John Pantelis Karoussos, who opened a popular restaurant named Jason’s in Washington, D.C., after attending Catholic University there, died on Monday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital of prostate cancer. He was 74 and had been ill for a year and a half. Mr. Karoussos, who had a house on Stony Hill Road in Amagansett, was born on June 22, 1944, in Athens. Throughout his life, even after moving to New York and having a long career in finance, neither the spirit of his native country nor his inclination to host gatherings for his large circle of extended family and friends ever left him, his family said.

“Our house was always filled with family and friends. There was always food, drinks, music, and laughter,” Mr. Karoussos’s daughter, Katie Zapata of Greenwich, Conn., said.

Mr. Karoussos was the son of Pantelis John Karoussos and the former Despina Thomaidou. He came to the United States when he was 16.

It was at Jason’s that he met his future wife, Mary Ann Barnes of Garden City. They were married on Sept. 21, 1974, and bought the Amagansett house in 1982. They moved there full time in 1997.

After Mr. Karoussos retired from up in a career with E.F. Hutton and Citibank, the couple began spending winters in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where they made many friends from around the world.

In addition to his wife and daughter Ms. Zapata, Mr. Karoussos is survived by two other children, Telly Karoussos of Amagansett and Alex Karoussos of Sayville, and by eight grandchildren.

A service for Mr. Karoussos  will be held  at 1 p.m. tomorrow at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton, followed by a reception at his house. Burial will be private. 

The family has suggested memorial donations  to the Wounded Warrior Project, P.O. Box 758517, Topeka, Kan., 66675-8517, or St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, Tenn. 38105, organizations “John held close to his heart,” the family said.

The family also commended the staff of Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s intensive care unit for “compassionate care and loving support” of Mr. Karoussos and his family.

Florence Stoll, with her husband, Bernard Stoll, visited the East End in the 1950s, fell in love with Amagansett, and, in 1968, built one of the first houses in the dunes, on Marine Boulevard. It was their summer home from April through mid-October until 2010. Mrs. Stoll died of complications from an impact injury sustained at her Manhattan home on Nov. 26. She was 93, and had been ill for eight weeks. 

She lived at their Marine Boulevard house in the warmer months, entertaining at poolside barbecues and bonfire picnics on the nearby beach. Mrs. Stoll was a welcoming host, said Rand Stoll, her son, and “she always presented herself with a timeless flair.” Mr. Stoll is now 97 years old.

In Manhattan, Mrs. Stoll took full advantage of  cultural and sporting events, attending everything from Broadway shows to museum openings to hockey games at Madison Square Garden. She made time every day to read The New York Times from cover to cover, he said, and was an ardent fan of the New York Rangers, the Giants, and the Yankees. She also loved to garden and was a member of the National Council of Jewish Women. 

Known as Flo, she was born on June 13, 1925, in Jamaica Estates, Queens, to the former Bess Pearlmutter and Sam Schatz. After growing up and graduating from high school in the borough, she attended Hunter College. 

A nature and wildlife lover, she was a supporter of the Peconic Land Trust and a member of Quail Hill Farm in Amagansett for 27 years, and never considered her day complete without taking a walk on the ocean beach at Napeague, her son said.

In addition to her 97-year-old husband and son Rand, of Amagansett and New York, Mrs. Stoll is survived by her son Doug Stoll of Los Angeles, and three grandchildren. 

A celebration of her life was held on Nov. 29 at the Riverside Memorial Chapel in Manhattan. Her ashes are to be dispersed at a future date in the ocean at Amagansett.

James Oxnam died on Dec. 5 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan where he had been treated in the last few weeks for the sudden onset of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 86 and had been healthy, active, and engaged until then, his friends said.

Mr. Oxnam first worked in advertising in Manhattan. A friend introduced him to East Hampton in the 1970s, and he had a second career here in real estate, culminating as a “treasured member of the sales team” at Brown Harris Stevens, his friends said.

In New York City, he was an account executive with the L.W. Frohlich Agency, then for 13 years with the Professional Services Department of Hoffmann-La Roche, and finally director of professional and educational services at the Sudler and Hennessey agency, a health-care communications firm and division of Young and Rubicam, where he rose to executive vice president before retiring. He had a bachelor’s degree in pharmacology and also worked on a master’s degree in health care communication.

