Helen Williamson died at home in East Hampton on May 26. She was 93.

     Ms. Williamson was born in South­ampton on Nov. 26, 1917, to Marjan and Lydia Szczepankowski. She grew up on a farm in Wainscott and graduated from East Hampton High School.

    Ms. Williamson raised her five children in Bridgehampton, taking in laundry to earn extra money. She lived in Bridgehampton for 40 years before moving to East Hampton 15 years ago.

    Ms. Williamson was a prolific gardener and had a flower garden in Bridgehampton that reminded her family of window boxes in Holland. She passed along her love of flowers to her grandchildren and her great-grandchildren.

    She enjoyed spending time them, watching them play and grow, her family said.

    Ms. Williamson is survived by her children James Williamson of Sag Harbor, Eileen Cob of Virginia Beach, Va., Helen Wallace of Wilmington, N.C., and Patricia Hanson of Castle Rock, Colo. A fifth child, Michael, died in 1998. She is also survived by 11 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren.

    The family received visitors on May 30 at the O’Connell Funeral Home in Southampton. A Mass of Christian burial was said on May 31 at Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Bridgehampton. Burial followed at Sacred Hearts Catholic Cemetery in Southampton.

   Judith Ann Militare, who was devoted to community theater here, died of cancer last Thursday. She was 61 and had been ill only a short time.

    Ms. Militare worked as a clerk at the Sag Harbor Inn, where she kept a room. It is there she died.

    Her real love was theater, said her daughter, Andrea Cartagena of Philadelphia. She managed the stage at the Montauk Theater when Anita Brown was directing, and was stage manager at the John Drew Theater in East Hampton under Richard Liao and, later, Stephan Espach.

    Ms. Militare was born in Oneonta, N.Y., on April 22, 1950, the daughter of Anthony P. Savarese and the former Margaret Gleasing. She grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, and attended college in Pennsylvania.

    As a child, she often traveled to Montauk with her father. The family moved there in 1986. She married Hal Militare, whom she met through the music business in New York City, in 1980. The couple separated.

    In addition to Ms. Cartagena, Ms. Militare is survived by another daughter, Marcy Carter of Flanders, and three grandchildren.

    Ms. Militare was cremated. Visiting hours were held on Sunday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor.

    Memorial contributions were suggested to the John Drew Theater, 158 Main Street, East Hampton 11937, or the Bay Street Theatre, P.O. Box 810, Sag Harbor 11963.

    Angela Buckhout, the president of WLNG radio, died at home in East Hampton on Saturday. She was 66 and had been diagnosed with lung cancer six months ago after losing her voice for several weeks.

    Mrs. Buckhout, who was known as Ann, was born in Rochester on July 15, 1944, to Anthony and Betty Mastromatteo. She moved to Long Island to attend the State University at Stony Brook, where she met her future husband, David Buckhout.

    They were married on Feb. 20, 1963, and indulged their mutual passions for rock collecting and geology with cross-country collecting excursions, including one to the University of Arizona.

    After she graduated from Adelphi University, Mrs. Buckhout became a biology and general science teacher. Her husband, too, was a teacher, and when he accepted a position at East Hampton High School the couple settled here in 1969. He died in 2005.

    Mrs. Buckhout took great pride in her house, the iconic Hardscrabble farmhouse on the corner of Route 114 and Stephen Hand’s Path. While the couple was looking for a place to live in East Hampton, a frustrated real estate agent asked just what Mrs. Buckhout was looking for. “Something like that,” she said, pointing at what would become her home. The house happened to be on the market but was in such poor shape that the Buckhouts couldn’t get a mortgage from a bank. So the farmer acted as the mortgage holder and Mrs. Buckhout worked tirelessly to preserve and renovate the house.

    After giving birth to Christopher, the first of her sons, Mrs. Buckhout became a stay-at-home mom and remained so until her second son, Brian, entered kindergarten in 1969. She then worked as a part-time bookkeeper for Montauk Caribbean Airways, which operated out of East Hampton Airport.

