Peter Gettinger, a financier and movie producer who had a house on East Hollow Road in East Hampton Village from 1978 to 2005, died at home in Miami on Oct. 23. He was 84 and had been ill with cancer for 11 months.

    He financed many films, including the Martin Luther King Jr. documentary “Montgomery to Memphis,” co-produced the feature “Force 10 From Navarone,” and produced two documentaries on China. In 1973, he was the executive producer of the made-for-TV movie “The President’s Plane Is Missing.”

    Mr. Gettinger co-founded Hotel Films International in Paris, which led to American feature films being shown in hotel rooms around the world. Mr. Gettinger also founded First Czechoslovakian Capital Corporation, which provided micro-loans to small businesses in the newly formed Czech Republic.

    Born in Brooklyn on March 21, 1928, to Edward Gettinger and the former Vivian Wollman, he was raised in Brooklyn and Manhattan. He was a graduate of Oberlin College and Cornell Law School and served in the Naval Reserve during the Korean War.

    Mr. Gettinger became a partner in the Gettinger and Gettinger law firm, owned by his father, and later at Shea, Gould. He served as bank counsel to Trade Bank and Trust Company, National Bank of North America, and Bank Depot. He served as special counsel to the entertainment division of Chemical Bank, and as vice chairman and counsel to Commonwealth United Corp. He had offices in London, Paris, and Prague.

    He was married on Nov. 24, 1974, to the former Whitney Andrews, who said they enjoyed many weekends at their East Hampton house. The couple and their children spent Christmas vacations there. Ms. Gettinger said her husband liked to garden and to photograph the beaches and dunes of the South Fork, especially at Georgica Beach. When he wasn’t traveling through Europe, Russia, and China, he enjoyed playing golf.

    Mr. Gettinger is survived by five children, three from his first marriage to Mildred Manheimer, who died in the early 1980s — John Gettinger of Mount Kisco, N.Y., Ellen Grubbs of Atlanta, and Pamela Tucker of Cross River, N.Y. His two surviving sons from his second marriage are Geoffrey Gettinger of Arlington, Va., and James Gettinger of New York City. A brother, Dr. Stephen Gettinger, died before him.

    A private memorial service will be held in New York City at a later date. Donations in his name have been suggested to the National Park Foundation, 1201 Eye Street NW, Suite 550B, Washington, D.C. 20005, or online at nationalparks.org.

    Albert Francis Sharp, a painter who lived on Buell Lane in East Hampton, died at his home studio on Sept. 29. He was 90.

    “His love of life, his love of his many devoted friends, and his love of the arts and nature was his essence,” an obituary prepared by Carroll West Jones and several other of his friends said. “His sense of humor was hilarious and he was a raconteur par excellence, ever ready to regale us with amusing stories from his wide and colorful experiences.”

    “He lived every day with a smile on his face and joy in his heart,” they said.

    Mr. Sharp was born in Newark, N.J., on July 26, 1922, to Myrtle and Albert Francis Sharp Sr. He attended Rutgers University and the Newark School of Fine and Applied Arts. He went on to study at the Art Students League in New York and at Syracuse University.

    After his studies, he had a brief stint in the Army and later spent years in Hollywood’s golden age film industry, where he knew many of the great stars of the time and landed roles as a dancer in several musicals.

    Mr. Sharp described his early professional wanderings in a 1970 interview in The East Hampton Star. He said he had had as many as 200 jobs, which included painting ties, addressing fan mail for the actress Joan Fontaine, appearing in a movie starring Judy Garland, driving a two-ton junk truck, farm work, and making blueprints of submarine engines.

    He traveled extensively in Europe with close friends and spent many months painting and living in France, Italy, and Spain. In 1962, in New York City, he met his partner of 50 years, Gordon Peavy, a ballet dancer and teacher, who would for many years run a dance studio in East Hampton.

    In the late 1960s Mr. Sharp and Mr. Peavy moved into their East Hampton cottage and art studio, where they cultivated surrounding flower gardens reflecting their love of light and color.

    East Hampton, he said in 1970, reminded him of the best qualities of European life: “the philosophic attitude, the friendliness, politeness, the organization of the seasons, and the pace of life.”

    Mr. Sharp painted every day until the end of his life. His most popular paintings were seascapes and vibrant, light-infused landscapes of Italy, France, Spain, and East Hampton. His work has been shown all over the world, primarily in New York, Paris, Boston, San Francisco, and throughout Long Island. He had been in Vogue, House and Garden, House Beautiful, and Town and Country magazines.

