Cathy Anne Tobin, who lived on Navy Road in Montauk for the past eight years, died of complications of diabetes on Feb. 1 at Southampton Hospital. She was 12 days shy of her 48th birthday.

Ms. Tobin moved from Brooklyn to Montauk in February 2009 to live with her partner, Thomas Ferreira. She was known as Freckles to most. “Nobody knew her first name,” Mr. Ferreira said yesterday. “She was a lady with typical Irish red hair and freckles.”

She enjoyed many sunsets on the deck overlooking Navy Beach with her cats, which she fondly called “her children,” by her feet, before her illness worsened and she went into a long-term care facility in September. “Being strong-willed and Irish, she fought hard,” Mr. Ferreira said.

A Type 1 diabetic, she was diagnosed in her early 20s and underwent dialysis over the last three to four years, he said. Her illness made her unable to work in recent years, though some may remember her as a manager for Lindy’s Taxi in Montauk not long ago. She was also a breast cancer survivor.

She was born on Feb. 13, 1969, in Cashel, County Tipperary, in Ireland. Daniel and Margaret Tobin adopted her when she was 1 and brought her to Brooklyn. She attended public schools and graduated from Stella Maris High School in Rockaway Park, Queens, before going on to New York University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration. She became a notary public, as well.

In addition to Mr. Ferreira, Ms. Tobin is survived by a sister, Keri Tobin Gallagher of Glen Cove, and four nieces and nephews. Her parents and a brother, Barry Tobin, died before her.

Ms. Tobin was cremated. A Mass will be said on Saturday at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Glen Cove.

Mr. Ferreira suggested donations in her memory to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, 26 Broadway, 14th Floor, New York City 10004, or the National Breast Cancer Foundation, 2600 Network Boulevard, Suite 300, Frisco, Tex. 75034.

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.

Kathleen Hutton, a runway model in London in the 1950s who later worked as a professional chef and property manager and also had a knitting store in Bridgehampton, died at home in East Hampton on Feb. 1 of lymphoma. She wss 80 years old and had been ill for three years.  

Known as Kay, she was “a beautiful and strong woman who overcame many odds and never gave up,” her family wrote. “Sophisticated and intelligent, she had a great eye for aesthetics and style.” A loving mother, she was reserved in many ways, but had a “very British sense of humor,” they said.

Ms. Hutton was born in Aldershot, England, on July 2, 1936, to Col. Frederick Hutton M.B.E. and the former Ethel Linford. Her father’s military service took the family to Palestine when she was a young child, but upon the start of World War II, she and her mother and brother were evacuated by boat and train to South Africa. She often told stories of the trip and of being on the deck of the ship watching neighboring ships get bombed by the Germans, her family recalled.

 In South Africa, the family lived in Durban, where she began school. They were reunited with her father after the war and repatriated to England, where she continued her studies at country schools, before moving to London to begin a modeling career at the age of 18. She worked for such top designers as Hardie Amies and Christian Dior, modeling throughout Europe and once for the queen of England.

In 1967, Ms. Hutton was hired to take part in a Best of Britain Trade Show and sailed to the United States on the Queen Mary. During her first summer here, friends took her to Fire Island, where she met her future husband, Steve Friedman.

They were married in 1968 and had two children, Daesha and Simon. In 1978, the family moved to Paris for Mr. Friedman’s work. While there, she took the Grande Diplome at the Cordon Bleu, studied at Ecole Lenotre, and worked in a small restaurant bakery.

When she returned to America three years later, she worked for a year with the chef Antoine Bouterin at Le Peri­gord in Manhattan.

Pursuing another interest, she went on to design knitting patterns for home knitting magazines.

She was divorced in 1984 and moved to East Hampton with her children, purchasing a house on Dayton Lane. Once settled in, they acquired a West Highland terrier puppy that she named Milou. “The little dog was a terror to anyone that rang the doorbell, but could do no wrong in Kay’s eyes,” her children wrote. Milou remained her beloved companion for years after her children left home. In 1995, she bought a house on Sammy’s Beach Road, where she lived for the rest of her life.

Her careers “never ceased to evolve,” her children wrote. She opened a knitting store in Bridgehampton, was a partner in other retail businesses, and worked as a professional chef, property manager, and for East Hampton Town’s Building and Information Technology Departments.

As a member of the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society, Ms. Hutton took pride in coordinating the children’s toy department at the organization’s Bargain Box thrift store and sorting through the mountains of toy donations received each year.

