Obituaries

Thomas C. Whitehill, a law book editor, graphic designer, and assembler of found objects in an outsider art style, died of a heart attack at home on Hog Creek Road in Springs last Thursday. He was 71.

Barbara Jean LaGarenne, who had a long nursing career, died of congestive heart failure on Dec. 9 at her son’s home in Washington, N.J. She was 85.

Debra Yvonne Daniels, who was born in East Hampton on Jan. 15, 1953, one of four children of the former Stella Grace and Kenneth Reney, died at home in Sebastian, Fla., on Jan. 12.

Huntington Sheldon, a professor and researcher at McGill University in Montreal who was a pioneer in the study of electron microscopy while working at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, died on Dec. 29 in Vermont. The part-time Amagansett resident was 87.

Visiting hours for Kenneth McFall of East Hampton will be on Feb. 5.

Peter Donohue began a lengthy career in newspapers in the early 1970s at The New York Daily News. He died last Thursday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital of complications of throat and neck cancer. He was 68.

Roland W. Stubbmann, who came to Montauk from California in the 1970s to surf and stayed on, died of an apparent heart attack on Saturday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. He was 67.

Rosemary Ryan Kaufman, who lived in East Hampton for more than 25 years died on Dec. 25 in Port St. Lucie, Fla. She was 95.

Wendy Patrice Damark Armstrong died at home on Nov. 22 of respiratory failure. She was 61.

With his golden retriever almost always at his side on daily walks from his East Hampton law office, William J. Fleming might have seemed every bit the country lawyer, said his law partner, Trevor Darrell. But with Mr. Fleming you got much more than met the eye.

Barbara Ann Volpe, a retired registered nurse and volunteer for several East Hampton organizations, died on Jan. 9 in Midlothian, Va., where she had spent winters for the last five years and been living with Peggy and Kevin Healy, a daughter and son-in-law.

Daniel Talbot, who with his wife and partner, Toby Talbot, introduced New Yorkers for 60 years to contemporary cinema from around the world and revived classic American films at a number of theaters in Manhattan including Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, died at his Manhattan home on Dec. 29.

Demetra Mirras, who was known to believe “all good things happen around ice cream,” and who with her husband and son owned John’s Drive-In restaurant in Montauk from 1975 to 1983 and the Snowflake in East Hampton from 1985 to 1990, died of heart failure on Jan. 7, in Colorado Springs. She was 91.

Florence Clara Hogan died in her sleep at her Amagansett house on Saturday evening. She was 91.

James M. Donna, who retired to Montauk in 2006 after a career with the Associated Press news agency, died on Jan. 10 at New York University Langone Tisch Hospital in Manhattan. He was 71.

Kynaston McShine of Manhattan and Springs died in Manhattan on Jan. 8.

William J. Fleming of Wainscott, an attorney with an office in East Hampton and a longtime LTV host, died last Thursday of heart failure. He was 69.

Eric B. Johnson of East Hampton died on Dec. 29 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. His health had been in decline for the last three to four years. Mr. Johnson was 94.

An obituary will follow in a future issue.

Betty DiSunno, formerly of Bluff Road in Amagansett, died on Friday at Southampton Hospital. She was 89. Service arrangements are to be announced. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Daniel Talbot of Water Mill and Manhattan, who with his wife and partner, Toby Talbot, introduced New Yorkers to contemporary cinema from around the world and revived classic American films at the Lincoln Plaza Cinema for more than 60 years, died at home in Manhattan on Dec. 29. Mr. Talbot, who had been ill for the last few months, was 91. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Doris M. Olszewski of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., who worked at the East Hampton Library from 1970 to 1986, died early on Christmas Day in Florida.

A resident of Bridgehampton for over 60 years, Elizabeth Anne Grant McHugh, who had cancer, died on Nov. 28 in Staunton, Va., while visiting her daughter. She was 90.

Visiting hours for Vincent D’Angelo, 73, who died on Monday while on his way to hunt at Sammy’s Beach in East Hampton, will be today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home on Pantigo Road in East Hampton. A service will be held at the funeral home tomorrow at noon. 

Burial will be private. 

An obituary for Mr. D’Angelo will appear in a future issue.

Ira Kornbluth, whose love of history, literature, and the arts outpaced his career as an attorney, died on Dec. 28 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 76.

Michael Stephen London, a former United States administrative law judge in Brooklyn who was 76, died on Dec. 18. Mr. London lived in Manhasset and East Hampton

Sherry B. Wolfe of Springs, a tireless advocate for East Hampton’s business interests as well as a longtime volunteer to help the sick, the hungry, and the abused, died at Brookhaven Memorial Hospital on Dec. 28 of heart failure.

A service for Gerri Tomitz, 79, formerly of Montauk and more recently of Las Vegas, will be held today at 1 p.m. at Hites Funeral Home in Henderson, Nev.

A former East Hampton resident, John Nasira Sumi of Redondo Beach, Calif., died at Torrance Memorial Hospital in Torrance, Calif., on Dec. 18. He was 94 and had been in failing health for two months.

Marlys Gilyard Dohanos, whose personal and professional life in East Hampton began when almost everyone on Main Street recognized each other, died on Christmas Eve at her North Haven home. She was 85 and had been in declining health following numerous surgeries.

A family house on Sammy’s Beach named Sail-Ho brought a young Richard C. Burchell to East Hampton in the mid-1960s. It was one of many ports of call for a man who over 50 years spent 14 years at sea aboard 25 ships.