Claire Reed of Springs and Manhattan, who marched for civil rights and against war and nuclear proliferation, died on Saturday at her apartment in the city at the age of 98. According to her family, she had been in poor health for about a month.

Ms. Reed and her husband, Jesse Reed, ran Parsons Electric, a shop on Newtown Lane in East Hampton, for many years. Together for more than 30 years, they lived in East Hampton on Springs-Fireplace Road; before that, she and her first husband had a house for many years on Hog Creek Road. A vibrant woman, she regularly hosted dinner parties, where she was known to engage guests in voluble political debate. Mr. Reed died in 2000.

A poet who belonged to a local poetry group, Ms. Reed also wrote fiction. Several of her stories appeared in The East Hampton Star in the late 1990s, as did “Guestwords” and letters to the editor. Her memoir, “Toughing it Out, From Silver Slippers to Combat Boots,” was published by the Feminist Press in 2012.

Ms. Reed worked for Representative Bella Abzug in the ’70s, during her tenure in the House, and later became a founding member of the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute, from which she recently received an award. She also was a volunteer for the Center for Constitutional Rights and a member of Women Strike for Peace and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

The writer Blanche Cook, a good friend, called Ms. Reed a “galvanizing force of nature,” adding, “I was always amazed by her ability to engage so many people across so many divides, with her magnetic gifts for poetry, politics, joy, and contemplation.”

She was born to Esadore and Jenny Ruskin Sawitsky in Manhattan on Aug. 6, 1920. The family moved to Brooklyn, where she grew up, when she was 4 or 5. She was educated in public schools and took non-degree courses at Columbia University. For many years, she worked for Corporate Art Alternatives, selling art and prints of old photographs. She was married to Lee Scheinbart from about 1947 to 1964, and settled into an East 80s apartment after their divorce.

Two sons, Edward Scheinbart of Watertown, Mass., and Jonathan Scheinbart of Alexandria, Va., survive. She also leaves one granddaughter and two great-grandchildren. Her other survivors are a niece and nephew; two brothers died before her.

At her request, no service was held. Memorial contributions have been suggested for the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute, c/o Hunter College, Office HE1233, 695 Park Avenue, New York 10021 or www.abzuginstitute.org.

James Milton Villas, the author of 12 cookbooks who wrote hundreds of articles during 27 years as food and wine editor of Town & Country magazine and also made frequent television appearances, died in his sleep at his East Hampton home on Friday. He had emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 80. 

Mr. Villas’s writing about food and travel also appeared in Life, The New Yorker, Bon Appétit, Travel and Leisure, Gourmet, Esquire, Food and Wine, and Saveur.  He was featured on TV on “Good Morning, America” and “Today” as well as a number of CNN and CNBC programs. 

His mother, according to his family, inspired most of his food writing. He also wrote a memoir and numerous letters on local topics to The Star. He extolled peanut butter as a favorite food.

Mr. Villas bought a house in East Hampton at the urging of The New York Times food writer Craig Claiborne and the renowned chef Pierre Franey, who were among his friends. Over the course of his life, he became friends with other luminaries of the food world, including James Beard, Paul Prudhomme, Maida Heatter, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Paul Bocuse, Paula Wolfert, Barbara Kafka, and Ruth Reichl, among others. He won six James Beard Awards, which are thought of as the food world’s Oscars. 

As a young man, Mr. Villas received a Fulbright to study in France at the University of Grenoble. It apparently was there that his fascination with food developed, especially at a visit to L’Hotel de la Cote d’Or in Saulieu, five hours outside Paris, where he thought he would have a sandwich but ended having numerous courses and being befriended by the chef over coffee, cognac, and Gauloises.

In a 2007 feature in The East Hampton Star, Laura Donnelly called him handsome, agile, and courtly, saying he was “deeply intellectual and opinionated and so resolutely Southern.” At another time, she described his tips for preserving jams and jellies.

He was born in Charlotte, N.C., on Feb. 10, 1938, one of two children of the former Martha Pierson and Harold J. Villas. His sister, Patricia Villas Royal, died before him. He grew up there, graduating from Myers Park High School where he played football and performed in theater productions. He also sang in the boys choir of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Charlotte. 

Mr. Villas received bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. in romance languages and comparative literature. He continued his studies at Middlebury College in Vermont.

