Obituaries

Edwin Livingston Sherrill Jr., a descendant of one of East Hampton’s early families and a member of the East Hampton Village Board for many years, died on Jan. 19 in Charleston, S.C. He was 99.

Joseph L. Fitzgerald, a charter member, former chief, and 57-year member of the Springs Fire Department, died on Feb. 4 at home on Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road. He was 94.

Jason Epstein, author, publisher, and founder of The New York Review of Books, died at home in Sag Harbor on Feb. 4.

Visiting hours for Virginia Backlund of East Hampton will be tomorrow from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, with a funeral service on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Presbyterian Church on Main Street.

Robert B. Kay, an attorney who moved into executive positions in the hospitality and health care fields, died of cancer in New York City on Feb. 7. He was 82 and had lived part time in Amagansett.

The family of Adelaide H. Dunlop will receive visitors on Monday from 9 to 10 a.m. at the Farley Funeral Home at 265 South Nokomis Avenue in Venice, Fla. A funeral Mass will be said at Epiphany Cathedral Catholic Church, also in Venice, at 11 a.m.

Eric Alexander Suddueth, a musician, animal lover, and waterman who lived and worked in Montauk for more than 30 years, died on Feb. 7 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 60 years old. 

The family of Patricia B. Gilchrest of Montauk and, most recently, Loudonville, N.Y., will receive visitors tomorrow between 10 a.m. and noon at the Ralston, Lippincott, Hasbrouck, and Ingrassia Funeral Home in Middletown, N.Y.

Thomas J. McCabe, who was drawn to Montauk in the early 1950s by the sea and his love of fishing, died on Jan. 26 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. The cause was cancer and heart failure.

A wake and fire department service for Joseph L. Fitzgerald of Springs will be held tomorrow from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

Richard J. Hausman, who owned and operated the Sands Motel in Montauk that his parents and brother had built in 1951, died on Jan. 29 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. The cause was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Dorothy Kessen of Springs, a skilled baker who worked for many years at Brent’s General Store and Miller’s Fuel, died of a sudden Covid-19 pneumonia infection at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Jan. 23. She was 85.