Frank Konzet, who lived year round in East Hampton from 1975 to 2005, when he started spending winters with his wife in Sebastian, Fla., died on Sunday of heart failure at age 87. His health had been declining for several years.

    Mr. Konzet and his wife owned several retail businesses in East Hampton, among them Cate’s Country Crafters. They had five children, who survive. According to his daughters Korine and Kathy, their father’s “pride and joy was spending time with his five children and eight grandchildren.” They found it significant that he died on Mother’s Day, because he had missed their mother so much since her death almost nine years ago.

    Francis Henry Konzet was born on Dec. 24, 1924, in Bayside, Queens, the only child of Francis Henry Konzet and the former Florence Kelly. He went to Sacred Heart School. He served with the Army in Italy in World War II until being honorably discharged as a sergeant.

    In February 1951 he married the former Marilyn Rogers and they brought up their children in Great Neck, where he was a member of St. Aloysius Catholic Church until the family moved to East Hampton to live after they had spent many summers here. Once here full time, he joined Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church.

    Mr. Konzet was a volunteer with the Springs ambulance company and with the Veterans of Foreign Wars. His daughters wrote that he loved his garden and grew prize tomatoes. He was also an accomplished woodworker and could build “anything and everything.”

    Four of his five children live in East Hampton. They are Kevin Konzet, Kathy Konzet, Korine Konzet, and Keri Dayton. Karen Alogna lives in Oyster Bay. He is also survived by five grandsons, three granddaughters, and one great-grandchild, who is en route.

    A wake will be held tomorrow from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A funeral service will be held at Most Holy Trinity on Saturday at 9:30 a.m., followed by burial in Most Holy Trinity Cemetery.

    Laura Serra Roberts, a native of Italy who lived in East Hampton for over three decades, died at home in Atlanta of a heart attack on April 28. She was 81.

    Mrs. Roberts was born to Luigi and Rosetta Serra in Genoa on May 14, 1929. During World War II, she lost her only brother, Giovanni, who fought for the Italian resistance against the Fascists.

    After the war, she attended the Sorbonne in Paris and then moved to the United States. In the early 1970s, she moved to East Hampton, where she lived until moving to Atlanta in 2005.

    She was married to Dudley Roberts, a lifelong East Hampton resident, in 1990. Mr. Roberts died in 2000.

    Mrs. Roberts is survived by two sons, Wray Fitch III of McLean, Va., and Henry Phyfe of Brooklyn, and a daughter, Mina Ferguson of Atlanta. Six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive.

    A memorial celebration will be held at the family residence in East Hampton at 1 p.m. on May 21, with a reception following. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions have been suggested to the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 234, Boothbay, Me. 04537

   Donald Kennedy, an artist who lived almost his entire life in East Hampton, died in early February of reasons still unknown. A service celebrating his life was held on Tuesday at the Amagansett Presbyterian Church.

    Much of Mr. Kennedy’s past remains a mystery, along with the cause of death and why his body remained at the county coroner’s office for three months.

    What is known is that Mr. Kennedy was born in New York City in 1937, but after he was hit by a car at the age of 10, his parents decided to move the family to Mill Hill Lane in East Hampton.

    He graduated from East Hampton High School in 1955. After school, he worked at Don Braider’s Books and Music, a local store that carried first editions and had a gallery in the back that featured the work of up-and-coming artists like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Ibram Lassaw, and Perle Fine.

    During summer break from his studies at the University of Oklahoma, Mr. Kennedy worked at the Signa Gallery, an artist-owned spot started by Alfonso Ossorio, John Little, and Elizabeth Parker. Mr. Kennedy, on his Web site, referred to these early jobs as “a highly advanced course in contemporary art.” While at college, he also had the chance to work with Amelio Amero, a world-renowned lithographer and muralist.

    Fresh out of college, Mr. Kennedy found employment in the conservation department of the Guggenheim Museum, followed by an apprenticeship with Frederick Kiesler, the avant-garde architect. From there, Mr. Kennedy worked for the Paper Mill Playhouse and then shortly after became the master carpenter and set builder for the Negro Ensemble Company.

    After operating and then closing his own stage scenery business, the Shop, Mr. Kennedy returned to East Hampton in 1973. In his new house on three and a half acres in Springs, Mr. Kennedy had the time and space to concentrate on building monumental metal sculptures. He also painted a series of transparent watercolors, pastels, and oils reflecting his fascination with farm trucks and equipment. Over the following years, his work was shown at most of the galleries and museums on the South Fork, and one of his watercolors is now in the Brandywine River Museum in Pennsylvania.