    That job led her to meet the owners of WLNG, an AM station at the time. Over the next 30 years as treasurer, she helped expand the station. Mrs. Buckout, who had earned a master’s degree in business administration from Dowling College later in life, was WLNG’s president for the past five years.

    Mrs. Buckhout was also a president of the East Hampton Kiwanis Club and a recipient of the DeWitt Clinton Masonic Award for community service.

    The Buckhouts were surrogate parents to a number of young people who needed shelter and support, including Thomas Nesbitt of North Carolina and Anne Brigite Surin of Florida. As a result, besides having two biological grandchildren, she is also known as Grandma to seven other children.

    Christopher Buckhout and Brian Buckhout live in East Hampton. A sister predeceased her.

    A funeral service was held yesterday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton. Memorial donations have been suggested to Toys for Tots through the East Hampton Kiwanis Club, P.O. Box 1902, East Hampton 11937.

    Norman E. Smith of Amagansett Drive in East Hampton was a caretaker at Cedar Lawn Cemetery for 25 years, and he was known to friends and clients as a skilled handyman. He died on April 8 of heart failure after being bedridden for some years. He was 79.

    Mr. Smith enjoyed working with stained glass, often on windows and lights. He built model ships as a hobby.

    Born to Louis Smith and Martha Washington in Stonington, Conn., on Feb. 11, 1932, Mr. Smith served in the Navy during the Korean War. He met Leona F. King in 1969, and after a long friendship they married in 1980. After living for some time in Connecticut, the couple moved to the South Fork for good. The marriage produced three children, Joyce Coleman, Sharon King, and Maureen Smith, all of whom remain East Hampton residents.

    He is also survived by his wife, a sister, Marion Bzibze of Warwick, R.I., 10 grandchildren, and 20 great-grandchildren.

    A memorial service will be announced at a later date. Donations have been suggested to the East Hampton Ambulance Association, 1 Cedar Street, East Hampton 11937.

For Michael Knigin

    Friends of the late Michael Knigin of East Hampton, who died on Jan. 19, have been invited to a memorial at Guild Hall on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m.

Jeffrey Brill Memorial

    A memorial service for Jeffrey Brill, who died on Dec. 24, will take place at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons at 2 p.m. on Sunday.

Carol Morrison Service

    Carol Morrison, a leading Montauk preservationist who died in October, will be remembered in a service at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk on Saturday at 2 p.m. Her family has encouraged all who knew her to attend.

Skip Canon Remembered

    A memorial for Skip Canon of Montauk, who died on April 10, will be held at the Montauk Firehouse at noon Saturday. All will be welcomed.

Amy Zajdel, 51

    A funeral Mass for Amy Zajdel of Richardson Avenue in Maidstone Park, who died at home last Thursday, will be said at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church at 11 a.m. today. Burial will follow at the church cemetery on Cedar Street in East Hampton. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

A memorial service for John E. Niggles of Southampton, who had been a groundskeeper at Cedar Point County Park in East Hampton, will be at noon Friday, May 13, at the park. Mr. Niggles, who was known as Jack, was 46 when he died on June 10, 2010.

    A funeral Mass for Elva Lourdes Klein Leo, who was known as Nubbie to many here, will be celebrated at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton on Saturday at 10 a.m. It will be officiated by the Rev. Charles Ehrhart, a former priest there and longtime family friend.  Burial will follow at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery on Cedar Street in East Hampton.

    Mrs. Leo died on May 3 at home in Charlotte, N.C. She was 90. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

    Best known in East Hampton for the years he spent as a gas station attendant at the Y Pay More station on Three Mile Harbor Road, Frederick Askin, known as Rick, died on April 25 in Riverhead after a short bout with cancer. He was 58 years old.

    “Most all of East Hampton knew him,” said Catherine Wood, a close family friend whose family owned the gas station. Mr. Astin worked at the station at 23 Three Mile Harbor Road for 10 years, and, according to Ms. Wood, “he helped everyone, and everybody who knew him just loved him.” He was especially close to the Wood and Petersen families.