Mr. Oxnam had been “remarkably active,” his friends said, in nonprofits in New York City and Palm Beach, Fla., where he spent winters, as well as East Hampton. He was a founding member of Associates for the Print Collection at the Museum of Modern Art in the city and a longtime trustee of the East Hampton Historical Society, serving for many years as chairman of its fund-raising house and garden tour. He also was co-chairman of a benefit celebration for the 100th anniversary of the Amagansett Library.

His friends called him “a fixture on the social, charitable, and philanthropic scene, wherever he went, bringing good will and an infectious sense of humor to every gathering.”

He belonged to the Bath and Tennis Club in Palm Beach, the Union Club in Manhattan, and the Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett. He was a Mason with the Holland Lodge in New York City for more than 50 years. 

In Palm Beach, he was active in the Society of Four Arts. He had a large art collection and was particularly interested in architecture, contemporary prints, and drawings. He loved discussing interior decorating and local real estate.

He was born in LaSalle, Ill., on May 3, 1932, the only child of Gordon Oxnam, who was from Cornwall, England, and Gertrude Hale Oxnam. He grew up in LaSalle, graduating from LaSalle Academy and going on to graduate from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, with a pharmacology degree. He also served as director of the Drug Information Center at the University of Illinois Hospital.

He had been in the Army, stationed at Tripler Army Hospital in Oahu, Hawaii, for two years between December 1954 and December 1956.

He is survived by eight second and third cousins, who live in California, Oklahoma, and Texas. “He was very stoic at times, and a tremendously dear man . . . a pleasure to know and deal with,” said Robert White, who was his accountant for more than 30 years.

Mr. Oxnam was cremated. His ashes will be placed in the memorial garden at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church here, where the Very Rev. Denis C. Brunelle will say a Mass on Saturday at 11 a.m.

Memorial donations have been suggested for the East Hampton Historical Society, 101 Main Street, East Hampton 11937.

Laurel Planz made her living as a bookkeeper but loved nothing more than using her time away from work to explore the beaches and woods on the East End with her son, Joshua, when he was young. Together they loved hiking, combing the shoreline for beach glass and driftwood, and learning about nature. They also actively participated in 4-H, with which Ms. Planz had a local leadership position.

“She was a devoted mother,” her son said, “and she never stopped being that way her entire life. When I was a kid, we’d find all kinds of cool things at the beach and make sculptures out of them. Fresh Pond, that was definitely our number-one spot. She also did a lot of arts and crafts with me. And we’d go trailblazing sometimes, looking for wildlife.” He said she “was a terrific mother.”

Ms. Planz, 55, died at home in East Hampton on Dec. 2 after a two-week bout of flu. She was cremated. 

She was born on March 11, 1963, in Sylva, N.C., to the late Doris Sommers Planz and Allen Planz, a Pushcart Prize-winning poet. She is survived by her son, who lives in Brooklyn, and a sister, Jody Day Planz of Danville, Pa.

In lieu of a funeral service, Mr. Planz said he plans to commemorate his mother at every local beach that held a special place in their hearts. Those who would like to participate have been asked to send an email to [email protected].

Alfred Dumais was only 16 when he began his undergraduate studies at the University of Maine, and it turned out to be the start of his lifelong devotion to learning and teaching the performing arts. 

In addition to entertaining audiences for years as an actor and meeting his eventual wife, Mary Dean Healy, in an Off Broadway production of “Bedtime Story,” Mr. Dumais eventually completed his Ph.D. in theater arts at New York University and began teaching at Pace University. He went on to found and later rise to be chairman of Pace’s theater and fine arts department.

Before graduating from college in 1950, Mr. Dumais served two years in the Army as an interpreter in Germany and Belgium following World War II. When he returned home, he worked as a local radio disc jockey in Maine before moving to New York City to take a job as a production assistant at CBS. Once there, Mr. Dumais studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studios with the influential teacher and Tony Award-winning actress Uta Hagen, and independently with Mira Rostova, a method acting proponent whose other students included notables such as Montgomery Clift, Alec Baldwin, and Jessica Lange.

At Pace, Mr. Dumais directed more than 60 student productions and fought successfully to create a theater major and the Bachelor of Fine Arts program, a precursor to the school’s School of Performing Arts. Along the way, he was named the university’s teacher of the year.

Mr. Dumais died on Nov. 16 of complications following hip surgery at Mount Sinai-St. Luke’s Hospital in New York. He was 91. A service was held on Nov. 19 at the Church of St. John Nupomucene in New York and his family will decide on the disposition of his ashes at a later date. 

