Anne M. Black Koehler of East Hampton, a maternity nurse at Southampton Hospital for 24 years, died on Nov. 24 at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn of complications following heart surgery. She was 78.

    Many people who recognized her from the hospital would stop her on the street or in a store to introduce her to their children whom she had helped deliver, her family said. “People always told us what a special nurse she was to them.”

    She was born on July 20, 1934, at Southampton Hospital to James Black and the former Kitty Murphy. She grew up in East Hampton, graduating from East Hampton High School in 1952 before going on to the Mount Vernon School of Nursing, from which she graduated in 1955 as a registered nurse.

    In 1957, she married Frank Koehler. The couple lived in Brooklyn until 1970, when they moved back to East Hampton.

    Ms. Koehler was a lifelong member of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, where she was a eucharistic minister, served on the parish counsel, and was president of the church’s Sunshine Club. She was also a Birth Rite volunteer and a member of the Red Hat Society, a women’s social club. She was a regular at the East Hampton Town Senior Citizens Center and volunteered at St. Gabriel’s Retreat House on Shelter Island. In years past, she was a member of the American Legion Ladies Auxiliary.

    “She made a difference in many people’s lives with her love and tremendous faith,” her family wrote. Many people beyond her three daughters called her “Mom,” her family wrote.

    As her children grew up and had children of their own, she became a die-hard fan of any sports her grandchildren played, and could be seen on the field in all seasons, no matter the weather. In October, she went to Connecticut just to see her 6-year-old grandson play flag football.

    Not only was she quick to travel to see her grandchildren, but she also loved to travel with them and with her many friends. She enjoyed reading and was proud of her Irish heritage.

    Her husband died in 1984. She is survived by her daughters, Kathleen Albrecht of Hampton Bays, Suzanne Mayer of Sag Harbor, and JoAnne Koehler-Wood of Madison, Conn. She also leaves four grandchildren, two siblings, Eddie Black of East Hampton and Downey Harwood of North Haven, and many nieces and nephews.

    A service was held on Nov. 28 at Most Holy Trinity. Burial followed at the church cemetery on Cedar Street. The family has suggested memorial donations in her name to In Jordan’s Honor, 133 Harbor Watch Court, Sag Harbor 11963, or to Jordan’s Initiative, P.O. Box 2848, Sag Harbor.

    A memorial service for Louise Wilson of East Hampton, who died on Dec. 8, will take place on Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Calvary Baptist Church on Spinner Lane in East Hampton.

    Last week’s obituary for Ms. Wilson should have included the name of her son Windell Gant of Waterboro, S.C.

    John R. Talmage, who grew up in East Hampton and the Bronx, died on Dec. 5 in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, following an aneurism. He was 74.

    Mr. Talmage was born in New York City on Feb. 2, 1938. Raised in East Hampton by his mother, the former Ruth Thinnes, and his stepfather, Donald Gould, he graduated from East Hampton High School with the class of 1955 and went on to Pace College and Rutgers University, eventually becoming a certified public accountant.

    He was married on Oct. 6, 1962, to Barbara Forste, who survives. They lived in Bronxville, N.Y., and East Brunswick, N.J., in the 1960s, moved to Erie, Pa., and finally settled in Brook Park, Ohio, in the 1970s, where Mr. Talmage had his own C.P.A. business.

    His parents, who have since died, lived in East Hampton for many years until retiring to Florida.

    Mr. Talmage was a family man who loved sailing and his dogs.

    In addition to his wife, he leaves two daughters, Sharon Cowley of Strongsville, Ohio, and Jean Hribar of Brunswick, Ohio, as well as three grandchildren, a sister, Mary Lou Kutscha of Elmhurst, Ill., and a brother, Stephen Gould of Shelton, Conn.

    A service was held at the Busch Funeral Home in Parma, Ohio, on Dec. 10. Mr. Talmage was cremated.

    His family has suggested memorial contributions to the Berea Animal Rescue Fund, 400 Barrett Road, Berea, Ohio, 44017.

    James Joseph Corless of Montauk and Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., died of a heart attack on Dec. 11 while en route to Montauk. Mr. Corless, who was known to friends and family as Jim, was the founder and chief executive of Datacom Management Sciences of Norwalk, Conn. He was 85.

