Jeremiah Raymond Lester, a potato farmer and master carpenter, died at Southampton Hospital on Monday following a short illness. He was 94. 

Throughout his life, Mr. Lester, who was born on the Lester homestead on Skimhampton Road and lived in East Hampton all of his life, enjoyed many old-time Bonac pursuits including woodworking, clamming, duck hunting with his American water spaniels, and picking beach plums, cranberries, and wild blueberries from his secret spots. 

A lifelong member of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton and an active member of the East Hampton Fire Department for 35 years, Mr. Lester was also a 50-year member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a fraternal organization. He served as the group’s Noble Grand for the Hampton Lodge, and as district deputy for the I.O.O.F. Suffolk district. 

Mr. Lester graduated with honors from East Hampton High School in 1939 and joined the family potato-farming business. In 1957, he started a career as a carpenter. When he retired from carpentry, he took up baking, and was well known for the homemade pies he whipped up for family gatherings, church covered-dish suppers, and fund-raising events.

A son of Raymond M. Lester and Ethel Guyer Lester, he was a direct descendant of both the Round Swamp Lesters and the Pantigo Lesters, two families with long local roots. He was born at home on Oct. 28, 1921. On May 19, 1946, he married Mary Louise Elley, also of East Hampton. 

Mrs. Lester survives. Mr. Lester is also survived by a daughter, Margaret L. DiCorleto of Tennessee; a son, Jerry (Jay) R. Lester of New Jersey, and two grandchildren. A sister, Mary L. Byrnes of East Hampton, also survives. A brother, Samuel G. Lester, died before him.

A private graveside service was to take place this morning at 11, at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton, the Rev. Denis Brunelle officiating. The family has suggested memorial donations to the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association, 1 Cedar Street, East Hampton 11937. 

The Rev. Francis B. Creamer Jr., who was the rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton for nearly 20 years, died on Sunday at home in Waldoboro, Me., of pancreatic cancer. He was 79 years old.

During his tenure at St. Luke’s, Mr. Creamer was credited with the restoration of its historic building and fostering binding relationships between year-round and summer residents. Mr. Creamer, who was called Fritz, supported the civil rights movement for the rest of his life, after joining the 1965 Freedom March in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In a letter to The Star in 1979 and a sermon at the time, he said, “respect for human rights cannot be taught in the schools and churches alone, it must begin at home.”

“Everyone knew Fritz for his charm, wit, and sense of humor. He was a gifted preacher, generous, and compassionate to all, a true servant of God,” his family wrote.

He was born on Feb. 24, 1937, in Detroit to the Rev. Francis B. Creamer Sr. and the former Margaret Welch Gates. He grew up there and attended the Detroit University School before moving to Lewiston, Pa., where he graduated from high school in 1954. He attended Trinity College, earning a degree in English in 1958.

Before going into the ministry, Mr. Creamer took a job in New York City as a junior executive with CBS television. He soon met his wife, the former Ann Wilkins Lichty, to whom he was married in 1959.

Mr. Creamer joined the National Guard in 1960, serving on active duty for six months. He then enrolled in the Berkeley Divinity School, from which he received a master’s degree. He delivered the student commencement address in 1963 and was awarded a fellowship to the University of Toronto’s Trinity College. 

First ordained as a deacon at Christ Church Cathedral in Hartford, Conn., Mr. Creamer was ordained into the priesthood and appointed curate at St. James Church in West Hartford, Conn., in 1964. 

Before becoming the rector of St. Luke’s Church in 1978, he had been the rector of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in New London, N.H., where he taught for a semester at Colby Junior College. He had previously been the assistant rector of the Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York City.

Mr. Creamer retired from St. Luke’s in 1996 and he and his wife moved to South Royalton, Vt. Then, in 2001, they moved to Waldoboro, where he became a trustee of the Waldoboro Public Library and a member of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in nearby Newcastle, Me.

In addition to Mrs. Creamer, Mr. Creamer is survived by a daughter, Elizabeth Figler of Duxbury, Mass., a son, Nathaniel Creamer of Baltimore, and five grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at St. Andrew’s Church in Newcastle. Memorial donations have been suggested to St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 18 James Lane, East Hampton 11937. Condolences may be shared online by visiting the funeral home website stronghancock.com.

Joseph E. Vollers Jr., a former Amagansett resident and pioneer in software systems design, died of esophageal cancer on Feb. 17 at his home in Louisburg, N.C., surrounded by his family. He was 77 and had been treated for the disease for a year. 