He was born on June 9, 1927, in Lewiston, Maine, to Arcene J. Dumais and the former Corinne Marcous. 

Mr. Dumais and wife, the former Mary Dean Healy, continued performing community theater together for years after their marriage on Dec. 28, 1957, most often with the Strollers of Maplewood, a New Jersey group. In 1986, they bought a house in East Hampton.

In addition to his wife, Mr. Dumais is survived by a son, David J. Dumais of Brooklyn, a daughter, Margaret Dumais of Topanga, Calif., and six grandchildren.

The family has suggested memorial contributions to the Actors Fund Home, 155 West Hudson Avenue, Englewood, N.J. 07631, or theactorsfund.org.

John de Cuevas, a longtime resident of Amagansett and Cambridge, Mass., died last Thursday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston of complications from acute myeloid leukemia. He was 88.

Amagansett residents may recall seeing a wiry man pedaling athletically along back roads and sometimes the highway, or walking through the village to Body Tech, where he worked out regularly for many years.

Aside from his interest in baking bread and cooking food grown in Amagansett, Mr. de Cuevas was involved as an educator in the East End food movement and was a generous contributor to the Peconic Land Trust and Quail Hill Farm, as well as being a harvesting member of the farm from the early 1990s. He was interviewed for the movie “Growing Farmers,” a short documentary about the Peconic Land Trust’s work with the next generation of East End farmers.

In 2010, he and several neighbors started the Amagansett Food Institute, whose main goal is for farms and foodpurveyors to thrive in a supportive community that understands the benefits and uniqueness of local food. The place he most enjoyed living in was Amgansett. And he derived much satisfaction and joy from supporting not only food production projects but also environmental and climate change initiatives in a quiet way with his own resources.

“He was authentic and true, an inspiration,” John Halsey of the Peconic Land Trust wrote.

Mr. de Cuevas was born on Oct. 6, 1930, in Manhattan, one of two children of George de Cuevas and Margaret Strong Cuevas. He grew up there and went to the Russell Ranch School in Arizona, an experience he would speak of fondly and often in later years. He always had an abiding love of open land, people who work on it, and animals. He graduated from the Brooks School in North Andover, Mass.

Mr. de Cuevas went on to earn various degrees at various times, including a B.A. in romance languages from Harvard, and, after a year at the University of Virginia School of Law, he did a stint in the Army as a clerk and assistant to the head of the base in Luxembourg (because of his fluency in French), followed by a year in a bank there. He even was a security analyst at Chase Manhattan Bank and, with a college friend he ran into in the early 1960s, decided to open a brokerage firm, Seiden & de Cuevas, which they ran successfully for 10 years.

Their “greatest triumph,” Mr. de Cuevas later told his family, was bringing the Masco Corporation, inventor of the single-handled faucet (a.k.a. the Delta faucet), to the American Stock Exchange. 

He continued at Columbia University, taking science courses he had not taken as an undergraduate and applying to medical school but being rejected because of his age. Taking the advice of a friend, a professor at the State University at Stony Brook, he applied to the graduate program there instead, in the department of ecology and evolution, where he did research on the evolution of birdsong and regional dialects in house finches.

Before completing his thesis, however, he accepted a job at Harvard in the early 1980s, teaching in and then heading Writing About Science, a division of Harvard’s expository writing program. He moved to Cambridge, where he lived with his partner and later his wife, Sue Lonoff. He left Harvard after seven years to teach science and linguistics in the adult education program at Lesley College. He also joined the editorial board of Harvard Magazine, producing many articles on topics that interested him, mainly science, language, and education.

His nuanced ability with language enabled Mr. de Cuevas to become adept at putting together abstruse crossword puzzles that he was encouraged by Stephen Sondheim to submit to New York magazine. They were also published regularly by Harvard Magazine. His stepdaughter and stepson-in-law, Jennifer and Kenny Schiff, who survive, suggested in 2001 that he put up a website, Puzzlecrypt.com, on which he posted a new puzzle every month, completing the last one (number 210) the day before he died. The site has subscribers from all over the world.

He wrote a book, “Eye Rhymes” (words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently), that his neighbor and friend Alec Baldwin helped get published. Mr. Baldwin recruited Blythe Danner and the two of them read the eye rhymes, which were included on a disk that was sold with the book.

Mr. de Cuevas was married three times. His first wife, whom he had known from boyhood, was Phyllis Nahl Van Wyck. They married in 1951 and stayed close friends for the rest of her life.