    D.M.S.I., as the company is known, provides equipment for large-scale communications systems for such clients as the United States Navy and Coast Guard. During the 1980s, Mr. Corless oversaw its work on the automation of many of the U.S.’s major telephone switching systems.

    He was born in 1927 in Brooklyn, the first of two children of Michael and Marie Corless. When he was young, the family moved to Woodside, Queens, where later he played semi-professional football for the Woodside Incas.

    In 1945, he entered the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, where he majored in marine engineering. After the academy, he attended communications officers school at Scott Air Force Base in Arizona.

    In 1951, after graduating from Manhattan College with an engineering degree, he went to work as a telegraph and data communications engineer for the federal Bureau of Ships and the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington, D.C.

    In 1960, Mr. Corless left Washington and moved into the private sector, as a liaison to Washington. In 1969, he co-founded Fairfield Data Technologies, which consulted on network design, equipment evaluation, and traffic analysis.

    It was aboard his Hatteras Sportsfisherman boat in 1985 that he and Ms. Corless first visited Montauk at the suggestion of their hired captain. They moved the boat from Connecticut to Montauk that same year.

    For the first few years, they spent summer weekends in Montauk, living aboard their boat while docked at the Montauk Yacht Club and fishing often. In 1991 he was the winner of the Star Island Yacht Club’s first-ever Mako Mania shark tournament. He loved Montauk, his family said, and spent most of his time there.

    In the 1990s, they bought an apartment at the Montauk Manor. Spending time there, they noticed the derelict Montauk Playhouse nearby and later became strong supporters of a successful effort to build a community center there.

    In 2008, the Montauk Playhouse Committee honored the Corlesses at its Harbor Lights gala at the Montauk Lake Club.

    In addition to Ms. Corless, he is survived by two sons, James Corless II of Trumbull, Conn., and Michael Corless of San Diego, and two daughters, Carolyn Corless of San Diego and Gina Mills of Trumbull, as well as a grandchild.

    A memorial service for him will be held tomorrow at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk at 11:30 a.m.

    Mr. Corless’s family has suggested donations in his memory to the Montauk Playhouse Community Center Foundation, P.O. Box 1612, Montauk 11954 or to the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, 90 Daniel’s Hole Road, Wainscott 11975.

    Dr. Elaine Tuccillo, 66, a clinical psychologist, died at her Hither Hills residence on Nov. 16 of lung cancer. She had been diagnosed with the disease in June.

    Though she smoked cigarettes as a young woman, her husband, Dr. Scott Baum, said they were stunned at the diagnosis. “She was a strong, healthy person,” he said.

    Dr. Tuccillo was born to Charles Tuccillo and the former Victoria Castiglia on Aug. 17, 1946, in Mount Vernon, N.Y., where she grew up. In 1977, after graduating from Mt. Vernon High School and the State University at Albany, she received a Ph.D. from City College.

    “We met in grad school,” Dr. Baum said on Saturday at a family gathering at their Montauk residence. Both were preparing for their first doctoral exams, he said, and found an immediate attraction, both as students and companions. They were soon married and went on to become clinical psychologists, sharing office space together in Manhattan. They lived on the Upper West Side and spent summers in a group rental on Fire Island.

    “We were Fire Islanders, paying $3,000 a share,” said Dr. Baum, until it went to $10,000. “We were priced out.”

    After a visit with friends in Montauk, they began to look for a house. “She fell in love and said, ‘This is where I want to be.’ We started looking at houses. I was up here and she was down there; she was much more sensible.’ ” When they saw a place on Laurel Drive in Hither Hills, they knew they’d found their home.

    “She came to love it so,” said Dr. Baum. She loved walking the beach near the house, he said, and watching sunsets at Lazy Point. “She’d go out there and look up and down the beach and say, ‘I can’t believe we live here.’ ”

    Dr. Tuccillo, who loved yard sales, decorated the house with her finds, combining mid-century modern, folk art, and “practical” antiques. She had a creative touch with plants as well. Her son, Jonathan Baum-Tuccillo, pointing to two palm trees in the house, said they were “rescue plants from a basement in Sag Harbor.” They had grown four feet, he said, since she brought them home.

    Dr. Baum lauded her physician, Dr. Tony Knott, and East End Hospice for the devoted care they gave his wife. East End Hospice, he said, “made it possible for her to be with us” at the end.

