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James R. Tompkins

James Russell Tompkins, a lawyer and businessman who founded the First Suffolk Mortgage Company, died of cardiac and pulmonary failure on Aug. 18 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. The longtime East Hampton resident was 88.

Cristina Albronda

Cristina Isabel Albronda, who was born in Cuba and later moved to Montauk, where, her family said, she “found her piece of heaven on earth,” died of cancer on Feb. 8. She was 68 years old, and had been ill for less than a year.

Jeanne Comey Owen, 94

Jeanne Comey Owen, whose volunteer work on behalf of children spanned more than five decades in Vero Beach, Fla., East Hampton, and elsewhere on Long Island, died of pneumonia on June 11 in hospice care in Vero Beach. A resident of East Hampton until 1998, she was 94.