Judith Ann Blake, a longtime resident of Montauk who moved to Riverhead in 2008, died at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care on Quiogue on Friday of complications of diabetes. She was 74.

She was born in New Britain, Conn., on Dec. 7, 1944, one of two daughters of Ralph Venegas, known as Bob, and the former Elizabeth Blackmore. She grew up on Osborne Lane in East Hampton, graduating from East Hampton High School with the class of 1962.

In 1964 she married Ronald Blake of Montauk. The couple lived in Montauk from 1970 to 2008, when they moved to Stoneleigh Woods in Riverhead. Mr. Blake survives.

Ms. Blake worked at Ronnie’s Deli in Montauk from 1979 to 2003, although she was primarily a homemaker. She was a member of the Montauk Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary, the Montauk PTA, and the Montauk Community Church.

When she moved to Riverhead she became a member of the First Congregational Church, working at the thrift shop and crocheting prayer shawls for parishioners who were homebound. The Rev. Sean Murray was to preside at a service for Ms. Blake there today at 11 a.m. Yesterday afternoon and evening, the family received visitors at the Tuthill-Mangano Funeral Home in Riverhead. Ms. Blake was cremated; her ashes will be buried later at Fort Hill Cemetery in Montauk.

In addition to her husband, Ms. Blake is survived by her children, Jeff Blake of East Islip, Deborah Frasca of Great River, and Lauren Hatch of East Hampton. Her sister, Susan George of Amagansett, and seven grandchildren also survive.

The family has suggested memorial donations for East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.

Herbert G. Wiegand and Carolyn Leary first met in Conway, N.H., a town in the Mount Washington Valley ski area where Mr. Wiegand had taken a job and Ms. Leary was visiting to contemplate whether she wanted to make a career change from a job at a Boston TV station. 

Ms. Leary had been to Cape Cod and taken family vacations from her hometown of Wakefield, Mass., to Maine as a girl, but when Mr. Wiegand took her to Montauk for the first time, she turned to him and said, “I can see why you love it here.”

The affection for the area endured throughout their lives.

The couple were married on May 3, 1975, and raised four children together, three of them from his first marriage. They later came to own a Wiegand family house near Montauk Point where they often stayed. In addition to their shared love of swimming in the ocean — “It’s warmer in Montauk,” Mrs. Wiegand said with a laugh yesterday, Mr. Wiegand also enjoyed gardening and bowling, tennis and baseball. They continued skiing after they were married, too, sometimes traveling as far as Germany, Switzerland, and France to do so.

Mr. Wiegand, 91, died in Littleton, Mass., last Thursday of cancer.

A burial and a graveside service for him will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Fort Hill Cemetery in Montauk. 

He was born in New York City on June 19, 1927, to Frederick Wiegand and the former Gertrude Domming and grew up in White Plains, N.Y. In addition to his wife, he is survived by four children, Kenneth Wiegand of Allendale, N.J., Trudi Puffer of Lee, N.H., Lisa Ferguson of Jupiter, Fla., and Kurt Wiegand of Trumbull, Conn., and by six grandchildren.

Mr. Wiegand earned a degree in electrical engineering from Denver University, where he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. He spent most of his career working for various companies in the nuclear power industry. He was also a World War II veteran who served in the Navy from 1944 to 1946.

The family has suggested donation to the American Macular Degeneration Foundation, P.O. Box 515, Northampton, Mass. 01061.

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Correction: An earlier version of this obituary misstated where Mr. Wiegand died. He died in Littleton, Mass., not Manhattan.

Ethel Kennedy Marran, a longtime summer resident of East Hampton who had been a member of the Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett, died on Saturday at her home in Vero Beach, Fla., surrounded by family, caregivers, and her loyal canine companion, Mister Dog. She died of complications of Alzheimer’s disease. She was 89. 

A proud feminist and progressive thinker, Mrs. Marran inspired and supported women through educational and health programs, her family said. Her daughter Elizabeth Marran described her as a quiet, simple, self-reliant woman.

“Though soft-spoken, she had a dry sense of humor that brought smiles to those around her. A woman who showed great ambition and determination throughout her life, Ethel was loved by many and will be deeply missed,” her family said in an obituary. 

She was born in Brooklyn on June 12, 1929, to John R. Kennedy and the former Ethel R. Leavy. She grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, and spent summers in Bayport. Her family moved to Tenafly, N.J. just as she graduated from Mount Saint Vincent High School. She went on to graduate from Marymount College in Tarrytown. 

At 25, Miss Kennedy married William R. Marran, and together they would raise six children. She enjoyed teaching first grade at Blue Point Elementary School for the first several years of their marriage, until 1958. Later, she pursued her passion for designing and building homes and was a partner in Marran Building Designs. She and her husband began buying property in Amagansett East, now Beach Hampton; he was the contractor, she the designer. Some they kept as rental properties, others they sold. 

