Paid Notice: How many people do you know who have cross-country skied on Georgica Beach? Richard Fabricant, who died on July 9 at 94, peacefully, at his home in East Hampton, was one of them.
Born in Brooklyn on April 7, 1931, he graduated from Midwood High School, Syracuse University, and Columbia Law School (1954), served in the U.S. Army during the Korean emergency, and subsequently practiced law until he retired at 87 as dementia set in.
He is survived by his adoring wife of nearly 65 years, Florence Fabricant, a food writer whose career, which he enjoyed immensely, began at The East Hampton Star. He also leaves his beloved children, Patricia and Robert Fabricant, his daughter-in-law, Jill Herzig, and his grandchildren, Julia and Eve Fabricant and Tirha Herzig.
For some 60 years he spent half his time in East Hampton, first in Wainscott, then in Georgica, swimming, sunning, playing tennis, hiking, and gardening in a place he loved for its beaches, seas, bays, woodlands, farms, sunsets, art, food, and many dear friends and family members with whom he shared the splendors of the region. He believed in natural plantings long before it was required and devoured well-buttered fresh-picked corn like it was worthy of Michelin stars.
When not in East Hampton he lived in Manhattan, where he worked and indulged in the city’s cultural riches, to which he was an active contributor. But he was also on the road often with family and friends, traveling the world. He was blessed to have led a rich and rewarding life and will be missed by those who were touched by his humor, keen mind, grace, and caring.
