Barbara S. Cirami of East Hampton, an activist for gay and lesbian causes who had a 30-year career with IBM in Westchester, died of cancer at her winter residence in North Fort Myers, Fla., on July 10. She was 72.  

Ms. Cirami worked in various capacities at IBM, including as a computer programmer and a marketing analyst in the personal computer division. As a member of the technology company’s human resources committee, she helped develop a benefits program for gay and lesbian employees and their domestic partners.

 During her 30-year career at the technology company, she met Ann Viviano, who was to be her wife and partner for 37 years. They were wed in 2016, the year after same-sex marriage became legal in the United States. In 1976, she co-founded the Task Force for Lesbian and Bisexual Women, a part of the Westchester chapter of the National Organization for Women.

Ms. Cirami also was an animal lover who fostered feral kittens and cared for rescue dogs. She walked dogs for the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons and adopted Zoey, her beloved Yorkie, from ARF. She rescued several birds for the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center in Hampton Bays. 

She was born on June 16, 1946, on Staten Island, to the former Susie Cavallo and Dominick Cirami. She studied at Wagner College, where she was a member of Psi Chi, the national honor society in psychology, and vice president of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. She graduated magna cum laude in 1968 and received the Psychology Club Award and the Wagner Senior Key.

After graduation, she worked at Bell Labs in New Jersey, but left soon after for IBM. Following her retirement, she and Ms. Viviano moved from Mount Kisco, N.Y., to East Hampton, where she loved to golf, bowl, and kayak.

She is survived by her wife, a sister, Kim Cirami of Palm Harbor, Fla., and a brother, John Cirami of White, Ga. A memorial service will be held in East Hampton at a later date. Details will be announced via mullinsmemorial.com, through which condolences also can be sent.

Memorial contributions were suggested to the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, P.O. Box 901, Wainscott 11975.

Phyllis Clemenz of Montauk died on July 1 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton of complications of dementia, which she had for five years. She was 87.

She was born in Plainfield, N.J., on May 12, 1931, to the former Alyce Rose Branston and Kenneth Clark Lambert. She grew up in the Bronx and Manhattan, graduating from Hunter High School and earning a B.A. at the College of New Rochelle. She later took graduate courses at Southampton College.

Before marrying and moving to Montauk, Ms. Clemenz had been a buyer at B. Altman and Round the Clock Hosiery, and a sales representative for Lord and Taylor. Once she was living here and married to Capt. Harry Clemenz, she was one of the first cocktail waitresses at Gurney’s Inn, a short-order chef at the Flying Fish, and a bookkeeper who also worked in real estate.

She had earlier been a Suffolk County probation officer and became a deputy clerk of Family Court in 1962 and commuted to Yaphank every day. She gave up that position after her children were born, although she worked to help children with reading and math as an aide at the Montauk School. She became the school librarian in 1969, retiring in 1996.

Ms. Clemenz participated in civic life in numerous ways. As vice president and treasurer of the Montauk Library she wrote grant applications that made it possible for the library to receive over $360,000. She was the founder and director of Montauk Youth in 1963 and the Montauk Cooperative Nursery School, which no longer exists, in 1970. She was president and a member of the Montauk School’s PTA from 1975 to 1982, and president and treasurer of the Montauk Village Association from 1969 to 1980. She also enjoyed singing and was a member of the Eastern Suffolk Sweet Adelines from 1963 to 1973. She was a parishioner of St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk.

She and Captain Clemenz met at the beach in Montauk and married on Nov. 16, 1957. He died in May 2015. The couple had two daughters, Susan Hasselberg of Springs and Annie Clemenz of Montauk, both of whom survive, as do two grandchildren. Her sons, Kenneth Clemenz and Robert Clark Clemenz, died before her.

Ms. Clemenz read a great deal, her family said, and could hardly wait for The Sunday Times to do the crossword puzzle, in ink. She also enjoyed entertaining and cooking for friends and hosting parties on the deck of the house on West Lake Drive that she and her husband built. Most of all, they said, she adored being with her grandchildren.

Ms. Clemenz was cremated. A celebration of her life will be held in the fall. Her daughters have suggested memorial donations to the Montauk Library, 871 Montauk Highway, Montauk 11954.

Thomas A. Theuret, the former owner of Quality Seafood in Queens and, later, a dispatcher for Scan Security of Southampton, died at home in Springs on July 10 with friends and family present. He was 69 and had Parkinson’s disease.

His family recalled Mr. Theuret as a gracious and loving person who always thought of others before thinking of himself. He loved his friends and enjoyed fishing and boating in Gardiner’s Bay. In his Queens retail business, which had been a family one, he served patrons with a smile and genuine care, his family said.

Later in life, he sold produce at the Bistrian farm stand on Cedar Street in East Hampton, a favorite job because of the socializing that it afforded.