“Her architecture reflected modern and practical solutions for busy parents,” her family said, describing how her role as a mother informed her work life. “Ethel’s homes were also welcoming and nurturing spaces and she always had extra potatoes for any last-minute visitors.”

The couple lived in Patchogue for a short period, then Bayport before moving to Cold Spring Harbor, where they lived until 1987. In her younger days, she loved sailing and touch football. In her later years, she enjoyed tennis, bicycling, and walking on the beach. On Long Island she was a member of the Sayville Yacht Club, and in Florida she belonged to the John’s Island Club. 

The Marrans spent summers as renters in Amagansett before buying her parents’ house on Pudding Hill Lane in the 1970s. While she wintered in Vero Beach, she returned to East Hampton with the sun, gathering with her children and grandchildren.

Mrs. Marran is survived by five of her six children: Elizabeth Marran of Boston, Lynn Marran of Fullerton, Calif., Jack Marran of Vero Beach, Laura Marran of San Diego, and Paul Marran of London. She is also survived by 11 grandchildren. A brother, Quentin Kennedy of Tenafly, also survives.

A son, William R. Marran III, and her husband of 50 years, William R. Marran II, died before her.

A burial service will be held tomorrow morning at 11 at the John’s Island Cemetery, followed by a lunch at the family home.

Her family suggested memorial donations to two causes she held dear: Planned Parenthood, which supports women’s health and education, at 123 William Street, 10th Floor, New York 10038; or the Indian River Boys and Girls Club of Vero Beach, 1729 17th Avenue, Vero Beach, Fla. 32960.

Deborah Binion Cahn McIntosh, who spent her childhood and young adult summers in East Hampton, died unexpectedly in her sleep at home in East Falmouth, Mass., on Jan. 10. She was 71 and had been in robust health. The cause was not known.

She was born in New York City on July 29, 1947, and was adopted by Peggy Masback Cahn and Joshua Binion Cahn. She grew up in Manhattan, where she attended the Dalton School, and she graduated from the Stockbridge School in Massachusetts. She returned to New York to study at Mills College of Education, putting the degree to good use when she moved with her husband, Thomas Richard McIntosh, whom she married in 1970, to Falmouth. There, she was an early education and Title 1 teacher in the public school system.

Her sister, Martha Binion Cahn Pellegrino of Rockland, Me., said her sister’s “love of education and remarkable reliability soon led her to become a fixture in the public school systems of Falmouth and Mashpee as a substitute teacher in the 1980s and ’90s."

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, she  took time off from work to bring up her sons, and in 2017, one of them gave her a DNA kit and she was able to locate relatives of her birth parents, including two half sisters and a half brother.

  Once her sons were grown, she turned what had been a gardening hobby into a successful business. “Her family, friends, and customers always marveled at the natural talent Debby had for plants and landscaping,” Ms. Pellegrino said.

Friends who knew her at school and in East Hampton mentioned Ms. McIntosh’s energy, her Isadora Duncan-inspired dancing, and her singing and guitar playing. They reported that she had stepped out with the folksinger-songwriter Arlo Guthrie for a time.

Her sister said that in Falmouth she was known for a “cheerful and generous demeanor.” She added, with “unique energy, Debby lived life in the moment and focused on helping others. She will be missed by many individuals and organizations, including the Upper Cape Camera Club, the Falmouth Art Center, the Falmouth Service Center, the Coonamessett Pond Association, and Highfield Hall and Gardens.”

Ms. McIntosh enjoyed spending time with friends and family, her sons said, and she took many photographs and supported her favorite causes through charitable gifts and volunteering. They said she “delighted in the growth of her three grandchildren, and in traveling nationally and internationally.”

Ms. McIntosh’s husband died in 2015. Her sons, Andrew McIntosh of Kensington, Md., and Daniel McIntosh of Daly City, Calif., survive, as do three grandchildren.

In addition to her sister, a brother, Nicholas Binion of San Francisco, a half brother, Barry Hyatt of Fountain Valley, Calif., and two half sisters, Barbara Keller of Losone, Switzerland, and Meryl Hyatt Overton of Fountain Valley, survive. Two nieces survive as well.

Ms. McIntosh was cremated. Those who knew her have been invited to an informal reception to honor her life on Feb. 9 from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Falmouth Art Center.

Shana Rimel Conron, who held top legal posts with Citibank and was chairwoman of the board of directors for Citibank Delaware before retiring to Sag Harbor in 2004, died on Dec. 19. She was 79 and had been in declining health.

Ms. Conron was certified as a master gardener in 2007 and became a volunteer gardener at the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton. She also volunteered with the Sag Harbor Tree Fund, the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor, and the Perlman Music Program on Shelter Island. 