     In addition to her husband and son, who lives in Huntington, Dr. Tuccillo leaves a daughter, Mica Baum-Tuccillo of Manhattan. Burial at Fort Hill Cemetery followed Saturday’s gathering.

    Joseph Holmes of East Hampton, a familiar face from 27 years of service at the East Hampton Post Office, died of lung cancer at Southampton Hospital on Nov. 27. He was 74.

    Mr. Holmes was retired but very active, known for his generosity in helping his elderly neighbors as much for his love of clamming in Three Mile Harbor Creek. Twice a year those passing by on Napeague could see Mr. Holmes on a ladder painting the Clam Bar. His daughter Jodi Jarvis recalled seeing him there on mornings in late fall, up on a ladder when it was windy and cold, “but he didn’t care, he loved it.”

    His pastimes were gardening, doing the Newsday crossword puzzle, watching Nascar races, and cooking — he made an “awesome potato salad,” his family said.

    He was generous in spirit as well, saving easy clues from the crossword puzzle for others to finish for him. His family said he was known as someone who could be counted on to help anyone who needed it.

    He and his wife, Kathy McNeil Holmes, enjoyed traveling annually to Las Vegas. They often visited Florida to see the Daytona 500 and went to races at the Dover International Speedway in Delaware. His favorite drivers were Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Jimmie Johnson.

    Mr. Holmes was born to Russell and Martha Carter Holmes in East Hampton on May 17, 1938. He grew up here, graduating from East Hampton High School.

    He was married to Kathy Holmes for 28 years, and the couple had eight children. In addition to Ms. Jarvis, who lives in East Hampton, they are Christina Vaca of Cincinnati, Joseph Holmes of Southampton, Barbie Kraszewski of Bridgeville, Del., Sherri Smart of Boca Raton, Fla., David Holmes, also of Boca Raton, Patricia Mackay of East Moriches, and Jimmy King of East Hampton.

    A brother, Russell Holmes of Mayo, Fla., 17 grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren also survive. His twin sisters, Carol and Judy, predeceased him.

    A funeral service was held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on Saturday. Burial was at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton. The family has suggested memorial contributions to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978, or to Southampton Hospital, 240 Meeting House Lane, Southampton 11968.

    Beatrice Lorraine Terry Strong, who lived in Wainscott for many years with her husband, Douglas Pierson Strong, and raised a family there, died on Tuesday in Albemarle, N.C., where she had lived for several years. She was 85 and had Alzheimer’s disease, her family said.

    As a New York Telephone Company switchboard operator, Ms. Strong’s voice would have been familiar to several generations of South Fork residents. Later in her working life, she was the switchboard operator at Southampton Hospital.

    She was born on Aug. 4, 1927, at Southampton Hospital to John Beckman Terry and the former Beatrice Evelyn Garypie. She grew up in Sag Harbor, though she graduated from Islip High School.

    She and Mr. Strong married in January 1948, and she joined him on his Wainscott potato farm, their daughter, Terry L. Widmeyer of Richfield, N.C., said. Days on the farm included lots of canning and baking, her daughter said. She also loved to knit and crochet, and was a leader of her children’s Brownie and Cub Scout packs. She was a member of the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.

    In addition to Ms. Widmeyer, she is survived by her husband and two sons, Douglas P. Strong of Southwick, Mass., and James E. Strong of Leslie, Mich., as well as by 8 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren, and 2 great-great grandchildren. A brother, Robert E. Terry, died before her.

    The Rev. Joe Smith of Immanuel Baptist Church will conduct her funeral at the Stanly Funeral Home in Albemarle, N.C., tomorrow at 11 a.m.

    Visiting hours will be Monday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor. A graveside service will follow at Wainscott Cemetery.

    The family has suggested memorial donations to the Alzheimer’s Association Western Carolina Chapter, 3800 Shamrock Drive, No. 999, Charlotte, N.C. 28215-3220.

    Lisa de Kooning, the only child of the Abstract Expressionist painter Willem de Kooning and an artist in her own right, died on Nov. 23 at a family home on the island of St. John in the Virgin Islands, reportedly from injuries after a fall. She was 56.