He married Sylvia Maria Bartucci in Manhattan in April 1962. She lives in Manhattan and Amagansett, near Mr. de Cuevas’s property. They remained close friends for the duration. Their daughter, Margaret de Cuevas of Baltimore and Amagansett, survives, as do her two daughters and husband.

On Oct. 25, 1988, he and Sue Lonoff de Cuevas were married in Cambridge. She survives, dividing her time among Paris, Cambridge, New York, and Amagansett. His stepdaughter, Jennifer Schiff, survives, as well as her daughter, Abigail Schiff. He inspired in his granddaughters, Alida Schott and Helen Schott, and his step-granddaughter, Abby, a passion for nature, farming, and food.

Mr. de Cuevas’s sister, the artist Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas of New York and Amagansett, also survives, as does his niece.

In 1974 Craig Claiborne wrote an article for The Times about Mr. de Cuevas’s sourdough bread baking using a culture he had started in 1968 and that he kept going, even with a loss of power in an Amagansett storm, until now. He was also an accomplished horseman, gymnast, and collector of pig figurines.

He was cremated and there will be no service, as per his wishes. A memorial in Amagansett is being planned for the spring.

Memorial donations to the Amagansett Food Institute, P.O. Box 356, Southampton 11969, have been suggested.

Decades before Helene Fugazzi worked at the Montauk Lighthouse — retiring, then returning to the job because she enjoyed her co-workers and visitors so much — Montauk and the beach played a big role in her life. 

She and her husband, the late Harold Fugazzi, were native Brooklynites who met at the beach at Breezy Point in Queens.

“Today when I look at pictures of them and their best friends — we have one of these great 1960s photos of all of them — they looked like the Brat Pack, the way they were all laughing and stuffed into one cabana,” said Mrs. Fugazzi’s daughter, Tina Fugazzi-Wagner. “I always think they all had such style. Back then, they even dressed up to go to the beach.”

Mrs. Fugazzi died of colon cancer on Nov. 27 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care on Quiogue after two years of ill health. Her husband died on Feb. 21, 2011. 

Mrs. Fugazzi first became acquainted with Montauk as a child with her father, a fisherman. She and her husband rented in Montauk annually, at Shepherd’s Neck Inn and Roosevelt Drive, and bought land on Franklin Drive in 1960, shortly after they were married. Fourteen years passed before they built their house there. They moved to Montauk full time when Mr. Fugazzi retired in 1999.

Mrs. Fugazzi was active in Montauk as a member of the Montauk Historical Society and Montauk Village and Beach Property Owners Associations. 

Early on, her 15-year stint at the Lighthouse included greeting tour buses with a talk about the area and the facility’s history. She led tourists on the trek to the top to see the view. “Later,” Ms. Fugazzi-Wagner said with a laugh, “she told them, ‘I’m done. I can’t keep going up those stairs.’ She loved it so much there. She’ll be missed. She loved being there and loved being a grandmother.”

Mrs. Fugazzi was born on Jan. 28, 1939, in Brooklyn to Joseph DeLauzon and the former Eileen Smyth. She graduated from Catherine McCauley High School in Brooklyn. She and Mr. Fugazzi, who were married on Aug. 20, 1960, changed addresses twice in Queens before settling in East Northport, where they raised three children, who survive. They are Lisa Fugazzi of Northport, Mark Fugazzi of Port Washington, and Ms. Fugazzi-Wagner, who lives in Island Park. Three grandchildren also survive.

A service for Mrs. Fugazzi was held on Dec. 3. She was buried at Calverton National Cemetery. The family has expressed appreciation for the caregivers at the East End Hospice Kanas Center.

Yves Henri Robert of East Hampton, who was born in Hong Kong to French parents, died of pneumonia at Southampton Hospital on Dec. 2 at the age of 91.

Mr. Robert had a peripatetic life, moving as a youngster to Shanghai and then to Paris in 1937 when the second Sino-Japanese War began. He was caught there at the outbreak of World War II.

An adventuresome businessman, Mr. Robert came to New York in 1954 when his French employer, the metal and chemical conglomerate Pechiney, asked for volunteers willing to relocate to America. Only Mr. Robert, who worked in the investment division, said yes.

He met his future wife two years later. 

He was born on Sept. 17, 1927, to Henry Robert of Brittany, France, and Jeanine Chenut of Paris. He was only 10 when his father died in Paris. He and two brothers survived the German occupation and were educated at the Lycée Saint Louis de Gonzague. He always said the Jesuit brothers there were his guiding force and shaped his critical thinking.

