Obituaries

Claudine Helene Michel of East Hampton was a talented sketch artist who would often draw portraits for friends and family “or render beautiful East End landscapes as a hobby."

Janet Katherine Windsor Hand, an artist, died of breast cancer on Friday at home in Wainscott. She was 74 and had been ill for eight months. 

Upon her marriage to Stephen Baldwin Bromley in 1943, Patricia Hamlin Bromley was in Life Magazine as the face of Woodbury Facial Soap, which was said to add to add a glow to her already exquisite complexion.

Christina J. Tercy, who had lived in East Hampton for 50 years, died on Friday at the Yorktown Assisted Living Residence in Cortland, N.Y.

A funeral for Joann Jordan, formerly of Fieldview Lane and the Circle in East Hampton, will be held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on Saturday at 11 a.m.

Joseph John Intermaggio Jr., a former detective in the Suffolk County Police Department, died on Jan. 16 at home in Southampton. He was 88, and had been ill for several years.

She loved “animals, writing, and telling dirty jokes,” Susan Jane Bell’s brother, Peter Pyatt Bell, recalled this week of his sister, who died on Jan. 20 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton. “She just told the silliest jokes you could imagine,” Mr. Bell said.

Joan Kulgren Martin of East Hampton, a former college professor and director of Taproot Workshops, an organization that provides writing classes for senior citizens on Long Island, died of a stroke on Jan. 16 at Stony Brook University Hospital. She was 88 and had been ill for three years. 

Genevieve Frances Keyser of East Hampton, who had a long career as the head of communications for Winthrop Hospital in Mineola, died of heart disease on Monday. She was 88 and had been ill for about a year and a half.     

William Somerville, a former resident of Montauk, died of heart failure on Jan. 7 in Southampton at the age of 59.   

Loretta A. Goetz, who was well-known for her knitting and her service to East Hampton Meals on Wheels, died at home in East Hampton on Dec. 20 of cardiac arrest after having a stroke.

Geraldine Boxer died at home in East Hampton last Thursday after receiving an unexpected diagnosis of Stage 4 esophageal cancer in mid-December.