Mina Ellen Cory Kahofer, an executive assistant at Community United Methodist Church in Jackson Heights, Queens, for 23 years, and a Wainscott resident for 30, died at home on July 21. She was 90.

Ruth Schiffman, an author and retired teacher who for many years split her time between East Hampton and New York City, died in New York on June 9. She was 99.

Julian Schnabel is being honored with an exhibition of his artworks at Guild Hall and a film retrospective at the Sag Harbor Cinema.