The eldest of five children, Mr. Vollers was born in the Bronx on Jan. 12, 1939, to Josephine and Joseph E. Vollers, a court clerk and battalion chief of the New York City Fire Department. He grew up on the shores of Sparkle Lake in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., where he fished, swam, and, one of his sisters said, amused himself by calculating logarithms in his head. 

After graduating from Yorktown High School in 1957, Mr. Vollers won Regents and merit scholarships and attended Alfred University, where he majored in math and was a member of the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps. 

In 1961, Admiral Hyman Rickover recruited Mr. Vollers to help design the guidance system for the Polaris submarine-launched nuclear missile at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works unit in Burbank, Calif. He next worked as a contractor for the National Reconnaissance Office, an intelligence agency, on the United States spy satellite program, writing the machine code for the telemetry and serving as a courier for top-secret pictures of Soviet Army sites that satellites had dropped into the Indian Ocean. 

In the late 1960s, Mr. Vollers and his first wife, Kathy Brodbeck, along with their three young children, moved to Westchester County, where he worked first for IBM and later started his own consulting business, the Systems and Communications Group, working with corporate, banking, and government clients. He later served as a vice president of Chemical Bank, overseeing some of the first automated banking systems. 

During the early 1970s, after his first marriage ended in divorce, Mr. Vollers moved to the East End  with Annette Meiners-Eggers, a computer programmer and artist who was his life partner. The couple raised three children in Amagansett and Springs, with Mr. Vollers leading his large, blended family to the beach for body surfing, followed by bonfires and clambakes, his booming voice audible over the crash of the ocean. 

A sister, Maryanne Vollers, who lives in Livingston, Mont., said he was a big-hearted, generous soul, a born rebel, and larger-than-life presence, who loved his family above all else. Nothing made him happier than cooking for festive get-togethers, she said, whether whipping up pitchers of white sangria or serving apricot-brandy turkey at Thanksgiving. 

In 2004, he and Ms. Meiners-Eggers relocated to North Carolina to live near some of their children. 

Along with his wife, Mr. Vollers is survived by five children: Kendrick Vollers of Colorado, Sabrina Vollers of Switzerland, and Koren Stagg, Kerry Roseberry, and Cormac Meiners-Vollers, all of Raleigh, N.C. In addition to his sister Maryanne Vollers, two other siblings, Charles Vollers of Riga, Mich., and Judith Martin of Paonia, Colo., survive, as do six grandchildren. A son, Joseph E. Vollers III, died before him.

Thomas B. Dornhofer, a maritime engineer who had traveled the world by sea, died on Feb. 1 at the Woman’s Christian Association Hospital in Jamestown, N.Y., after a heart attack. He was 67.

Growing up on Long Island, Mr. Dornhofer had been around the water all his life, starting as a little boy fishing with his father on a 12-foot boat. Once he earned a chief engineer’s license, he worked on boats of all kinds, from tankers, ferry boats, and tugboats to research vessels and private motor and sailing yachts. But, his family said, he always returned home, to the people he loved.

Mr. Dornhofer took great pride in his work, they said. When he was on board as a boat’s engineer, the crew knew they were in good hands. He thought, they said, that he was blessed to be able to experience the world through his vocation, on so many voyages to faraway places. His favorite place to visit, he always said, was the one he had not yet been to.

The son of the late Richard C. and Victoria (Dixie) Massingill Dornhofer, he was born on Aug. 2, 1948, in Rockville Centre. He graduated in 1970 from the New York State Maritime Academy at Fort Schuyler in the Bronx with a bachelor’s degree in marine engineering.

In between jobs at sea, Mr. Dornhofer could be found at a workbench, fixing something that needed repairing, or building something from scratch. He also worked on special effects for big-screen movies, operated his own business for a time, worked in a shellfish hatchery, and was a harbormaster for one of the marinas in East Hampton. He enjoyed long motorcycle trips, reading, yoga, and daily walks along the beach here with the family dogs.

Mr. Dornhofer had been married to Chucky Bologna of East Hampton, who survives. He also is survived by a son, Paul T. Dornhofer of East Hampton, as well as by three siblings, Diane Atcheson of Jamestown, Elizabeth Dornhofer of New York City, and Richard Dornhofer of California.

