Catherine Gagliotti was known as a dedicated teacher who was generous with her time, patient with students, and helpful to colleagues during the 37 years she taught at East Hampton High School. Mrs. Gagliotti died at home in East Hampton of complications of polycystic kidney disease on Jan. 5. She was 79 years old.

“She was one of the finest examples of a teacher who was really devoted to her students,” Rich Burns, the superintendent of the East Hampton School District and a friend of Mrs. Gagliotti’s for many years, said yesterday. “She just had a way of connecting to kids.”

Mrs. Gagliotti, who taught 11th grade English, was known to work beyond typical school hours, meeting with students for extra help when needed and often counseling and tutoring them on Saturdays. She gained respect for motivating students to reach their goals, and was named teacher of the year by the New York State Council of English Teachers in 2003.

She coordinated Syracuse University’s Project Advance program, offering college-level classes at the high school, and eventually became the chairwoman of the school’s English department. She was a member of committees on school improvement, accreditation, and scholarships, and led professional development sessions and workshops for her colleagues on educational trends and new state curriculum guidelines. She retired in 2003.

“She never shied away from any responsibility she ultimately knew would be better for the district and the kids,” Mr. Burns said.

Mrs. Gagliotti was born on July 27, 1936, in New York City, one of three daughters of Vincent Graziano and the former Filomena Trotta. She was raised in New York City and graduated from Flushing High School. She earned degrees from Oswego College and Long Island University.

 She came to East Hampton, where she married Carlo Gagliotti in the early 1960s. He was the owner and chef at the Spring Close House restaurant in East Hampton, and she was the hostess of the restaurant for many years. He died in 1994.

Mrs. Gagliotti was a member of the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society and the East Hampton Retired Educators Association. She enjoyed traveling and hosting formal dinners and holiday parties, bringing together interesting groups of people for meaningful conversation.

She is survived two children, Carla Gonzalez and Jeffrey Gagliotti, both of East Hampton, a foster daughter, Mary Vorpahl of Amagansett, and several grandchildren. Two sisters, Margaret Mahoney and Marie Riesel, both of Greensboro, N.C., also survive.

A funeral was held for Mrs. Gagliotti on Jan. 8 at Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. The Rev. Donald Hanson of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church officiated at a graveside service at the church cemetery, on Cedar Street, on Jan. 9. Mrs. Gagliotti was cremated, and a portion of her ashes will be scattered at the ocean in the summer.

Memorial donations in Mrs. Gagliotti’s honor have been suggested to the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association, 1 Cedar Street, East Hampton 11937.

The Star has learned of the death of Geraldine Brulte Campsey, the founder of the popular clothing store Flashbacks, in Sag Harbor, where she was a longtime resident. She was 70, and died of a heart attack on Nov. 9. Her death was sudden, and unexpected.

She was born in Mineola on Dec. 19, 1944, to Pierre and Geraldine Brulte.

She attended college for a time before marrying her first husband, Ronald Campsey, according to her close friend Meghan Doherty. The couple (who eventually divorced) moved to East Quogue, where they raised four children, all of whom survive: Stacey Campsey-Lenahan of Sag Harbor, Kimberly Campsey of East Quogue, Vanessa Clarke of St. John in the United States Virgin Islands, and Beau Campsey, also of Sag Harbor.

In 1980, Ms. Campsey opened Flashbacks on Main Street in Sag Harbor with a partner, Michael Sbrocchi. Originally a vintage store, the business expanded its offerings to clothing both retro and contemporary, accessories, and small, quirky gifts.

They became not just business partners, but true life partners, as well, eventually building a house on St. John. Mr. Sbrocchi also survives; he lives in Sag Harbor. She also has nine grandchildren who survive her, and a sister, Denise Rutledge, of Malta, N.Y.

“She loved the water and the beaches,” Ms. Doherty said yesterday, describing her friend as an excellent businesswoman and an avid reader, who also enjoyed cooking for others. “She was very much ahead of her time.”

She was cremated, after which family and friends gathered in her house to celebrate her life.

Daisy C. Bowe of East Hampton, a graduate of the Bridgehampton School who returned there to become a much-loved elementary teacher for 33 years, died on Dec. 29 at the Adler Center for Caring in Aldie, Va., while visiting one her sons. She was 61 years old and had had cancer for about four months. Her sister, Helen D. Giles, was by her side.

Born Daisy Cecelia Giles on July 17, 1954, in Southampton, Mrs. Bowe was one of four children of Jack Giles and the former Marguerite DeBoard. She was raised in Bridgehampton, graduated from high school in 1972, and earned degrees from the State University at Oneonta and Long Island University’s Southampton College. 

