David M. King, a former chief and longtime member of the Springs Fire Department and an owner of C.E. King and Sons, an awning and marine canvas company in Springs, died on Saturday morning at Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 62. His family received visitors at a firefighters’ service yesterday. An obituary will appear in a future issue.
A celebration of life for Richard Shumway, a Southampton resident and owner of Atlantic Collaborative Construction Company in Bridgehampton who died on Feb. 8, will be held at the Southampton Inn on Hill Street in Southampton on March 4 at 2 p.m. Mr. Shumway, who was known to friends as Rick, was 66.
Gail J. Murphy of Montauk, who worked for John Ecker Inc., a Montauk insurance brokerage from the time she was in high school until her final illness, died at home on Sunday. She was 55 and had had breast cancer for about four years.
Ms. Murphy was “a warmhearted, generous soul” who “always reached out to help others,” her family said, and “touched the lives of so many with great compassion.” A member of the Montauk Community Church, she had been its treasurer as well as an elder and the clerk of the session. She had also been a member of the Montauk Village Association.
Ms. Murphy was born at Southampton Hospital on April 24, 1961, one of the two daughters of Robert Miller and the former Marion Bennett of Amagansett, both of whom survive. She is also survived by her husband, Daniel Murphy, a sister, Judy Miller of Amagansett, and a cousin, Maureen Murphy of Virginia. She went to the Springs School and to East Hampton High School, graduating with the class of 1979. She earned an associate’s degree from Suffolk County Community College.
According to her family, Ms. Murphy was a loyal, dedicated, and valued employee at the John Ecker agency, who “confidently navigated her clients through their insurance woes.”
The family received visitors yesterday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A 10 a.m. funeral service was to be held today at the Montauk Community Church, with burial to follow at Green River Cemetery in Springs. Donations in her memory to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach, 11978-7048, have been suggested.
Elspeth Banks Furlaud, an artist and longtime summer resident of Dunemere Lane in East Hampton, died surrounded by her family on Feb. 5 at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She was 92.
Ms. Furlaud was the founder and proprietor of 124/Limited Art Editions, a printmaking studio and gallery on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. In 1967, she was among the 12 founding members of the Volunteer Organization of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There, she developed a program to introduce Greek, Roman, and Islamic art to inner-city high school students. Today, the Volunteer Organization numbers more than 1,250 men and women who work throughout the museum.
As an artist, Ms. Furlaud “deployed a deft hand and an exquisite sense of color to produce landscapes, studies from life, and explorations of the aesthetic possibilities of geometric shapes,” her family wrote.
Ms. Furlaud was fascinated by people, her family wrote, and “knew a great deal about almost everyone with whom she came in contact,” which allowed her to speak, usually humorously, about them. They said she had a quick wit, ready laughter, and an “unending supply of indelible, funny, and beautifully told stories.”
Elspeth Banks Furlaud was born on Oct. 13, 1924, in Manhattan to Alexander Scott Banks and the former Dorothea Cutler. She grew up in Suffern, N.Y., and returned to Manhattan as a young adult. She graduated from Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, Conn., and Finch College in Manhattan.
During World War II, she worked as a censor for the Navy. In Manhattan, she was a member of the Cosmopolitan Club and of the Brick Church on Park Avenue.
Ms. Furlaud’s marriage ended in divorce. She is survived by three children. They are Richard Furlaud, Eleanor Adam, and Tamsin Rachofsky, all of Manhattan and East Hampton, and by seven grandchildren. Two sisters died before her, as did a grandson.
Ms. Furlaud was cremated and her ashes are to be buried at Airmont Lutheran Cemetery in Suffern, next to her parents and a brother who died before she was born.
A celebration of her life will be held at the Alex Adam Gallery, 78 West 120th Street in Manhattan, on March 4 at 5 p.m.
The family has suggested memorial contributions to the Volunteer Organization at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York 10028, or its website. Donors have been asked to write “Volunteer Organization” on the subject line of any check or online donation.