Mr. Dornhofer will be remembered by his friends and loved ones, the family said, as a “smart, funny, and generous soul who was always ready to lend a hand.”

Mr. Dornhofer was cremated. A memorial service is planned for the summer. Memorial contributions have been suggested to the Humane Society of the United States, 2100 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037.

A funeral Mass for Marie Burns of Sag Harbor will be said at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in that village on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. She died on Feb. 17 at the age of 90. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Anna Eileen O’Halloran Burke was known as the loving matriarch of her family, a Noyac mother of 5, grandmother of 13, and great-grandmother of 14. Mrs. Burke died on Feb. 14 at Southampton Hospital, surrounded by her sister and daughters. She was 98, and her family said her death followed a weeklong stay at the hospital.

She was born on Jan. 22, 1918, in Gardiner, Me., the oldest of 10 children of Stephen O’Halloran and the former Margaret Lally. They soon moved to Prince Edward Island, Canada, and she was raised on the family’s potato farm, where she would help out with chores such as cleaning potatoes and milking cows. After graduating from high school, she headed to New York City at the age of 18.

While there, she met her future husband, Edward J. Burke, at a dance at a Catholic church in 1938. They were soon married, and moved to Hempstead, where they raised their five children. In 1940, shortly after visiting a cousin who owned McErlean’s Noyac Deli, Mr. and Mrs. Burke bought a bungalow in the Pine Neck area, where they spent their summers. 

They became year-round residents of Noyac in 1978, after Mr. Burke retired from his home-improvement business, East Coast Industries. They enjoyed helping out at the Salty Dog restaurant, which one of their sons, Judge Edward D. Burke Sr., bought in the 1970s when it was known as Lenny’s Steak House. It is now the Waterside Condominiums. Mrs. Burke’s husband died in 1981.

Mrs. Burke belonged to St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Sag Harbor and was a member of its women’s group. For five years she was a volunteer at Southampton Hospital.

“She really was the matriarch of the family,” one of her daughters, Terri Burke-Doyle of Noyac, said. “She kept the family unit very strong and close, and absolutely lived for her kids. She was a great family lady.”

Mrs. Burke leaves a sister, Frances Dykens of Port St. Lucie, Fla. In addition to Ms. Burke-Doyle and Judge Burke, she leaves three other children, Robert Burke of Rocky Point, Kathleen Burton of Noyac, and Sharon Corridan of Mattituck, as well as her 13 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

A service for Mrs. Burke was held on Feb. 17 at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor. A funeral Mass was said last Thursday at St. Andrew’s, with the Rev. Peter Devaraj officiating. She was buried at St. Andrew’s Cemetery. The family has suggested memorial donations to the Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance Corps, P.O. Box 2725, Sag Harbor 11963.

Donald M. Marks, a decorated World War II veteran and longtime principal in the New York public school system, died on Valentine’s Day in a hospice in Potomac, Md. At 91, he had fallen several times over the past few years, most recently a few weeks ago. After being treated for his injuries, he died in his sleep. 

Born in Manhattan to the former Helen Klein and Alfred Marks on June 4, 1924, he grew up in Washington Heights, before his family moved to Queens. As a child, he spent a year in bed with tuberculosis. During that time, he wrote a letter to the New York Yankees. In return, he received what became one of his most prized possessions, a baseball signed by Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, and the rest of the team. When he turned 18, he enlisted in the Army.

Recognizing his intelligence, the Army made him a sergeant. While not in the initial first wave of the invasion, he landed on the Normandy shore on the fourth day after D-Day. His unit continued as part of the movement toward Berlin. He was assigned to Enigma, the code-breaking machine that gave the Allies the advantage of knowing German plans in advance. He was eventually stationed in occupied Germany.

After his service he returned home to Queens, then enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania on the G.I. Bill. After two years there, he transferred to Columbia University. Eventually, he earned a master’s degree in English.

During the summer of ’49, while working as a head counselor at an upstate New York summer camp owned by his uncle, he met Suzanne Schweiger, a senior at Hunter High School. They were married the next year.

The couple first moved into her parents’ Park Avenue apartment, before moving out on their own to Kew Gardens. They had one child, now Nina Rosen, who lives in McLean, Va. 

Mr. Marks became principal at P.S. 171 in Astoria. During summers off, the couple would vacation on the Costa del Sol in Spain. They bought a house there, but sold it in favor of one on Treescape Drive in East Hampton’s Northwest Woods, where they began spending summers and weekends.

