Harold Josephs was known as an artist not just in East Hampton, where he was a part-time resident since 1960, but also in New York City, where he had an award-winning career as an art director and commercial artist for four decades, and in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he spent many winters. Mr. Josephs, who was called Hal, died at home in New York City on April 22. He was 91 and had pneumonia.

Born on Sept. 16, 1924, in the Bronx, Mr. Josephs w-as the only son of Joseph Josephowitz and the former Sadie Weinberg, who had immigrated to the United States from Russia around the turn of the century. He grew up in the same Bronx apartment building where his future wife, Florence Brown, also lived.

His artistic abilities were discovered by an art teacher while he was a student at Evander Childs High School in the Bronx. At the encouragement of that teacher, he applied and was accepted to Cooper Union as an architecture major. World War II would interrupt his studies, however, and he was drafted into the Army when he was 19. He was stationed in the U.S., France, England, and Germany as a medic and as a military police officer guarding German prisoners of war.

Even in a time of war, there was art in his life. As a P.O.W. guard, Mr. Josephs befriended an older prisoner who was an accomplished artist from Berlin, for whom Mr. Josephs would smuggle extra paper and pens into the camp. His prisoner friend eventually gave him a painting he made in the camp, one that his family treasures today. Mr. Josephs was honorably discharged from the Army in 1946 with four medals.

He returned to New York, graduated from Cooper Union, and launched a successful career in commercial art and advertising. He received several Clio awards and two gold medals from the Art Directors Club. He retired in the mid-1980s, after which he taught advertising design for a few years at the Parsons School of Design. He enjoyed working in watercolors and pastels and was known to always have a sketch pad nearby.

In 1952, Mr. Josephs and Ms. Brown were married, and they had two children. They began renting a two-room cottage in East Hampton in 1960, and in 1965 they bought their house in East Hampton on a dirt road off Accabonac Road. They enjoyed cultivating their property into lush gardens and were longtime members of the Horticultural Society of the Hamptons. They spent several years in East Hampton as full-time residents.

Mr. and Mrs. Josephs eventually began traveling the world and spent at least 10 winters in San Miguel de Allende. Influenced by the rich Latin color palette he observed there, Mr. Josephs produced a prolific body of work in pastels and exhibited in many galleries there. In East Hampton, Mr. Josephs was an active participant in Guild Hall’s Clothesline Art Sale and the Artists Alliance of the Hamptons, and briefly taught art at the East Hampton Middle School. He could often be found plein air painting at Louse Point in Springs with his stool and easel, wearing a big straw Mexican hat.

Mr. Josephs leaves his wife of 63 years, Florence. He also leaves a daughter, Beth Josephs of North Haven, a son, Daniel Josephs of New York City and East Hampton, four grandchildren, and a sister, Gertrude Rosenbluth of New Jersey. A private family gathering will be planned to celebrate his life.

Louisa Chase, a painter who rose to prominence in the 1980s as part of the Neo-Expressionist movement, died on Sunday at her house in East Hampton. A full obituary will appear next week. 

Julian Calvert Eisenstein, a professor of physics, died at home in Washington, D.C., on April 27 at the age of 95. His family said he had been ill for about 10 days with a duodenal ulcer.

Dr. Eisenstein and his wife, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, who died on Jan. 31, had a house on Georgica Road in East Hampton since the 1950s. In their younger years, they were friends with many artists in the East End community, collecting Abstract Expressionist work and supporting the arts through Guild Hall.

He was born on April 3, 1921, in Warrenton, Mo., to Otto Eisenstein, a pharmacist, businessman, and banker, and the former Nell Calvert. He grew up in Warrenton, a small town about 60 miles west of St. Louis.

As a high school student, he happened to see a poster about a written scholarship examination offered by Harvard and decided to participate. He won a scholarship and began college at the age of 16. Mr. Eisenstein graduated Phi  Beta Kappa in 1941, and stayed on in Cambridge, Mass., for another seven years to conduct war-related research in acoustics and then earn a Ph.D. in physics in 1948. While at Harvard, he was awarded a Sheldon Travelling Fellowship and a fellowship in physics. He also met a fellow Harvard graduate student, Elizabeth Lewisohn, who became a noted historian. They were married on May 30, 1948.

After earning his doctorate, he became an instructor at the University of Wisconsin. The couple lived in Madison until 1952. A position as a national research fellow at the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford University took Mr. Eisenstein and his wife to England for a year.

