Obituaries

Neil Hausig, well known in East Hampton for his advocacy of affordable housing and his long career in real estate, died of cancer on July 13. He was 80.

Ella Adele King, who turned a late-in-life crocheting and crafting hobby into a business selling her handmade goods at craft shows, died on May 3 in hospice care in Port Jefferson. Formerly of Sag Harbor, Amagansett, and East Hampton, she was 76.

Martin Ligorner, once “the unofficial mayor of Napeague,” died at a memory care facility in Northampton, Mass., on July 9. He was 89.

Audrey Flack, Abstract Expressionist, Photorealist, and sculptor, died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on June 28. She was 93 and divided her time between East Hampton and New York City.

Eleanor Marie Glennon, a cosmetologist who owned her own hair salon for 46 years in Bohemia, where she was born and raised, died after a stroke at home in Amagansett on June 22. She was 92.

John Burr Northrop Jr., an armed services veteran and bond salesman who played an unlikely role in the Watergate scandal, died on May 1 in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 96 and had been a summer resident of East Hampton for many years.

Joseph M. Schuttler, a postal worker who served in the East Hampton Fire Department and the ambulance association, died on June 29 at the GrayBrier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Trinity, N.C. He was 85.

A memorial service for Lois Fortune-Maginley, a producer for many years with the Children’s Television Workshop, will be held on Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center. She died on Jan. 2 at the age of 77.

Elinor Glassman Gordon, who was 83, died of pancreatic cancer last Thursday at her daughter’s house in East Hampton. The jewelry designer and retailer was known for her “consummate New York-ness.”

Ms. Sleed, a playwright, children’s book author, and television host who had survived the Holocaust as a child, died at home here on June 14.

Russell Blue of Water Mill, an architect whose firm designed houses and spaces on the East End, in New York City, and across the tristate region, died of cardiac arrest on April 15 at Future Stars Tennis in Southampton. He was 64.

A memorial service for Lucas DeSario of East Hampton, who died at sea in June of 2023 at the age of 35 after having been missing for a few weeks, will take place on Saturday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on James Lane.

As a private duty nurse and a leader of the La Leche League, Joan Marie Hollenbeck of Barnes Landing, Springs, “counseled countless young mothers with breastfeeding struggles,” her family said.

Nick Vernon Crumm of Montauk, a lifelong surfer who also enjoyed skiing, ice hockey, and pickleball, died of Alzheimer’s disease on June 12. He was 72.

If Mary Kernell Graves, who, at the age of 72, died of an apparent heart attack at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital's emergency room Monday morning, liked you, you were lucky, if she loved you, you were blessed.

Audrey White, a gardener, interior designer, and former Amagansett resident, died at home in San Marcos, Calif., on June 2. She was 90.

Janet Schellinger Halliday of Sag Harbor, a waitress, house cleaner, and scallop enthusiast, died on May 18 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. She was 99.

Rose Marie Schultz, who was known as Tink, a dedicated horsewoman, died of Alzheimer’s disease at home in Springs on May 29. She was 85. 

Mary Lavelle, a former domestic worker born in Ireland, died on Sunday in Connecticut. She was 102 and had lived in Springs and then East Hampton for many years.

Walter Maynard Jr., a retired securities analyst and portfolio manager who worked for decades for Morgan Stanley, died on May 3 at his house in East Hampton. He was 91.

Wendy Lynn Schellinger-Schwob, a 13th-generation Bonacker, died on April 22 in Vero Beach, Fla., where she had lived since 2007.

Joe Zucker, whose work is in the permanent collections of more than 40 museums worldwide, died on May 15 at home in East Hampton. He was 82.

John Simons, a former Montauk commercial fisherman known to friends as Johnny Angel, died on May 15 in Virginia Beach. The cause was emphysema and lung cancer.

A funeral service for Janet Schellinger Halliday of Sag Harbor will take place today at 11 a.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. Burial at Oak Grove Cemetery in Amagansett will follow. She died on Feb. 18 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue at the age of 99. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Oscar M. Lopez of Montauk died of a heart attack on May 10 at Stony Brook University Hospital. He was 77. He is survived by his wife, Mirta Lopez, and daughter, Carolina Swanson of Springs, and by two grandchildren. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

As the first captain of the East Hampton Town lifeguards, a position he held for nearly 30 years starting in the 1960s, Robert Fariel saved many lives and raised a generation of lifeguards to come. A childhood survivor of polio, an athlete, an Army veteran, and a longtime teacher of earth science at Sewanhaka High School, Mr. Fariel died at home — the Sea Breeze Inn in Amagansett — on May 10.

Denice A. Schoen, who worked for the Springs School District for decades as a crossing guard and later a janitor, died of cancer at home in Springs on May 8. She was 65.

Maria-Louise Sidoroff, a teacher, archaeologist who traveled the world, and Montauker, died on May 9 in Hobe Sound, Fla., after a prolonged illness. She was 87.

A service for Robert Dale Nielsen of East Hampton will take place on Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home here. A celebration of his life will follow at Kizzy T’s at 47 Montauk Highway in East Hampton from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Sheila Dunne Jones Bono, a retired special education teacher who worked first in East Hampton and later at the Tuckahoe School in Southampton, died of complications of a stroke on April 15 at the Acadia Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Riverhead. She was 80.