Joseph DeCristofaro was just 17 when he enlisted in the Navy in 1943, too young to join up without his parents’ permission but determined to do his part. “I had to get my folks to sign for me,” he said on Friday in his living room in East Hampton. “My father signed; my mother didn’t like it.”

Heidi Limonius, a co-owner of Buckley’s Flower Shop and Garden Center in East Hampton Village for nearly 60 years, died at home in East Hampton on Nov. 3. She was 83 and had been ill with Alzheimer’s disease.

Sidney B. Silverman, a longtime resident of Amagansett, died at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan on Nov. 4. A trial lawyer for many years, none of his cases satisfied him more than representing the East Hampton Town Baymen’s Association in its victory over the General Electric Company.

Linda Holmes of East Hampton died at home on Hand’s Creek Road on Oct. 7. The cause was lung cancer, which was first diagnosed three years ago and returned after a period of remission. She was 77.