Obituaries

A funeral service for Joanne Conforti of East Hampton will be held on Saturday at 9 a.m. at Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel at 1076 Madison Avenue in Manhattan. Her ashes will be buried at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery in East Hampton.

Patricia Ann Shaw, who helped to shape and organize the East Hampton Independence Party when it was first formed in the early 1990s, died of lung cancer at her Amagansett home last Thursday. She was 70.

Max Rampe, a former New York State Department of Transportation highway supervisor, died on Sept. 22 at home in East Hampton. He was 66. The cause was esophageal cancer, his family said.

Hugh Thomas Quigley died suddenly and unexpectedly on Sunday of cardiac arrest at his family’s cabin in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, in the hamlet of Lyndonville.

Barbara Bolton Dello Joio died on Sept. 24 at Stony Brook-Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport after a brief illness, with her two children holding her hands. Always playful, Ms. Dello Joio referred to herself as a member of the 1925 Birthday Club at Peconic Landing, the retirement community in Greenport.

Lydia Salant, a therapist and healer who had lived part time on the South Fork for many years, died at home in Blue Hill, Me., on Aug. 3.

Michael F. Ver Snyder, who had a long career as a policeman on the South Fork and with Suffolk County, died on Sunday after having a heart attack in his sleep. A resident of Bridgehampton for 20 years, he was 78.

A graveside service for Brian J. King of East Hampton will be held at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery on Cedar Street in East Hampton on Saturday at 10 a.m. Mr. King died of cancer on July 22. He was 68.

Ronnie Chalif, a two-time Best in Show award winner at Guild Hall’s annual artist-members exhibition and a longtime resident of East Hampton and Water Mill, died of respiratory failure on Sept. 7 at her home in Manhattan.

William Depew Hedges, a descendant of one of East Hampton’s oldest families who summered here for many years, died on Aug. 29 at the Oak Hammock retirement community at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He was 95.

Catherine Mary Foley, a longtime Montauk resident who co-owned a surf shop and a health foods store there, died at home on Sept. 3, surrounded by her family. She was 57.

Theresa Scannella Vogel, a master gardener and longtime member of the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons, died at home in East Hampton on Friday. She was 88.