Two Face Felony Drunken-Driving Charges
Town police have leveled new drunken-driving charges in separate incidents against two East Hampton men who were convicted of the crime within the last 10 years, which elevates the charges to felonies.
Robert Fariel, Lifeguard, Innkeeper
As the first captain of the East Hampton Town lifeguards, a position he held for nearly 30 years starting in the 1960s, Robert Fariel saved many lives and raised a generation of lifeguards to come. A childhood survivor of polio, an athlete, an Army veteran, and a longtime teacher of earth science at Sewanhaka High School, Mr. Fariel died at home — the Sea Breeze Inn in Amagansett — on May 10.
For Janet S. Halliday
A funeral service for Janet Schellinger Halliday of Sag Harbor will take place today at 11 a.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. Burial at Oak Grove Cemetery in Amagansett will follow. She died on Feb. 18 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue at the age of 99. An obituary will appear in a future issue.
Oscar M. Lopez
Oscar M. Lopez of Montauk died of a heart attack on May 10 at Stony Brook University Hospital. He was 77. He is survived by his wife, Mirta Lopez, and daughter, Carolina Swanson of Springs, and by two grandchildren. An obituary will appear in a future issue.