His cousins, Elizabeth T. Anderson and Mary Theiling, both of Charlotte, and Martha Theiling Lynch of Fayetteville, N.C., are his only survivors. They accepted his ashes after cremation. There was no service, as he had requested.

The family wanted to express appreciation for the friendship and care extended to Mr. Villas “in his weakest of times” by Bruce and Linda Weed and Jim and Margaret Norland, all of East Hampton, and for Dr. Ralph Gibson’s friendship and medical care over the years.

Mr. Villas was fond of beagles, his family said, and “Bridgett, 8 years old, was with him to the end.” They suggested memorial donations to the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, P.O. Box 901, Wainscott 11975.

George Mossin Hansen Jr., a former member of the Sag Harbor Village Planning Board, a 35-year employee of the East Hampton Town Highway Department, and a Republican committeeman for New York’s Second Congressional District, died last Thursday at his home in Blairsville, Ga. He was 79, and had had Parkinson’s disease. 

Mr. Hansen was born on Aug. 24, 1939, in Boston, to Myrtle Heyn and George Mossin Hansen. While living in Sag Harbor, he was an active member of Wamponamon Lodge #437, a fraternal order of Freemasons. Upon retirement from the Highway Department in 1993, he moved to Georgia, where, said his family, he enjoyed traveling and exploring the natural beauty of the mountains of Union County. 

He is survived by his wife, Maureen, and two children from a previous marriage, George Mossin Hansen III of Arlington, Va., and Susan Zaykowski of Bristol, R.I. Other survivors include his siblings Carolyn Vokes of Lillian, Ala., June Hombergen of Homosassa, Fla., and Donald Hansen of Orange, Mass. He also leaves two grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces, nephews, and friends. 

A private memorial service is planned, to be followed by burial at Oakland Cemetery in Sag Harbor. The family has suggested memorial donations for a favorite charity. Condolences may be sent online to mountainviewfuneralhome.com.

Cecilia Roxbury Rarrick died on July 1 at her house in East Hampton. She was 91 and had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease several years ago. Mrs. Rarrick was under the care of East End Hospice.

She was born in Glendale, Queens, on July 24, 1926, one of three daughters of the former Bridget Sullivan and James McCaffrey. She grew up there and put herself through nursing school in Harlem, earning a degree as a licensed practical nurse. Mrs. Rarrick worked in Queens at Elmhurst General Hospital, bringing up her three children as a single mother after her first husband, Roland Roxbury, who was in the Merchant Marine, sustained a brain injury and had to be hospitalized. The marriage ended in divorce.

The family lived for five years in Harrisburg, Pa., before moving, in 1980, with Robert Rarrick, her second husband, to Montauk. He worked as a chef at several Montauk restaurants and Mrs. Rarrick worked as a nurse at Southampton Hospital and for private clients. They eventually divorced.

Both her former husbands died before her, as did one sister. Another sister, Patricia O’Kane of Jupiter, Fla., survives, as do her three children, Susanne Roxbury and Cathy Roxbury of Montauk and James Roxbury of Harrisburg, Pa., and Montauk, and a granddaughter. Another granddaughter, Taryn Enck, died at 25 last year of a rare genetic disease, hereditary angioedema. Her granddaughter Megan Enck Hurley of Amagansett followed in her footsteps and became a nurse herself.

The Rev. Tom Murray of St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk officiated at a funeral Mass on July 7. Burial followed at Fort Hill Cemetery, Montauk.

Susanne Roxbury said her mother “made the best of everything and lived and loved her life right to the end. She was just really happy . . . she had a grace about her and a warm, welcoming heart.” Her mother, she said, “would give you the shirt off her back, but she was no fool.”

The family has suggested donations in memory of Taryn Enck for the HAEA Association, attention Christine Selva, P.O. Box 803, Conway, Mass. 01341.

Elean Quackenbush, a lifelong resident of East Hampton, died of lung cancer on Aug. 14 at her house in Springs overlooking Three Mile Harbor. She was 72.

Mrs. Quackenbush “would do what­ever it took to make others happy,” relatives said, adding that she always put other people first. She was a caregiver from the age of 16, after her grandmother Phebe Ott was diagnosed with cancer.

She much enjoyed crocheting and knitting, not only supplying a wide circle of family and friends with hats, mittens, blankets, and potholders, but also teaching anyone willing to learn.