Betty S. Miller, a lifelong member of the Amagansett Presbyterian Church who was proud of her Bonac roots, died at Southampton Hospital on Jan. 27 of congestive heart failure. She was about a month shy of her 87th birthday.
Mrs. Miller, who could trace her Amagansett family back 11 generations, was born to William H. Schellinger and the former Bessie Hawkins on Feb. 26, 1930, and grew up on Abraham’s Path. She was the eighth of her parents’ nine children and the only one to graduate from high school, her brothers having gone off to war and her sisters to marriages. She graduated from East Hampton High School in 1949.
She married George E. Miller, whom she knew since childhood, on Feb. 11, 1950, at the Amagansett Presbyterian Church. His family also has roots in the area going back to the 1600s. The couple lived in Amagansett most of their married life. Mr. Miller owned the Amagansett Texaco gas station, and later the Shell station in East Hampton, where Saunders Real Estate is now. She was a homemaker.
In 1994, the couple moved to Cushing, Me., where they had often vacationed. Mr. Miller died the next year. She would remain living there for 22 years, until selling her house last year and moving in with her daughter, Deborah Dubrow, in Southampton.
Ms. Dubrow said her mother loved baking and spending time with her family and going for walks with her dog. She and her sister, the late Charlotte Hamilton, were always in charge of the baked goods and candy tables at the Amagansett Presbyterian Church’s summer fair. She also enjoyed clamming and picking blueberries, cranberries, and beach plums on Napeague. In addition to her church, Mrs. Miller was a member of the Eastern Star.
In addition to Ms. Dubrow, Mrs. Miller is survived by two other daughters, Pamela Glennon of Amagansett and Georgia Loper of Springs. An older sister, Janet Halliday of Sag Harbor, and her youngest sister, Virginia Koons of Iowa, also survive, as do five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Her brothers, George, William, Arthur, Morley, and Donald Schellinger, died before her, as did her sister.
A funeral service was held at the Amagansett Presbyterian Church on Feb. 1. Mrs. Miller was cremated, and a private burial will take place at Oak Grove Cemetery in Amagansett in the spring.
Memorial donations were suggested to Southampton Volunteer Ambulance, 1232 North Sea Road, N.Y. 11968, or to the Salvation Army through its website.
Barbara J. King, who was born Barbara Halliday, died at her home in Sag Harbor on Saturday. It was Feb. 18, her 62nd birthday.
Funeral services were held yesterday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton yesterday. A full obituary will appear in a future edition of The Star.
Ted Stanley Hubbard, a Montauk landscaper who was inspired by the natural world and all things Native American, died on Monday in Montauk. Mr. Hubbard, who was 49, was “a free spirit,” his family said, who had traveled across the United States and into Mexico. He settled for a time near Gardner, Colo., where he volunteered at a wolf sanctuary, picked sage, lived in a yurt, and embraced a simple life.
A talented woodworker, Mr. Hubbard made his own tools, including bows and arrows, and dabbled in making chairs, even weaving their seats from natural fibers. Eventually, he began fashioning spoons from fallen trees, “using the wood’s natural shape and imperfections to create the essence of the spoon,” his family said, and selling them at craft shows.
As a young man, Mr. Hubbard learned wilderness skills at the Tom Brown Jr. Tracking School in New Jersey. He could tan hides, make buckskin clothing, start a fire from sticks, and do just about anything, his family said. Eventually he found work volunteering on an organic farm, and later moved to New Hampshire where, with a girlfriend, he established an organic farm of his own.
He was born on Nov. 23, 1967, a son of Theodore Frank Hubbard and the former Margot Fueldner, and grew up in Bay Shore. He attended Sterling College, a small Vermont school that focuses on environmental studies.