    After her father died in his Springs studio in 1997, Ms. de Kooning became, with the attorney John Eastman, the conservator of his vast collection of works, valued at many millions of dollars. Over the years she worked with museums on exhibitions of his paintings. The team was credited for contributing to a major retrospective of de Kooning paintings at the Museum of Modern Art last year.

    John Elderfield, the curator of the MoMA show, was quoted as saying that Ms. de Kooning, who was known for altruism, was “very ebullient and very kind to people. She was really, really proud of her father, but she was also her own person.”

    This week, friends commented on Ms. de Kooning’s generosity to both individuals and to community good works. She contributed time and money to the Head Start program, and acted on her love of animals by donating to organizations that protected them. She supported, among others, LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton, the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, the Virgin Islands National Park on St. John, and the Watermill Center, whose director, Robert Wilson, called her an angel. She contributed to diverse local institutions including the Springs Fire Department and the East Hampton Day Care Learning Center.

    “Incredibly generous,” said Mary Beth LaPenna, a friend from Springs. Ms. LaPenna said that for all her wealth, her friend had a somewhat tragic life. In her early years she lived a rich, bohemian existence among East Hampton’s artist community, but “the celebrity left her feeling isolated at times,” Ms. LaPenna said. 

    The photographer Doug Kuntz grew up with Ms. de Kooning in Springs. “She was a very generous person. She would do anything for anyone. She helped me, bought my work, believed in me, and she helped others. She was a good friend for a long, long time.”

    She was born Johanna Liesbeth de Kooning on Jan. 29, 1956, in New York City. Her mother was Joan Ward, an artist who illustrated stories for The Star in the 1980s. At the time of her birth her father and his wife, Elaine de Kooning, were separated.

    Lisa de Kooning spent a good part of her youth on Woodbine Drive in Springs, where her father’s studio was located. She had recently begun an artist-in-residence program for young painters there.

    After attending the Springs School, she studied at Bernard Pfriem’s Lacoste School of the Arts in the south of France, where she learned to sculpt. Animals figured prominently in her bronze sculpture, especially cows.

    In her late teens she moved to the East Village, where she became closely acquainted with the city’s chapter of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang. It was one of the more colorful periods in an already unconventional life. 

    Ms. de Kooning is survived by three daughters, Isabel, Emma, and Lucy de Kooning Villeneuve. Their father is Christian Villeneuve, Ms. de Kooning’s former husband. The couple divorced in 2002.

    Ms. de Kooning’s death continues to be investigated. A private funeral is planned.

   Juana M. Bahamondes of Queens Lane in East Hampton died on Tuesday at the age of 78.

    Visiting hours will be today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, with a funeral Mass scheduled for tomorrow at 10 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery on Cedar Street. A full obituary will appear in a future issue.

    George Dayton Payne III died in his sleep on Dec. 11 at the East Hampton house where he had lived for most of his life. He was 86. In his last years he had emphysema and vascular disease that resulted in the amputation of one of his legs.

    Born in East Hampton on May 18, 1926, to George Payne Jr. and Viola Teale Payne, he graduated from East Hampton High School and went to college for a time before joining the work force. His many jobs included working as a mail carrier and at the Promised Land fish warehouse on Napeague, where he once had to contend with flooding during a hurricane. He also worked on Gardiner’s Island.

    Mr. Payne served in the Navy from Aug. 15, 1944, to July 7, 1946, on the U.S.S. Douglas Fox. His final station was at Lido Beach in Nassau County.

    He married Phyllis Denton in the late 1950s. The couple divorced in 1978. She died in 1991.

    In warm weather, Mr. Payne enjoyed vigils on his porch during which “he liked to watch the cars go by,” said his daughter, Pamela Alvarez, who with her husband lived with Mr. Payne. He would share stories with anyone who would listen, which will be missed, she said.

    Over the years, Mr. Payne enjoyed bowling in several leagues, whittling, gardening, fishing, and spending time at “Caldor East,” an exchange at the East Hampton Town recycling center. “He brought home more than he left,” his family said. He was involved with the Veterans of Foreign Wars and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton.

    In addition to his daughter, Mr. Payne is survived by a sister, Agnes Wingo of Illinois. Another sister, Mary Payne Frayer, and a brother, Jessie Payne, died before him.

    He was buried at Green River Cemetery in Springs, where a graveside service was held on Friday.