In 1953, he moved on to Pennsylvania State University, where he worked as an assistant and associate professor. He became a physicist with the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., in 1958. When the bureau moved to Gaithersburg, Md., in 1966, he took a position as a professor of physics at George Washington University. He was chairman of the physics department from 1969 to 1974.

In addition to his teaching and administrative duties, he published or co-authored more than 40 scientific papers on acoustics, low-temperature physics, superconductivity, and the Mossbauer effect. He retired in 1986.

Starting in 1955, he began to spend his summers in East Hampton with his family. He met local artists and developed a lifelong love for modern art, frequently attending art openings at Guild Hall in East Hampton and Ashawagh Hall in Springs.

He became a founding member of the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, and served on its board of trustees from 1961 to 1966. Before it closed in 1968, the gallery brought many innovative exhibitions to Washington, including one on Van Gogh and a landmark exhibition by members of what became known as the Washington Color School.

While he started out as an art appreciator and collector, he ended up trying his hand at painting. He took life drawing and painting classes, some at the Art Barge in Amagansett.

He wrote his memoirs in several unpublished volumes. Regarding his love of the visual arts, his daughter, Margaret Eisenstein DeLacy remembered him writing this: “I started by looking and I learned to see.”

He had a wonderful sense of humor, loved wordplay, puns, and anagrams, and was known to tackle the London Times crossword puzzle, his daughter said.

He also enjoyed playing tennis with a group of friends and with his wife, who became a nationally ranked senior women’s tennis player and champion.

He was a family man and his later years were clouded by the sudden death of his son John Calvert Eisenstein from a cerebral hemorrhage in 1974.

Dr. Eisenstein is survived by two of his children, Margaret Eisenstein DeLacy of Portland, Ore., and a son, Edward Lewisohn Eisenstein of Fayette, Mo. Another son died at birth in 1949. Three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive.

A service will be held at the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 27 from 4 to 7 p.m.

Donations have been suggested to the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the John Eisenstein Scholarship Fund, or the Harvard College Fund, at Massachusetts Hall, Cambridge, Mass. 02138.

Rossetti Perchik of Springs, an architect and founder of the Clamshell Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports community causes and sponsors the Great Bonac Fireworks and an annual sandcastle contest, died on Saturday. He was 65. A memorial will take place at a future date, and a full obituary will appear in a future issue.

John R. Beedenbender, a trap-shooter, custom stock designer for shotguns, and longtime member of the Maidstone Gun Club, died last Thursday at the North Broward Medical Center in Pompano Beach, Fla. He was 73 and had had throat cancer.

Born in Manhattan on Dec. 2, 1943 to James J. Beedenbender and the former Elizabeth Mrofchak, he moved to Huntington with his family at the age of 10 and graduated from Huntington High School.

He enlisted in the Navy as a Seabee in 1962 and served through 1966, including two years’ service in Greece and another two in Spain. Soon after his return he met the former JoEllen Whiteley, who was working for his mother at a cosmetics firm in Commack. They were married on Oct. 1, 1966.

“My father worked in East Hampton in the late ’70s for Richard Novack Construction,” and later for Ronald Webb Builder, said his daughter Janice D’Angelo. A master carpenter and woodworker, “he did all the stuff nobody else could figure out,” she said.

Mr. Beedenbender travelled up and down the East Coast as a member of the American Trap Association, competing for trophies, and brought many home. He favored a 12-gauge shotgun. He was also an amateur armorer, customizing guns in a shop he had at home.

The family built a house on Montauk Avenue in Northwest Woods in the mid-’80s and lived there for a time before moving to Margate, Fla. When they came back to the South Fork it was to Sag Harbor, where they rented for a time, Ms. D’Angelo said, but wound up on Floyd Street in East Hampton, eventually making a final move back to Margate.

They had three other children in addition to Ms. D’Angelo, who lives in Sag Harbor. They are John R. Beedenbender Jr. of St. Petersburg, Fla., Joyce Beedenbender of Margate, and James Beedenbender, also of Sag Harbor.

He wife survives, as does a brother, James Beedenbender of Patchogue, and four grandchildren. He died just short of what would have been his 50th wedding anniversary, and Ms. D’Angelo said that the children had planned to send their parents on a celebration trip.

Graveside services will be held at the South Florida National Cemetery on June 14.