She was born in St. Louis on Nov. 15, 1939, to Albert A. and Judith Stoller Rimel. She received a bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis, an M.A. from the University of Illinois in Champaign, and a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia University in New York in 1977. She practiced law as an associate in the firm of Chadbourne & Parke in New York City until 1983, when she joined Citibank, where she held legal posts in the corporate and investment division and the general counsel’s office until being appointed head of the legal department for its global transaction services division, and then chair of the board of directors of Citibank Delaware. She retired in 2003.

Ms. Conron served on the boards of various civic organizations, including the Y.W.C.A., the United Way, the World Affairs Council, and the Business Roundtable. She participated in volunteer programs in the public school system and in gardening in the public parks of New York City. 

She is survived by a daughter, Rachel Meyer Conron, and a sister, Rina Rimel Sjolund, and by uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, and friends all over the world. 

Her husband, Michael A. Conron, an aviation industry executive with whom she lived on several continents, died before her. Her time in France with him “led to a sustained love of French language and literature that carried through to reading much of Proust in the original, and to orchestrating French-only meals and conversation groups wherever she went,” her family wrote. 

“Her family and friends will remember her as a great connector, nurturing lifelong friendships by bringing together people who would otherwise never have met, assembling a patchwork of loved ones, not unlike the unique moss garden she created inch by inch at her Sag Harbor home,” they wrote. 

Donations in her memory have been suggested to the Sag Harbor Tree Fund, P.O. Box 3133, Sag Harbor 11963, the John Jermain Memorial Library at johnjermain.org, and the Perlman Music Program, 19 West 69th Street, Suite 1101, New York 10023.

Josephine Valenti Johnson, an artist and art historian who lived in Springs during its Abstract Expressionist heyday, died at her Southampton home on Dec. 29. She was 90. 

Born on July 25, 1928, in Brooklyn to the former Rita Impastato and Mario Valenti, she graduated from Queens College and studied art history at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. 

It was while working at the Artists’ Gallery in New York that she met Lester Johnson, an Expressionist painter, whom she married in 1949. The couple lived in downtown Manhattan and spent summers in Provincetown, Mass., before building a house and studio in Springs in 1954. 

Ms. Johnson created bronze-cast sculptures and drawings, but for the most part held her artwork privately so that attention would be focused on her husband’s career.

The couple had lived in Milford and Greenwich, Conn., while Mr. Johnson, who died in 2010, was a professor of painting at Yale University, and they returned to their Springs house each summer. They moved to Southampton in 2006.

She is survived by a daughter, Lesley Lowery of Southampton, a son, Anthony Johnson of New York, a sister, Nadine Beauchamp of New York, and by four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

The Rev. Michael Vetrano, pastor of the Basilica Parish of Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Catholic Church in Southampton, officiated at a private burial on Saturday at the church’s cemetery.

Jehovina Kelsall, a collector of and dealer in antiques who at one point owned a store in East Hampton with her late husband, Trevor Kelsall, died at home in East Hampton on Dec. 23 of a presumed heart attack. She was 81.

Mrs. Kelsall, who was known as Joh, studied at the Art Students League in New York City and worked as a greeting card illustrator before following her father and uncle into the textile business. She specialized in color styling for a firm that produced upscale silks. 

When she began collecting buttons in her mid 30s, her background in the fashion industry deepened her appreciation and the stories behind them. Describing her bug for the tiny treasures, she told The East Hampton Star in 2006, “You study fashion, manufacturing, textiles, materials.” A member of the National Button Society, she sought buttons at yard sales, auctions, thrift stores, and antiques shops, amassing thousands and thousands in a dizzying array of materials, colors, and themes, the oldest dating to the 1500s.

“It’s the hunt that keeps you going,” she said in 2006.

Her husband was a collector as well, and together they enjoyed searching for antique ornaments as well as decorations for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, Easter, and the Fourth of July. At each holiday, they transformed their house into a display worthy of a museum: a table set with 1950s-era paper wear and party favors at Halloween, for example, and a toy town at Christmas along with six Virgin Marys, 20 wise men, and hundreds of antique ornaments adorning the tree. Mr. Kelsall was an English teacher at the Montauk School, but in the 1970s the couple briefly turned their hobby into a business at an antiques shop on the Circle in East Hampton Village. 

Mrs. Kelsall had been a member of the Ladies Village Improvement Society of East Hampton.

She was born in Manhattan on June 14, 1937, to Orencio Miras and the former Haydee Nunez. She grew up in Manhattan. A mutual friend introduced her to her future husband, an East Hampton native. On their first date, they went to an art exhibition at Guild Hall, their son, Dafydd Corbett-Kelsall, wrote. The couple were married on Aug. 26, 1961. 