Her entire teaching career was at the Bridgehampton School, where she was named “teacher of the year” several times. She was said to have positively impacted the lives of hundreds of children. Ronnie White, president of the Bridgehampton School Board, who graduated from the school in 1999 and had Mrs. Bowe as a teacher in the fourth and fifth grades, called her “a pillar of our community.”

“She didn’t just teach math, she taught life. She taught responsibility. . . . I always recall that, even to today, in terms of being humble and grateful and continuing to strive to be the best you can be, she helped me understand that.”

Mrs. Bowe was also known for devotion to her faith. She sang in the choir and worked in the scholarship ministry at Bridgehampton’s First Baptist Church for many years.

In 1978, she married John Chesterfield Bowe, known to many as Chet, with whom she had two sons. The couple lived in Sag Harbor for a time before building a house in East Hampton. Mr. Bowe died in 2011.

“Daisy had a great love for family, which was often displayed but in no greater way than those fabulous Christmas ‘events’ held in her home,” her family wrote. “She was an energetic part of life here on the East End and was loved by many.”

In addition to her sister, Helen Giles, who lives in Bridgeport, Conn., Mrs. Bowe is survived by a brother, the Rev. Carleton J. Giles of Middletown, Conn., her sons, Jonathan Keegan Bowe of Herndon, Va., and Jarred Giles Bowe of Brooklyn, a stepson, Troy Bowe of Bellport, and two granddaughters.

A funeral service was held on Saturday at the First Baptist Church. The Brockett Funeral Home of Southampton assisted, and Mrs. Bowe was buried at Edgewood Cemetery in Bridgehampton.

Visiting hours for Fred Bock, who died at home in East Hampton on Monday, will be held today from 2 to 4 and from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A Mass will be said tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church. Mr. Bock was 86. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Dorothy Pierson Page Early, a lifelong resident of Sag Harbor who was known as Tootsie, died on Dec. 24 at the Westhampton Beach Care Center. She was 70 and had been seriously ill since November.

Ms. Early was a waitress and a bartender, working at many places including Elsie’s in Sag Harbor, Sugar Plum in Bridgehampton, and, most recently, the Dockside restaurant at the American Legion Hall in Sag Harbor. For the last 14 years, she had cared for her four grandchildren, and enjoyed it immensely, her family said.

She was born in Southampton on Jan. 19, 1945, one of five children of George Page and the former Phyllis Warner. She graduated from Pierson High School in 1962. She and Edward Early were married for about 12 years, although they were not living together when she was taken ill.

Ms. Early is survived by two daughters, Rachel Dee and Rebecca Early, both of Sag Harbor, and a son, Christopher Hooper, formerly of Sag Harbor. She also leaves a brother, Barry Page of Sag Harbor, who is known as Joe, and her grandchildren.

A service was held on Dec. 29 at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor, and she was buried at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church Cemetery, also in Sag Harbor. Memorial donations in her name have been suggested to the Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance Corp, P.O. Box 2725, Sag Harbor 11963.

Dr. Leon Peltz, a New York City physician with a 40-year-long attachment to the East End, died at his North Haven home on Jan. 8. He was 81 and had suffered from diabetic and hypertensive heart disease, his family said.

Dr. Peltz’s life encompassed flying around the world in military and civilian aircraft, studying medicine in Europe, and practicing in Manhattan, but he apent much of the last 15 years on North Haven, serving on the Southampton Town Disability Advisory Committee and otherwise being active in the community.

He was born on Aug. 4, 1934, to Julius Peltz and the former Anna Katz. He grew up in Mount Vernon, N.Y. His family said he was an exceptional student who went to Cornell University at 16.

After graduating, he served four years in the Air Force’s Military Air Transport Service, during which he met and married Barbara Loreto. He was discharged with the rank of captain and with skills he would later put to use during medical school vacations, flying cargo airlines that provided tuition money and a wealth of stories. One involved flying a planeload of 1,500 live, pregnant minks from a breeder in Norway to one in Japan over the polar ice cap in a propeller plane.

Always open to the world and new experiences, he started medical school at the Municipal University of Amsterdam, undaunted by the fact that he spoke no Dutch. He learned the language quickly, helped by the universality of the language of science, his family said.

After earning what was known as a candidate’s degree in Amsterdam, he earned a doctorate at the New York State University Downstate Medical Center,  trained in internal medicine at the former St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan, and then in gastroenterology in Rochester, N.Y., and overseas in London.