Funeral services for Eugene A. Damon, who lived for many years on Egypt Lane in East Hampton and who died on Nov. 11 in Jacksonville, Fla., at 86, will be held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton at 1 p.m. on May 21.

Mr. Damon is survived by his spouse, R. Shane Riley of Jacksonville and Boothbay Harbor, Me., whom he married in 2014.

Florence A. Germano, a decades-long East Hampton resident, died at home of kidney disease on April 16. She was 92. 

The eldest of five children, Mrs. Germano was born Faustina Ann Mongelli on Feb. 17, 1924, in Manhattan to the former Marie Nicoletta and Joseph Mongelli. Mrs. Germano, who preferred the nickname Florrie, graduated from Flushing High School in Queens.

On April 1, 1945, she married Erasmo Germano, who was a captain in the New York City Police Department. The couple raised three sons in Flushing. According to one of them, George Germano, during the early years of their marriage his mother worked at what was then the Biltmore Hotel in Manhattan, assisting the general manager. Starting in 1962, the family began spending summers here, and permanently relocated to their house on Stephen Hand’s Path following Mr. Germano’s retirement in 1990. He died in 2011.

Once on the South Fork, Mrs. Germano, a quilter, became a member of the Harbor Quilters Group and enjoyed working with others on joint quilts for local fund-raising projects. Her son said she was a gourmet cook who loved to entertain and also loved to garden, tending flowers and herbs.

Mrs. Germano is survived by her sons: Peter Germano of East Hampton, George Germano of Garden City, and Robert Germano of Syosset. A brother, Robert Mongelli of Flushing, also survives, as do seven grandchildren, one great-grandchild, and many nieces and nephews.

Visiting hours will be tomorrow from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A funeral Mass will be said on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton. Burial will follow at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery on Cedar Street.

Word has been received of the death of Bailey Smith, formerly of East Hampton, on April 6 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., of cancer. He was 84.

Mr. Smith was born in Glendale, Queens, on March 15, 1932, to Richard Wallace Smith Sr. and the former Anna Bailey. He attended the Buckley Country Day School, the Green Vale School, and the Hotchkiss School, where he graduated in 1950. A proud member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity, he graduated from Cornell University in 1954.

Soon after, he enlisted in the Navy. He was stationed for a time in San Salvador, Bahamas, and often returned to the Bahamas afterward, maintaining relationships throughout his life with many Bajans he had met. After his military service, he worked in finance in New York City at the firms of Hoppin Watson and Wertheim Schroder.

In 1961, he married Elinor Ruth Hageman, and they divided their time, with their three children, between Manhattan and East Hampton. His children said their father instilled in them a love of tennis, the sea, the outdoors, and the New York Rangers.

In 1983, he married Rosemary Herrick Jackson. They lived aboard their schooner, a 49-foot Grand Banks named Quickstep, traveling together through the United States and the Bahamas.

In 1997, he married Carol Lorraine Minns. They had a house in Great Exuma, Bahamas, called Madeira, and traveled extensively throughout Central and South America, Newfoundland, and Labrador. The family said that in addition to fishing, boating, and bird-watching, he developed a talent and love for woodcarving during this time.

Carol Lorraine Minns Smith of Great Exuma survives, as do his three children by his first wife, J. Bailey Smith of Wynd­moor, Pa., Anne (Bee) Townley Smith of Wilmington, N.C., and Scott Wallace Smith of Fair Haven, N.J. He also leaves a brother, Richard Wallace Smith of East Hampton, and six grandchildren.

A service will be held on May 7 at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in George Town, Great Exuma. Burial will be at Cedar Grove Cemetery in Patchogue.

Donations have been suggested to the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, N.Y., 14850-1999, or the Exuma Foundation, P.O. Box Ex 29111, George Town, Exuma, Bahamas.

Sandra Roman was well known as a fish vendor, not just locally but also at Manhattan’s greenmarket in the Meatpacking District, and other markets, over the course of a career that spanned more than 20 years. Ms. Roman, a longtime Montauk resident who lived most recently with a daughter in Medford, died there on April 17 after an illness that began four years ago with complications from surgery. She was 77.

Born on Jan. 31, 1939, in Canton, Ohio, Ms. Roman was the second oldest of nine children of Kenneth Recktenwalt and the former Leona Evans. She grew up in Canton and graduated from William McKinley High School in 1957.

