Obituaries

Zachary Cohen of Springs died last Thursday at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 72. A gathering to celebrate his life is planned for Oct. 24 at Duck Creek Farm in Springs.

For 25 years, Susan Ann Bennett was a secretary at the Springs School who went above and beyond her usual duties. She approached her job through the lens of motherhood, her family, friends, and former colleagues said, and helped screen new employees, worked on school plays, and provided snacks for hungry students who didn't have any food.

William Earl Frame, formerly of Montauk and East Hampton, died at Redwood Memorial Hospital in Fortuna, Calif., on Sept. 27. He was 68 years old.

John Thomas Vigorita died in his sleep of a drug overdose in the early morning of Sept. 25 at his family home in Amagansett. He was 25.

Marie Frances Therese Eileen McDonald Fitzgerald Jones died peacefully at home in Port Charlotte, Fla., on Sept. 15 "in the arms of her niece, Karen Payton, and daughter, Regina Fitzgerald Totaro." She was 89. 

Funeral services for Philip G. Spitzer of Springs, who died on Tuesday, will be held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral home in East Hampton on Sunday at noon. The family has requested that all attendees be vaccinated. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Gloria Elizabeth Williams, formerly of Bridgehampton, was famous for her homemade rolls, baked beans, lemon meringue pies, coconut pies, and Hawaiian cakes. A devout Christian from an early age and a "natural-born caregiver for many children of the community," according to her family, Mrs. Williams died at her home in Barco, N.C., on Sept. 11, with family members by her side. She was 81 and had had cancer.

Chet Lane, an advertising executive, died of colon cancer on Monday at home in Amagansett. He was 87 and had been ill for four years. 

Helena Marie Gaviola, who had lived in Montauk for many years, died on Monday at home in Stuart, Fla., where she had lived since 2014. She was 89 and had been ill with cancer for eight years. 

A memorial service for Eugene D. Beckwith, a former Montauk Fire Department commissioner who died on Jan. 2, will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk.

A funeral service for Marie Frances Therese Eileen McDonald Fitzgerald Jones will be held on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk, where she was the first child to be baptized and where she was married to William Fitzgerald. Burial will follow at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery in East Hampton.

A veteran of the investment banking industry, a past president of the Maidstone Club, and a great sportsman, Carl Menges died on Sept. 8 at home in East Hampton, surrounded by family on a terrace overlooking Hook Pond, which his family said was "his very favorite place." The cause was heart failure after a two-year illness. He was 90 and died just nine days before his 91st birthday.