Mr. Theuret was born on Jan. 20, 1949, in Queens to the former Bernadette Murtaugh and George Theuret. During his childhood, he and his two siblings spent summers at Maidstone Park in Springs. As an adult, he continued to visit on weekends.

He attended Thomas Edison High School in Queens, then immediately after his graduation entered the Navy, serving six years during the Vietnam War, including a post in Cuba.

With his wife, the former Donna Helbrick, whom he married on April 21, 1985, he had a son, Cody Theuret of Los Angeles; both survive, as do a niece and two nephews. His brother, Timothy Theuret, and his sister, Laura Stath, died before him.

When Cody was about 3, the Theurets decided to move full time to Springs, both to get out of the city and to enroll their son in the Springs School, where Ms. Theuret works to this day. They bought land on Broadway Avenue and built a house.

A funeral Mass for Mr. Theuret was said at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton on Monday.

Raymond Marisette left Jersey City for Montauk 20 years ago to clean a friend’s boat at the West Lake Fishing Lodge for a week. “He was allowed breakfast, lunch, dinner, and $20 worth of draft beer,” recalled Rob Devlin, who had just taken over the Clam and Chowder House there. “That was Cheech’s original contract that he designed.” 

Mr. Devlin gave him a few things to do around the restaurant, and “I ended up giving him a place to stay above the restaurant, a room. That was it. He never left.”

“He fell in love with the people and everything about Montauk,” his son, Raymond Patrick Marisette, said. The Montauk community embraced him. He was well known at the Dock, Salivar’s, and Shagwong restaurants, where he played QuickDraw and had a seat reserved for him, his son said. 

Word spread quickly Saturday morning that Cheech, as he was known, the cheerful man who always wore a smile, suspenders, and a bucket hat, had died. Friends had gone to check on him in the storage container he was living in at Gosman’s Dock parking lot at around 9:45 a.m., police said. 

It was not as if Mr. Marisette, 69, had no other place to stay, people who loved him said this week. “He had more friends than most people do anywhere,” Mr. Devlin said. 

While he did not have a conventional home, his friends and his son insist he was not homeless. “He chose to live there,” his son said. “He always said, ‘I’m just me. I’m just going to be me.’ Those were the words he lived by.”

London Rosiere, who said she considered Cheech her best friend since meeting him in 2014, said he had been staying in an apartment by the Montauk Market in recent winters, and in the summers he would live in the pack-out office at Gosman’s. She said it was only this summer that he had to make other arrangements.

She said he had hopes to receive low-income housing by the Montauk train station, and that he looked forward to getting a kitten. “He always had a smile on his face, even when he had things going on in his life that weren’t so wonderful,” she said. 

His health had been on the decline in recent years, though his son thought he seemed better the last time he visited him, a few weeks ago. A longtime smoker, he was diagnosed with diabetes and a lung disease, with coughing fits that sometimes caused him to pass out, friends said. He was under a doctor’s care. An autopsy will determine the exact cause of death, but police said there was nothing suspicious about it. 

“He was offered so much help from people, but he refused it,” his son said, adding he told his father many times over the years he could come to live with him in East Rutherford, N.J. “He refused to leave Montauk. He was the type that said ‘I just want to live and die here.’ He didn’t want to leave. Technically, he never did.”

“He never looked to impress anybody. He never cared what they thought of him,” his son said. “He didn’t consider himself homeless, so he didn’t care if people thought he was homeless. There was nothing this man could be embarrassed about.” 

Mr. Marisette said his father had the nickname Cheech for over 40 years. He got it at a bar in New Jersey, where he would go with his best friend. “They were like two peas in a pod,” people would say, “best friends like Cheech and Chong,” and the name stuck. 

“I’d say about 80 percent of the locals in Montauk didn’t know his real name,” his son said.

After Cheech made Montauk his home two decades ago, the Devlin family basically adopted him. He lived with them for many winters. “He was the older son that I never had,” Mr. Devlin said, smiling. “He went on all my family vacations with us. He went everywhere with us. He was part of the family.” 

No matter where he went, everyone agreed, he made fast friends. He was easy to get along with and never hesitated to strike up a conversation. “He was just a nice, friendly, harmless guy,” said George Watson, who owns the Dock. “He was a Dock character down here.” 

Mr. Marisette was born on Fishers Island on Nov. 11, 1948. Mr. Watson said he was an Army brat; the island is home to a former military airfield. The pair would take a boat over to the island occasionally, he said, and go have a drink at the American Legion, where Cheech would proudly whip out his birth certificate to prove his birthplace.

He grew up mainly in Jersey City, though, where both his son and daughter, Cynthia Martinez of Union City, N.J., were born. In addition to his children, four granddaughters survive. He had two sisters and two brothers, all of whom died before him. 