Mr. Kelsall died in 2002. Their son lives in Boca Raton, Fla. Mrs. Kelsall also is survived by a brother, Saulo Miras of Tennessee. 

A graveside service was held on Jan. 2 at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton.

Contributions have been suggested to the National Audubon Society, 225 Varick Street, New York 10014.

A funeral Mass for Shannon Cecilia Whelan, formerly of Sag Harbor, will be said on Saturday at noon at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Sag Harbor. 

Ms. Whelan, 38, who lived in Sydney, Australia, died there on Jan. 5 after suffering cardiac arrest. She had returned to Australia only days before after spending 17 days in the States with her family. 

A daughter of David and Mary M. Whelan of North Haven, Ms. Whelan was the mother of three children. 

An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Russell Gay Conklin was a family man of deep faith and myriad interests who began every morning with a few moments of religious contemplation.

Mr. Conklin, 89, who was afflicted with Parkinson’s disease late in life, died after 10 days of pneumonia on Sept. 29 at Orchard Pointe in Surprise, Ariz..

Mr. Conklin and his wife, Marjorie, retired to Sun City West, Ariz. in 1993. He was buried with military honors at Holy Cross Cemetery in Avondale, Ariz. 

He was born in Southampton on Sept. 1, 1929, to Russell and Louise Conklin and grew up in East Hampton as a member of a large extended family. He was proud to be an 11th-generation descendant of William Hedges, of one of the founding families of East Hampton. Through genealogical research, Mr. Conklin was also able to locate his mother’s relatives in Germany, who became friends.

Mr. Conklin’s family described him as a talented individual who loved learning and mastering new things throughout his life. As a young man, he was a carpenter, a gardener, and a beekeeper, and lavished homegrown produce and honey on family and friends. After two years with the Army during the Korean War, he used the G.I. Bill to attend Purdue University and later earned an M.B.A. from Indiana University, which launched him as a civil engineer. He had a long career with Caterpillar, and then with the Army Corps of Engineers. 

He and Marjorie Harisak of Yonkers, N.Y., were married in 1957, a union that lasted 55 years until her death in 2013. They had four children, and Mr. Conklin, a devoted husband and father, was constantly undertaking projects to improve their home.

His family said he loved reading about everything from business to finance, ancient history to science, travel to fitness. In retirement, he enjoyed a good night at a local karaoke club or going out dancing with his wife.

He is survived by his children, Elizabeth Conklin of Little Rock, Ark., Catherine Kauffman of Naperville, Ill., Peter Conklin of Portland, Ore., and Barbara Conklin Williamson of Litchfield Park, Ariz., and by three grandchildren. 

He and his wife were active members of the Prince of Peace Catholic Church in Sun City West, Ariz., and volunteered for the Society of St. Vincent DePaul as well as a local food bank.

Among the things Mr. Conklin’s family cited in their memorial was a phrase by George Sand that they believe typified him: “There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”

James G. Caradine, a longtime Warner Music executive who helped launch the company internationally, died of cardiac arrest at home in Jupiter, Fla., on Dec. 26. He had a house in East Hampton starting in 2001 and was 80 years old.

In 1974, Mr. Caradine had been working for the Paris tax department of the accounting firm Arthur Andersen International, when he had the opportunity to join Warner Communications, which led to a 25-year career. According to friends, he brought to the job “a clear head for multi-jurisdictional agreements and acquisitions,” and was asked to help structure an agreement between the Brazilian soccer legend Pelé and the New York Cosmos.

 Mr. Caradine soon caught the attention of Nesuhi Ertegun of Warner’s record division, which they rebranded as Warner Music International. He ultimately became the head of the video division of the company and oversaw the signing of artists and labels, including Phil Collins, Luis Miguel, and Tommy Boy Records.

As the company expanded, so did Mr. Caradine’s role and seniority, reflecting “his invaluable contribution to W.M.I.’s growth and the esteem in which he was held,” according to a company memo. The memo calls Mr. Caradine “a Southern gentleman . . . who rose to the very top with skill and charm.” It goes on to say, “Unlike many, he knew exactly the time to retire, planning, with his usual meticulous detail his travel schedule with the many work friends he had from all corners of the world.”

After retiring, Mr. Caradine spent most of his time in East Hampton until moving to Florida in 2015.

He was born on Sept. 5, 1938, in West Point, Miss., one of two sons of Eunice Colbert Caradine and Emmett Everett Caradine. A brother, Emmett Everett Caradine Jr., died before him.

He is survived by a nephew, who is planning a memorial celebration in East Hampton in the spring. His family said “his personal style combined warmth, wit, and kindness with the cool elegance of a Cole Porter lyric.”