Jane Graboski, a member of the Round Swamp Lester clan who was born at home on Three Mile Harbor Road in East Hampton on Oct. 3, 1927, died on Aug. 31 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton, where she had been a resident for three years. She was 88.

Her parents were Ezra Finckenauer and the former Sarah Lester. She grew up in the family’s house on Three Mile Harbor Road and attended East Hampton High School.

Mrs. Graboski was a member of the East Hampton Neighborhood House Service Club and St. Matthew’s Guild at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton.

After marrying, she lived in a separate house on the Three Mile Harbor Road property where she was born.

Her daughter Sue Van Dyke said that Mrs. Graboski, like many of the Lesters, had a strong will. “Anything that could be given to her, she would work through it and move on.”

Pleasures for her included cooking, even into her old age, portions big enough to feed her extended family. She loved to bake and prepared treats for a group of friends who visited most afternoons, earning them the nickname the tea ladies. She enjoyed music and dancing, Ms. Van Dyke said.

A brother, James Finckenauer, lives in Lakewood Ranch, Fla. Her sister, Anna Byrnes and a brother, Frank Finckenauer, died before her, as did her husband, Vincent Graboski, in 1970.

She was also survived by her children, Ms. Van Dyke, Paul Graboski, Joyce Salisbury, and Steve Graboski, all of East Hampton, and five grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and eight nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Graboski’s funeral was Saturday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton. Burial was at the Round Swamp Cemetery on Three Mile Harbor Road in East Hampton.

Memorial donations have been suggested to the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association, 1 Cedar Street, East Hampton 11937.

James Norman Flynn, whose experiences as a merchant seaman during World War II included being a prisoner of war for a short time and being presumed dead when he was found on the coast of Yugoslavia after his ship hit a mine, died on June 18 at his brother’s home in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 92 and had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Mr. Flynn lived in Sag Harbor for many years, where he owned Captain Biru’s Nautical Antiques for about 15 years in addition to a shop of that name in Manhattan.

Mr. Flynn was in the merchant marine from 1940 to 1955, leaving the service as a captain. He was on two ships that were torpedoed by U-boats in the North Atlantic, and was taken prisoner after one of the strikes. His family said he was released to a neutral country after two weeks. Later in the war, after his ship struck a mine, he was found caked with ice and thought to be dead. It was then learned that he had tuberculosis, and he spent 18 months recovering.

 Mr. Flynn lived in Panama for about five years after leaving the merchant marine. Returning to the United States, he opened antiques shops in Manhattan and Sag Harbor, where he was well known in the 1960s and ’70s.

He was born on Feb. 27, 1924, in Dublin, to James and Isabella Flynn and came to this country with his parents and an older brother at the age of 10. Sylvia Bell Pennebaker of Sag Harbor, who was his companion for many years, died in 1999. He often spent time with her daughter, Stacy, taking her out for tea and giving her presents, and later became fond of his companion’s granddaughter, Molly.

Mr. Flynn kept a 28-foot cabin cruiser in Sag Harbor waters, called Evita. He loved reading, particularly history and biography, and amassed a fine library, his family said.

He moved to Fort Myers two years ago and is survived by the brother with whom he lived, Patrick Flynn, as well as a nephew and three nieces. He was cremated and a full military service is to be held at Arlington National Cemetery at a time to be determined. Memorial donations have been suggested to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, Tenn. 38105.

Mary Bernadette Greene of Springs, who had worked at a variety of local jobs, from Sag Harbor to Montauk, died of esophageal cancer on Aug. 28 at East End Hospice’s Kanas Center in Quiogue. She was 72 and in remission from lung cancer, for which she had been treated in 2004. Esophageal cancer was diagnosed two years ago.

 Over the years, Ms. Greene worked at the Bulova Watchcase Factory in Sag Harbor, moving on to Sag Harbor Industries, and then to the Viking Fishing Fleet in Montauk, where she worked in its ticket booth on the dock. She also drove a school bus for John M. Marshall Elementary School students in East Hampton for a time.