He held innumerable odd jobs in his lifetime — his son joked that he probably was in the Guinness Book of World Records for man-of-all-work. He worked on truck tires the longest, but usually didn’t hold the same job for more than a year or two. In Montauk, in addition to the Clam and Chowder House, he had worked for J.P. Pools and Gosman’s. 

“He was just a character. There was always laughing. Always a joke,” Mr. Devlin said. He recalled one time when Cheech was shark fishing with friends and dropped his hat in a giant bucket of chum. Then he whipped it out and put it on his head. 

Friends also remembered him as giving. Ms. Rosiere said he liked to buy people gifts at the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society’s Bargain Box, which they frequented together. He would help out anyone who needed a hand — in exchange for a beer, Mr. Devlin said. “Bartering with beer was the easiest thing to do with him.”  

“He never asked for anything much,” he added; money and possessions were not important to him. “A can of Spam, saltine crackers, and a beer.” He was one of a kind, Mr. Devlin said. “They broke the mold after that one.”

“The guy just lived the life. The life of Cheech. I would say, ‘Who the hell is this Riley guy? He ain’t got shit on you, Cheech.’ ” 

An informal memorial service will be held at the Clam and Chowder House at Salivar’s, now owned by Mr. Devlin, on Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m. The Rev. Tom Murray of Montauk’s St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church will say a prayer. Mr. Marisette plans to scatter his father’s ashes at sea. 

Irving Dassa of East Hampton, who owned and ran the first men’s barbershop in New York City to have women barbers, died of cancer on June 24 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in Manhattan. He was 77 and had been ill for two and a half years.

The barbershop was called Delilah’s Den. Mr. Dassa also had a men’s hairpiece business called Masterpiece. For more than 40 years, said his wife, Dianne Hurwitz Dassa, he traveled to Mississippi to sell the pieces. “Many of those clients are still in touch,” she said. “They are like family!”

In East Hampton, starting in 1976, Mr. Dassa was the owner and organizer of a share house in Northwest Woods, which he named La Casa de Dassa. It had as many as 22 groupers in a weekend, said his wife. The house began as a beach cottage with no electricity or plumbing, and the couple were married there in October 1989. By 2000, it had morphed into a 5,000-square-foot house with an 1,800-square-foot living room, in which the Dassas hosted parties, concerts, and workshops featuring Metropolitan Opera singers.

Mr. Dassa himself was a gifted singer, said his wife, who met him when both were studying at the Singers Forum in Manhattan. He sang primarily ballads and Broadway music, and songs in the Ladino language, in which he was fluent. Born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on April 8, 1941, he came from a Sephardic family, one of three children of Morris Dassa and the former Allegra Estru, refugees from Salonica, Greece, who fled the Nazis for America and met on the Lower East Side. 

He grew up in a five-story walkup building with a statue of George Washington out front, and graduated from Boys High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where, according to his wife, he and Little Anthony would sing doo-wop together on street corners. He loved to sketch, repair watches, design jewelry, gold-leaf picture frames, and collect various oddities, she said. When he was 23, he renovated and decorated a brownstone.

Her husband “loved and treasured books,” Ms. Dassa said, and “his sense of color was incredible . . . he was amazing at the design of space; his ego never got in the way. He was a nurturer and mentor of many people, from family to friends.”

In addition to his wife, Mr. Dassa is survived by a sister, Jewel Dassa of Delray Beach, Fla., as well as many relatives in Israel. Another sister, Sylvia Natter of East Meadow, died before him. The family will gather at the house here for a memorial service on Aug. 25. 

Ms. Dassa has suggested memorial donations for any cancer foundation of choice. 

A former part-time Montauk resident and a founder of the Montauk Artists Association, Joseph Richard Bucci of West Islip died on June 26 in Sayville after an illness of about year. A Marine Corps veteran who served in Korea, he was 86.

Mr. Bucci was an art educator and administrator in the West Babylon schools, and painting was his longtime passion. In a 1989 interview in The New York Times, he described his take on the commercial side of art, specifically creating pieces to suit a customer’s home décor and personal preferences.

“ ‘I go to a person’s house with my sketch pad and we look at the empty wall together,’ he said. ‘I bring a big library book of various types of art — it has every ism there is in it — and they choose. Then I come up with a painting of exactly what they want: size, color, and style. With my art training I can go from Cézanne to de Kooning and have it be a first-class piece of work.’ ” The approach was profitable, Mr. Bucci told The Times. His own paintings were Impressionist landscapes, and he showed his work at the Chrysalis Gallery in Southampton.

In the West Babylon School District, Mr. Bucci had been a department chairman of the humanities program, a central office administrator, and a principal of summer school for the gifted and talented. He aslo taught at SUNY New Paltz and Dowling College in Oakdale.

In his private life, he was a pilot and flight instructor, regularly flying to Montauk Airport. He also enjoyed fishing and all that Montauk had to offer, and hunted and played golf.

