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.
A celebration of the life of Mary Roberta Lewis Hildreth will be held at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church on Sunday at 2 p.m., with the Rev. Adrian J. Pratt officiating. Mrs. Hildreth, who ran the Sagaponack General Store and Post Office with her husband, Merrall Topping Hildreth, died on July 26 at East End Hospice’s Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. She was 94.