During his career he went from Pechiney to owning a medical company and then working for Continental Grain in a post that took him to Russia and to China in the late 1970s in one of the first trade delegations. When he was in his 60s, Mr. Robert retrained himself as a banker, and he and his wife lived for a time in London, where he worked for Alex Brown and Sons.

Mr. Robert met his future wife at a party at the Newport, R.I., family home of her friend Emmie Heppenheimer of East Hampton. He always said he was smitten at first sight. Worried, however, that he might make a misstep as an immigrant in a new country, Mr. Robert wrote to the host of the party, Ms. Heppenheimer’s brother Harold Sands, asking permission to invite Patricia to dinner.

“My mother has always said, ‘I had dated before, I didn’t need permission from one man to date another!’ ” Christina Robert said with a laugh.

The Roberts were married on Aug. 10, 1957, and celebrated their 61st anniversary this year.

The Heppenheimers and another of his wife’s friends, Calista Washburn, introduced the couple to East Hampton in 1961. Four years later, they bought an 18th-century saltbox on Egypt Lane. They also maintained a residence in Manhattan.

In 1984, French Prime minister Francois Mitterand awarded Mr. Robert the Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur, France’s highest honor for military and civil merits. He was honored with the Chevalier l’Ordre du Merite in 1971.

“I have been thinking a lot lately about how many major events he witnessed in the 20th century. The sprawl of his life,” his daughter said.

In addition to his wife, Patricia Hutchinson Robert, and a brother, Dominique Robert of Paris, Mr. Robert is survived by three children, Marc Robert of Bronxville, N.Y., and Shelter Island and Christina Robert and Michel Robert, both of London, and eight grandchildren. 

A funeral service will be held on Dec. 22 at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton, and Mr. Robert will be buried at the church’s cemetery on Cedar Street.

The Robert family has suggested memorial contributions to the Angel Fund at Most Holy Trinity Church, which helps families and the elderly with the cost of heating in the winter. Having lived through the deprivations of war, the ability to heat a home had particular significance for Mr. Robert, his family said.

Through the years, Mr. Robert told his family, East Hampton became the place in the world where he found peace. “It was home,” his daughter said.

Diana V. Bianchi, who had been a waitress at Michael’s restaurant in Springs, died of liver and kidney failure at Doctors Hospital of Sarasota, Fla. on Nov. 27. She was 65. 

Born on April 8, 1953, in New York to the former Mary Elam and Joseph Bianchi, she grew up in Queens and attended the former Mabel Dean Bacon Vocational High School, where she studied nursing. 

After working in a Manhattan emergency room, she moved to Central Islip, where she focused on raising a daughter, Lacy Bejsovec, who now lives in Springs.

She moved to East Hampton in 1994, where she developed a base of loyal customers at Michael’s. She lived here until 2012, when she moved to Englewood, Fla. 

Ms. Bianchi loved gardening, going to the beach, and taking care of her many dogs. She had many friends here and in Englewood, where they joined her in taking advantage of the warm weather and spending time by the pool. 

She is survived by her daughter and a sister, Joyce Vauter of Lakehills, Tex.

John Cooley was a detective in the New York Police Department’s 19th Precinct, which serves the Upper East Side, for 20 years, retiring to go to work for another 20 years in fire safety and security. Since childhood he called Montauk a second home.

Mr. Cooley died of cardiac arrest on Oct. 4, his family said. He was 74. 

Born in Queens on March 7, 1944, to Leo Cooley and the former Alice Denning, he grew up in Flushing and was introduced to Montauk in the 1950s, when his family spent summers at the Ditch Plain trailer park. He later bought a house in the neighborhood.

After graduating from Holy Cross High School in Flushing, he attended the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and served in the Coast Guard.

In 1975, Mr. Cooley married Catherine O’Connell, who survives. The couple spent winters in Flushing and summers in Montauk, where he was a member of St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church. 

In addition to his wife, he is survived by three siblings, Mary Kubler of Queens, Joseph Cooley of Urbandale, Iowa, and Frisco, N.C., and Philip Cooley of Queens and Montauk. Another brother, Leo Cooley, died before him.

A funeral Mass was said on Oct. 9 at St. Andrew Avellino Catholic Church in Flushing, followed by burial at Mount St. Mary Cemetery in Queens