Mrs. Quackenbush was born in Southampton on June 2, 1946, one of four children of Morley L. Schellinger and the former Florence Ott. She grew up in East Hampton, graduating from East Hampton High School and then from the School of Practical Nursing in Glen Cove. She worked for Dr. John Halsey in obstetrics and gynecology in Southampton until her marriage to James T. Quackenbush in October 1968, after which she went into business with her husband at G.T. Stanley Cesspool Service.

They had three children. She was a “devoted and very much loved wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and friend,” her family said.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by two sons, James L. Quackenbush of East Hampton and Michael M. Quackenbush of Madison, Ga., and a daughter, Linda Rea of East Hampton. One sister, Sally Riva of Canaan, Conn., and two brothers, Ricky Schellinger of Hampton Bays and Morley H. Schellinger of Riverhead, also survive, as do six grandchildren. 

Mrs. Quackenbush was cremated. The Very Rev. Denis C. Brunelle of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton conducted a funeral service at the family burial ground, Round Swamp Cemetery on Three Mile Harbor Road. She was buried next to her grandparents.

Laura Mueller, who lived for many years in Montauk with her late husband, Dr. George Mueller, died on Aug. 20 while under hospice care in Greenwood, S.C., after having taken a fall. She was 88.

She had two earlier marriages, one to Joseph Kiefer and the other to Sol Tanne, before marrying Dr. Mueller in 1980 and moving to Montauk, where she worked at a variety of establishments, including the Montauk Yacht Club and, in East Hampton, Dean and DeLuca. Dr. Mueller died in 2003.

Mrs. Mueller was born on Dec. 19, 1929, in Brooklyn, one of two daughters of Herman and Bertha Eskin. Her sister, Rose Marion Smith of Greenwood, died before her. She grew up in Brooklyn and graduated from high school there, later earning a B.A. and two M.A.s in Manhattan and going on to work as a print model, a kindergarten teacher, and a cosmetician. She also worked for a time at the old New York Foundling Hospital.

She loved art, music, and literature, and “was knowledgeable about all three,” her family said. Her last wish, she told them, was to hear side eight of “Der Rosenkavalier,” because of its final trio of female voices. 

She had insatiable curiosity and passion for learning new things, they said, including, through the Great Courses college videos, anatomy and physiology. She owned hundreds of books, and several much-loved cats. A cartoonist friend dedicated this caption to her: “No Heaven will ever Heaven be unless my cats are there to welcome me.”

Mrs. Mueller was “dedicated to her wide circle of friends,” relatives said, many of whom she had known for more than 70 years. 

There was no funeral service, as per her wishes. Two nephews survive, as does Gail Buquicchio of Seattle, whom she called her “foster daughter.”

Memorial donations have been suggested for Planned Parenthood, P.O. Box 97166, Washington, D.C. 20077, the Humane Society of the United States, 1255 23rd Street N.W., Suite 450, Washington, D.C. 20037, or the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, P.O. Box 901, Wainscott 11975.

Described as “a man of tremendous intellect and energy,” a true gentleman, and a visionary in his field, Richard Mortimer Furlaud’s career “included the stewardship of many of America’s premier institutions,” his family wrote. 

As president and C.E.O. of Squibb Beech-Nut, Mr. Furlaud built the company into a pharmaceutical giant that eventually merged into Bristol-Myers Squibb. After retiring from the company in 1991, he became chairman of American Express, International Flavors and Fragrances, and the Rockefeller University board of trustees.

“Widely respected as a visionary and a problem-solver, he brought to bear at each of these differing institutions a great ability for strategic planning, team building, and charismatic leadership,” his family said.

Mr. Furlaud, who had been in good health until this summer, died on Monday at home in East Hampton surrounded by his family. He was 95. A resident of Palm Beach, Fla., he had summered in East Hampton for 50 years.

Mr. Furlaud was born in New York City on April 15, 1923, to Maxime Hubert Furlaud and the former Eleanor Mortimer, but he grew up “in the tumult of Europe before the Second World War,” his daughters said. His family had moved to Paris seeking better economic opportunities, but then fled back to the United States to escape the war. “His father packed up everything in the car” as German forces advanced, and the family drove south, making their way back to the U.S. via Spain in 1941, his daughters said. 

