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.

Mauro Filicori, a graphic and industrial designer, died of kidney failure at his Amagansett residence on May 8. He was 75, and had lived here year round since 1999. 

Born on March 7, 1943, to Vivina Donini and Ruggiero Filicori in the Italian colony of Eritrea, where his father was stationed during World War II, he spent his early years in Tuscany, living in Siena, Lucca, and Florence. He graduated with a design degree from the University of Florence. 

Mr. Filicori took a trip to America in 1964 to visit the World’s Fair in Queens and moved to Manhattan the following year. He began his career as an industrial designer at Corning Glassware and later worked in graphic design at Saatchi and Saatchi, the advertising agency. 

He was married twice, first to Marina Ospina. They were wed in 1960 and later divorced. In 1985, he married Kathie McGinty, with whom he had a daughter. They divorced five years later. 

Upon launching his own design firm, Filicori Visual Communications, Mr. Filicori landed Texaco as a longtime client, as well as several start-up biotech enterprises that were funded by CW Ventures, an investment firm run by his longtime friends and East End residents Barry Weinberg and Walter Channing.

He loved to spend time on the East End during the summers, while living and working at his Gramercy Park design studio in Manhattan. Before buying his house in Amagansett, he rented houses in Sagaponack and on Shelter Island, and occasionally spent a night camping in a potato field. Afterward, he began working as a design director at Dan’s Papers. He was also a realtor with Prudential East Hampton until he retired to work on his home, his garden, and his personal drawings. A lover of nature and food, Mr. Filicori volunteered at the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton and at the Amagansett Food Pantry. 

He is survived by his daughter, Gaia Filicori of San Francisco. 

Norton William Daniels Jr. of Bridgehampton, who served for many years as an East Hampton Town assessor and helped start the movement to preserve open space and farmland after being elected to the Suffolk County Legislature in the mid-1970s, died on July 19 at his son’s house in Sag Harbor. He was 98.

Mr. Daniels was a member of the East Hampton Lions Club, the Everit Albert Herter Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and American Legion Post 419. He had been a member of the East Hampton Fire Department for 25 years and was a member of the East Hampton School Board for four years. 

Called Bucket, he was the former owner of Bucket’s Deli on Newtown Lane in East Hampton. He was also a master carpenter and boatbuilder, who loved building boats and selling them to make room for more, his son John Daniels said. He enjoyed clamming, fish, and pheasant and duck hunting.

From 1980 to 1990, Mr. Daniels lived in Delray Beach, Fla., and from 1990 to 2010 in Boynton Beach, Fla., where he organized reunions of East Hamptoners who referred to themselves as the Lost Tribe of Bonac.

He was born at home in Amagansett on Oct. 20, 1919, one of three sons of the former Elizabeth Hawkins and Norton W. Daniels. His brothers, Harry Daniels and Robert Daniels, both of East Hampton, died before him.

He grew up on Cooper Lane in East Hampton and graduated from East Hampton High School in 1938. He served for four years as an airplane mechanic with the Army Air Force in World War II, assigned to New Guinea, the Dutch East Indies, Australia, and Japan, before being discharged in the State of Washington, whence he made his way home by train.

He and Mary L. Rampe, who was born on Floyd Street in East Hampton, married and had two sons, James Daniels of Boca Raton, Fla., and John Daniels of Sag Harbor, both of whom survive. Four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren survive as well.

With his father’s death, John Daniels said historical and family information covering at least several generations would disappear. Mr. Daniels filled the letters pages of The Star for the duration of his 30-year residence in Florida, which for several years in the mid-1990s resulted in a column of his own. He began in the early 1980s to write a book about growing up in East Hampton, and seven years later produced “My East Hampton,” a 400-page memoir filled with information about businesses, roads, people, work, schools, and recreation here before the postwar period. Averill Geus reviewed the book for The Star in 1992.

The family received visitors at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on Sunday. A funeral Mass was said at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton on Monday, followed by burial at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery. Donations have been suggested to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Everit Albert Herter Post, 290 Montauk Highway, P.O. Box 5033, Wainscott 11975.

Mary Jane Anderson, who was active in East Hampton Town politics and headed its Women’s Republican Club, died on Saturday at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. She had just turned 87 and had a short illness following hospitalization.

Mrs. Anderson, the former Mary Jane MacGarva, was born in the family home on McGuirk Street in East Hampton on July 7, 1931, to the former Gertrude McDonald and Robert A. MacGarva Sr. She attended East Hampton High School and went to work as a switchboard operator for the New York Telephone Company, first in New York City and then at 1 Main Street, where the company had local headquarters.

She met her husband to be, Charles T. Anderson, while he was stationed with the Navy in Amagansett. They were married on Nov. 16, 1952, in St. Philomena’s, now Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, in East Hampton. His tenure in East Hampton government, as town clerk and tax receiver, covered many years, during which, in the 1970s and ’80s, she not only was active in Republican affairs but worked in the East Hampton High School library.