    Shortly after his mother’s death, Mr. Kennedy parted from metal to experiment with wood and built a piece, “Interjacence,” which is in the permanent collection of Columbia University on the Harriman campus. The piece is dedicated to his mother.

    Still, Mr. Kennedy will probably be best remembered by his friends, fellow artists, and patrons for his large metal sculptures, especially “Keys to My Heart,” which featured a hollow heart, made from welded keys, exhibited on a brass column.

A memorial service for Donald Kennedy, a painter and sculptor who died earlier this year, will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the Amagansett Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Steven Howarth, presiding.

    Joyce J. Manigo, the district clerk at the Bridgehampton School, died on Saturday at Southampton Hospital. She was 52 and lived in Bridgehampton.

    A wake will take place tomorrow from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Church of God in Christ in Bridgehampton. A funeral service will be held at the Southampton Full Gospel Church on County Road 39 on Saturday at 10 a.m. Burial will follow at Southampton Cemetery on North Sea Road.

    After the burial there will be a gathering at the First Baptist Church of Bridgehampton.

    A full obituary will appear in a future issue.

    Gloria M. Sanlorenzo of Agnew Avenue, Montauk, a registered nurse for many years, died at home on Tuesday of brain cancer. She was 84.

    Ms. Sanlorenzo was active in the community. She was a member of the Montauk Village Association and the Friends of the Montauk Library. She sang in the choir of St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church. A devout Catholic, she worked with the Cormaria Retreat Center of Sag Harbor.

    She was born Gloria Ferrara on Oct. 16, 1926, in Princeton, N.J., one of the 11 children of Lawrence Ferrara and the former Anna Starace. She graduated from Princeton High School and trained at St. Vincent’s Nursing School. Her first job was at the Princeton Community Hospital; she worked later at Huntington Hospital, in the town where she lived after her marriage to Ernest A. Sanlorenzo in 1953. She had been a member of the Huntington Garden Club. 

    The couple vacationed at the camping grounds of Hither Hills State Park in Montauk for many years and bought their house on Agnew Avenue in the early 1980s. When Mr. Ferrara died, in 1992, Ms. Sanlorenzo made a permanent move from Huntington to Montauk.

    Mrs. Sanlorenzo leaves four children, Candida Sanlorenzo of Hopland, Calif., L. John Sanlorenzo of Cincinnati, Nina Hartman of Westood, N.J., and Laura Sanlorenzo of Yorktown, Va. She also is survived by a brother, Vincent Ferrara of Atlanta, and by six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

    Friends and family will gather at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on Saturday from 2 to 4, and 7 to 9 p.m. The Rev. Michael Rieder will offer a Mass of Christian Burial at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church on Monday at 11 a.m. Burial will follow at Fort Hill Cemetery in Montauk.

    Memorial contributions were suggested for the Fighting Chance Counseling and Resource Center, P.O. Box 1358, Sag Harbor 11963.

    A longtime hospice volunteer and the owner, with her husband, of the Morris Studio photography shop in Southampton, Carol Whitney Thomason died at home in Sag Harbor on Friday. She was 63 and had recently been diagnosed with cancer.

    She was, said her son, Neal James Thomason of Sag Harbor, “a beloved mother, wife, and friend.”

    Mrs. Thomason lived in Sag Harbor for 40 years. She was a member of the Old Whalers Church, where she was an elder and a deacon and served as superintendent of the Sunday school. Her faith and the church community were of great importance to her, her family said.

    She was a hospice volunteer for more than 20 years. She started helping the dying even before East End Hospice, the organization that now organizes such care here, was formed, and she joined that group after its inception.

    At the end, Mr. Thomason said, a hospice volunteer was there to care for his mother.

    Mrs. Thomason was born on Aug. 6, 1947, in Chicago, the daughter of William Whitney and the former Jean Dingee Harold. Her parents both predeceased her. She graduated from Wells College in Aurora, N.Y., where she majored in mathematics.

    She was married in 1972 to Jim Thomason. He survives. The couple worked together at the Morris Studio.

    Mrs. Thomason loved animals and was dedicated to her dogs, which included a pair of dachshunds. She enjoyed traveling and most recently had been on trips to Alaska and the Grand Canyon.

    A wake took place on Monday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor. The Rev. Mark Phillips officiated at a service on Tuesday at the Old Whalers Church. Burial followed at Oakland Cemetery in Sag Harbor.

    The family has suggested memorial contributions to the Old Whalers Church, P.O. Box 1241, Sag Harbor 11963, or to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.

    Katherine Eisenhower Roueché, a 50-year resident of Stony Hill Road in Amagansett and the niece of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, died on Feb. 25 at the Hampton Care Center in Southampton of a heart attack. She was 96.