Mr. Marks began writing letters to The East Hampton Star not long after buying the house. A file in The Star archives is thick with clippings covering many topics.  

He wrote a “Guestwords” column on Joe DiMaggio, the great Yankees centerfielder, and submitted many poems to The Star’s letters pages. 

After he retired, the couple began to split their time between Boca Raton, Fla., and East Hampton.

Besides his love of the English language, his daughter said yesterday, he was an avid runner. He completed the New York City Marathon at the age of 68, and continued to run in races in East Hampton and Florida until just a few years ago.

France bestowed upon him the French Legion Medal of Honor about five years ago, his daughter said yesterday.

His wife died in early 2013, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, where he will join her in the next two or three months. A ceremony in his honor will be held at that time.

The family gathered in a private ceremony at Ms. Rosen’s house recently.

Beside Ms. Rosen, he is survived by two granddaughters. 

Msgr. Thomas J. Hartman, a Catholic priest who was deeply devoted to his ministry, which included appearances with Rabbi Marc Gellman as half of “The God Squad” televison program, died on Feb. 16  at the TownHouse Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Uniondale from complications related to Parkinson’s disease. He was 69.

He was a member of the family that owns Hartman’s Briney Breezes motel in Montauk. 

While Father Tom, as he was known, was well-known for his TV, radio, and personal appearances, “his personal ministry,” caring for parish members and others across Long Island, was most important to him, said a sister, Joann Peluso of Goshen, N.Y. At his wake, Ms. Peluso said, the family listened for five hours as person after person spoke of how Monsignor Hartman had helped them in some way.  

“He was kind and quiet,” she said. “In his quiet way, he was able to silence a room.” 

In his writings, lectures, and appearances, her brother was “trying to help people to see what we have in common,” and encourage “working together to accentuate the positive,” she said. “He was an amazing listener.” 

Besides Ms. Peluso, he is survived by his mother, Sheila Hartman of Laguna Woods, Calif., a brother, John Hartman of Atlanta, and two other sisters, Sheila Mohrman of East Marion, and Eileen Zraick of Laguna Beach, Calif. 

The eldest of six children, Monsignor Hartman was born on May 22, 1946, in Richmond Hills, Queens, a son of Herman Hartman and the former Sheila Kealy. The family moved to East Williston when he was 9.

He loved baseball, and decided to be either a priest or a professional baseball player when he grew up. He was athletic, Ms. Peluso said — a basketball player in high school, a good golfer, and an extremely good tennis player later on — but did not make his way into professional sports, though he did serve as a chaplain for the New York Jets. He also served as chaplain for the Nassau County Police Department. 

The future priest attended St. Aidan’s parish school in Williston Park, and then St. Pius X preparatory seminary in Uniondale, and earned a master of divinity degree from the Seminary of Our Lady of the Angels in Albany in 1970. He was ordained the next year, and obtained a doctor of ministry degree from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. 

His first parish was St. James Roman Catholic Church in Seaford; later, he officiated at the St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Elmont. 

While hosting religious radio programs, he was recruited in 1979 to direct Telecare, the TV station of the Rockville Centre Catholic diocese. “The God Squad” show began on Cablevision in 1987 and later moved to Telecare. 

Monsignor Hartman and Rabbi Gellman mixed humorous banter with discussion of issues of religion and faith. When the show was later syndicated, it reached 15 million viewers’ residences nationwide.

The interfaith pair appeared often on ABC TV’s “Good Morning America,” and on radio on the Don Imus show, as well as at events all over the country. The duo wrote several books together, including “Religion for Dummies,” and a children’s book, “How Do You Spell God? Answers to the Big Questions From Around the World.” They appeared as animated figures in an HBO program based on that book, which won a Peabody Award. They also won four Emmy Awards. 

In a cameo role in the 1996 movie, “The Mirror Has Two Faces,” starring Barbra Streisand, Monsignor Harman played a priest performing an interfaith wedding. 

After his brother Gerard Hartman died of AIDS in 1995, Monsigor Hartman raised $6 million for AIDS research and opened an AIDS hospice on church property. He also helped found Island Harvest.

His own deteriorating health led to the last “God Squad” appearance by Father Tom and Rabbi Gellman in 2007. Monsignor Hartman went on to raise $21 million for research into Parkinson’s disease; the Thomas Hartman Center for Parkinson’s Research opened at Stony Brook University in 2013.

