Obituaries

John F. Rutkowski, the former owner of John’s Pancake House and the Montauk Movie and a Navy veteran who served in World War II and the Korean War, died of cancer on June 21 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. He was 92 and had been ill for two years.

Peter Whelan of Noyac, a builder, sailor, musician, and photographer, died at St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown on June 16. Mr. Whelan, who was 66, had been diagnosed with prostate cancer last winter.

Richard Perry Mark, an engineer who served in the Army infantry during the Korean War, died of lung cancer at the age of 88 last Thursday at Northport (L.I.) Veterans Hospital. He had been sick for six months.

His family remembered him this week as “a kind and caring soul,” who had a protective instinct and stood up to bullies. “He always watched out for his family,” they said.

A memorial service Lisa Ward, who died on Feb. 5, will be held on Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Montauk Community Church.

Mr. Whelan, who was 66, died on Saturday at St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Joseph M. Ritsi, a former Montauk fishing captain and Air Force and Air National Guard veteran, died in his sleep at home in Jacksonville, Fla., on May 27. He was 66. No cause of death was given.

Mary Ann M. Klepper, an equestrian, skier, and cook who also was a eucharistic minister, died of lung disease, which she had had for 10 years, on Sunday at her home in Warwick, N.Y. She was 75.

A memorial Mass for Mary Jane Coy Osborne, who died on March 30, will be celebrated on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton.

Maurice H. Kouffman, a recipient of Israel’s Medal of Honor who helped start El Al Israel Airlines in 1948 and was a founder of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons in East Hampton, died on June 5 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

Claire Patricia Pollikoff, who was 19, died on May 31 after being admitted to the intensive care unit at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on May 27. She had been found lying on a trail in East Hampton’s Northwest Woods after an accidental overdose.

A memorial service for Dave Pierce of Montauk will be held on Saturday at 4 p.m. at Edward Ecker Park at the west end of Navy Road in Montauk.

Visiting hours for William E. Segelken Jr., who died at home in East Hampton on Friday, will be held this evening from 6:30 to 8:30 at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

Gregory James Fariel, a special education teacher who moved to Amagansett full time in the 1990s to help his family run the Sea Breeze Inn, a bed-and-breakfast on an almost two-acre compound on Atlantic Avenue, died on June 7 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton.

The family of Ben and Bonnie Krupinski and their grandson, William Maerov, have suggested contributions to the following organizations.

Virginia R. Sullivan, a resident of Amagansett starting in the 1960s and of East Hampton Village for more than 50 years, died at her New York City home on Friday. She was 99 and had had a stroke in September.

Amy Marie Gale, whom those of a certain age may remember from her years in East Hampton High School’s guidance office, died on April 27 in Maspeth, Queens, following a brief illness.

Maurice H. Kouffman of East Hampton died on Tuesday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. He was 98.

Katherine A. Hargreaves, a world traveler, soap opera enthusiast, frequent Montauk visitor, and the former executive secretary for the Springfield Symphony Orchestra in Springfield, Mass., died of complications from hip surgery on May 26 at the Bristal Assisted Living community in Sayville. She was 88.

Warren George Padula, who was said to have been at the forefront of the digital revolution among visual artists, died of heart failure on May 27 at his home on Long Beach Lane in Sag Harbor. He was 71 and had been diagnosed with cancer in 2013.

Elaine Marinoff Good, an artist whose floor-to-ceiling figurative oils were often influenced by world events and a writer who recently finished a memoir, died of complications of ovarian cancer at her home in New York City on May 20. Ms. Good, who had a house in Bridgehampton, was 83.

Michael Damien Farrell, a longtime bartender at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett and at the Blue Parrot in East Hampton in the 1980s, died of Alzheimer’s disease on May 12 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton. He was 78 and had been at the center for three weeks at the end of a long illness.

A celebration of Sharon B. Rupert’s life was held in her Sag Harbor backyard on May 21, which would have been her 80th birthday. Ms. Rupert, who was known as Sherry, died at her Harrison Street home there on May 12, after a long illness, her sister, Joan E. Rupert, said.

Warren Padula, a Noyac artist whose work was in the collections of several prominent museums, died on Sunday, with his wife, Elaine McKay, by his side. He was 71 and had cancer.

A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Mr. Padula was at the forefront of the digital revolution among visual artists, producing large-scale digital fine art prints of his own photographs, as well as archival prints for other artists. His work is in the collections of the Denver Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Musee de la Photographie a Charleroi in Belgium.

William R. Stowell of DeLand, Fla., an elementary school teacher for 30 years and East Hampton native, died on March 23 at Florida Hospital DeLand. He was 76 and had been ill for a year.

Albert Halim Khoury, a career executive with Mobil Oil, died of a heart attack at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx on May 11. He was 85 and had been ill with Alzheimer’s disease for many years.

A service for Eric B. Johnson, who died on Dec. 29, will be held on June 6 at 1 p.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery on Cedar Street in East Hampton.

A service for Elaine Marinoff Good, a part-time resident of Bridgehampton and artist, who died on Sunday in New York City, will be held on Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Edgewood Cemetery in Bridgehampton.

A memorial service for Marsha K. King, who had lived in Hampstead, N.C., with her husband, Capt. Daniel King, since 2004, will be held on June 2 at 10:30 a.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church in Water Mill with the Rev. Steve Liversedge presiding. Mrs. King, who was 68, died in October 2017 of a stroke following heart surgery.

Jesse Teed Scott, a master carpenter who had been a deckhand on a Viking Fleet boat that picked up Cuban refugees off Key West in 1980, died of complications from colon surgery on May 15 at the Grand Strand Medical Center in Myrtle Beach, S.C. He was 61.