Obituaries

Miriam S. Eldar, a retired architect and author who loved to hunt for wild mushrooms, died on May 29 at home in Water Mill. She was 86.

    Daniel DeBoard of East Hampton died on Tuesday at the age of 67. Visiting hours will be held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton tomorrow from 7 to 9 p.m. A funeral service will take place at Calvary Baptist Church here on Saturday at 11 a.m., with burial following at Cedar Lawn Cemetery.

    A full obituary will appear in a future issue.

    Gwendolyn C. Dukette, who in 1952 was one of the first African-Americans to build a summer house in Sag Harbor, died on June 7 at St. Luke’s Hospital in Manhattan. She was 88.

    During World War II she worked for the Customs Service in Washington, D.C. In that city she met her future husband, William Henry Dukette, who was a student at Howard University’s dental school. They were married on Dec. 27, 1945, in New York City.

    Marguerite Shannon, who lived on Spinner Lane in East Hampton for the past six years with her daughter, Marguerite Leeney, died on Sunday at the age of 98. Mrs. Shannon had a stroke after Memorial Day.

    “I wanted to get her to 99 or even 100,” said Mrs. Leeney. “But it didn’t turn out that way.”

    Mrs. Shannon was born in Brooklyn on Aug. 25, 1912, to Nunzio Pisane, a monument engraver, and the former Teresa Barba. “She grew up on the Great South Bay,” said her daughter. “In those days, it was very beautiful there.”

Melvin Eugene Riddick, the treasurer of Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton from 1979 to 1994, died in North Carolina on April 19.

John Lockman Helmuth Jr. died on May 15 in Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, two days after having a massive stroke. The former East Hampton resident was 70 years old.

Anna Clark Mott, whose family house was at one point the closest dwelling to the Montauk Lighthouse, died on May 16 at Southampton Hospital surrounded by her family. She was 91.

Frances Hyatt Hockman, who had moved to the house she and her husband built in the early 1980s on North Haven when her husband retired, died on May 26 at home of complications because of Parkinson’s disease. She was 70 years old.

Helen Williamson died at home in East Hampton on May 26. She was 93.

    A memorial to celebrate the life of Eleanor Sage Leonard will be held on Sunday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Lotos Club, at 5 East 55th Street in Manhattan.

Angela Buckhout, the president of WLNG radio, died at home in East Hampton on Saturday. She was 66

Judith Ann Militare, who was devoted to community theater here, died of cancer last Thursday. She was 61 and had been ill only a short time.

    A funeral Mass for Elva Lourdes Klein Leo, who was known as Nubbie to many here, will be celebrated at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton on Saturday at 10 a.m. It will be officiated by the Rev. Charles Ehrhart, a former priest there and longtime family friend.  Burial will follow at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery on Cedar Street in East Hampton.

    Mrs. Leo died on May 3 at home in Charlotte, N.C. She was 90. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Best known in East Hampton for the years he spent as a gas station attendant at the Y Pay More station on Three Mile Harbor Road, Frederick Askin, known as Rick, died on April 25 in Riverhead after a short bout with cancer. He was 58 years old.

oseph H. Brubaker Jr., an auditor with Aetna Insurance for 30 years, died at home in East Hampton on Sunday of complications from heart disease. He was 76.

Julia Gargiulo, who had been a social worker with the elderly in Greenwich, Conn., and a psychotherapist, died on Friday in Stamford, Conn. Ms. Gargiulo, who lived in East Hampton from 1994 to 2006, was 78 and had ovarian cancer.

Abraham Einhorn, a playwright whose first play, “Agatha Sue I Love You,” was produced on Broadway by George Abbott in 1966, died on May 4 in Laughlin, Nev., of cardiac arrest. He was 85.

Christopher Taaffe Schiaffino died at home on Muir Boulevard in East Hampton on Friday morning at the age of 35. The cause of death is still unknown, according to his family.

Donald G. Gleasner, who as an importer was among the first to introduce Americans to prefinished plywood, leaving a mark on rec rooms everywhere, died on May 3 at his house on Pheasant Woods Lane in East Hampton. He was 88.

Donald Kennedy, an artist who lived almost his entire life in East Hampton, died in early February of reasons still unknown.

Emma Edwards Parsons, a lifelong resident of Amagansett and an 11th-generation member of the Edwards family, died peacefully at home in Amagansett on April 28. She was 94.

Frank Konzet, who lived year round in East Hampton from 1975 to 2005, when he started spending winters with his wife in Sebastian, Fla., died on Sunday of heart failure at age 87

A memorial service for John E. Niggles of Southampton, who had been a groundskeeper at Cedar Point County Park in East Hampton, will be at noon Friday, May 13, at the park. Mr. Niggles, who was known as Jack, was 46 when he died on June 10, 2010.

Laura Serra Roberts, a native of Italy who lived in East Hampton for over three decades, died at home in Atlanta of a heart attack on April 28. She was 81.

For Michael Knigin

    Friends of the late Michael Knigin of East Hampton, who died on Jan. 19, have been invited to a memorial at Guild Hall on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m.

Jeffrey Brill Memorial

    A memorial service for Jeffrey Brill, who died on Dec. 24, will take place at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons at 2 p.m. on Sunday.

Carol Morrison Service

Norman E. Smith of Amagansett Drive in East Hampton was a caretaker at Cedar Lawn Cemetery for 25 years, and he was known to friends and clients as a skilled handyman. He died on April 8 of heart failure after being bedridden for some years. He was 79.

A memorial service for Donald Kennedy, a painter and sculptor who died earlier this year, will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the Amagansett Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Steven Howarth, presiding.

A longtime hospice volunteer and the owner, with her husband, of the Morris Studio photography shop in Southampton, Carol Whitney Thomason died at home in Sag Harbor on Friday. She was 63

Gloria M. Sanlorenzo of Agnew Avenue, Montauk, a registered nurse for many years, died at home on Tuesday of brain cancer. She was 84.

Hedda Sterne was the only woman in an iconic photograph of an otherwise very masculine group of artists — dubbed “The Irascibles” by a New York art critic