Obituaries

A graveside service for Pamela R. Cullum, a descendant of the King family, which goes back many generations here, will take place on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. at Cedar Lawn Cemetery on Cooper Lane. A reception at the American Legion Hall in Amagansett will follow.

Gerald Joseph Granozio, a writer, teacher, and marketing executive formerly of East Hampton, died on Aug. 21 in Rye, N.Y. He was 84 and had been in failing health since a heart attack in January.

Samuel Fertig, a former advertising executive who lived on Harbor View Lane in Springs and in Manhattan, died at home in Springs last Thursday. He was 85 and had been diagnosed with lymphoma six months earlier.

Thomas More Griffin of Wainscott and Manhattan, a corporate attorney, died of cardiac arrest on July 22, a week after suffering a serious fall at home. He was 66.

Mary Kathryn McDonnell Brackenridge, a former art dealer and fine-art consultant, died at home in New Canaan, Conn., on Aug. 27. She had lived part time in East Hampton for nearly 20 years, and here she was a member of the Maidstone Club and the Garden Club of East Hampton.

Rose Campbell Gibson, a research scientist and gerontologist who served on the faculty of the University of Michigan School of Social Work, died on Aug. 11 after a brief illness. She was 98.

The musician Jimmy Buffett, who lived on North Haven for many years, was remembered on the South Fork this week as a generous, gracious, and down-to-earth neighbor, his worldwide fame and considerable wealth notwithstanding.

Mona Lisa DeCristofaro, a former secretary at the East Hampton Middle School who went on to work for 30 years with Kevin Fitzgerald at ARK Construction, died at home in Springs on Aug. 21. She was 70.

Mary Kathryn Brackenridge, a part-time resident of East Hampton for nearly 20 years who was known as Kathy, died on Aug. 27 at home in New Canaan, Conn. Her husband, Gavin Brackenridge, and daughter, Kathryn Brackenridge, were with her. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

In East Hampton, residents knew Frazer Dougherty as the charismatic and dogged force behind the founding of Local TV, the town’s nonprofit public access television station, which began broadcasting out of his garage in the early 1980s and has since documented all aspects of Bonacker life. Mr. Dougherty died on Aug. 29 at home in Aventura, Fla., where he had been living since 2009, after “a long and illustrious life,” his family said. He was 101.

Mary Roberta Lewis Hildreth, who helped her husband, Merrall Topping Hildreth, run the Sagaponack General Store and Post Office for many years, died on July 26 at East End Hospice’s Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue.

A celebration of the life of Mary Roberta Lewis Hildreth will be held at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church on Sunday at 2 p.m., with the Rev. Adrian J. Pratt officiating. Mrs. Hildreth, who ran the Sagaponack General Store and Post Office with her husband, Merrall Topping Hildreth, died on July 26 at East End Hospice’s Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. She was 94.