George L. Kaplan, a decorated veteran and civil engineer who worked on the New York State Pavilion for the 1964 World’s Fair in Queens, died on July 7 at MorseLife senior care facility in West Palm Beach, Fla. The resident of Amagansett and West Palm Beach was 95 and had cancer.
Jarvis James Slade, a part-time resident of Middle Lane in East Hampton Village and a retired investment banker and venture investor, died yesterday at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City of complications of a stroke. He was 93.
Stephen A. Lesser, an architect who had lived in East Hampton for more than 30 years, died on July 12 at the Westhampton Care Center of complications of cerebellar ataxia and biliary cancer. He was 74 and had been ill for seven years.
A celebration and remembrance of the life of Raymond Marisette that was to take place on July 21 will instead take place this Sunday at 5 p.m. at the Dock restaurant in Montauk. Mr. Marisette, who was known as Cheech, died on July 21, 2018. On Sunday his ashes will be spread on the roots of a tree that will be planted, and there will be a Budweiser toast in his honor.
