This photograph, from the East Hampton Star photo archives, shows Candace Catlin Woodruff Benjamin, Lela Harkness Edwards Cook, and Janet McCord Cook eating lunch on the deck at the Maidstone Club. The three women were in a similar place in life, and their families were active in the club.

Fabio Velez, who in recent years worked as a real estate agent with Corcoran in East Hampton and also in South Florida, died at Stony Brook University Hospital on July 2 following a short illness. He had liver cancer.

Lawrence Raymond of Montauk and Manhattan, a 30-year employee of the I.B.M. Corporation and a member of Concerned Citizens of Montauk, died on June 29 at home in Manhattan. The cause was complications of throat cancer.

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