    Mr. Sharp’s painting earned him the Grand Prix de Paris in 1960, the Long Island Painters Award in 1970, and the Parrish Art Museum Award in 1974. He was also instrumental in bringing internationally known musicians and dancers to East Hampton, including the Budapest String Quartet and the dancers Edward Villella and Patricia McBride.

    As an artist, he told The Star in 1970, “When I paint I want to do something that will make someone happy 50 to 100 years from now.”

    It was in the 1970s that he and Mr. Peavy opened Gallery East on Main Street in East Hampton. The gallery was subsequently relocated to the then-new Amagansett Square. Mr. Sharp ran the first-floor gallery, and Mr. Peavy ran a successful framing business upstairs.

    During this period Mr. Sharp designed costumes and sets for a production of “The Fantasticks” at Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater. He created a poster for the Hampton Classic Horse Show and a painting of East Hampton’s Ladies Village Improvement Society house from which posters and stationery were printed.

    He was Buddhist for all of his adult life, a world view reflected in his views of gardening, which he described in the 1970 interview: “Flowers have to die to be reborn; they die and seed and come to life again. I suppose that’s why I believe in reincarnation — a fingerprint, a soul must be duplicated in time.”

    On Aug. 6, 2011, soon after the New York State Marriage Equality Act was passed, Mr. Sharp and Mr. Peavy were married in their blooming pergola garden. Mr. Peavy died four months later, on Dec. 6.

  Eugene Simonoff, who had a house in the Georgica Estates section of East Hampton, died at his residence in New York City on Oct. 14. He was 95.

  Mr. Simonoff was a mergers and acquisitions consultant whose firm, Eugene Simonoff and Associates, had clients such as BNA, The New York Times, John Wiley, Wolters Kluwer, and Thomson Reuters over the past 22 years. He was associated with publishing firms and read several newspapers every day. He was a particular fan of The New York Times and the letters section of The East Hampton Star.

  Mr. Simonoff was born on Oct. 5, 1917, in New York City to Louis and Fannie B. Simonoff. He attended Cornell University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in English. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia University.

  Mr. Simonoff served for four years in the United States Army in World War II, assigned primarily to the Pentagon, but he also was sent to Algeria and Morocco. After the war, he began a career in publishing at the Ronald Press, a professional and college textbook firm, as an editor and then executive vice president. He then joined the legal and professional publisher Warren, Gorham and Lamont, launching its textbook division. It was there that he became involved in acquisition expansion strategy, leading to his next career.

   Mr. Simooff was a devoted theater patron, dating from his Cornell years. He also followed politics. In East Hampton, he played tennis, took long walks, and enjoyed the ocean beach at Georgica, where he liked to socialize with a group his wife, Lenore Fiddelman Simonoff, called the Georgica Salon. He was also excellent at Ping Pong.

   Mr. Simonoff is survived by his wife, and two children from his marriage to the former Elizabeth Sage, who died before him. They are Evan Simonoff of New York City and Emily Simonoff of London. He also is survived by two grandchildren, two stepchildren, and five step-grandchildren. A service was held on Oct. 16 at the Riverside Memorial Chapel in New York City, with a graveside service at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Queens. A memorial lunch was also held, at the Cornell Club in the city. Memorial donations have been suggested to New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Hospital’s department of cardiology, attention Dr. Steven Corwin, 525 East 68th Street, New York 10065.

    A memorial service celebrating the life of Elizabeth Fondaras will be held next Thursday at 11 a.m. at St. James’ Episcopal Church, 865 Madison Avenue, in Manhattan. Ms. Fondaras died on Aug. 29 in New York City. She was 96.

    William W. Talmage, who served under Gen. George Patton in the Third Army during World War II and lived in East Hampton for most of his life, died on Nov. 13 at Brookhaven Hospital in Patchogue. He was 89.

    Mr. Talmage was born in Springs on April 19, 1923, to James and Lois Talmage. In 1943, he was sent to Europe as a marksman and machine gunner in the Third Army. Under General Patton’s leadership, the Third Army advanced farther, captured more enemy prisoners, and liberated more territory in less time than any other army in history, according to Gen. Brenton G. Wallace’s 1946 memoir, “Patton and His Third Army.” The conflict took Mr. Talmage through Belgium, France, Luxembourg, and Germany, said his daughter, Brenda Grodski of Riverhead.