The family recalled that as a young boy, in a car with his family passing the Montauk movie theater, Mr. Hubbard had said he saw “an Indian on the hill.” Though no one believed it, the family said an article that appeared in The Star later recounted that others had also reported seeing a Native American there. Mr. Hubbard, who took his own life, was “a pioneer and a free thinker,” the family said. Jeff Monte, a friend, said Mr. Hubbard “was born in the wrong century; about a hundred years too late.”
Mr. Hubbard is survived by his parents, who live in Miller Place, by a brother, Daniel Hubbard of Pennsylvania, and by two sisters, Lori Hubbard and Amy Hubbard of Montauk.
A service had not yet been arranged by press time.
Alison Jane Aird, an accomplished pianist and English and drama teacher who was in remission for 10 years from a malignant brain tumor, died on Friday night at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. She was 49 years old and had been diagnosed when she was 38.
Ms. Aird was highly qualified in a number of areas, in addition to being a teacher. She had degrees in international relations, and literature and drama, as well as a postgraduate certificate of education. She was a talented piano player who played duets with her mother over the years.
She was born on July 31, 1967, in Beverly, Mass., one of the three children of Alexander McGregor Aird and the former Margaret Vallance. Her parents had moved from Scotland to Canada when Mr. Aird was transferred by Pratt & Whitney, an aircraft engine manufacturer, to Canada, and then to this country. She spent the first five years of her life in Swampscott, Mass., and Cincinnati before the family moved back to the U.K.
She graduated from Wimbledon High School in London, earned a B.A. with honors in international relations from Sussex University in Brighton, an M.A. in literature and drama from the University of Essex, and a postgraduate certificate of education at the University of London. Ms. Aird taught English and drama to high school students in London. For her dissertation at Essex, she produced and directed a multimedia version of Angela Carter’s radio play “Vampirella.”
She trained students at Half Moon Theatre, a young people’s theater in London, and did a technical training course in writing and sound at Tom Allen Center in Stratford, London. She also did a three-month stint in writing and sound for productions at Ovalhouse, a lively fringe theater and arts center on the Kennington Oval, opposite the famous cricket ground.
From October 1991 to June 1992, Ms. Aird participated in a theater writing course run by Bernard Kops, a British dramatist, poet, and novelist at City Lit, an adult education center in London. Along the way Ms. Aird somehow found time after finishing the theater writing course to obtain a certificate in teaching English as a foreign language.
In September 1999 she married Sean Carmichael, an Englishman, in Southampton. They lived in Springs, Sag Harbor, and, most recently, in Amagansett.
Ms. Aird taught theater at the Ross School and also taught English at the Springs School. She was a member of the Choral Society of the Hamptons for two years and volunteered at the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society Bargain Box.
Her father died before her. In addition to her mother, Margaret Aird of London, her sister, Margaret Anne Aird of London, and her brother, Gregor Aird of Oviedo, Spain, Ms. Aird is survived by her husband, Mr. Carmichael of Sag Harbor, and their three children, Sophie, 12, Finlay, 14, and Rosa, 16. She is also survived by two nephews and a niece.
“She was strong, courageous, and graceful in how she handled all of this,” said Janet Fensterer of Amagansett, who knew Ms. Aird from the performing arts department at the Ross School. “She had three young children, and she had to move a couple of times in recent years.”
A celebration of her life will be held at the Ross School Tennis Center in East Hampton on Sunday from 5 to 8 p.m.
Memorial contributions have been suggested to the Kanas Center for Hospice Care, 1 Meeting House Road, Quiogue 11978.
Melissa Morgan, who had sustained a broken hip and other injuries in a fall in 2013 and been in failing health since October, died last Thursday at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton. She was 94.
Ms. Morgan, who lived on Maidstone Lane in East Hampton, was an inveterate volunteer. A member of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church here and its Altar Guild, she received a Bishop’s Cross from the Long Island Episcopal Diocese for many years of attendance and distinguished service. She volunteered at Southampton Hospital, worked in the book section of the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society thrift shop, and was on the board of directors of the East Hampton Library for many years. She also was a longtime member of the East Hampton Historical Society.