She was born at Southampton Hospital on July 10, 1944, to Nicholas Santacroce and the former Anna Gardino, and grew up in Sag Harbor. She and Robert Greene Sr. were married on Sept. 7, 1963, and would have celebrated their 53rd anniversary about a week after her death. The couple moved into a house on Ocean View Avenue in East Hampton, where they reared two children, both of whom survive and make East Hampton their home: Robert Greene Jr. and Annette Greene. In addition to her children and husband, Ms. Greene is survived by three grandchildren.

“She loved the beaches, watching the water and the wildlife,” her son-in-law, Anthony Weiss, said yesterday. “It was her favorite place to go.” She loved the whole area, and never wanted to live anywhere else, her family said. She also was a superb cook and baker and enjoyed preparing decorative baked goods, they said.

A graveside service will be held at Green River Cemetery in Springs on Saturday at 10 a.m.

The family has suggested donations in her memory to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978-7048, or St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, Tenn. 38105.

Vonda Kay Miller, a member of the Amagansett Miller and Lester families, died at home on Oakview Highway in East Hampton of cancer on Aug. 29. She was 56.

Ms. Miller, born at Southampton Hospital on June 15, 1960, to William J. Lester and the former Lottie Adelaide Wood, was a 12th-generation resident of Amagansett, where her family’s house was on Cross Highway.

She married Lawrence W. Miller III on July 19, 1980. Mr. Miller, who was known to friends as Butch, died on March 11, 2011.

Ms. Miller spent much of her time at work, getting her start at Brent’s and Gray’s delis and continuing to run her own home management and caretaking service. In her spare time she enjoyed gardening in the fresh Bonac air, her family said, or down at the “crick” with her children and grandchildren, whom she loved to spoil.

Her “gentle smile, compassion, and love of life and family will never be forgotten,” they said. “As a family and community we will always cherish her warm heart, open arms, and much needed advice.”

Ms. Miller is survived by her four children, Derek J. Miller of Swansboro, N.C., Cregg A. Miller of Westhampton, and Alexandra R. Eddy and Joshua L.W. Miller of East Hampton, and four grandchildren. She considered her children her biggest accomplishments, her family said.

She also leaves three sisters, Dona Uhll of Conway, S.C., Edith Smith of Hubert, N.C., and Doreen Palmer of East Hampton. Her two brothers, Paul Lester and Calvin Lester, died before her.

Funeral services were held at the Amagansett Presbyterian Church on Friday, the Rev. Steven Howarth officiating. Burial followed at Green River Cemetery in Springs.

Martha M. Buffo, who founded the outreach program at Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Bridgehampton, died at her home in that hamlet on Friday, surrounded by family. She was 81 years old and had been diagnosed with lung cancer several months ago.

Mrs. Buffo was born in Brooklyn on Dec. 3, 1943, to Joseph Vaccarino and the former Francesca Ferrara, and grew up there, graduating from the former Brooklyn High School for Homemaking. She later earned an associate’s degree from the New York Institute of Technology and became a cosmetology teacher for the Suffolk Board of Cooperative Educational Services in Northport, where she taught hair styling for more than 18 years.

In September 1957, she married Gerard C. Buffo, whom she met in Brooklyn. The couple moved to East Northport to raise their four children, and to Bridgehampton in 1994 after the children were grown.

Mr. Buffo said his wife began the church’s outreach program two years later, visiting ill and housebound members of the congregation to bring them Communion, food, and companionship. Her family said she was “always an advocate for the poor and disenfranchised. She spent her life reaching out to those in need.” The world, they said, “is a better place as a result of her life.”

Mrs. Buffo, they added, was a wonderful cook and was devoted to her grandchildren, who range in age from 9 to 28.

In addition to her husband of nearly 60 years, she is survived by her children, Dr. Gerard Buffo of Lenox, Mass., Mary Buffo and Francesca Buffo of Bridgehampton, and Elizabeth Cassone of Sag Harbor. She also leaves a sister, Concetta Salzano of Far Rockaway, and eight grandchildren.

A funeral Mass was said at Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Church on Tuesday, officiated by Msgr. Ronald Richardson, a family friend and the pastor there for many years. Burial was at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church cemetery on Cedar Street in East Hampton. Memorial contributions have been suggested to East End Hospice, with more information online at eeh.org.

