A homemaker who raised five children and made Montauk her home for 22 years later in life, RoseMarie A. Kogut died on Oct. 10 at the Westhampton Care Center. She was 90 and had been ill for five months.
Her family wrote that she will be remembered as a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She made many friends in Montauk, they said, and "loved living in such a wonderful community."
She enjoyed watching soap operas such as "General Hospital" and programs about fancy houses on the HGTV network. A crossword puzzle enthusiast, she "never looked up the answers," her family said. Her favorite place to dine in Montauk was the Shagwong Tavern.
Born in Rockaway Beach on July 8, 1934, to Thomas G. D'Anna and the former Mary Grego, she grew up in Arverne, a neighborhood in the Rockaways, and earned a G.E.D. to complete her high school studies. She went to work as a secretary in the family business, the D'Anna Oil Company, until she met and married Donald J. Kogut in September of 1952.
The Koguts brought up their children in Massapequa Park and later lived in Amityville, until Mr. Kogut's death in 1993 at the age of 57. Mrs. Kogut then moved to Raleigh, N.C., and to Montauk in 2002.
Mrs. Kogut's surviving children are Karen Brown of Montauk, Donna Ancsanyi of Melbourne, Fla., and Lisa Robledo of Melbourne Beach, Fla. She also leaves 10 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren, as well as her daughters' husbands, Ronald Robledo, Richard Brown Jr., William Avdoulos, and Carl Johnson.
A son, Thomas Kogut, a daughter, Debra Avdoulos-Johnson, a grandson, Nicholas Avdoulos, a sister, Barbara Denni, and a son-in-law, Gerald Ancsanyi, died before her.
The family will receive visitors tomorrow from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. Mrs. Kogut had been a congregant at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk, where a funeral Mass is to be said on Saturday at 9 a.m.
Mrs. Kogut was buried next to her husband at Pinelawn Cemetery in Farmingdale. Memorial donations have been suggested to the Montauk Fire Department at 12 Flamingo Avenue.
