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 Dallio of Springs, a former nursing supervisor at Hackensack Medical Center in New Jersey, died of cardiovascular disease last Thursday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

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. 

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.

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.

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

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.     

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.

Cynthia Leigh Silverman, a longtime summer resident of Amagansett who was studying for a joint degree in law and international affairs at the City University of New York, died in New York City on Dec. 14. She was 29.

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

Udell M. Cullum, a self-taught architect and builder who helped construct the Art Barge and several houses in the Beach Hampton section of Amagansett, died of congestive heart failure on Jan. 1 at home in Springs. He was 94 and had been ill for eight years.

Paul H. Harry of East Hampton, a former manager at the Sperry Corporation, a developer of aviation instruments, died of complications from a broken leg on Dec. 9 at Quiogue’s Kanas Center for Hospice Care.