Henry E. Dankowski Jr., a farmer, builder, and longtime resident of Wainscott and East Hampton, died on Aug. 10 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton. He was 91 years old and had been in ill health for some time.

Mr. Dankowski was born in Wainscott on May 2, 1925, to Henry and Susan Dankowski, and grew up in East Hampton. He attempted to enlist in the military during World War II but was deferred because he was a farmer, an essential occupation in wartime.

Also a self-taught carpenter, he built many houses from Bridgehampton to East Hampton, including the farmhouse on Wainscott Hollow Road where his son’s family currently lives. Another of his houses was featured in the 1975 issue of Record Houses magazine.

He was a longtime member of the Bridgehampton Fire Department, which he joined in 1952, the same year of his marriage to the former Barbara C. Bahns.

Mr. Dankowski was an ardent baseball fan, having played in his youth with the White Eagles, a local team with many farmers on it. He played for a time alongside Carl Yastrzemski Sr. and his son, also Carl, who became an 18-time All-Star with the Boston Red Sox.

Mr. Dankowski loved hunting with his son and surfcasting on the beaches of Wainscott, his family said. He was a member of Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Bridgehampton, where a funeral Mass was said on Aug. 15.

His wife of almost 64 years survives, as do his children, Peter Dankowski of Wainscott and Paula Dankowski of New Paltz, N.Y. He also leaves a sister, Virginia Cardillo of Floral Park, and two grandchildren.

Burial was at the Wainscott Cemetery. The family has suggested memorial donations for the Bridgehampton Fire Department, P.O. Box 1280, Bridgehampton 11932.

Funeral services for Jane Graboski, an East Hampton resident who died yesterday at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton.

Mrs. Graboski, born at home in East Hampton on Oct. 3, 1927, was 88. A full obituary will appear in a future issue.

Services for Vonda Kay Miller, 56, who died at home in East Hampton on Monday, will be held tomorrow at noon at the Amagansett Presbyterian Church, and the family has invited all who wish to join them afterward to a celebration of her life, at a location to be announced. Burial will be at Green River Cemetery.

A full obituary will appear in a future issue.

Gary Dwayne Reiswig, the longtime owner and restorer of two of East Hampton’s historical inns, died in his New York City apartment on Aug. 20 with his family at his side. He was 76, and had been diagnosed with prostate cancer three and a half years ago.

Born in Booker, Tex., on Dec. 12, 1939, to John Fred Reiswig and the former Bella Gregory, he grew up on a farm in Beaver, Okla., on the Oklahoma panhandle.

“Grandmother helped my mother give birth,” Mr. Reiswig told an audience at the Parrish Art Museum in 2014, as part of a series the Parrish runs for authors and artists. The Dust Bowl years were ending as he was growing up, but life in Oklahoma, where the family farmed cattle and grain, was still not easy, he recalled. As a child, he would play in his own pretend farm, using old license plates as barns and shiny stones as cows and horses.

His mother, who had been taken out of school in the eighth grade, wanted more for her three children. “She took us to piano and voice lessons,” Mr. Reiswig, who was a strong baritone, told the Parrish audience. She also took them to the library.

Gary Reiswig was bright, and a good athlete, playing baseball and football. Colleges offered him athletic scholarships, but it was the church, central to the family’s farm life, that called to him. Members of his Christian faith saw his potential as a minister. Not only did the church offer a road out of the panhandle, “It chose him,” his wife, Rita Reiswig, said.

 He was ordained, and, with his first wife, Patsy McDaniel, moved farther east with every new assignment. They had three children before divorcing in 1970.

Mr. Reiswig’s last ministerial assignment took him to Pittsburgh, where, his wife said, he began losing faith in his calling. “Religion couldn’t really answer all the problems that people had in their lives,” she said. “They needed other types of help, other than God. He gradually left the church.” He returned to school, obtaining a Ph.D. in education from the University of Pittsburgh.

Using the same strengths that made him a good preacher, he turned next to community activism. The needs of the poor and working class for day care and housing became central to his life.

