Obituaries

Leonard L. Schaefer, whose family company, Edward Schaefer and Sons, bused East Hampton children to school for decades, died on Oct. 7 at the Villa at Westhampton, an assisted living facility. He was 70. 

Hazel M. King of Springs, a devoted homemaker who will be remembered as her two grandchildren's "number-one fan," died on Sunday at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. She was 76.

Jerold M. Barber of Springs, a landscaper described by friends as a “true local,” died on Oct. 6. A cause of death was not provided.

Rose Pizzorno of Springs, a former teacher aide, died of cardiac arrest on Sept. 20 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital after a short illness.

Eugene Waldstein of East Hampton died on Sept. 13 of acute myelomic leukemia. The former stage manager and television director for NBC was 91.

Joseph O’Connell of East Hampton, 87, “lived with conviction, strength and courage — his way — never accepting the status quo, fighting the good fight, and endeavoring to give voice to the voiceless,” wrote his daughter Kathleen O’Connell. Calling him “a hero among men,” she added that his “humor, unwavering ethics, and indestructible values were at the core of his character.”

Donald Fishman, a pulmonologist and chief resident at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan, died at Calvary Hospital Hospice in the Bronx on Sunday. Dr. Fishman, who had lived in Montauk for many years, had cancer.

Steven R. Romanowski, an Army veteran who had a four-decade career as a glazier, working on public and private projects, including at the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., died on Oct. 4 at home in Rensselaerville, N.Y. He was 64.

Kathleen Mary Cole, who grew up in Wainscott, died on Oct. 3 at East End Hospice’s Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. She was 74 and had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and emphysema.

Marlena Gershowitz, a Southampton resident who was a donor to the Montauk Playhouse Community Foundation and the Montauk Medical Center, died at home on Sept. 26. The cause was lung cancer. She was 79.

A funeral for Kent I. Feuerring of Sagaponack, a pilot who died when his small plane crashed at the edge of Three Mile Harbor last Thursday, will be held on Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor. Visiting hours will be Wednesday from 4 to 8 p.m. at Brockett Funeral Home in Southampton.

Leroy Everett DeBoard, one of East Hampton’s great athletes, an educator, and a two-term East Hampton Town councilman beginning in the mid-1980s, died on Sept. 21 at the age of 89.