Obituaries

Lucy Olszewski died at home in East Hampton on May 8, the day after her 95th birthday.

Eleanor B. Newirth of East Hampton and Manhattan, an attorney and ardent feminist, died at home in Manhattan on April 5. She was 80 and had been ill with leukemia for seven years.

Carlo Grossman, a resident of East Hampton since the 1960s, died at home on Friday. He was 90 and had been in declining health. No funeral services are scheduled.

Roy J. Pollock of Bridgehampton, a real estate broker, died on May 3. He was 92 and had been ill with multiple sclerosis.

Anthony Janssen, who was chief of the Montauk Fire Department in 1981 and 1982, a volunteer firefighter for 35 years, and an ambulance driver for 15, died in Hot Springs, Ark., on April 24. He was 85.

Michael Howard Dext, a commercial fisherman who lived in Springs, died on April 25 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. The cause was heart failure. He was 67 and had been ill for the past year.

Milton M. George Jr. of Amagansett’s Lazy Point, a former car salesman, died on April 16 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. He was 74.

A funeral service for Michael Howard Dext of Montauk will be held on Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. Mr. Dext, who was 67, died on Tuesday.

Cheryl Lee Behringer, who grew up in East Hampton and was an assistant teacher in Southampton for many years, died on March 19 in Charleston, S.C. The cause was an aortic aneurysm. She was 60.

Maureen Gaviola, formerly of Montauk, died at home in Pompano Beach, Fla., on Saturday. She was 68. Visiting hours will be on Sunday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A funeral Mass will be said on Monday at 11 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk.

Suzann Briand of Montauk, an auditor and fisherwoman, died of liver failure on April 14 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 52 and had been ill with Graves’ disease for a few years.

RoseMarie Boyle Raffel, a Wainscott neighborhood mom and former waitress at John Duck’s restaurant, died of lung cancer on April 8 in Port St. Lucie, Fla. She was 84.