Mrs. Anderson’s Catholic faith was strong. She taught religious education at the Most Holy Trinity parish, visited the homebound, and served as a eucharistic minister. Her family said she also was fond of going to the beach and enjoyed watching sunsets and playing golf.

She and her husband, who died before her, were the parents of six daughters, all of whom survive. They are Marlene Ferro of Palm Harbor, Fla., Diane Blase of Wesley Chapel, Fla., Cindi Griffiths of Lewes, Del., Sharon Anderson of New York City, and Patti Jack and Sheila Bennett, both of East Hampton. 

Mrs. Anderson also is survived by a brother, Richard MacGarva of North Haven, and by nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, as well as a number of nieces and nephews.

Two siblings, Robert MacGarva Jr. of East Hampton and Gertrude Ferrara of Sag Harbor, died before her.

Visiting hours were to be today at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton from 4 to 7 p.m. A Mass of Christian burial is to be said tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Church, with burial to follow in the church cemetery on Cedar Street. 

Memorial donations have been suggested for East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978, and the Wounded Warrior Project, P.O. Box 758517, Topeka, Kan. 66675-8517.

Visiting hours for Alicia Nicole Engstrom will be held on Friday from 10 a.m. to noon at Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A service will follow at noon at the funeral home. Ms. Engstrom died on Sunday in Philadelphia. She was 42.

A graduate of Montauk School and East Hampton High School, she lived in Philadelphia. Her family has suggested contributions to the Pajama Program, 114 East 39th Street, New York 10016.

A full obituary will appear in a future issue of The Star. 

A memorial Mass for Richard F. Jarmain of Montauk will be said at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in that hamlet on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. Mr. Jarmain, a dentist and professor of dentistry, died on March 1 at the age of 78.

William Scott Tiernan of Laramie, Wyo., who spent childhood summers in East Hampton, died on July 27 in a fire at his house there. He was 67.

Known as Scott, or Grand Dude to his grandchildren and Wild Bill when on his Wyoming ranch, he was born on May 18, 1951, in West Orange, N.J., the second of four children of the former Lynda Scheerer of East Hampton and Gulf Stream, Fla., who survives, and John William Tiernan, who died before him.

Mr. Tiernan grew up in Delray Beach, Fla., Cape Cod, and East Hampton. He graduated from Avon Old Farms School in Avon, Conn., where he lettered in football, wrestling, and lacrosse. After graduating, he served on the school’s board and donated a wrestling room in honor of his father.

His family said that he “packed a lot of lives into one” and that he may have attended college “for a minute” but had too much to do and see to stay long enough to get a degree. He traveled around the world and had many adventures before moving to Gulf Stream, down the road from where he had grown up, and becoming a partner in the real estate brokerage firm Allmon and Tiernan (which would later become Allmon, Tiernan, and Ely before being sold to Corcoran in 2005).

He also served for a time on the board of the family’s company, the resortwear and sportswear retailer Mark, Fore and Strike, which was started in 1951 and bought from its founders by Mr. Tiernan’s father. It was sold in 2003.

After Mr. Tiernan retired, he bought a piece of property outside Laramie, where he built a ranch and made huge metal sculptures, which, his family said, delighted his grandchildren.

Living life to the fullest was always foremost in his mind, his family said, as were motorcycling, snowboarding, sailing, and surfing. “The man was fearless,” the family said. “He was a surfer dude, a family man, a businessman, a cowboy, and an incredible artist.”

In summers, even as an adult, he would visit his mother, now Lynda Scheerer Stokes, at her East Hampton house. In addition to her, Mr. Tiernan is survived by his brother, Michael Whitaker Tiernan, and his sister Ann Purcell Tiernan, both of Delray Beach, and his other sister, Martha Tiernan Ely of Gulf Stream; his daughter, Cary Tiernan Butterfield of Bermuda; his three sons, Scott Durand Tiernan of Newport Beach, Calif., Parker Knight Tiernan of Delray Beach, and John Sears Tiernan of Great Falls, Mont., as well as three grandchildren. Mr. Tiernan’s two marriages — the first to Carolyn Riley, the second to Kim Allmon Tiernan of Guana Cay, Bahamas, the mother of his four children — ended in divorce.

In addition to his immediate family, he is survived by scores of friends “who will remember fondly his bright blue eyes, surfer dude hair, and thirst for adventure,” his family said. “As he moves on to this last, most epic adventure,” they said, they all wish him “fair skies and big waves.”

Mr. Tiernan’s children spread his ashes at his ranch, as he had requested. They are planning a celebration of Mr. Tiernan’s life for a future date.

A memorial service for Andrew Bonertz, who died on June 15 at the age of 28, will be held at the Maidstone Park pavilion in Springs on Tuesday night at 8. Mr. Bonertz lived in East Hampton with his partner, Leigh Goodstein, and their 1-year-old son, and worked at the Clam Bar on Napeague as a cook.