She is survived by her children, Daesha Friedman of Santiago, Chile, and Simon Friedman of Twisp, Wash., and by two grandchildren and her former husband, who lives in New York. 

A memorial service will be held in late March or early April, when her children will be able to return to East Hampton.

Joseph D. Policano of East Hampton, a retired public relations executive, was well known to regular readers of The East Hampton Star for his near-weekly letters to the editor over many years. He wrote about the generosity of people in a small town, politics, current affairs, and local issues, often engaging in a lively back-and-forth with a fellow letter writer or critiquing the paper’s editorials and reviews.

One such letter, disagreeing with a restaurant review by Laura Donnelly, led to an ongoing correspondence and eventually landed him a seat at the table with her during a review last March. “The idea was approved years ago but temporarily forgotten,” she wrote. “I would get the occasional email from him reminding me that I had made this offer, letting me know his food preferences, when and if he would be in town, and what he thought of such-and-such restaurant that he and his wife had just had the displeasure of dining at. Pierre’s. Lunch. Too expensive.”

They met at Manna in Water Mill.

“They loved Della Femina’s (‘but not his politics!’). They adored Gordon’s in Amagansett, and miss the ambiance of John Duck’s in Southampton. Cafe Max is nice, La Parmigiana in Southampton is considered a good value, and Tweeds in Riverhead is a favorite,” Ms. Donnelly recounted.

Mr. Policano died of complications of lung and kidney disease at Southampton Hospital on Friday. He was 83.

Born in Brooklyn on Dec. 15, 1933, to Angelo Policano and the former Marie Galardi, he grew up in Brooklyn, graduating from Boys High School and Brooklyn College. It was at college that he met and fell in love with Kathleen Larregui. After serving in the Army from 1954 to 1956, he married her on June 22, 1957. At the time, his family wrote, “their interracial marriage was illegal in 17 states.”

They raised two sons and a daughter in Brooklyn and Queens.

Mr. Policano ran his New York City firm, Joseph Policano Inc. Public Relations, for three decades. He began his career promoting tourism to Eastern Europe in the 1960s, and in the 1970s and ’80s represented some of the country’s largest pharmaceutical firms, including Sterling Drug and Bristol-Myers. He was also active in Democratic political organizations in southeast Queens.

After his retirement in 1988 at the age of 55, he joined the Peace Corps and served for a year in Bamako, Mali. His children were grown. His wife stayed behind, but met up with him at the end of the year to travel around Europe before he returned to the United States.

The couple had purchased a house in East Hampton’s Northwest Woods in 1978, and after his stint in the Peace Corps they left Laurelton, Queens, to live there full time.

“His passion, intellect, and sharp sense of humor were on regular display in the letters pages of The East Hampton Star, Newsday, and The New York Times, where he weighed in on topics as diverse as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Obamacare, and the closing of Cafe Max in East Hampton,” his family wrote.

He is survived by his wife and three children, Christopher Policano of Manhattan, Matthew Policano of Dallas, and Lisa Policano Pearson of Mamaroneck, and by five grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

A brother, Patrick Policano, and two sisters, Madeline Kramer and Joan Palisi, died before him.

A wake will be held on Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, with Mass to be said on Monday at 11 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton. Burial will follow at the church cemetery on Cedar Street.

Contributions in his memory have been suggested to the East Hampton Food Pantry, P.O. Box 505, East Hampton 11937, or East Hampton Meals on Wheels, 33 Newtown Lane, #205, East Hampton.

James C. Welsch Jr. of East Hampton and Huntington died at Huntington Hospital on Jan. 20 after a brief illness. He was 81.

Mr. Welsch was the president of Welsch Aviation, a Huntington private and corporate aircraft brokerage that his father founded in 1949. He led the company into the jet age and expanded it to include offices across the country. According to his family, it is the oldest active aircraft sales and acquisition organization in the world.

Mr. Welsch was born in Cincinnati on Oct. 12, 1935, to James Welsch Sr. and the former Effie Mae Bowser. His father was a pioneer of aviation, and the younger Mr. Welsch was just 3 months old when his parents took him for his maiden flight in an open-cockpit biplane. They moved to Great Neck when he was a child and he graduated from high school there before entering Hofstra University.

In 1958, after graduating from Hof­stra, he was married to Gail A. Samuelson. He enlisted in the Army soon after their marriage, serving two years on active duty and two more with the Army Reserve, joining Welsch Aviation upon his discharge from active service. He and his wife lived first in Dix Hills and later settled in Huntington.

