Obituaries

Florence Thiele and her husband, the late Roger H. Thiele, started spending time in East Hampton at his parents’ house on Lily Pond Lane in the early 1950s. Mrs. Thiele died of congestive heart failure on April 15 at Mariner Sands, a private community in Stuart, Fla. She was 94 and had been ill for only a short time.

Stephen Peter Sicilian of East Hampton, a child psychologist who was the founder and executive director of East End Kids Therapy, died on April 12 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton after a long illness. He was 71.

Gilbert A. Weber, who was 90 and lived in East Hampton, died in his sleep on Easter morning at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead. He had multiple health complications.

Iris S. Osborn of Wainscott died in her sleep at home on Monday morning. She was 87. A wake will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. on April 30 at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A graveside service will take place at 1 p.m. the next day at Wainscott Cemetery, with a reception to follow at the Wainscott Chapel.

Florence Lainhart Thiele of Mariner Sands, a private community in Stuart, Fla., died of congestive heart failure on Friday. A summer resident of East Hampton, she was 94.

Robert Vernon Fisher of Fishers Home Furnishings in Sag Harbor died of complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at his Latham Street house in that village on March 25. He was 76.

Maureen K. Murphy of Montauk, a professor and former chairwoman and executive director of the East Hampton Housing Authority, died at home on March 30 after a long illness. She was 84.

Richard Janis of East Hampton, most recently the dockmaster at the Montauk Lake Club and Marina, died unexpectedly at home on April 6. He was 66.

James M. Lowney, who had worked at Dreesen’s, Sam’s restaurant, Reed’s Photo, and the Maidstone Club, moved from East Hampton to Lancaster, S.C., in December. He died there on March 23 at the age of 60.

Marisa Jordan Hansell of Lazy Point, Amagansett, a mental health therapist, died of bilateral pulmonary embolism in New York City on March 24. She was 57.

Robert John Burke, an ironworker who had spent many summers in Sag Harbor, died on March 24 at San Simeon by the Sound Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Greenport. Mr. Burke had been ill for three years. He was 78.

Richard Hugh Ketcham, who moved to East Hampton after retiring from a 30-year career with IBM in 1985, died on March 19 at the Chautauqua Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Dunkirk, N.Y. He was 91.