    Mrs. Roueché, whom friends called Kay, was born and raised in Kansas City, Mo. Her parents were Arthur B. Eisenhower and the former Louise Grieb. She went to college at the University of Missouri.

    In 1936, she married Berton Roueché, who originated the “Annals of Medicine” series in The New Yorker magazine and was the author of 20 books. They came to the East End in 1950, living first in East Hampton Village and then in Springs, where they remodeled an old Parsons family house. In the mid-1950s, they built a house on a wooded lot on Stony Hill Road. Mrs. Roueché went to live at the care center after Mr. Roueché died, in 1994.

    Mrs. Roueché was a regular at the Springs Presbyterian Church and the Devon Yacht Club, and she was active in the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society and the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons. She and her husband had bred Springer spaniels for a number of years.

     She also loved gardening, collecting antiques, and going to the theater, especially at Guild Hall in East Hampton. In later life, she took an interest in perfecting her French and achieved fluency in her late 70s.

    She is survived by a son, Arthur Roueché of Spencer, Mass., and a granddaughter. Burial, in Massachusetts this spring, will be private.

    David A. Salkind, who became an enthusiastic member of the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett after discovering a passion for golf in his 50s, died at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset on March 29 of complications from lung cancer.

    Mr. Salkind, who was 73, had been diagnosed with the disease in early 2010 but had been well until just recently.

    With his wife, Bonnie Salkind, who survives, he lived part time in Great Neck and part time in East Hampton. The couple shuttled back and forth every week, year round.

    For over 50 years, Mr. Salkind worked at Brown Builders Supply Corporation in New Hyde Park, and was owner and president of the company before his retirement in June of last year.

    He was born on Oct. 31, 1937, in Middle Village, Queens, the son of Hyman Salkind and the former Sophie Brown. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from C.W. Post College of Long Island University.

    From 1956 to 1958, he served in the Army, stationed in Berlin.

    He and Mrs. Salkind were married on Aug. 6, 1978, and had three children. Beverly Baxter predeceased her father. Fred Salkind of New York City and Cindy Tell of Woodbury survive. Three grandchildren also survive.

    Mr. Salkind was a member of the South Fork Country Club for more than 11 years and, said his family, loved both the game and his friendships at the club, where he was a member of the men’s golf league and the “1 o’clock group.”

    A service was held at Riverside-Nassau North Chapel in Great Neck on March 31, Rabbi David Whiman of the North Shore Synagogue in Syosset officiating. Burial took place at the Shaarey Pardes Gates of the Grove Cemetery in Springs.

    Memorial contributions have been suggested to the rabbi’s discretionary fund at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons, P.O. Box 5107, East Hampton 11937.

    Thomas J. Wheeler is being remembered as a golfer, drummer, and family man this week after a car accident claimed his life on Saturday. He was 43 and lived in Sag Harbor.

    Mr. Wheeler was the passenger in his Ford Mustang that day when it left Brick Kiln Road in Noyac, crashed into a tree, and caught fire, killing him and the driver, Manuel J. Cunha Jr. (whose obituary also appears in this issue).

    A carpenter by trade, Mr. Wheeler briefly gave up that work several years ago and opened East End Prime, a specialty meat and seafood store on Division Street in Sag Harbor. At the time of his death, Mr. Wheeler was working in construction again and had employed Mr. Cunha.

    In his free time, Mr. Wheeler played drums in a band with his brother David Wheeler of Sag Harbor.

    The day before his death, Mr. Wheeler and his wife celebrated their three-year wedding anniversary. The couple had one child together, and Mr. Wheeler had two other children from an earlier relationship. His wife, Linda Wheeler, had two children from a past marriage.

    Mr. Wheeler was born in Utica, N.Y., on Aug. 17, 1967, and grew up in Sag Harbor, where he attended Pierson High School. A pasta dinner fund-raiser for the families of both Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Cunha will be held at the school on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

    In addition to his wife and brother, Mr. Wheeler is survived by another brother, William Wheeler of Newton, N.C., and by two sisters, Deborah Topping, also of Newton, and Gina Urban of Albany. Mr. Wheeler is also survived by his parents, Robert and Frances Wheeler, who live in North Carolina, and by three children, Thomas Wheeler, Lukas Wheeler, and Mason Wheeler, all of Sag Harbor. Two stepchildren, Raymond Pettigrew Jr. and Kristin Pettigrew, both of Sag Harbor, survive him, as does a grandmother, Lucille L. Maynard.

    Visiting hours will be held today from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made public.

    Memorial donations can be made to Bridgehampton National Bank, in care of Linda Wheeler, P.O. Box 3005, Bridgehampton 11932.