Sergio Montenegro Ochoa of Southold died Sept. 7. He was 25 and was born Aug. 11, 1991.
Family members said he enjoyed fishing, horses, and that he always had a smile on his face and would do anything to make people happy.
Mr. Ochoa is survived by his wife, Mirna; his daughter, Estefany; son, Deibyd; five sisters, one brother and his parents.
A GoFundMe campaign has been established to assist the family at gofundme.com/sergiomontenegro.
Howard H. Jewett of Mattituck and formerly of Manorville died at Acadia Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Sept. 12, 2016. He was 98.
He was born Dec. 16, 1917, in Ames, Iowa to Albert and Sophie (Halsey) Jewett.
On Dec. 2, 1945, he married the former Margaret Luella Johnston. They lived in Queens, West Islip, East Moriches and Manorville before moving to the North Fork in 1999.
Mr. Jewett had been a foreman in plant engineering for Brookhaven National Lab.
Family members said he and his wife loved to travel in their motor home and have visited destinations throughout the south and west. His other passion was basket weaving.
Predeceased by his wife Margaret in 2002, he leaves his children, Susan J. and her husband Walter H. Shaffer of Mattituck and Howard J. Jewett of Brookfield, N.Y.
The family will receive visitor Friday, Sept. 16, from 1 to 1:30 p.m. at DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Mattituck, with funeral services following at 1:30 p.m. Interment with U.S. Navy honors will follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
Memorial donations to the Katinka House, c/o Southold Town Senior Services, PO Box 85, Mattituck, NY 11952 would be appreciated.
This is a paid notice.
Frederick Schaeffler III of Southold died Sept. 12 at Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue at the age of 87.
The family will receive visitors Wednesday, Sept. 14, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Southold. Southold American Legion services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Funeral services will take place during the evening hours, officiated by the Rev. Bob Griffin. The funeral procession will leave the funeral home at 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 15 for interment with U.S. Navy honors at Calverton National Cemetery.
Memorial donations to the Kanas Center for Hospice Care would be appreciated.
A complete obituary will follow.
Former North Fork resident Ralph L. Armbrust died Sept. 13 at his home. in Carlisle, Pa. He was 78.
He was born Aug. 5, 1938, in Greenport to Walter and Dorothy (Parizot) Armbrust.
The family will receive visitors at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 17 at the Second Presbyterian Church in Carlisle, where funeral services will follow at 11 a.m., officiated by the Revs. Dr. Jeffrey Gibelius and Jennifer McKenna. Burial will be private and will take place at the convenience of the family at Cutchouge Cemetery.
Arrangements were handled by Hoffman Funeral Homes & Crematory in Carlisle. The full obituary and guestbook are available at hoffmanfh.com.
Frank Doka, a resident of Baiting Hollow, went home to be with the Lord Sept. 12, at the age of 81.
He was the devoted husband of Muriel; the loving father of Frank, Debra and Donna; and the cherished grandfather of Tyrone, Michael, Rhiannon, Lyndon, T.J. and Deanna.
The family received visitors Sept. 15 at Coster-Heppner Funeral Home in Cutchogue. A funeral prayer service took place Sept. 16 at the funeral home. Interment will follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
William Randall Hulse
William Randall Hulse of Greenport was born March 17, 1943, to William T. Hulse and Ella Randall Hulse of Westhampton Beach. Both Mr. Hulse’s parents predeceased him.
William R. Hulse died on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016, at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue.
Mr. Hulse is survived by his wife, Pamela Lyons Hulse, formerly of Sag Harbor; his stepson, Jason Dombkowski, his wife, Heather and two stepgrandsons, Bergen and Cooper and Mr. Hulse’s daughter, Meredith Sayre Hulse of Bridgehampton. Chyann Sayre Leggard, a granddaughter, predeceased him.
Mr. Hulse attended Ryder College after high school and later went into banking. He also worked for the Southampton Town Police Department as a dispatcher before retiring to open a liquor store in Westhampton Beach.
An avid genealogist, Mr. Hulse belonged to 25 historical societies and family associations, both locally and nationally. At Mr. Hulse’s request, his personal genealogy collection will be donated to the Mattituck-Laurel Library as a research tool for others pursuing their family history. The database on Mr. Hulse’s personal computer exceeds 60,000 names, dates and cited sources with an additional 15 binders housing documents pertaining to many of those he has researched.
Services were held Aug. 23 under the direction of Follett-Werner Funeral Home. This included a brief service by the Elks as Mr. Hulse was a life member. Following cremation, the Rev. Charles Cary of the Westhampton Beach Presbyterian Church officiated at the graveside service in Oakland Cemetery Sag Harbor.
Donations can be made to the American Diabetes Association, Kanas Center For Hospice or Mattituck-Laurel Library.
This is a paid notice.