His daughter, Jane O’Brien, said her father was a doer. “He didn’t sit idly by. He had a thought, created a plan, and went after it,” she said.  He had embraced the artistic community in Montauk and was a driving force behind the Depot Gallery at the Long Island Rail Road Station there, which is operated by the Montauk Artists Association. He organized the group’s August art shows on the Montauk Plaza green. 

He also played several instruments, largely self-taught. Ms. O’Brien recalled that she and her siblings grew up playing harmonica, banjo, or mandolin with him, and singing “Your Cheating Heart,” loudly but badly. He had a general interest in creative culture, was a voracious reader, and enjoyed talking about baseball, politics, and philosophy.

At the age of 86, ill and grieving after his wife died, he decided he wanted to go on “one more trip on a big bird.” He and his daughter and an aide wound up spending seven days in Sardinia.

He was born on Aug. 17, 1931, in Mt. Vernon, N.Y., to the former Margaret Ciarcia and Adolf Bucci. He received an undergraduate degree from the State University at New Paltz and a master’s degree in education from Columbia University. He and the former Jean Rowley were married in July 1957. For about 30 years, the family camped at Montauk’s Hither Hills, before buying property on Gainsborough Court in the hamlet. Mrs. Bucci died in 2017.

In addition to Ms. O’Brien, who lives in Smithtown, Mr. Bucci is survived by two other children, Kristine O’Malley of Patchogue and Thomas Bucci of East Islip, and by eight grandchildren. A sister, Diane Amori of Hopewell Junction, N.Y., also survives. 

A Celebration of the Liturgy of Christian Burial was held on June 30 at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in West Islip. Burial was in St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale.

Memorial donations have been suggested to the Good Samaritan Nursing Home Resident Council Fund (payable to GSNH Resident Council Fund), 101 Elm Street, Sayville 11782.

Barbara Kantor, whose love of boating and fishing drew her to Montauk as well as North Palm Beach, Fla., died of advanced Parkinson’s disease and dementia on June 29 after an eight-year illness. She was 84 and had been living in West Nyack, N.Y., where her son and daughter live.

Mrs. Kantor was a fashion industry buyer and marketer, having worked for Loweth National and Kirby Block before opening her own firm, Barbara Di. Her taste in fashion was said to have been inspired by her devotion to world travel and the cruises she went on with her husband, Irwin Kantor, to whom she was married for 59 years. He died in 2016.

She was born in the Bronx on March 2, 1934, to Peter and Accursia Dimino Di Raimondo, and grew up there. She and Irving Kantor were married on July 5, 1957. In addition to Montauk and Florida, they lived in Great Neck for 20 years, moving to Manhattan in 1996.

A funeral service was held on July 5 at the Hannemann Funeral Home in Nyack, with burial in Fort Hill Cemetery in Montauk. 

Her son and daughter, Peter Kantor and Robin Kantor, survive, as do three grandchildren. Memorial donations have been suggested to the Montauk Fire Department, 12 Flamingo Avenue, Montauk 11954.

Visiting hours and a service will be held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on Saturday for Danielle Cynthia Bertagna, who died on June 29 in Las Vegas at the age of 34. The immediate cause of death was not provided.

Her family described her as a loving and caring person who, as an organ donor, had saved five lives. They said she loved her family and was devoted to her three cats.

She was born in South Bound Brook, N.J., on March 29, 1984, to the former Maureen Babin-Mott and Frank D. Bertagna. She attended Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church there and served as an altar girl. She lived in Pisacataway, N.J., when she was growing up and graduated from high school there. 

Her survivors are a brother, Gary Babin, and a sister, Kathleen Nowsch, both of Las Vegas, as well as a niece and nephew. She was among the children and grandchildren who inherited a Mott family home on Cooper Lane in East Hampton. 

Visitors will be welcomed at Yardley and Pino from 9 to 11 a.m., when a ser­vice will take place. Burial will be near her mother and grandparents at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church Cemetery in East Hampton. 

Memorial donations have been suggested to the Heaven Can Wait Animal Society, P.O. Box 30158, Las Vegas 89113 or dogs@hcws.org.

A memorial service has been scheduled for July 26 at 11 a.m. at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton for George Morrison Jewett, who died on Jan. 5 in Las Vegas of complications of cardiovascular disease. 

Mr. Jewett, a retired businessman and small-plane pilot, was 88. He had divided his time between Pond View Lane in East Hampton Village and his winter home in Nevada. The Very Rev. Denis C. Brunelle will lead the service. Burial will follow at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton.

A graveside service for Gary G. King of Miller Lane West in East Hampton, who died on Friday at Southampton Hospital, will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Cedar Lawn Cemetery here. Mr. King was 69. An obituary will appear in a future issue.