Howard M. Epstein, an editor and publishing executive who was president of Facts on File, a news digest and reference publishing company, from 1975 until 1990, died on March 1 in Manhattan of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 96.

Patricia A. O’Brien, a bookkeeper who lived in Sag Harbor for almost 50 years, died on Dec. 28 at home in Rockaway, N.J., after a brief illness.

John George Burkle Jr., lately of Springs, a former TWA air freight supervisor at Kennedy Airport, died of heart failure on Feb. 5 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. He was 73.