Pittsburgh, like other American cities in the ’70s, was crumbling. In its dilapidated old buildings, Mr. Reiswig saw not despair, but hope. He believed in reclaiming and restoring them, and went to work for the city’s Planning Department to make the dream a reality. “I rededicated myself to preservation, saving old houses instead of souls,” he told his Parrish audience.

On one community project, a parent education program, he met the former Rita Mallet. They worked on it together using their respective strengths, his in education and outreach, hers in psychotherapy, and married on July 20, 1973.

A few years later, the couple stayed at a country inn run by a husband and wife, and thought it seemed an attractive way of life. They took out a want ad in Historic Preservation, a national real estate publication, seeking an old inn in a seaside town on the East Coast to buy and run.

They received over 100 responses. The owners of three East Hampton hostelries — the Hedges Inn, the Huntting Inn, and the Maidstone Arms — were among them. The last had been closed for a few years.

“We actually looked at about eight or nine places, up and down the East Coast,” Ms. Reiswig said. “We rented an R.V. and took our then infant child with us.” They chose the Maidstone. With no experience running an inn, they had a steep learning curve, which they embraced.

Morris Weintraub came on board as chef, leaving the Maidstone Club, and ran the restaurant for 12 years while the Reiswigs ran the inn and the bar. Mr. Reiswig’s passion for restoration was a major factor in the Maidstone’s renaissance; he later became a member of the East Hampton Village Design Review Board.

He had had two siblings, David Reiswig and Jane Reiswig De Burgh, both of whom he lost to early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, which had claimed his father as well. His father’s family, it seems, had a genetic disposition to the disease. “Of my father’s generation, 10 of 14 siblings died in their 50s, including my dad,” he said at the Parrish. His wife said he thought that, should Alzheimer’s strike him as well, he could at least do things around the property, such as rake the leaves and tend to the grounds.

In 1986, according to a 2012 article by Gina Kolata in The New York Times, he received a call from an aunt, Ester May, who had lost her husband, his uncle, to the disease. She was participating in an Alzheimer’s study, she told him, and blood donations were needed from members of large families that were known carriers. Mr. Reiswig agreed to donate blood.

Nine years later, scientists isolated the gene that leads to early Alzheimer’s. It turned out that its passing from one generation to another was a hit-or-miss proposition. Gary Reiswig was not a carrier, meaning that his children were not either.

After that, he dedicated much of his time to the fight against the disease, working with the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network and writing a book, “The Thousand Mile Stare.”

The Reiswigs sold the Maidstone in 1992. Four years later they embarked on another project, the J. Harper Poor Cottage, nearby on East Hampton’s Main Street. They restored that inn, now known as the Baker House 1650, with the same enthusiasm they had put into the Maidstone. They sold it in 2004.

During those years Mr. Reiswig’s writing career took off. His novel “Water Boy,” published in 1994 by Simon and Schuster, was semiautobiographical, set in the panhandle. Reviewing it in this newspaper, James McCourt called the book a “powerful and dramatic first novel, notable for long stretches of really solid evocation, dramatization, and even reach.”

Mr. Reiswig also wrote screenplays, began reviewing books for The Star, and recently published a collection of short stories, “Land Rush: Stories From the Great Plains.” He was working on a revision of “The Thousand Mile Stare” at his death, and on another piece of non-fiction, a look at the changes in East Hampton since he had arrived. Rita Reiswig said both manuscripts will be completed posthumously.

Four children survive in addition to his wife. They are Gregg and Jeff Reiswig and Lora Reiswig Brown, by his first wife, and Jesse Reiswig. He also leaves two grandsons and two great-grandsons.

The family has suggested donations in Mr. Reiswig’s memory to the DIAN Project, c/o Dr. Randall Bateman, Campus Box 1082, Washington University, 7425 Forsyth Boulevard, St. Louis, Mo. 63105.

Whether it was driving the Montauk ambulance, opening clams at a Montauk party, hauling ice and water for the triathlons, or helping a friend move, Craig S. Tuthill was willing to lend a hand.