In 1976, they bought a house in Northwest Woods, not far from Sammy’s Beach, where they spent as much time as possible. The family enjoyed relaxing with good friends, hosting annual summer gatherings, and being near the water.

Mr. Welsch was passionate about work, the family wrote, and was often on the phone or drafting notes on business deals, but at the end of the day he liked to sit down for a “good drink on the deck, a few laughs, and a meal with the people he cared for dearly.”

In addition to his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Kristin Welsch of Amagansett and Leslie Welsch of Huntington, and by two grandchildren. The family has suggested memorial donations to Little Shelter Animal Rescue, P.O. Box 1805, Huntington 11743, or to the American Heart Association.

Michael C. Hennessy, 80, a resident of North Haven from 1974 to 1988 who had since moved to Dingle in Ireland’s County Kerry, died at home there on Sunday after a two-year illness.

Mr. Hennessy is survived by his wife, Julie Hennessy of Dingle, their five children, Mary Beth Hennessy of Rockaway Beach, Michael Hennessy of Bath, England, Frank Hennessy of Glarus, Switzerland, Matthew Hennessy of Jackson Heights, Queens, and Juliana Driscoll of Barcelona, Spain, and by nine grandchildren.

Susanna Irma Jacob, a tailor, ceramic artist, friend to animals, and involved parishioner at St. Therese de Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk, died at Southampton Hospital on Sunday of pneumonia. She was 82 and had been hospitalized on and off since a traumatic fall in September.

Ms. Jacob, who was known as Irma, used her knowledge of nature to aid injured animals, rescuing wildlife such as a lame fawn or lost swan, and caring for birds and cats until they could be freed or adopted.

In the 1980s, Ms. Jacob taught ceramics in her home studio, providing a guiding creative hand to students and firing their artwork in her kiln.

From the 1960s through the ’80s, she also put her artistry to work at St. Therese, where she created decorations for the church and costumes for pageants and plays. She also repaired upholstery at convents to make a nicer residence for the nuns.

Ms. Jacob was formally trained as a professional fashion designer and tailor, creating original clothing for special events, including wedding gowns and communion finery. Later, her daughters were lucky enough to grow up in lovely outfits made to order at home.

A daughter of Matthias and Helena Blum, she was born on Feb. 25, 1934, in Rittersdorf, Germany, a centuries-old village surrounded by a stone wall, where the church was the center of the community. In the 1950s she fell in love with an American airman, Kenneth F. Jacob. They eloped and traveled to and around the United States, eventually settling in Montauk at Camp Hero, and then in Hither Woods.

Mr. Jacob survives, as do the couple’s two daughters, PJ Delia and Maureen Jacob, both of Montauk. A grandson also survives.

A wake will be held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton from 3 to 6 this afternoon. A service will be held at St. Therese tomorrow morning at 10:30, with burial to follow at the Fort Hill Cemetery in Montauk.

John Easevoli of Key Largo, Fla., and Amagansett died on Jan. 24 at Southampton Hospital of complications of a heart attack he had had several months earlier. He was 76.

“He was a carpenter by trade,” his family said, “but building and loving his family was his proudest achievement.”

Mr. Easevoli was born on July 17, 1940, in Brooklyn, one of the five children of Vincent Easevoli and the former Elvira Bassolino, and grew up there.

While living in Brooklyn he met the former Paula Kalbacher, and on Sept. 21, 1961, they married. A few years later they moved to the East End, where she had a large extended family. They settled in Amagansett, where he worked as a self-employed carpenter.

After he retired, Mr. Easevoli and his wife, who survives him, moved to Key Largo, where they spent winters, returning north to Amagansett each summer.

In addition to his wife, Mr. Easevoli is survived by a son, Vincent Easevoli of Key Largo, and a daughter, Linda Jacobs of Plantation Key, Fla. He is also survived by three sisters, Marie Anderson and Millie Rentos of Florida and Ann Shaw of New Hampshire, and by a brother, Mario Easevoli of Florida. He leaves five grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, and many nieces, nephews, great-nieces, and great-nephews.

Mr. Easevoli was cremated. There will be a service in Key Largo, but arrangements had not yet been made. Donations in his name have been suggested to the Amagansett Ambulance Company, P.O. Box 911, Amagansett 11930-0911.