II.

She died on Sunday at the Westhampton Care Center after a brief illness. She was 92.

An obituary that appeared in The East Hampton Star on May 12, 1938, incorrectly gave the names of Phoebe Scott of Amagansett’s mother and first husband.

Her mother was the former Harriet Miller; her stepmother, the former Abigail Topping, married her father, Daniel Loper of Springs, after her mother’s death.

Mrs. Scott’s first husband was Edward Payne. She married James H. Scott some time after Mr. Payne disappeared in about 1885, following his departure for a school for sailors in New York City. She was born on June 25, 1853, in Springs.

Jordan L. Gruzen, an architect whose firm played a significant role in the landscape of New York City, died of cancer on Jan. 27 at home in Manhattan’s Battery Park City on Jan. 27  He was 80 and had been ill for the past year.

Mr. Gruzen lived in the apartment buildings and houses he designed, including the building on South End Avenue where he died. He summered in Amagansett for more than 50 years, living at Lazy Point for the last eight and building a house on Cranberry Hole Road, which is to be completed in June.

Denise Parker, an actress and the widow of the abstract painter Ray Parker, who lived in New York’s Greenwich Village and East Hampton, died on Jan. 20 at New York-Presbyterian Hospital following a stroke. She was 86.

Douglas Pierson Strong, who had been a Wainscott potato farmer and longtime volunteer with the Bridgehampton Fire Department, died on Sunday at home in Richfield, N.C., at the age of 92. He had had Alzheimer’s disease.

A 12th generation farmer and volunteer firefighter for over 70 years, Mr. Strong also worked for East Hampton Town and was a member of the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.  

A wake for Jeremiah Harrington of East Hampton, who died in a car accident last Thursday in Sarasota, Fla., will be held tomorrow from 3 to 8 p.m. at the Graham Funeral Home in Rye, N.Y. A funeral will be held on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Church of the Resurrection, also in Rye.

An obituary for Mr. Harrington, who was 67 and known as Jerry, will appear in a future issue.

Jean McGrath counted her family among her greatest interests. A mother of three, grandmother of nine, and great-grandmother of eight, she was a knitter, baker, and seamstress who enjoyed embroidery and loved to read.

Mrs. McGrath worked as a secretary at Windward Realty in East Hampton for nearly a decade and was an administrative assistant at the Stella Maris School in Sag Harbor for over 20 years.

She died at Southampton Hospital on Jan. 19 after an illness of several weeks. She was 89.

Jerry Russell Ruschmeyer of New Port Richey, Fla., a Montauker who moved to Florida, where he was the captain of sportfishing boats for many years, died on Jan. 24 at Tampa General Hospital two weeks after suffering a brain aneurysm. He was 64 years old.

Peter Remington Nixon, who had been an East Hampton Little League coach and Cub Scout leader when his son was younger and worked as a viticulturist, died on Sunday in Millerton, N.Y. He was 62 and had been ill with cancer for a year.

“Children just flocked to him,” said Emily Liss, his former wife.

Arthur E. Connors of Cooper Lane, East Hampton, who served as an assistant captain with the East Hampton Fire Department, died of a brain aneurysm on Jan. 13 at Ochsher North Shore Medical Center in Slidell, La. He was 90.

“A wonderful man,” his daughter Pamela Schenck said.

Carl Victor King, a Vietnam veteran who came from a large East Hampton family, died on Jan. 3 of complications during heart bypass surgery at the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Manhattan. He was 71.

After he graduated from East Hampton High School, he joined the Army in the mid-1960s, seeing action in Vietnam. When he returned, he moved to Hampton Bays and later Flanders. He was most recently living in Riverhead, where he had moved last year. He worked as a self-employed plumber.

Esther Laufer died at home on Highland Lane in East Hampton on Sunday at the age of 101. Mrs. Laufer had been a concert pianist and a piano teacher. “One of the highlights of her life was playing a Rachmaninoff piece during a piano lesson and later learning that Rachmaninoff himself had heard and admired her rendition,” her family said in an email. Her prized possession was a Hardman baby grand.

John Robert Lemmon, a craftsman who also painted landscapes and seascapes, died of lung cancer on Dec. 5 at the Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin, Vt. He was 69.

Mr. Lemmon had lived in East Hampton his entire life, but spent time at his partner’s, Carrie Kessler’s, farm in Corinth, Vt.