Two years later, she married Donald Roman. They had six children before divorcing in 1974. Ms. Roman relocated first to Florida and then, in 1976, to Montauk, where she plunged right into the hamlet’s seafood industry. She cultivated business relationships with captains of commercial fishing boats, and would buy, cut, and package fish the night before the markets opened, then drive to the city at dawn to begin selling at 7 a.m.

In the early ’80s, her family said, she began bringing her fish to the greenmarket at Gansevoort Street, selling striped bass, tuna, cod, whiting, monk, and more from open-air tables. She later expanded her business to the markets at St. Mark’s Place and Union Square. In the late ’80s, a newspaper published a profile of Ms. Roman, calling her the “Union Square Fish Lady of Montauk.” 

As the seafood industry changed and local sellers were replaced by large enterprises, Ms. Roman began working at the Multi Aquaculture Systems fish farm in Amagansett. She never fully recovered from surgery for a knee replacement in 2012. 

She leaves four daughters, Kathleen Roman of Medford, Dawn Roman of Montauk, Renee Rose of Alliance, Ohio, and Lynn Jackson of Nebo, N.C., and two sons, John Roman of Wellington, Fla., and Donald Roman of New Middletown, Ohio. She is also survived by five sisters, Linda Bartram of Ohio, Cathy Werle of Connecticut, MaryJo Recktenwalt of Arizona, Gretchen Thomazin of Ohio, and Sharron Recktenwalt Harper of Ohio, and one brother, Michael Recktenwalt of Ohio. Twelve grandchildren survive as well.

Ms. Roman’s life will be celebrated in private ceremonies in Montauk and Ohio

Frank Albert Hanna II, who started the Frank Hanna Cleaning Company in East Hampton as a resident here during the 1960s, died at his home in the Bahamas on April 14 of complications from pneumonia and cancer. He was 79 years old.

Mr. Hanna became an influential figure in the Bahamas, where ZNS News, a television news station, produced a tribute that called him “a national icon.”

He was born on March 5, 1937, to Frank Hanna I and the former Adrianna Bowleg in Nicholls Town, Andros. As a young man he was a garden helper on the estate of Sir Francis Francis, the wealthy owner of the island of Cat Cay, and worked his way up to become the butler of the Francis estate.

In 1955, having saved up his money, Mr. Hanna began traveling. His journey took him to East Hampton, where he found work as a butler and met his future wife, Rosa Nicholson. They were married in 1957 and had one son, Frank Albert Hanna III of East Hampton, who died last month. The two separated and were eventually divorced in 1985.

In 1961, seeing a need in East Hampton for a business that could handle all types of household cleaning jobs, Mr. Hanna started the business that would become known as Frank Hanna’s International Cleaning Company. He also worked in catering and bartending here, however his cleaning business grew quickly. He expanded in 1962 to West Palm Beach, Fla., and in 1966, he returned to the Bahamas to establish a third branch of his business there.

Mr. Hanna met Ulla Dedert of Germany in the early 1970s. They had two daughters over the course of their many years together. While living in his hometown of Andros, he established a hardware store, a furniture store, a grocery store, a gas station, and a shipping company, providing employment for many people in the area. 

Mr. Hanna was usually seen wearing colorfully patterned slacks, a matching necktie and pocket piece, a white shirt, a black or navy blue blazer, and shiny black shoes. Outside of his business endeavors, his favorite hobbies were fishing and gardening. His family said he felt at peace on the water, loved teaching them how to fish, and competed in many fishing tournaments. He was also a philanthropist, giving to many churches, organizations, and people in need over the years.

“Blessed with a big heart and an even bigger personality, Frank always tried to be a blessing to others,” his family wrote.

Mr. Hanna leaves two daughters, Francis Chong and Katrin Hanna, and five adopted children, Julian Gibson, Sean Riley, Benson Miller, Michelle Johnson, and Shalece Miller, all of Nassau in the Bahamas. He is also survived by two sisters, Mary Hanna-Moreira and Birdie Hanna of Nassau; two brothers, Wilfred Hanna of Exuma in the Bahamas and Charles Hanna of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and by four grandchildren and one great-granchild. 

Services begin today in Nassau for Mr. Hanna, and will include a remembrance ceremony at sea on Monday. Those wishing to convey condolences may address them to Doris Hanna, Mr. Hanna’s daughter-in-law, at P.O. Box 1265, East Hampton 11937.