    Mr. Askin was born in Queens to Frederick and Evelyn Askin on May 22, 1952. In addition to the years he spent working in East Hampton, Mr. Askin also held a previous job as third shift manager at Additive Products in Aquebogue. He moved to Riverhead 30 years ago.

    “He was an artist, poet, and musician,” said Ms. Wood, who added that his artistic endeavors had been showcased at the Riverhead Gallery.

    Another passion of Mr. Askin’s was working with the Christian organization Samaritan’s Purse, filling shoeboxes with necessaries for children in need, a project that he began in honor of Naomi Tyte, his partner of 25 years, who died of breast cancer in the 1990s.

    “He helped me so much,” Ms. Wood said. As of Mr. Askin’s death, the local arm of the organization had filled 9,056 shoeboxes. Ms. Wood plans on getting to 10,000 by the end of the year, “for Rick.”

    Mr. Askin was buried at St. John’s Cemetery in Riverhead. Donations in his name can be made to Samaritan’s Purse, P.O. Box 3000, Boone, N.C. 28607.

    Joseph H. Brubaker Jr., an auditor with Aetna Insurance for 30 years, died at home in East Hampton on Sunday of complications from heart disease. He was 76.

    “He was basically very quiet, gentle. He liked to sit and read books,” said Diane Brubaker, Mr. Brubaker’s wife of 35 years. Mr. Brubaker and the former Diane Hildreth were married in 1976. “It started as a blind date. He was a sweet man,” Mrs. Brubacker said.

    He was born on April 5, 1935, in South Fork, Pa., a son of Joseph H. Brubaker Sr. and the former Mary Endler. He moved to East Hampton as a boy and graduated from East Hampton High School, where he played football and baseball.

    Mr. Brubaker graduated from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., with the class of 1957. He began his career with Aetna at the company’s Hartford, Conn., headquarters right out of school, but left the company for two years to serve a hitch with the Navy at Norfolk, Va., before returning.

    Mrs. Brubaker said her husband was an internal auditor for the company, which meant he traveled from office to office to look at the books. When Aena downsized by letting older employees go, Mrs. Brubaker said her husband went to work for the St. Paul Fire and Marine insurance company for six years before retiring.

    In addition to his wife, Mr. Brubaker is survived by a daughter, Jennifer Lyons of East Hampton. He also leaves his sisters, Ethel MacGarva and Almeda Rickenbach, both of East Hampton. His brother, Ronald, and sister Arlene Hoadley died before him. Funeral arrangements were private.

     Julia Gargiulo, who had been a social worker with the elderly in Greenwich, Conn., and a psychotherapist, died on Friday in Stamford, Conn. Ms. Gargiulo, who lived in East Hampton from 1994 to 2006, was 78 and had ovarian cancer.

    Before turning to social work, Ms. Gargiulo had been a professor of English at Pace University. She and her husband, Gerald J. Gargiulo, practiced marriage counseling in addition to having separate therapy practices. They had been married since 1964.

    Ms. Gargiulo was born in New York City to Julius and Connie Attanassio Caldiero on Feb. 12, 1933. She grew up in Brooklyn and attended Brooklyn College before doing graduate work at Columbia and Fordham Universities. She received a Master of Arts degree with honors from Columbia and a master’s in social work from Fordham. Her family said she had brought dedication and acumen to each of her professions.

    Ms. Gargiulo was interested in politics and dedicated to social justice. She enjoyed poetry and art as well as caring for her family and entertaining friends. Her family praised her “vitality, graciousness, generosity, and humor.”

    She is survived by her husband, two children, Paul Gargiulo of Greenwich, Conn., and Connie Alimena of West-chester, as well as two grandchildren and three siblings, who are Michael Caldiero of New Jersey, Clem Caldiero of Brooklyn, and Marie Caldiero of Westchester.

    A funeral service was held at the Leo P. Gallagher and Son Funeral Home in Stamford on Tuesday.