Obituaries

A graveside service for Samuel Joffe of Water Mill was to be held on Wednesday, Nov. 24, at 2 p.m. at Temple Adas Israel’s Chevra Kodetia cemetery in Sag Harbor. Mr. Joffe, who was 97, died at home on Monday. A World War II veteran, he was well known as a baker and pastry chef in East Hampton for many years. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Margaret Brubaker, a former East Hampton Star staff member, died on Nov. 16 at Foulkeways-at-Gwynedd in Gwynned, Pa. She was 84 and had been in declining health.

Myrna Bell Syvertsen, who was known as Mimi, died at home on East Lake Drive in Montauk on Nov. 7. She was 80 and had been in declining health for the past year.

Joanna Semel Rose, a philanthropist, collector, and publisher who for decades lived in the 1905 Joseph Greenleaf Thorp-designed house at the corner of Ocean Avenue and Lily Pond Lane in East Hampton Village, died at her residence in Manhattan on Saturday. She was 90.

Nakia Rahsaan Mabry, whose passion was working on trucks and cars, died on Nov. 7 in East Hampton. He was 45.

Linda Larsen German, a fashion and design professional, a onetime executive with the Liz Claiborne company, and a former resident of Water Mill, died of Alzheimer’s disease on Nov. 9 in Mount Vernon, N.Y. She was 70.

Robert Edwin Schenck was an Army veteran who served in the 82nd Airborne Division during the Korean War, and later went on to a long career in park design, river studies, and facilities management. Mr. Schenck, formerly of East Hampton, died on Oct. 27 at home in Cary, N.C., with his wife and family by his side. He was 90.

Visiting hours and funeral arrangements have been announced for Zbigniew (Ziggy) Lutrzykowski, an employee of the Bridgehampton School for the last 10 years. He died on Saturday at the age of 48.

Joseph John Kristopowitz Jr., a native of Wainscott, settled upstate after attending the Central City Business Institute in Syracuse and loved the auto racing scene there. He died at home in Liverpool, N.Y., on Oct. 22 at the age of 72.

Heidi Limonius, a co-owner of Buckley’s Flower Shop and Garden Center in East Hampton Village for nearly 60 years, died at home in East Hampton on Nov. 3. She was 83 and had been ill with Alzheimer’s disease.

Linda Holmes of East Hampton died at home on Hand’s Creek Road on Oct. 7. The cause was lung cancer, which was first diagnosed three years ago and returned after a period of remission. She was 77.

A memorial service for Grace Elizabeth Price, a former librarian at the East Hampton Library who had since moved to Brewster, Mass., will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Christ Episcopal Church in Harwichport, Mass.