Richard Ellis Lynn had already retired from a career as a successful insurance executive when he was accepted at Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford in England to study Renaissance literature. When he returned to East Hampton after his studies, he published a book of his poetry, “Bottom’s Dream," and “for the rest of his life, he would find great satisfaction in his poetry practice,” his family said.
In 1964, the French artist Nadine Daskaloff was commissioned to paint the mural known as “Luz del Norte” for the National Museum of Anthropology (Museo Nacional de Antropología) in Mexico City. She died of cancer at home in East Hampton on July 13. She had been ill for a year.
Marshall Garypie Jr., a science teacher and a member of the Sag Harbor Village Board in the early 1990s, died on Aug. 3 at Long Island Community Hospital in Patchogue. He was 86 and had been ill for three months.
Elisabeth Brugnoni, a painter, talented seamstress, and gifted cook, moved to Amagansett in 1972 with her husband, Marc Brugnoni, and three daughters, and “immediately fell in love with her new home and the surroundings,” her family wrote. Mrs. Brugnoni, described as “a loving mother, a cherished wife, and a much-beloved friend,” died in her sleep on July 3 in Northampton, Mass. She was 83.