She was born on Jan. 6, 1923, in New York City to Thomas Morgan and the former Catherine Gibson, who had moved to the city from Canada. She graduated from the Hewitt School for Girls there. Her mother died when she was 14 and, after graduation, she worked at a well-known New York department store.
Ms. Morgan and her father came to East Hampton in 1957 to visit his brother. They rented rooms from the East Hampton Strong family and Ms. Morgan became a part of their extended family for the rest of her life.
Until her father died, in 1984, she would drive him to Phoenix to spend two months in the winter. Barbara Strong Borsack said that even though Ms. Morgan was somewhat reserved, she had a good sense of humor and loved being around children.
Ms. Morgan was buried during a private service at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton on Saturday. The Very Rev. Denis Brunelle is to preside at a memorial service at 11 a.m. tomorrow at St. Luke’s Church. Donations in her name have been suggested to Southampton Hospital, 240 Meeting House Lane, Southampton 11968 and to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 18 James Lane, East Hampton 11937.
Donald M. Halsey, who had been the East Hampton Village clerk and treasurer from 1966 until his retirement in 1982, died on Jan. 30 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton. He was 93 and had been receiving treatment after a fall, his daughter, Karen Harden of Lubbock, Tex., said.
Mr. Halsey was remembered as a gentleman who was involved in many things. He was a lifelong member of the East Hampton Presbyterian Church, where he was a deacon and elder as well as treasurer. He was a member of the East Hampton Historical Society, reflecting an interest in the area’s past and his family lore. He was also a member of the American Legion.
“He served the village with due diligence and was the guiding force at that time with the board of trustees and the public,” East Hampton Village Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. said.
“I would refer to him as a Renaissance man. He guided the village into the threshold of the computer age,” Mr. Rickenbach, who had been a village police officer during Mr. Halsey’s tenure, said. “I have fond memories of Don. He was a very, very interesting man.”
Donald M. Halsey was born in East Hampton on Dec. 10, 1923, to Isaac Young Halsey and the former Ola Miller. He attended East Hampton schools, graduating from high school in 1941, and then the University of Pennsylvania. He ultimately received a business degree from the University of New Mexico, and following graduation worked for a time at his father’s garage, I.Y. Halsey, in East Hampton. He then worked in New York City before returning to East Hampton.
A Navy veteran, Mr. Halsey served stateside during World War II in an aviation unit. He was stationed at the Banana River naval air base in Florida in 1946, and was discharged in April that year.
According to a report from 1944 in The East Hampton Star, Mr. Halsey became a pilot and learned to fly planes with skis as landing gear in Vermont, and he took advanced flight courses in Chapel Hill, N.C.
He and Ellen Fithian, who had been a classmate since kindergarten, were married on Dec. 18, 1965. They lived for a brief period on Conklin Terrace in East Hampton, then had a house built on Cove Hollow Road, also in East Hampton. The couple then lived for many years on Fithian Lane in East Hampton Village.
Mr. Halsey kept a number of boats at the family’s Halsey Marina on Three Mile Harbor, including a tug that he had custom built in Connecticut. Other interests included antique automobiles; there was always one stored in the barn, Mrs. Halsey said, and their house was filled with car magazines reflecting his passion.
Mr. Rickenbach said that nearly every conversation he remembered having with Mr. Halsey included mention of youthful days spent hanging around the Halsey garage, watching the mechanics or listening to the stories of chauffeurs.
After retiring from the village clerk-treasurer post, he spent time traveling with his wife and spending time with his family.
“He knew everybody, knew the history, loved the village,” Mrs. Halsey said.
In addition to his wife and daughter, Mr. Halsey is survived by a son, F. Keith Reutershan of East Hampton, three grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.
A funeral for Mr. Halsey was held at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church on Friday, with the Rev. Scot McCachren officiating. Burial followed in Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton.
Memorial donations have been suggested to the East Hampton Presbyterian Church, 120 Main Street, East Hampton 11937.