While conducting a practice in Manhattan from 1968 to 2002, he also served at times as the medical director of Coltec Industries, associate medical director for Time Inc., and medical director of the home care department at St. Vincent’s, where he was an attending physician.

He relished his solo practice as an opportunity to get to know the wide range of people who walked through his doors as patients, from executives and entertainers to an order of nuns. Patients knew him, his family said, as a caring and generous doctor who took time to talk and treat them as individuals.

While living in New York, he and his wife were also regulars and then homeowners in the Sag Harbor area. They made North Haven their home after his retirement in 2002.

Beyond his professional accomplishments, he was a jazz aficionado who could name the players on a recording he hadn’t heard in years, a thoughtful conversationalist, and a man who brimmed with kindness, knowledge, optimism, and a gentle desire to see others thrive.

His wife and his daughter, Jennifer Peltz, a former East Hampton Star reporter and editor who now lives in Manhattan, survive him.

A memorial will be held at a later date. Memorial contributions have been suggested to Human Resources of the Hamptons, 168 Hill Street, Southampton 11968.

William Hubert Duggan Jr. of Southampton, an attorney with a practice in East Hampton for nearly 40 years who had been a member of the board of directors of Southampton Hospital and Guild Hall in East Hampton, died on Jan. 6 at Southampton Hospital at the age of 77. His death was due to complications of emphysema, his son, William H. Duggan III, said.

Mr. Duggan described his father as always doing what was honorable, just, and gracious in both his personal and professional life. “Dad exemplified how an attorney should act with clients and peers,” he said, adding that he had heard how his father had mentored young attorneys, his staff, and real estate agents and others who sought his advice. “His ability and gift to teach with respect and patience resonated,” he said. “His temperament, perspective, logic, and kindness were a comfort for clients” as he advised them about selling or buying properties or planning estates.

In 1971, Mr. Duggan became a partner of the East Hampton attorney Clifford Edwards. Edwards & Duggan represented East End companies and individuals in real estate, corporate, and trust and estate matters throughout the years. In 2005, the firm merged with Farrell Fritz, where he continued as counsel until 2007. Last year, he celebrated more than 50 years as a member of the Suffolk County Bar Association.

He was born on April 29, 1938, in Jamaica, Queens, to William H. Duggan and the former Ruth Slevin. He grew up in Manhasett, where he graduated from Saint Mary’s High School in 1955. He studied economics at Dartmouth College, and after graduating in 1959, he spent two years as a Navy lieutenant junior grade on the U.S.S. Massey, traveling the globe. When he returned in 1961, he enrolled at Fordham University Law School, where he received his law degree in 1964. He started his career at Shearman & Sterling in New York City.

Mr. Duggan married Kathryn Ruffer Gilmartin on Aug. 14, 1965, in South­ampton, his wife’s hometown. His family said she was the love of his life. The couple moved there four years later, and he briefly joined the Gilmartin & Gilmartin law firm.

Mr. Duggan was active in both the Southampton and East Hampton communities, serving as a member, president, and secretary of the East Hampton Rotary for more than 35 years,  and was honored as a Paul Harris Fellow.

He served for 12 years on the South­ampton Hospital board, at various times as secretary, pension and personnel practices committee chairman, and a member of its executive, governance and nominating, and facilities and properties committees. He was also a founding member of the board of directors of the Peconic Health Corporation. He was a member of the board of Guild Hall for six years and was on the board of directors of the Nyack Boys School in Southampton for two years. 

Mr. Duggan enjoyed spending time with his family, including twin grandchildren, his family said. He found time to enjoy golf, read, and travel. While he lived in Southampton year-round, he had a house on Gardiner’s Bay in Amagansett for a time, and spent winters in West Palm Beach, Fla.

His children survive him. They are Ann G. Duggan of Southampton and William H. Duggan III of Manhattan. Also surviving  are his brothers, Robert Duggan of Greenfield, Mass., and David Duggan of Bedford, N.Y., two grandchildren, and 24 nieces and nephews.

His wife of nearly 50 years died in March 2015. “The love that Mom and Dad shared was pure, breathtaking, and timeless,” their son said.

Mr. Duggan was also predeceased by a sister, Alexandra Loyola Duggan, in 2005.

A Mass was said at the Basillca of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Southampton on Tuesday morning with the Rev. Michael A. Vetrano officiating.

Memorial donations have been suggested to the Southampton Hospital Foundation, 240 Meeting House Lane, Southampton 11968, or the Sacred Heart Ministry Fund or the In Nomine Domini Fund of the Basillca Parish of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, 168 Hill Street, Southampton 11968.

