Obituaries

Carl Hans Tiedemann II, an East Hampton resident whose long career in investment banking included founding a firm that helped finance successful hedge funds and a trust company that became a model for the industry, died at his New York City home on April 30 of an apparent heart attack. He was 89 years old.

Funeral services for Eugene A. Damon, who lived for many years on Egypt Lane in East Hampton and who died on Nov. 11 in Jacksonville, Fla., at 86, will be held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton at 1 p.m. on May 21.

John R. Beedenbender, a trap-shooter, custom stock designer for shotguns, and longtime member of the Maidstone Gun Club, died last Thursday at the North Broward Medical Center in Pompano Beach, Fla.

Julian Calvert Eisenstein, a professor of physics, died at home in Washington, D.C., on April 27 at the age of 95.

Louisa Chase, a painter who rose to prominence in the 1980s as part of the Neo-Expressionist movement, died on Sunday at her house in East Hampton.

Rossetti Perchik of Springs, an architect and founder of the Clamshell Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports community causes and sponsors the Great Bonac Fireworks and an annual sandcastle contest, died on Saturday.

Ann Brignoli Wolfe, who had spent summers at her Springy Banks Road, East Hampton house since the early ’60s, died of cancer on April 21 at home in Bayside, Queens.

Visiting hours for John D. Tilley, formerly of Springs, will be from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

Harold Josephs was known as an artist not just in East Hampton, where he was a part-time resident since 1960, but also in New York City, where he had an award-winning career as an art director and commercial artist for four decades, and in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he spent many winters.

JoAnne W. Carter died at home in Sag Harbor on April 17 after surviving stage-four ovarian cancer for four years.

Word has been received of the death of Bailey Smith, formerly of East Hampton, on April 6 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., of cancer. He was 84.

Frank Albert Hanna II, who started the Frank Hanna Cleaning Company in East Hampton as a resident here during the 1960s, died at his home in the Bahamas on April 14 of complications from pneumonia and cancer.

Sandra Roman, a longtime Montauk resident who lived most recently with a daughter in Medford, died there on April 17 after an illness that began four years ago with complications from surgery.

Anthony DiSunno, an architect who helped form A.I.A. Peconic, the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and had served as its president, died on April 8 of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Charles Paul Turlinski of East Hampton, a former chief executive officer of the Limited Stores, died on April 13 at the age of 69.

Florence A. Germano, a decades-long East Hampton resident, died at home of kidney disease on April 16. She was 92.

Eric Lance Erwin died on Nov. 26 in Nashville. He was 53 and had been ill with cancer for more than a year.

Peter Schaefer, a graduate of Pierson High School who was a key player on the school’s only state championship basketball team, died on March 17 after collapsing at his home.

Donna Marie Passamonte, who lived on Gingerbread Lane in East Hampton Village until 2002, died at the Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead on March 16 at the age of 57.

Barbara Peyton of East Hampton died on Monday at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton.

Frank Albert Hanna III, the proprietor of Frank Hanna’s International Cleaning Company in East Hampton, an Army veteran and an East Hampton native, died at home here last Thursday.

Katharine Topping Babinski, a lifelong resident of Sagaponack, died at her home, which was built by her father in 1909, on March 17.

Lawrence Shipley Munson, a founder of the East Hampton Healthcare Foundation and the author of a book on corporate management that was published in  two editions and many languages, died on Sunday at Brookdale Assisted Living in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was 96 years old and had had a very bad cold.

Sean Bos, who grew up in Springs and had worked as a commercial fisherman out of Montauk Harbor at one time, died in Northbrook, Ill., on March 21 of a heart attack, his family said.

Anne Harvey Gerli, a past president of the Garden Club of East Hampton, third-generation member of the Maidstone Club, and the granddaughter of William H. Woodin, secretary of the treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, died on March 3 in Manhattan, two days after suffering a stroke.

A memorial service for Katharine Babinski of Sagaponack will be held on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.

William H. Jackson of Main Street in East Hampton Village died on Monday.

John Horvath, a filmmaker, advertising producer, and house designer who lived in Amagansestt and Sagaponack during the 1970s and ’80s, died at a nursing home in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on Feb. 20 of the complications of Alzheimer’s disease.

Ruth D. McCrea, a writer and illustrator who had worked for all the major New York publishing houses, died at home in East Hampton on Feb. 27, surrounded by her family.

Charles Emerson McKenney, 84, a Wainscott resident since the late 1970s who had a long career as a patent lawyer with the Manhattan firm of Pennie & Edmunds, died on March 1 at Palm Beach Hospice in Florida after a weeklong illness.