Obituaries

John E. Harrington

    John E. Harrington, 80, former chief financial officer of AT&T and resident of Amagansett and Stamford, Conn., died at his Connecticut house on Aug. 8 after a long illness.

    A native New Yorker and the eldest of three sons, Mr. Harrington began his career at New York Telephone in New York City in 1955, two years before receiving a master’s degree in business administration from New York University. He rose through the ranks to become a vice president and controller, retiring from AT&T in 1987.

    Beverly Ann Rodenbeck, who lived in East Hampton for many years, died in Brick, N.J., on July 10 after a four-year battle with cancer. She was 72.

    Born in Manhattan on June 12, 1939, to John Baldwin Meeker and the former Emily Ann Rice, who later moved to East Hampton, Ms. Rodenbeck graduated from East Hampton High School and Union Junior College in Cranford, N.J. On Nov. 19, 1966, she was married to Donald Rodenbeck. They moved to Westfield, N.J., and lived there for 31 years. For much of that time Ms. Rodenbeck worked at Breuninger Brothers, an insurance firm.

Joan Hagen Anderson Stone, an 11th-generation native of East Hampton, died at home on Sunday surrounded by her family.

    A funeral Mass for Katharine E. MacNiven will be said Monday at 11 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton. Ms. MacNiven died on July 25 at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx. She was 49 and had lived in Amagansett.

    A complete obituary will appear in a future issue.

William B. Gleckman of Apaquogue Road, East Hampton, and New York City died at the Good Shepherd Hospice in Port Jefferson on July 25 at the age of 79 following a stroke.

Arthur J. Rossi, who lived on Tyrone Drive in Springs for many years, died in Oldsmar, Fla., last Thursday at the age of 90.

Joan Marie Reyes of Sag Harbor and Middlebury, Vt., died there on Oct. 20, 2010, after a yearlong bout with esophageal cancer at 75.

    A memorial for Frederick L. Butts Jr., a former East Hampton Town assessor, who died on March 20 in Dunedin, Fla., will be held at St. Andrew’s Cemetery in Sag Harbor at 11 a.m. on Aug. 6.

    Emmett Lawrence Foran, a resident of Noyac and formerly of Ireland, died at home on July 18 after an illness. He was 42.

    He was born on Sept. 17, 1968 in Dublin to Thomas Lawrence Foran and the former Margaret Tierney.

    Mr. Foran was married to the former Emily Brown on Sept. 17, 2005, at Trout Pond in Noyac.

    Helen Anderson, a longtime resident of South Fairview Avenue in Montauk, died at the Heritage Hill Senior Community in Weatherly, Pa., on July 11. She was 91.

    In 1984, two years after she retired to Montauk, Mrs. Anderson founded Surf Realty, a real estate business that focused solely on Montauk properties, and still does today.

    Between 1978 and 2003, the years that Lucy Macdonald lived in East Hampton, she found the local art scene to be a rich environment for her artwork, her family said. Her work was shown at Ashawagh Hall in Springs, Lizan Tops in East Hampton, and the Elaine Benson Gallery in Bridgehampton and she was a member of Guild Hall and the Jimmy Ernst Artists Alliance.

    In 2000, Ms. Macdonald was invited to participate in a show titled “Expatriates,” at the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art in her hometown in Kentucky.

Elizabeth Jane Burns, a homemaker who enjoyed quilting, sewing, and crafts, died at Southampton Hospital on July 7 after a 10-month illness.

Estelle Edwards Adams, a former Orient resident who was born in Amagansett in 1913, died on June 17 at Asbury Solomons retirement home in Solomons, Md. She was 97.

Danny DeBoard, a lifelong resident of East Hampton and a longtime employee of the town Parks and Recreation Department, died of cancer on June 14 at Southampton Hospital. He had been diagnosed just a few weeks earlier.

Mr. Carpenter, who was known to friends as Ted, was an anthropologist, art historian, and media theorist, among his many callings.

Mrs. Mayer died at home on Sunday. She was 83 and had been in poor health for the past few years.

Jenny Riha of Bridgehampton died at Southampton Hospital on Friday after a lengthy illness. Mrs. Riha was 84 years old.

Rose Gillio Enrione, who immigrated from Italy with her mother in 1928 and ran the Holiday Acres Motel on Montauk Highway in East Hampton for many years, died of pneumonia on May 18 at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn. She was 90.

Susan Ferraris, a Sag Harbor resident for four decades, died at home on Kola Drive on June 29 following a long illness. She was 64.

Neuhaus Service

    Visiting hours for Norma Neuhaus of Oakview Highway in East Hampton, who died on Tuesday at 85, will be today from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A funeral will be held there tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. Burial will follow at Green River Cemetery in Springs.

    A complete obituary will appear in a future issue.

Joan Mueller Memorial

    David Hartstein of Montauk, 35, died on Friday at Southampton Hospital after a short illness. A celebration of his life will be held today at 2:30 p.m., at Solé East on Second House Road in Montauk. Donations to East End Foundation in Mr. Hartstein’s name can be sent to P.O. Box 1746, Montauk 11954.

    A full obituary will appear in a later issue.

Miriam S. Eldar, a retired architect and author who loved to hunt for wild mushrooms, died on May 29 at home in Water Mill. She was 86.

    Daniel DeBoard of East Hampton died on Tuesday at the age of 67. Visiting hours will be held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton tomorrow from 7 to 9 p.m. A funeral service will take place at Calvary Baptist Church here on Saturday at 11 a.m., with burial following at Cedar Lawn Cemetery.

    A full obituary will appear in a future issue.

    Gwendolyn C. Dukette, who in 1952 was one of the first African-Americans to build a summer house in Sag Harbor, died on June 7 at St. Luke’s Hospital in Manhattan. She was 88.

    During World War II she worked for the Customs Service in Washington, D.C. In that city she met her future husband, William Henry Dukette, who was a student at Howard University’s dental school. They were married on Dec. 27, 1945, in New York City.

    Marguerite Shannon, who lived on Spinner Lane in East Hampton for the past six years with her daughter, Marguerite Leeney, died on Sunday at the age of 98. Mrs. Shannon had a stroke after Memorial Day.

    “I wanted to get her to 99 or even 100,” said Mrs. Leeney. “But it didn’t turn out that way.”

    Mrs. Shannon was born in Brooklyn on Aug. 25, 1912, to Nunzio Pisane, a monument engraver, and the former Teresa Barba. “She grew up on the Great South Bay,” said her daughter. “In those days, it was very beautiful there.”

Melvin Eugene Riddick, the treasurer of Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton from 1979 to 1994, died in North Carolina on April 19.

John Lockman Helmuth Jr. died on May 15 in Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, two days after having a massive stroke. The former East Hampton resident was 70 years old.

Anna Clark Mott, whose family house was at one point the closest dwelling to the Montauk Lighthouse, died on May 16 at Southampton Hospital surrounded by her family. She was 91.

Frances Hyatt Hockman, who had moved to the house she and her husband built in the early 1980s on North Haven when her husband retired, died on May 26 at home of complications because of Parkinson’s disease. She was 70 years old.

Helen Williamson died at home in East Hampton on May 26. She was 93.