Joe D. Roberts, a veteran of the Army who spent many years employed by the South Shore Produce Company in Bridgehampton, died of cardiac arrest on Dec. 30 at Lakeland Regional Medical Center in Lakeland, Fla. He was 92 years old.

Mr. Roberts was born on Jan. 22, 1923, in Monticello, Fla., one of four children of the Rev. Joe D. Roberts and the former Maggie Ellis. He grew up and was educated there. He enlisted in the Army in 1943, eventually serving in Japan, and was honorably discharged in 1946.

Mr. Roberts and his wife, Mattie Pearl Roberts, whom he lovingly called Sally, were married for more than 50 years, having come to Bridgehampton to pursue employment. She died in 2004. Two of their five children, a daughter, Josephine Roberts, and a son, Charles Cherry, also died before him.

The couple moved to Fort Pierce, Fla., after Mr. Roberts retired in 1990. Last January, he moved to Winter Haven, Fla., to live with a cousin, Joyce Beales, who helped care for him.

His family said he was a soft-spoken man who had a strong belief in God. “He was a very generous, kind-hearted, and loving man who was always willing to lend a helping hand to anyone in need,” according to the program used at his funeral service.

Mr. Roberts is survived by two children who live in Bridgehampton, James Cherry and Sandra Singleton. Ha also is survived by his son David Manning of Winter Haven, and by many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, cousins, and nieces and nephews.

A service was held last Friday at the First Baptist Church in Southampton, with the Rev. Henry Faison Jr. officiating and the Rev. Michael Jackson offering a prayer. Mr. Roberts was buried as a veteran at Calverton National Cemetery.

Linda Tuthill, who had worked as a nurse’s aide at Southampton Hospital, died on Dec. 15 at Peconic Bay Medical Centers in Riverhead. She was 69, and had been treated for lung cancer for about a year.

She was born in Queens to Gus Diamandis and the former Rosemarie Marozzi, but grew up on Squaw Road in East Hampton and attended the Springs School.

Ms. Tuthill was a nature lover, and had studied marine biology. She enjoyed the wildlife of both land and sea and painting pictures of them. She also enjoyed making jewelry and knitting scarves, giving the results of her crafts as gifts to friends and family.

Ms. Tuthill graduated from the Springs School and East Hampton High School. Her family said that despite being fair-skinned and having strawberry blonde hair, she took long walks along the beach, collecting seashells. Her love of the ocean took her to the Caribbean, where she learned to dive over coral reefs. In addition to working at Southampton Hospital she later worked at the Stop & Shop store in Riverhead.

She was married to Robert Tuthill and the couple moved to Hampton Bays in the 1970s. The marriage ended in divorce. Though she remained in Hampton Bays, she was a constant visitor to extended family in East Hampton.

She is survived by four sisters, three of whom make East Hampton their home: Joan Field, Carol Cerchiai, and Susan Flaherty. Her sister Diana Cattone lives in Lawrenceville, N.J. Her family said she had no children but that her many nieces and nephews loved her dearly and called her Aunt Minnie.

Ms. Field said Ms. Tuthill was her own son’s, Travis Field’s, godmother. An annual softball tournament in East Hampton was named in his honor after is death in an auto accident at the age of 20. Proceeds of the event, which Ms. Tuthill made a point of attending, went for scholarships for East Hampton High School students.

A funeral Mass was held for Ms. Tuthill at the Catholic Church of St. Rosalie in Hampton Bays on Dec. 17. She was buried in Southampton Cemetery.

Gilbert E. Kaplan, who made his fortune as a publisher in the financial world but gained international renown for conducting Mahler’s Second Symphony, died on New Year’s Day in Manhattan of cancer, at 74. He had been diagnosed in October.

Mr. Kaplan began his financial career as an economist with the American Stock Exchange. In 1967, having noted that professional investors did not have a publication devoted to their field, he borrowed $150,000 to launch the monthly magazine Institutional Investor. It quickly turned a profit, and he found himself a self-made millionaire at the age of 27. He remained its editor-in-chief after selling the by-then multimedia company in 1984 to Capital Cities Communications for what was reported to be over $70 million.

His dedication to the Mahler Second began in 1965 when a friend invited him to a rehearsal of the symphony at Carnegie Hall. Leopold Stokowski was the conductor, and the experience was a life-changer. “I felt like a bolt of lightning had gone through me,” he told The Star in 2001. “The music just seemed to wrap its arms around me and never let go.”

