Obituaries

Lula Blackwell-Hafner, who pivoted from a career as a dancer to one in landscape design, died of cancer on Aug. 10 at home in Kingston, N.Y. Once of Springs, she was 74.

Ann Schafer-Wolf died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on April 12 after experiencing mitral valve insufficiency related to congestive heart failure. She was 87.

John Stanley Sosinski died on July 31 of cardiopulmonary arrest; he had had a stroke and had suffered from emphysema for some time. He was 80.

John J. Dworsak, who was known as Jack and lived in Springs, died of complications of Alzheimer's disease on Aug. 14 at the Brookhaven Health Care Facility in East Patchogue. He was 78.

Jean Washburn Clarke of East Hampton Village and Amagansett died of cardiorespiratory failure on July 9 at Peconic Landing in Greenport. Mrs. Clarke was 96 and had been ill for three months. 

Marion Griffing Arnold, an Amagansett native and elementary school teacher, died on Aug. 16 at an assisted living community in San Antonio. She was 94, and had been ill with Parkinson's disease and Covid-19. 

Myrna H. Klein, who was 92, died on Aug. 8 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. Friends and family described her as "a force of nature," and even her primary care doctor said she "was a warrior," her family said. 

Lynn Klein, a veteran of the Coast Guard who was a police officer in East Hampton Village for 20 years, died of cancer on June 14 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. The East Hampton resident was 72 and had been ill for one month.

John J. Dworsak of Springs died on Saturday at the Brookhaven Health Care Facility in East Patchogue. He was 78. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

John Hatton Fallon not only "shaped the minds of numerous students" as an East Hampton High School social studies teacher for 30 years, but "as a father, he did it all, from being a scout leader to getting involved in every aspect of his boys' lives," said his family. 

Word has reached The Star of the death of Cora Brody Marcus at Southampton Hospital two years ago today. Ms. Marcus, a former resident of East Hampton, was living in Sag Harbor at the time of her death. The cause was a heart attack, following a long illness. She was 80.

Harold Eriv of East Hampton, the chief executive officer of Foundation Press, a publisher of law books, died of heart failure on July 20 at Delray Medical Center in Delray Beach, Fla. He was 91.