Obituaries

Jeff Dell, a film editor, artist, and collector of art who lived in East Hampton, died at his Upper East Side, Manhattan, residence on June 6 after a short illness. He was 87.

Susan McCarthy of Springs, who worked in bookkeeping and office management, died on May 30 at the Westhampton Care Center. The cause was related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and renal failure.

Joan Regan McGivern of East Hampton and Palm Beach, Fla., died in her sleep in Palm Beach on May 5. Mrs. McGivern, who was 91, had been an interior decorator connected with Ellen McCluskey Associates for many years.

Margaret Edith Reilly, a secretary at the Montauk School from 1996 to 2017, died on June 19 in St. James. She was 70.

Kimberly Morgan of East Hampton, who worked at the I.G.A. supermarket on North Main Street, died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on June 27.

Joseph Aversano, a board member and driving force at the East Hampton Historical Society for 25 years, died of cardiac arrest at home on Egypt Lane here on June 25. He was 72.

Lucas DeSario, a 2006 graduate of East Hampton High School, died at sea on June 27 after having been missing for several weeks.

Isabel Spear Hefner, known as Min, passed away peacefully at her home in Amagansett on June 21 after a long encounter with breast cancer, surrounded by her family. She worked in The Star's advertising department for 37 years, retiring from her position as advertising manager in 2020.

Barbara Anhalt, who in her more than 50 years here worked at several mainstays of downtown East Hampton, from Guild Hall to Bank of America to the office at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, died of pulmonary artery disease on June 7. She was 80.

Sheldon Harnick, whose wildly successful Broadway musical about an insular Jewish village trying to survive in early 20th-century Czarist Russia has delighted audiences in France, England, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Israel, Germany, Rhodesia, and dozens of other countries where tradition, like the song, runs deep, died on Friday at his Upper West Side apartment.

Hermann Wayd, an accomplished pastry chef who worked at Gurney’s Inn in Montauk in the 1960s before opening his own restaurant and bakery in that hamlet and later in East Hampton, died on June 17 in Burtonsville, Md. He was 83 and had been in declining health.

Isabel McSweeney of Springs, a teacher at the Springs School for many years, died of complications of metastatic lung cancer on June 18 at home in Delray Beach, Fla. She was 78.