 By the time of his death, he had led 60 orchestras in the work, among them the Vienna Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Philharmonic Orchestra of La Scala. The London Symphony Orchestra’s performance of the Second, with Mr. Kaplan on the podium, is the best-selling recording ever made of the work.

He first conducted it in 1982 with 119 members of the American Symphony Orchestra, before an audience of some 2,500 invited guests at Avery Fisher Hall, which he had rented. He had studied it for 17 years, putting in long hours working here in East Hampton with a known conductor and traveling to rehearsals and performances from Missouri to Melbourne. Over the years, he would make a short speech, which he had memorized in 18 languages, before each of his performances. He was able to conduct the work from memory, using a baton that had belonged to Mahler himself.

Although some critics remained skeptical that a person with little musical experience could achieve greatness as a conductor, Mr. Kaplan received extraordinary praise from the start. His very first performance, said The Village Voice’s critic, was “one of the most profoundly realized Mahler Seconds in the last 25 years.”

Acknowledging that he was an amateur, Mr. Kaplan limited performances to three a year and never accepted a fee.

In 2008, when he conducted a performance in Manhattan by the New York Philharmonic, The New York Times critic Steve Smith wrote that “every gesture had purpose and impact, and the performance as a whole had an inexorable sweep. To think there is nothing else to know of Mahler’s Second beyond what Mr. Kaplan has to show would be a mistake. But it seems likely that no one is better equipped to reveal the impact of precisely what Mahler put on the page.”

In fact, Mr. Kaplan had become a scholar not only of Mahler’s music but of his life. He was able to buy the original manuscript of the Second, telling an interviewer that seeing the composer’s handwritten notes made it possible for him to follow his intentions more precisely. He also collected memorabilia and lectured frequently on Mahler, doing so to a full house at Guild Hall in East Hampton on April 19, 2014.

Mr. Kaplan and the former Lena Biorck, who survives, met at Georgica Beach in East Hampton, where, for the rest of his life, he took daily walks whenever possible, with her or some of their four children. A recent family Christmas card contained a photo taken there.

The family house on Apaquogue Road in East Hampton was purchased in 1969. Mr. Kaplan, who enjoyed diving, had one-meter and three-meter diving boards installed at the pool and for several years invited Olympic divers such as Greg Louganis and their mutual coach Ron O’Brien to display their skills and attend parties, including one at which everyone wore white. For the most part, though, Mr. Kaplan led a quiet life here, going with his children to the Clam Bar on Napeague or the Palm restaurant in East Hampton Village for a steak.

Norman Lebrecht, who wrote about an early performance for the London Sunday Times and later became a close friend, said, “He was a lovely man: warm, funny, loyal, and brave. I spent time with him last month and treasure every moment of our friendship, which lasted half my life.’

Mr. Kaplan conducted the Choral Society of the Hamptons in the final movement of the Mahler Second Symphony twice. In order for the group to perform it, he re-orchestrated it, terming the finished work a chorale. The full, five-movement, 90-minute symphony calls for more than 100 instruments and a huge chorus; here it was performed by 22 instrumentalists and some 50 choristers. Mr. Kaplan told the Star interviewer that it had been fascinating to arrange the work for a chamber ensemble.

The Kaplans are art collectors as well, owning works by Dali, Miro, Picasso, Man Ray, and Magritte, whose paintings Mr. Kaplan had cataloged, as well as a bust of Mahler by Rodin. Mr. Kaplan told The Star that “if you define Surrealism as . . . ‘that point where the real and unreal meet’ there is much in Mahler’s music that can meet this definition.”

He was born in Manhattan on March 3, 1941, and grew up on Long Island, in Lawrence. He had piano lessons for a few years as a child, the extent of his musical training. He attended Duke University, transferring to the New School for Social Research in Manhattan, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree, and attending New York University Law School.

In addition to his wife, Mr. Kaplan is survived by his children, Kristina Wallison and Claude Davies, both of New York, and John Kaplan and Emily Kaplan, both of Los Angeles, and by eight grandchildren. A brother died before him.

The family received friends at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel in Manhattan last Thursday. He was buried at Oakland Cemetery in Sag Harbor on Saturday. The family said they would have a memorial, ”with much music,” in the spring.

Mr. Kaplan addressed the unusual tacks his life was taking in an op-ed in The New York Times in 1983, writing: “We all have dreams and there is no question that one of life’s great tragedies is that so few of us fulfill them . . . it’s a lack of nerve, an unwillingness to take the necessary risks.” Mr. Kaplan took those risks and fulfilled his dreams.