Obituaries

Ellen Frank, an artist, scholar, writer, and founder of the Ellen Frank Illumination Arts Foundation in Springs, died last Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She was 75. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Richard Bono, who ran Bono’s Small Engine Repair in East Hampton for decades, died at home here on Nov. 27. He was 86 and had been in declining health for the past year.

Alexander Russo, who bought a house in Springs in 1958, has 84 works documenting World War II in the Navy Art Collection in Washington, D.C. He died on Nov. 28 at the age of 99.

Carol G. Walter, who came to East Hampton with her parents in the late 1940s, died of organ failure on Aug. 11 in Manhattan, The Star has learned. She was 93.

Ralph Clinton George, for many years the head of the East Hampton Town Police marine division, volunteer ambulance driver, and town resident for nearly his entire life, died on Nov. 29 in Tewksbury, Mass. The cause was congestive heart failure. He was 92.

Serena Vegessi Schick died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital of complications related to Covid-19 on Nov. 24. She was 42.

Christopher McErlean of Flanders, known to all as Chris Mac, was an avid fisherman, basketball player, and Golden Gloves-winning boxer who won a lightweight division title 19 years ago. Mr. McErlean, who grew up in Sag Harbor, died suddenly on Nov. 23.

Alex Russo of East Hampton, a painter and poet, died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Nov. 28. He was 99. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Sandra P. Watson, a librarian at the Bridgehampton School who finished her career in the financial department of the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton in the early 2000s, died on Nov. 2 of heart failure at the Davis Community Health Care Center in Wilmington, N.C.

Sue Bogart's entire professional career was devoted to teaching children. “She inspired students in Illinois, the state of her birth; New York, and, for the last 23 years of her career, East Orange, N.J., an experience she regarded as the most enriching of her professional life,” her family wrote.

Linda Sue Russell's lifelong goal, her family wrote, was to be happy and raise a family, and that she did. She died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Nov. 13.

Visiting hours for Bruce J. Hoek of Springs will be held on Monday from 2 to 4 and from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A service is planned for Tuesday morning at 10 at the funeral home, with burial to follow at 11 at Fort Hill Cemetery in Montauk.