A well-known, well-liked Montauker who was involved in almost every facet of that community, Mr. Tuthill died on Aug. 19 at North Shore University Hospital in Manhassett surrounded by his daughters and granddaughter. He was 80 years old and had been fighting heart disease for the last several years.

A 63-year member of the Montauk Fire Department, Mr. Tuthill was devoted to the fire service and remained active even in his later years. He fought some of Montauk’s biggest fires, like the one that destroyed a building known as the Fishangrila on Fort Pond Bay that had been deserted by the Navy. “It was the biggest fire of my life and was on one of the coldest nights. We fought it the whole night and most of the day,” he told The Star in an interview in 2010.

He joined the department in 1954, reaching the rank of chief in 1979. He assisted in nearly every aspect of the fire service, including the emergency medical service. When the ambulance squad was started in the 1950s, there was no such thing as an emergency medical technician, but Mr. Tuthill received first aid training and continued to serve as a driver for many years. He was said to have received many honors for his continued service to the department. When the Montauk Fire Department celebrated its 75th anniversary with a parade in 2014, Mr. Tuthill served as its grand marshal.

Mr. Tuthill was born at Southampton Hospital on Jan. 20, 1936, to Ellis Tuthill and the former Frances Scott. His parents owned the Montauk Lumber Yard, as well as Tuthill’s Home Modernizing Center, where he worked while growing up. He graduated from the Montauk School and from East Hampton High School. He then attended Paul Smith College in upstate New York, where he studied forestry.

He held several jobs throughout his life. He was a projectionist at the Montauk Movie Theater in the 1950s and ’60s and a ranch hand for Deep Hollow Ranch in Montauk. As a construction worker, he helped build most of the Panoramic Motel between 1972 and 1986. Later, he was a maintenance man there. He also worked as a corrections officer in the Suffolk County jail, a position then known as a jail guard, but left, he said, because the pay was so low. He was the custodian for the fire district for 23 years, and also owned Tuthill Home Security.

He married Joyce L. Michalek, and the couple raised six children on Elwell Road in Montauk. When the marriage ended in divorce, he eventually moved back to his family home on South Fairview Avenue in Montauk, which his parents had purchased in 1957.

His family said he loved to cook for them on special occasions, making his famous meatloaf, scrambled eggs and chipped beef, and waffles. He often uttered the phrase “Don’t worry about it” or greeted people with a “Hey, babe.”

A dedicated freshwater fisherman, he enjoyed taking his boat out on Fort Pond and Hidden Lake and also enjoyed fishing in Florida. He told The Star he never kept his catch. “I just never really enjoyed freshwater fish,” he said.

Interested in local history, he was involved in the Montauk Historical Society, of which his father had been a founding member. He helped organize the 50th-anniversary party for the survivors of the 1938 Hurricane at the Montauk Manor in 1988, his family said. He was also a member of the Montauk Community Church.

He celebrated his 80th birthday with a party attended by close friends, but there were many other momentous occasions, like his 50th reunion with the East Hampton High School class of 1955. In 2010, the Montauk Friends of Erin selected him to be the grand marshal of the 48th annual St. Patrick’s Day parade and he told The Star at the time that he had marched in it every year since the Montauk Friends of Erin began hosting it. 

Mr. Tuthill’s parents died before him, as did his brother, Bradley Tuthill, his sister, Peggy Barry, and his son Douglas Tuthill.

He is survived by his daughters Lorraine D. Shott and Carolyn A. Cox and son Edward S. Tuthill, all of Citrus Springs, Fla., his daughter Jacquelin T. Tuthill of Clearwater, Fla., and by his son Stephen C. Tuthill of East Hampton. He loved to spend time with his nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren, who also survive.

Mr. Tuthill was cremated. A memorial service is scheduled for Oct. 22 from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Montauk Firehouse.

Memorial donations can be made to the Montauk Fire Department, 12 Flamingo Avenue, Montauk 11954, or the Montauk Historical Society, P.O. Box 868, Montauk.

“Craig loved helping others and never looked for anything in return,” his family wrote. “Let’s keep his memory alive by paying it forward, by performing random acts of kindness or lending a helping hand when needed.”