Upon returning to this country, he enrolled at Princeton University, graduating in 1943. An accomplished athlete, as a teenager he won the Swiss Interscholastic Skiing Championship. At Princeton, he played number-two on the tennis team and “was proud of the fact that he never lost a tennis match,” his family wrote.

He went on to Harvard Law School, but his tenure there was interrupted “because he didn’t have the tuition,” his daughters said. He returned to Europe to work and was able to “put himself and his brother through school by selling cigarettes on the black market in postwar Germany.” He earned a law degree from Harvard in 1947. 

“He was a self-made man,” his daughters said yesterday. He was also “a man of deep philanthropic principles, and throughout his career he was committed to the advancement of medical science through research.”

In presenting him with an honorary degree in 1998, Rockefeller University wrote that he was “a vital force in advancing basic research since he entered the pharmaceutical industry in the 1950s. A brilliant strategist with a deep commitment to furthering scientific understanding of the basis of human health and disease, he has diligently promoted cutting-edge research efforts that have benefited countless people throughout the world.”

In East Hampton, Mr. Furlaud was a longtime supporter of the East Hampton Library. 

“He was a real gentleman, and everyone who knew him remarked on how charming and how graceful he was,” his daughters said. “He was a lovely man.” 

He enjoyed traveling the world with his wife of 37 years, Isabel P. Furlaud, “the love of his life and fellow adventurer.” She survives him. He was immensely proud of his children and grandchildren.

Mr. Furlaud’s three children from his first marriage, to Elspeth Banks — Richard M. Furlaud Jr., Eleanor J. Adam, and Tamsin F. Rachofsky of New York City — all survive. Also surviving are seven grandchildren. A grandson, Alex Adam, died before him, as did his brother, Maxime Furlaud. 

Mr. Furlaud was cremated. A private service will be held tomorrow at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton. 

The family has suggested contributions to the East Hampton Library, 159 Main Street, East Hampton 11937. 

Ellis Roemer French, a successful and influential Montauk businessman who began the  resort there known as the Panoramic View, died at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center on Aug. 10, following complications of open-heart surgery to replace a more than 40-year-old prosthetic mitral valve, one of the oldest original valves still functioning. He was 80 years old and had been hospitalized for 23 days.

A resident of Montauk since 1942, Mr. French, his late brother, John French, and his father, Earl French Sr., began developing the resort in 1956. His father also founded the First National Bank in East Hampton (later the Bank of the Hamptons and Suffolk County National Bank). His mother, Kate Roemer French, joined the Panoramic effort after her husband died, in 1962, and with her two sons continued to develop and manage it; it was completed in 1972.

  After his brother’s death at an early age in 1976, Mr. French and his mother continued  the family business. He took over as president in 1984, following his mother’s death.

His father, who had come to Montauk in 1928, conducted Christian Science services there with Maude Gurney and fished with Gus Pitts. He purchased the oceanfront land where the Panoramic View is today in the early 1940s for $20,000, a sum he thought so extravagant that it would never be recovered. 

Over the years, the Panoramic View has had strong employee and guest loyalty, with the median tenure for full-time employees about 20 years, Mr. French’s family said. They also said he would want to thank the hundreds of devoted Panoramic View employees over the years, including Herbert Anthony, who is its longest surviving employee, with over five decades of ser­vice. 

“This loyalty is almost unheard of in the hospitality industry and speaks to the way Ellis French treated his associates,” his family said. “His longstanding guests and associates were two of his proudest accomplishments when it came to the Panoramic View. With a huge contribution from his late brother . . . the Panoramic stands as a testament to Ellis’s great vision, hard work, and keen management.”

Mr. French ran the company singlehandedly until 1998, when his son, who is also John French, returned from California to help run the resort. A fixture in Montauk, Mr. French never retired from his herculean 80-hour workweek. The resort was sold in January 2007, over half a century after it was begun. Today, it is part of the Residences at Gurney’s Inn Resorts.

In addition to running the Panoramic, Mr. French was an assistant Cub Scout leader in East Hampton, president of the East Hampton Business Alliance, and active in the Montauk Chamber of Commerce. Along with Paul Monte, he had been honored at a chamber gala. 

He was born on Feb. 4, 1938, in Forest Hills, Queens, to Earl Raymond French and the former Kate Pier Roemer. 

