Alexander Russell, a chef who began working in restaurants as a teenager in East Hampton and went on to work in kitchens from Japan to Florida to New Orleans to Zurich as well as on two yachts, died on New Year’s Day in Sag Harbor.

Joan A. Ehren, a former president of the Ladies Village Improvement Society of East Hampton and of the Friends of Guild Hall, died on Jan. 18 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital after having been ill for several weeks.

Maryanne Bennett of Sag Harbor, a nurse for more than 40 years, died of pulmonary fibrosis on Jan. 11 at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, having been ill for a year.