Obituaries

Edith P. Daniels’s children remember her as a mother and homemaker who believed so strongly that “family is everything” that she found deep contentment in simply gathering with them and their kids at the East Hampton house she lived in for the past 65 years. Mrs. Daniels, who was 86, died at home on Saturday of complications of Parkinson’s disease.

The family of Gary F. Darenberg of Montauk, who died on Friday, will receive vistors today from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

Irene Attinello was living in Montauk with her son and his wife, Margaret Attinello, when she died on April 3 of complications of a stroke she’d had in January. She was 89.

Word has been received of the death of John C. Louise of Sag Harbor, at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital last Thursday. He was 90. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Joan M. Carpentier Hevey, who lived on Norfolk Drive in Springs, died on March 24 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care on Quiogue after a long illness. She was 73.

John C. Craft, the owner of the former Ocean View Farm in Montauk, who had been employed with his father at John A. Craft Real Estate and Insurance on Main Street in Montauk and also started a construction company, Custom Craft Homes of Montauk, died of bone marrow cancer on March 21 in Port St. Lucie, Fla. He was 75 and had been ill for 11 months.

John R. McCaffrey, an art lover who had collected work by East End artists since the 1960s, died of lung cancer on March 25 at his home in Bridgehampton. He was 87.

An enthusiast with boundless energy, Michael Lynne can be said to have not ever lived his life on the sidelines. The former film studio head, winery proprietor, and dedicated supporter of arts organizations on the East End died on March 24 from cancer. He was 77.

Ms. MacDonald, who was 71 and lived in Montauk for over 40 years, died on Dec. 10 after a brief illness.

Ms. Rogé, who was 66, died in her sleep at home in Montauk on Friday. The cause of death was undetermined, pending results of an autopsy.

Jordan Metzger of East Hampton died of complications of a stroke on Sunday at the Long Island State Veterans Home in Stony Brook. He was 89 and had been living there for five and a half years.

Linda Willard Barrett of Springs, an accomplished baker who frequently delivered care packages of brownies and cookies to post office workers, veterinarians, doctors, and other members of the community, died on March 19 of complications from cancer at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 76. 

Born on Jan. 23, 1943, in St. Johnsbury, Vt., to Clark and Marion Willard, she graduated from the nursing school at Mount Sinai Hospital, and held several nursing positions during her career. Most recently, she worked at the former Hampton Medical Center in Southampton.  

Nancy E. Parsons, a longtime East Hampton resident who moved to California 13 years ago, died of pancreatic cancer at home in Los Angeles

Guy Ladd Frost of Roslyn and Springs died last Thursday of Lewy body dementia at the Sands Point Center for Health and Rehabilitation in Port Washingon. He was 85.

A wake was held on Sunday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, with a Mass following on Monday at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk. Mrs. Kenny was buried at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery in East Hampton.

The artist and writer Ruth Jacobsen was a hidden child during the Holocaust after her parents fled with her from Germany to Holland.

Mr. Remkus was known for telling stories that would leave his customers and friends, including those in the Sag Harbor Fire Department, where he was a longtime member, laughing out loud.

A memorial service for Dean F. Kirschner of East Hampton will be held on March 30 at 11 a.m. at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Amagansett.

Janet Snowden Wainwright, who had been head of the law department at MCI, a telecommunications company, died of lung cancer on March 6 at her home in Takoma Park, Md. A longtime summer resident of Wainscott, she was 71 and had been ill for four years.

Jonathon Hren, whose friends called him Jono when he was growing up in East Hampton, died of lung cancer on March 4 at the Kanas Hospice Center on Quiogue at the age of 66.

Kathleen Tobin Giardina of East Hampton, an environmental engineer who helped companies develop eco-friendly practices, died of cancer on Feb. 9 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care on Quiogue. She was 63 and had been ill for more than two years.

Mr. Gauger, who was 86, died of congestive heart failure on Feb. 23 at Southampton Hospital.

Alice Recktenwald died of complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder at home in East Hampton on Saturday, with her family around her.

When Amy Sheree Parker was a child, she loved floral design and singing in the choir at Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton, where her mother, Queen Davis-Parks, served as a deacon.

The life of Dennis James Snyder will be celebrated with a 10:30 a.m. Mass at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk on Sunday, a year after his death of heart failure in Florida.

Edwin Lewis Geus, an East Hampton resident for the past 50 years, died on Feb. 25 in Burlingame, Calif. He was 80 and had been ill with multiple myeloma for nine years.

Laura Anne Krupinski, a former model, jewelry designer, and interior decorator, died after being found unresponsive on Feb. 25, at a motel in Hampton Bays where she had been living.

Mary Holland Miller, a retired Springs School teacher who became a key figure in understanding the archaeology of East Hampton Town, died on Jan. 22 in Marlborough, Mass.

Audra Schutte Balcuns, who had been a public safety dispatcher for East Hampton Village and a volunteer emergency medical technician with the Springs Fire Department, died at home in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., on Feb. 20. Ms. Balcuns, who was 47, had Lyme disease and dysautonomia, an autonomic nervous system disorder, for four years.

Beatrice Joy Petullo, who had worked in the pharmacy at White’s Drug Store in Montauk and been a housekeeper at the Sail Inn in the hamlet for the last eight years, where a celebration of her life is to take place at a later date, died at her Montauk home on Feb. 11. She was 68 and reportedly took her own life.