He met Pat Collins at Adelphi College in the late 1950s; they were married in 1961. She said she remembers meeting Earl, Kate, and John for the first time as she was sitting on a sawhorse at the construction site during the  early years of the Panoramic’s development, in September 1957. They were married 57 years, and built a house in East Hampton in 1972.

Besides his wife and the Panoramic, Mr. French was devoted to a residence on the island of St. Barth, appropriately called La Vue Panoramique. As one of the first Americans to build there, in the late 1970s, Mr. French’s family said he brought the same focus to its construction as he had to the Panoramic View. 

His wife and children, Cathy French of Boca Raton, Fla., and John French of Port Orange, Fla., survive, as do two grandchildren, two nephews, and four nieces.

There will be no wake or service, in keeping with Mr. French’s wishes, but a celebration of his life is expected to be held in the fall. 

Private burial will take place at Fort Hill Cemetery in Montauk. His family suggested memorial donations to the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, P.O. Box 901, Wainscott, 11975, or to the Montauk Fire Department, 12 Flamingo Avenue, Montauk 11954.

Alexander N. Buccola of Noyac, who worked in customer service at Cirillo’s I.G.A. Market in Amagansett and also as a pet sitter and an estate manager, died of cancer on July 17 at his brother’s house in Goodview, Va. He was 67.

Born on Feb. 2, 1951, in Jamaica, Queens, to Nancy and Tony Buccola, he grew up in Sag Harbor, graduating from St. Andrew’s School, Southampton High School, and Suffolk County Community College.

“He was an old hippie, he lived a very simple life, and everybody, even complete strangers, loved him,” his sister, Pauline Brockway, said. 

Mr. Buccola started a pet-sitting ser­vice more than 35 years ago and discovered that animals, too, had an affinity for him. Another side job in estate management developed because, said his sister, he was a true handyman and because people trusted him. 

In his free time, he liked to bike and was a devoted hiker. During one memorable excursion, he and a friend backpacked to the Continental Divide in Montana’s Glacier National Park. They wore bells on their shoes so as not to startle grizzly bears. He also hiked New Hampshire’s White Mountains and Navajo Mountain in Utah, among others. 

In addition to Ms. Brockway, who lives in Sag Harbor, he is survived by a brother, Dominick Buccola, of Goodview, Va. Seven nieces and nephews survive as well, as do seven great-nieces and nephews. 

The family has planned a memorial gathering on Sept. 8 near the North Haven end of Long Beach in Sag Harbor; fliers are posted in the I.G.A. welcoming all those who knew him. Yellow balloons will designate the spot.

Doris A. DiSunno, a member of the DiSunno family of Amagansett and a legal secretary in East Hampton for many years, died at her Bryant Street, Springs, home on Aug. 22. She was 76 and had been diagnosed with esophageal cancer a year ago.

Ms. DiSunno and her then-husband, Eugene Pardini, owned and ran Brent’s General Store in Amagansett for a few years in the late 1980s. As a legal secretary, she worked for Fallon and O’Connor, William Duggan, and Dayton and Voorhees, from which she had retired recently.

Ms. DiSunno loved to cook, especially with her only grandchild, Mia Rose Pardini, and to travel. Her family was extremely important to her, they said, and “she had a way of making every niece and nephew feel that he or she was special,” said her sister-in-law, Peggy DiSunno of Amagansett.

Ms. DiSunno’s family was one of the first four Italian families from Nusco, in Central-Southern Italy, to settle here, in 1901. She was born at Southampton Hospital on Aug. 9, 1942, one of four children of Tony DiSunno and the former Gladys Robinson of Amagansett. 

She grew up in Amagansett, attending school there and graduating from East Hampton High School. She and Mr. Pardini, who died 10 years ago, were married in April 1953; the marriage ended in divorce. A son, Brian Pardini of Springs, survives.

Ms. DiSunno was a member of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton. A funeral Mass was said on Tuesday at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Amagansett by the Rev. Ryan Creamer, followed by a reception at Scoville Hall. She was cremated.

In addition to her son, a brother, David DiSunno of Amagansett, and a sister, Sharon DiSunno of Hampton Bays, survive. Her brother Anthony DiSunno of East Hampton died before her.

Memorial donations have been suggested to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.