Visitation took place on Friday at the Church of St. Aidan in Williston Park, followed by a Mass of Transferral and a funeral Mass the next day. Monsignor Hartman was buried at Holy Rood Cemetery in Westbury.

The family has suggested memorial donations to the Thomas Hartman Center for Parkinson’s Research. Checks made payable to the Stony Brook Foundation may be sent to the center at the Stony Brook University College of Arts and Sciences, E3320 Melville Library, Stony Brook 11794-3391. 

Dorothy Freedman, a member of the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society and a competitive bridge player who loved the arts, died at her East Hampton house on Feb. 14 with two of her children nearby. She was 87 and had been suffering from cancer for eight months. 

Ms. Freedman, who was called Dorie, became a full-time resident 15 years ago after having spent many summers and weekends here. In addition to being an active member of the L.V.I.S. and a competitive bridge player, she enjoyed membership in a local book club and attended many art openings in the region and performances at Guild Hall. She loved East Hampton “for the ocean and the fresh air,” her family said.

She was born in New York City on May 7, 1928, to Albert and Selda Gottesman. She grew up in Mount Vernon, N.Y., and attended school there, later earning a bachelor’s degree at Goucher College in Baltimore.

She and Nathaniel Freedman were married in the 1940s. The couple moved to Kings Point, where they brought up two sons and a daughter. They eventually divorced. Ms. Freedman lived in Great Neck for a time and, in 1974, returned to Manhattan, where she enrolled in Hunter College and received a master’s degree in urban affairs. She worked for the New York City Parks Department for several years.

Ms. Freedman leaves a son, Michael Freedman of Boca Raton, Fla., a daughter, Debra Freedman of Riverdale, N.Y., and six grandchildren. A sister, Helen Schwartzman of Mamaroneck, N.Y. also survives. One of her children, Mark Freedman, died in September.

A graveside service for Ms. Freedman was held last Thursday at Sharon Gardens in Valhalla, N.Y. 

Chester Lamar Lane, a deacon of the Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton who lived on Spinner Lane, next door to the church, died at Southampton Hospital on Feb. 15. He was 79 and had had a recent cancer diagnosis, his daughter, Bernadette Walker of Atlanta, said. 

Ms. Walker described her father as a man of God, who loved being a part of his church. He not only was a deacon, but president of the usher board, co-chairman of the auxiliaries, and the lead singer in the men’s choir. “Oh, did he have a voice — angelic, I promise you,” Ms. Walker said.

Mr. Lane also was a landscaper who owned his own business for over 35 years and worked until he was hospitalized, his daughter said. He also worked for the East Hampton Town Police Department as a crossing guard from 2000 to 2015.

Mr. Lane shared his passion for music with his late wife, the former Lois Wyche, who also was a singer. In fact, they met in West Palm Beach, Fla., when she was aspiring to be a singer in the late 1950s. Mrs. Lane, who died in 2007, had also served the church in various capacities.

The couple married on Oct. 22, 1959 after Mr. Lane had completed four years in the Army, serving as a specialist in Korea. Mrs. Lane was a native of Sagaponack, and they settled in Bridgehampton, later moving first to Sag Harbor and then to East Hampton, where they lived for nearly 40 years. 

Born Chesterfield Lane on May 1, 1936, his parents were Chesterfield Lane and the former Anna Mae Hines of Nashville, Ga. He graduated from Berrien County High School, and enlisted shortly afterward. He had changed his name to Chester Lamar Lane, his daughter said. 

“He loved life,” Ms. Walker said of her father. “And, he loved people. Anyone who came into contact with him was affected by his love and charisma. He just loved.” 

In addition to his daughter, Mr. Lane is survived by his sons, Jerome Nixon of Pearson, Ga., Issac Roberson of Philadelphia, Curtis Ellis of Bellport, and Kenneth Warner of Macon, Ga.  A grandson, Torrence Lane of Atlanta, whom he adopted, and a brother, Charles Lane of Atlanta, also survive 

His other siblings, Drewnell Keeley of Philadelphia, Maggiebell Camon of Jacksonville, Fla., and Johnie Lee Lane of Nashville, Ga., died before him, as did a son, Chester Lane Jr., who died in 1969. 

A wake will be held at Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton tomorrow from 7 to 9 p.m. A funeral will be held there on Saturday at 10:30 a.m., followed by burial with military honors at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton.