Jean R. Sinenberg, an antiques dealer who owned Georgica Creek Antiques in Wainscott for 30 years and organized shows on the South Fork for four decades, died at her daughter’s home in Bridgehampton on Monday of respiratory failure. She was 83 and her health had been declining, Suzanne Sinenberg, her daughter, said.

 “She was the queen of antiques,” said Ms. Sinenberg, saying that her mother ran the Hampton Antiques Festival and Sale in Bridgehampton for 42 years and founded the East Hampton Historical Society’s annual antiques show and sale in 1987, running it for 23 years. She also sold folk art, English and European antiques, painted furniture, quilts — whatever people were buying at the time, her daughter said, adding that she “was a classy lady with taste” who worked tirelessly and created her livelihood from nothing. “She worked seven days a week,” Ms. Sinenberg said. “She was like the Energizer Bunny. And, she was tough in business, but fair.”

Born on Dec. 3, 1932, in Brooklyn, her parents were Eli Rosenbush and the former Ruth Adler. She graduated from James Madison High School in Brooklyn and studied the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan.

She got into the antiques trade in the early 1970s, first opening Meeting Place in an old butcher shop in Port Washington. In 1975, she joined E. DeForest Cole, one of the first to produce shows on the South Fork. She bought the August show from him, held at the Bridgehampton Community House, and transformed it into a “wonderful event that people looked forward to,” her daughter said. There were four a year in its heyday. The shows continued until 2009, when her mother canceled the 43rd edition, citing the recession and down economy.

     By the late 1970s, as she transitioned into a full-time resident, she opened the Back Barn at Hayground. She later opened a shop on Main Street in Bridgehampton, near the Hampton Library, calling it  the Quilt Gallery, because she was selling lots of quilts at the time. That shop’s last location was farther up Main Street, near what is now the Bridgehampton Florist.

   In 1982, she rented the old Exxon garage on Montauk Highway, near Wainscott Stone Road, opening Georgica Creek Antiques; she purchased the building in the 1990s. Georgica Creek Antiques closed in 2012, and the space is now leased by Serena & Lily.

Ms. Sinenberg first owned a house with her former husband on Rutland Road in Springs, where she spent summers and weekends. She settled on Clyden Road in Wainscott, and served, for five years, on the East Hampton Town architectural review board. She also lived for a time on Scottline Road in Sagaponack, but sold the house about three years ago and moved in with her daughter.

She was hesitant about revealing her age, her daughter said, and when asked, would say, “Can you keep a secret?” to which she would always get a yes. “So can I,” she would reply.

In addition to her daughter, she is survived by a son, Clifford Sinenberg of Sea Cliff, and two grandchildren. A sister, Grace Shiff, and a brother, Sidney Rosenbush, died before her.

The Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton is handling arrangements. A graveside service will be held tomorrow at Edgewood Cemetery in Bridgehampton at 2 p.m.

Msgr. Thomas J. Hartman, a Catholic priest affiliated with the Diocese of Rockville Centre who was known as Father Tom, died on Tuesday night. He was 69 and had Parkinson’s disease.

Over 25 years as half of the “God Squad” with Rabbi Marc Gellman, Father Tom discussed interfaith spirituality in appearances on TV and radio and in print. His family owns Hartman’s Briney Breezes Motel in Montauk.

A wake will be held at St. Aidan’s Catholic Church in Williston Park tomorrow from 2 to 6:30 p.m. It will be followed by a Mass of Transferal at 7:30 at the church. A funeral Mass will be said at St. Aidan’s on Saturday at 11 a.m., followed by burial at Holy Rood Cemetery in Westbury.

A full obituary will appear in a future issue.

James Peter Fabrizio, a former resident of Springs, died on Saturday in Madison, Wis., three days after his 25th birthday. For the past six years, Mr. Fabrizio had suffered from a mental health condition called schizoaffective disorder, his family said, but the cause of death was unknown.

Mr. Fabrizio was born in New York City on Feb. 10, 1991, to Andrea Gurvitz and Peter Fabrizio. His father died in 2012. Ms. Gurvitz, who now lives in Boca Raton, Fla., survives.

Mr. Fabrizio attended the John M. Marshall Elementary School in East Hampton and graduated from the Ross School here, where he played saxophone in the school’s jazz band in addition to being on its baseball and basketball teams. He also completed two years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied political science.

In addition to his mother, two sisters, Alona Fusco of Lake Grove and Michal Mott of Oakdale, survive him. He is also survived by five nieces.

Donations in Mr. Fabrizio’s memory have been suggested to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 3803 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 100, Arlington, Va. 22203 or Boca Raton’s Promise, 6300 Park of Commerce Boulevard, Boca Raton, Fla. 33487.

Elive Arnán, who lived in East Hampton for about 10 years in the 1970s and had visited her extended family here frequently, died on Feb. 7 in her hometown of Fort Collins, Colo. She had been ill for two weeks after suffering a brain hemorrhage.

A native of Caimanera, Cuba, Ms. Arnán was born on Aug. 13, 1927, to Luis Arnán and the former Mercedes Guerra. She trained as a registered nurse in Havana, immigrating to the United States in the late 1950s, and working as a nurse in both Chicago and Puerto Rico before moving to East Hampton, where she lived in a house on Montauk Highway with a partner, Frank Sciascia.  

Her niece, Wendy Miller Fellows, said she was still a child when her aunt moved out of East Hampton, but she recalled that “the beach was what she loved the most.” She also adored animals, Ms. Fellows said. “She would always take in strays. Every picture I find, she has a cat or dog.” She also had a pet monkey when she lived in Puerto Rico.

Besides Ms. Fellows, who now lives in Connecticut, another niece, and two nephews,  she is survived by two sisters, Migdalia Morrissey of Fort Collins and Ivette Miller of Naples, Fla.

Elive Arnán’s ashes are to be buried at Green River Cemetery in Springs, and a celebration of her life will be held later this year.

Margaret Fromm, a longtime resident of Amagansett who was known for her handmade crafts, died on Feb. 13 surrounded by family at the Gardens of North Port, an assisted living home in Florida. She was 90 years old and her death was from natural causes, her family said.

Mrs. Fromm was born in Brooklyn on Oct. 3, 1925, the youngest of four daughters of John Dehanich and the former Katherine Uravich. She was raised in the Bay Ridge neighborhood and was a member of the first graduating class of Fontbonne Hall Academy, a Catholic high school for girls.

In 1945, she married Frederick Fromm, who her family said was “the love of her life.” The couple would have five sons and enjoy 42 years of marriage before Mr. Fromm’s death in 1987.

The Fromms moved to Rockville Centre in the early 1950s and in 1960 began spending summers at the Napeague Camping Club at Lazy Point. They moved to Amagansett and became year-round residents in 1980. Mrs. Fromm moved to North Port last year.

“Margaret enjoyed living on the East End surrounded by her sons and their families. Large family gatherings with fresh-caught seafood were the norm every weekend,” her family wrote.

Mrs. Fromm enjoyed ceramics and crocheting, presenting her handiwork to her children and grandchildren as gifts. She also loved playing bingo and cards and taking trips to Atlantic City with friends. She also cherished her dog, Daisy, a Cairn terrier, and was an active member of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, where a funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. tomorrow. She also enjoyed the East Hampton Senior Center and attended the meeting of AARP.

Mrs. Fromm is survived by her sons, Robert Fromm of Earlysville, Va., Gerard Fromm of North Port, Fla., Donald Fromm of Shoreham, Thomas Fromm of Southampton, England, and Michael Fromm of Amagansett. She also leaves 15 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.

The family will welcome visitors to the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton from 5 to 9 p.m. today. Burial at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale will follow the Mass.

Mrs. Fromm’s family has suggested memorial contributions to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, professor emerita at the University of Michigan, a historian of early 19th century France and the French Revolution, who was known for research on the early printing press and was the first resident scholar, in 1979, of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress, died at home in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 31 at the age of 92. Her family said she had been ill for three weeks.

Dr. Eisenstein, a historian, was the author of many books and articles, beginning with “The First Professional Revolutionist” in 1959. “The Printing Press as an Agent of Change,” a two-volume, 750-page book, first printed in 1979 and reissued in 2012, was considered her most important work. It examined how the printing press caused a cultural shift in Western civilization.

In other professional achievements, Dr. Eisenstein was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, Calif., and the Humanities Research Center of the Australian National University. She won fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She received an award for scholarly distinction from the American Historical Society in 2003, received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Michigan in 2004, and the Gutenberg Award from the Gutenberg Society in 2012. She also had been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Historical Society.

Although she had a long career as a historian, scholar, and author, she also enjoyed success in tennis competition as Betty Eisenstein. She became a nationally ranked senior women’s tennis player and frequent champion, entering her first senior competition in 1973 just before her 50th birthday. In 1988, she won the Singles World Championship for women in the 70-year-old category, and went on to win three Grand Slam championships, 33 national championships, and 36 straight victories, according to the International Tennis Federation.

Inducted into the Mid-Atlantic Tennis Hall of Fame in 1999, she played her last competitive match in national United States Tennis Association competition in May. She was still playing tennis until very recently, her daughter, Margaret DeLacy, said.

Dr. Eisenstein and her husband, Julian Calvert Eisenstein, had a house on Georgica Road in East Hampton in 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.

“She was highly intelligent, very competitive, not just in tennis but in general, and organized, and, interestingly enough, she loved arranging flowers and would do it beautifully,” said Tinka Topping of Sagaponack. Ms. Topping and Dr. Eisenstein met in 1948 when both were living in Wisconsin. Ms. Topping described her friend as a strong person who “held everything close to her vest,” and “a very good wife and mom.” When they got together, “she’d much rather talk about her victories on the tennis court . . . I wanted to hear all about the University of Michigan, where she was teaching.”

Elizabeth Lewisohn Eisenstein was born on Oct. 11, 1923, in New York City, the third of four daughters of Sam A. Lewisohn and the former Margaret Seligman. She was educated at Vassar College, graduating in 1946, and earned a master’s degree in 1947 and a doctorate in 1953 from Harvard University.

She and her husband met as Harvard graduate students. They married on May 30, 1948. The couple lived in Wisconsin while he studied for a doctorate in physics, and she followed him to Oxford, England, where he did research at the Clarendon Lab, and then to the State College of Pennsylvania, where he had an academic appointment. Despite having a doctorate of her own, she was unable to teach there because of a rule about nepotism, their daughter recalled.

The couple eventually settled in Washington, D.C., where her husband worked at the Bureau of Standards and Dr. Eisenstein worked for a time in the 1940s for Time-Life. She was an adjunct professor at American University from 1959 to 1974.

She accepted a position as chairwoman of the history department of the University of Michigan in 1975, and with her youngest son starting college, she went to Ann Arbor, where she was a professor until 1988, commuting by air to spend weekends in Washington and much of the summer in East Hampton.

Dr. Eisenstein is survived by her husband and two of her children. In addition to Margaret Eisenstein DeLacy of Portland, Ore., a son, Edward Lewisohn Eisenstein of Fayette, Mo., survives. A son, John Calvert Eisenstein, died in 1974; another son died at birth in 1949.

Three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive, as does a sister, Virginia Kahn of Cambridge, Mass. Her older sisters, Dr. Marjorie G. Lewisohn of East Hampton and Joan Cromwell of Quogue, predeceased her.

A memorial service will be held in Washington, D.C., in the fall.

Lou Howard was many things: a former mayor of Amityville, a driver’s education teacher, a football coach at Amityville High School, a newspaper publisher, a Suffolk legislator, a New York State assemblyman, a creator of the aerospace program at the State University of New York at Farmingdale, and a former member of the Stony Brook University Council and State University of New York Board of Trustees.

Mr. Howard, who lived in Amityville and had been a part-time resident here with a house on Montauk Highway in Amagansett since 1977, died on Jan. 25 at St. Joseph Hospital in Bethpage after complications from a hiatal hernia, his family said. He was 92.

He was born in Bay Shore on Dec. 16, 1923, to Louis Howard and the former Grace Conklin, and grew up in Amityville, where he was an all-scholastic linebacker in his high school days.

He was a driver’s education teacher and varsity football coach at Amityville High School between 1953 and 1968, during which time his team won nine straight county championships and earned six Rutgers Cup trophies. Known to his players as Uncle Lou, he never had a losing season. He was inducted into the Long Island Sports Hall of Fame, Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame, Springfield College Athletic Hall of Fame, and Amityville High School Hall of Fame, among others.

He also won election to several public offices. In 1963, he won a village trustee seat in Amityville as an independent and later served two terms as mayor.

He was elected to the Suffolk Legislature, where he represented the Ninth Legislative District for a decade, before serving one term in the New York State Assembly, then returning to the Suffolk Legislature for six more years. He was also the publisher of the Amityville Record, a weekly newspaper.

Mr. Howard, who had a doctorate in aerospace technology from Western Colorado University, helped launch the aerospace program at SUNY Farmingdale. He served as its first department chairman and wrote a textbook for pilots on instrument landing systems. He flew a plane on his 90th birthday during a celebration at the college.

“Lou was an aviation pioneer, and was instrumental in making the curriculum relevant, challenging, and highly-regarded throughout academia and the aviation industry,” Hubert Keen, president of SUNY Farmingdale, said in a statement.

He was survived by his wife of 67 years, the former Margaret Webber, and his seven children, Thomas Howard, Maureen Eustace, Patrick Howard, Margaret Ostermann, Jane Schmitt, and Louis Howard III, all of Amityville, and Bruce Howard of Montauk. He is also survived by 20 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.

His funeral was held on Jan. 31 at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Amityville.

George T. Dracker, who made East Hampton his home for almost 70 years and worked as a linotype operator for The East Hampton Star for 14 years, died on Feb. 3 at his house on Dayton Lane. He had been in declining health for several years.

He was 94 and during his life those who knew and loved him called him Red.

Born in Winfield, Queens, on Dec. 9, 1921, to George A. Dracker and the former Amelia Schneegas, he was one of six children. His four brothers, his father, and his grandfather were all in the bricklaying trade. Winfield is now part of both Maspeth and Woodside.

His Catholic faith was important to him from childhood on, but so, too, was his family. One of his favorite stories about growing up during the Great Depression was when he was an altar boy. Every morning, he would run to St. Mary’s Church for 6 a.m. Mass. One day, a man who had watched him run by every morning secretly placed a dollar bill in his path. Amazed, the preteen scooped it up, ran home, and gave it to his mother to buy food with. Then he ran back out and made it in time for Mass.

Baseball was the game of the day when he was growing up. Red lived for the game, his family said in a notice to The Star, and he would play as often as he could, until the sun set.

At one point in his youth, he was stricken with rheumatic fever. Bedridden for six months, as soon as he was out of the house he was back on the baseball diamond in Winfield. Along with his brothers, he and other local youths started up a sandlot team called the Winfield Buccaneers, playing other teams from across the city.

After graduating from Bryant High School, he took a job at a Manhattan financial firm, E.W. Axe and Company. He started out in the mailroom but ended up being assistant to Mr. Axe.

When the war came, he enlisted in the Navy. He mastered Morse code and was deployed as a radioman on seaplanes like the Pan American Clipper. Stationed in Florida, he flew transports of men and materials throughout South and Central America.

During the war, his relationship with a Winfield girl ripened to love through the letters they sent back and forth, and he married the former Ellen Emma Graulich on Aug. 28, 1945, just days after leaving the Navy. The couple initially settled down in Carmel, N.Y.

He took a job at the local Carmel newspaper, The Putnam County Courier, where he set cold type for the paper from a typesetter drawer, after studying linotype operation and typesetting in Manhattan.

In 1947, he saw a help wanted ad in The New York Times for a job as a linotype operator at The East Hampton Star. He took the long ride out on the Long Island Rail Road and was hired that day for the job by Arnold Rattray, who put him up that evening so that he could start work the following day. He went on to set the hot lead type for the next 14 years for the paper.

After living on Main Street for several years, Mr. and Mrs. Dracker purchased a property on Dayton Lane from E.T. Dayton. There, they lived ever since, raising six children. One of those children, Merilyn Bellafiore of Sag Harbor, spoke yesterday about the family routine in the summer when her father was working at The Star. He would work all day, she said, until dinnertime, when the family would come pick him up. They would go to Georgica Beach and have dinner, and then it was back to work at the paper. She recalled how her siblings used to come by The Star and peek in the window, watching their father work.

In 1966, Mr. Dracker purchased Long Island East, Inc., a printing business in Southampton. He worked for many years there, setting type and printing along with his partner and son-in-law, Gregory Bellafiore.

He was very involved with local organizations and activities, serving as a volunteer fireman in the East Hampton department, a Boy Scout leader of Troop 102, a coach of the local women’s softball team, where he taught all his daughters to play ball, and a member of the Community Council and Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church.

His love of his faith and of his wife showed itself best when it would snow. He would clear a path from their Dayton Lane house to the church, so that his wife could attend daily Mass. Mrs. Dracker died in 2014.

He loved working in his garden and reading about history, especially that of the town he loved.