    Mr. Talmage did not talk much about his war experience, his daughter said. “ ‘I was one of the lucky ones,’ were the only words he ever spoke to me,” she said. “He left his best buddy there, right beside him.”

    After the war, on Jan. 19, 1948, he married Florence Bye, who survives him. For many years, said Ms. Grodski, he was an employee of the Town of East Hampton. Initially a heavy-equipment operator, he rose to the position of deputy supervisor, his daughter said. Mr. Talmage was also a member of the American Legion post in Amagansett.

    To many residents, Mr. Talmage was also known as Farmer Bill, as he grew vegetables and flowers on land he rented at the Peach Farm in Northwest Woods. “He had a big following,” Ms. Grodski remembered.

    In later years, Mr. Talmage suffered from macular degeneration, and ultimately lost his eyesight. Seven years ago he moved to Riverhead, where he lived next door to Ms. Grodski and her family.

    In addition to his wife and daughter, Mr. Talmage is survived by two sons, Mark W. Talmage and William J. Talmage, both of East Hampton, and another daughter, Christine Talmage of East Hampton. He is also survived by six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. A sister, Louise Gagne of East Hampton, died before him.

    “He loved his family,” Ms. Grodski said. “He loved his wife dearly. . . . He would do anything for anybody if they needed it.”

    A funeral was held on Saturday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, followed by burial at Green River Cemetery in Springs. The family has suggested memorial donations to American Legion Post 419, 15 Montauk Highway, Amagansett 11930, or to Talking Books, a free library service in which local cooperating libraries mail audiobooks and audio equipment, braille books, and magazines to enrollees.

    Isabel Theresa Winsch, who worked for the Suffolk County police for 35 years and before that, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, while raising seven children, died at home in East Hampton on Sunday. She was 87.

    Ms. Winsch became a clerk at the F.B.I.’s field office in New York City, where she met her future husband, Lawrence A. Winsch, who was a photographer and bureau agent. The couple married on Jan. 25, 1947. Mr. Winsch died in 1994.

    The Winsches lived in the Bronx, then moved east to Commack, and finally to East Patchogue in the early 1960s. A religious woman, Ms. Winsch was active in her Catholic parish there, at St. Joseph the Worker church.

    Born in the Bronx on Sept. 24, 1925, the daughter of James P. Nolan and the former Rose Lowe, she graduated from Cathedral High School in that borough.

    She moved to East Hampton seven years ago to live with her eldest daughter, Joan Jacobs. After her retirement in 1997 from the County Police Department, where she was a clerk, her family said that she spent time visiting children and grandchildren. She also enjoyed reading.

    Besides Ms. Jacobs, Ms. Winsch is survived by her other children, Deirdre Herzog, Doreen Tibbetts, and Michael Winsch of East Hampton, Claudia Jacobsen of Fairhaven, Mass., Gabrielle LaCroxis of Millstone, N.J., and April Niles of Charlotte, N.C. Sixteen grandchildren and four great-grandchildren also survive.

    A wake will be held tomorrow at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, with visiting hours from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. A service will take place at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton on Saturday at 11 a.m., with Msgr. Donald Hansen presiding. Burial will follow at the Most Holy Trinity Cemetery.

    The family has suggested memorial donations to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978, or to the Dominican Sisters Family Health Service, 103-6 West Montauk Highway, Hampton Bays 11946.

    An obituary in last week’s paper for William W. Talmage, who died on Nov. 13, gave the street address but not the mailing address for one organization to which his family has suggested memorial contributions. The mailing address for American Legion Post 419 is P.O. Box 1343, East Hampton 11937. His family also suggested donations to the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, 40 West 20th Street, New York City 10011-4211.

    Elaine Tuccillo, 66, died at home in Montauk on Nov. 16. She will be buried at Fort Hill Cemetery in that hamlet on Saturday at 1 p.m. A full obituary will appear in a future issue.

    Visiting hours for Joseph Holmes of Oakview Highway, East Hampton, who died on Tuesday at the age of 70, will be at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton tomorrow from 7 to 9 p.m.

    A funeral for him will be Saturday at 11:30 a.m. at the Yardley and Pino. Burial will follow at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton.

    Visiting hours for Ellen Menaik Cox of Sag Harbor, who died at Southampton Hospital on Sunday, will be held tonight from 7 to 9 at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor. Ms. Cox was 86. A service will be held at the funeral home tomorrow at 11 a.m. Burial will follow at Oakland Cemetery in Sag Harbor. An obituary will appear in a future issue.