Floral arranging and gardening have been Lilee Fell’s synergistic passions since childhood. As the owner of Lilee Fell Flowers in Sag Harbor, she grew up watching her mother create floral arrangements for garden club flower shows and her grandmother making arrangements for their church’s altar guild.

Helen S. Rattray, the longtime editor and publisher of The East Hampton Star, died early Wednesday morning at Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport.

Paid Notice: Born June 28th, 1927, in Canandaigua, N.Y. in the home city of her maternal grandparents. Her mother had moved home temporarily needing help with two older daughters while her father stayed in Ithaca, N.Y., for work.

Paid Notice: Marion Louise Dailey of Stamford, Conn., passed away peacefully in her home on April 9, 2025.