George Dracker is survived by his son, George Dracker Jr. of East Hampton, and, in addition to Ms. Bellafiore, four other daughters: Barbara Dracker and Pune Dracker of Manhattan, Patricia Dracker of East Hampton, and Ellen Mullen of Hyattsville, Md., as well as his older sister, Dorothy, who lives in Queens. He leaves four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. His brothers died before him.

There was a funeral Mass held for him at Most Holy Trinity on Monday, after which he was buried in the church’s cemetery.

John G. Nicholas, an advertising executive and producer whose credits included the first television commercials for the Ford Mustang, died of congestive heart failure on Sunday at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Conn.

Mr. Nicholas, who was 87, had owned a house on Cove Hollow Road in East Hampton since 1965, where he and his and family loved spending summers, his daughter, Victoria Nicholas Donovan, said.

“They were mini-movies,” Ms. Donovan said of her father’s car commercials. “They shot on film. They did helicopter shots over very dramatically created sets, all made from scratch. He really was behind the camera. He learned the craft.” 

John Nicholas was born on May 26, 1928, in Manhattan to Joseph Nicholas and the former Elizabeth Gallagher. He grew up there, graduating from Haaren High School, a building that is now used by John Jay College.

He enlisted in the Navy in 1945, intending to take advantage of the G.I. Bill to become the first in his family to go to college upon completion of his service.

“Because he was such a good stenographer,” his daughter said, “they sent him to work with naval officers in the office. He had to take dictation and was really good at it. Officers loved him because he smoked and drank with them and made them look good because he knew grammar well.” The Navy sent him to China aboard the U.S.S. Repose, a hospital ship, and then to Alaska aboard the U.S.S. Navasota.

After his honorable discharge in 1949, he earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from New York University, graduating in 1954.

The following year, on Oct. 28, he and Janet Stremezki married. They had met in the advertising department at the Remington Rand typewriter company, Ms. Donovan said. “To make it even more romantic,” she said, “they not only worked in the same area, he proposed to her via interoffice mail. I still have the envelope.”

The couple eloped, “jumped on the subway and got married at City Hall,” she said. Mrs. Nicholas died in 1994.

Mr. Nicholas’s career took him to J. Walter Thompson in Manhattan, one of the top agencies in the world, and Compton Advertising, a New York firm that was acquired by Saatchi and Saatchi in 1982. At the former, he produced elaborate commercials for both Ford automobiles and Firestone tires.

“Ford and Firestone were his big moments,” Ms. Donovan said. “He traded that for more basic stuff like Crisco and Duncan Hines” at Compton Advertising, she said. He also loved to read and travel.

The family moved to Bronxville, N.Y., in the mid-1970s. After Mr. Nicholas’s retirement, they lived in East Hampton for several years, after which Mr. Nicholas returned to Manhattan, where he was a member of Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church. He also belonged to Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton. From 2013, he was a resident of the Sarah Neuman Center in Mamaroneck, N.Y.

In addition to his daughter, who lives in Manhattan and East Hampton, Mr. Nicholas is survived by two grandchildren.

A funeral will be held on Saturday at 9:45 a.m. at the Church of St. Joseph in Bronxville, followed by burial at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Valhalla, N.Y.

Carol Ann Bradley, a 35-year resident of Springs and an active member of St. Peter’s Chapel there, died on Dec. 30. Ms. Bradley died at home at the age of 65. Her death was attributed to pneumonia.

Born in Yonkers on Dec. 9, 1950, one of three daughters of Oliver A. Beckwith and Marie Caggana, she was a 1968 graduate of Yonkers High School. Her grandparents had retired to East Hampton by then, and the family spent many weekends and summers here with other relatives and friends. In 1981, Ms. Bradley came here to live to be closer to family members.

Following high school, she took classes to become a secretary, and worked between 1969 and 1971 as the assistant to the vice president of the Grolier Encyclopedia Company, leaving to become a full-time homemaker and mother. Ms. Bradley was married and divorced twice, and had two children, Jessica Grunewald Watson of Bradford, England, and John L. Bradley of East Hampton.

She was said to be passionate about her family, loved the beach, and liked playing bingo and card games with friends. Most recently, she was a caregiver for an elderly relative.

In addition to her children, Ms. Bradley leaves two sisters, Linda Palmer of East Hampton and Gail McManus of Barefoot Bay, Fla. She is also survived by a granddaughter, two step-grandchildren, and a cousin, Emily Grunewald, with whom she was close.

Her family plans a celebration of her life this summer.