Former Greenport resident Robert Bouldin Howard Jr. of Laurelton, Queens died suddenly Sept. 16. He was 49.
Funeral arrangements, incomplete at presstime, are in the care of DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Homes.
A complete obituary will follow.
Raymonde Stankevich of Greenport, formerly of the Bronx, died Sept. 19. She was 100.
The family will receive visitors Wednesday, Sept. 21, from 2 to 5 p.m. at Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport. Cremation will be private.
Memorial donations may be made to CAST, 316 Front Street, Greenport, NY 11944 or North Fork Audubon Society, P.O. Box 973, Mattituck, NY 11952.
A complete obituary will follow.
Frank J. Mazzaferro of Southold died at his home Sept. 22. He was 88.
The family will receive visitors Friday, Oct. 7, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Southold. The Liturgy of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, at St. Patrick R.C. Church in Southold. Interment will be private.
Memorial donations to St. Patrick R.C. Church, East End Hospice or St. Labre Indian School would be appreciated. Envelopes will be available at the funeral home.
A complete obituary will follow.
Longtime Aquebogue resident Frank H. Slavonik died Sept. 21, 2016. He was 88.
He was born June 11, 1928, in Orient, to Stanlislaw and Laura (Janeczko) Slavonik. Educated in Mattituck Schools, he married the former Edna Breitenbach in 1950 and together they made their home in south Aquebogue. They eventually built a home on Church Lane in Aquebogue and Frank farmed the land on West Lane. In later years, he was a landscaper.
He enjoyed tending to his yard and gardens, riding his tractor and growing vegetables.
Predeceased by his wife Edna on April 30, 2012, he is survived by children, Cheryl Rosset of North Carolina, Nancy Keller of Riverhead and Terri Slavonik of Calverton and four grandchildren.
The family will receive visitors Monday, Sept. 26 from 10 to 11 a.m. at DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Mattituck. Funeral services will follow at 11 a.m. at the funeral home. with Father Robert Kuznik of St. Isidore R.C. Church in Riverhead officiating. Interment will follow at Sacred Heart R.C. Cemetery in Cutchogue.
Memorial donations to Riverhead Town Meals on Wheels Program would be appreciated.
This is a paid notice.
Ismael M. Santiago of Greenport died on Sept. 25. He was 81.
The family will receive visitors Friday Sept. 30, from 3 to 7 p.m. at Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport. Cremation will be private.
Memorial donations may be made to Good Shepherd Hospice, 200 Belle Terre Road, Port Jefferson, NY 11777.
A complete obituary will follow.
Roy E. DeMeo
Longtime Cutchogue resident Roy E. DeMeo died Sept. 25 after a long illness. He was 94.
The son of Frances (Maginess) and Joseph DeMeo, Roy was born Dec. 24, 1921, in Brooklyn. On Nov. 2, 1946, he married Antoinette Verrone in Tarrytown, N.Y.
After high school, Roy served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II from 1940 to 1945, achieving the rank of chief petty officer. He was awarded Coast Guard Auxiliary Man of the Year in 1998 and 2001; a Coast Guard Auxiliary Instructor award in 1998 and 2003; and an Outstanding Auxiliarist award in 1995 as a member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 18-8.
From 1945 to 1964, Roy worked for the Motion Picture Protection Service. He became the owner of Island Visuals in Malverne, N.Y., where he worked until 1986.
Roy was a Paul Harris Fellow with the Malverne Rotary Club. He enjoyed boating, woodworking, painting and birding.
Roy was a kind, courtly gentleman who touched so many lives. He was so many things — veteran, boater, master teacher, mentor to many, volunteer, industrial designer who could fix almost anything, artist, lover of classical music — the list goes on forever. But most of all, he was a good friend and a man of impeccable integrity who set a high standard in everything he did, including caring and being there for his family and everyone else who was lucky enough to know him well — and there were many. He will be missed.
Roy is survived by his wife, Antoinette; his daughter, Peri Karkheck and her husband, Russell; his son, Roy E. DeMeo Jr. and his wife, Linda; his grandchildren, Katie Karkheck, Jesse Karkheck and his wife, Leslie, and Robert DeMeo; three grandchildren; and his great-granddaughter, Melanie Karkheck. He was predeceased by his sister, Frances Sumberg in 2015.
The family will receive visitors Tuesday, Oct. 4, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at Coster-Heppner Funeral Home in Cutchogue, where a funeral service will take place at 3:30 p.m. officiated by Father Richard Hoerning of St. Agnes R.C. Church in Greenport.
Memorial donations may be sent to Flotilla 014-18-08, USCG – Auxiliary Flotilla Commander Edward Webb, P.O. Box 194, Orient, NY 11957.
This is a paid notice.
Charlotte E. Hannabury of Shelter Island died Sept. 27, 2016. She was 86.
The family will receive visitors on Friday, Sept. 30, from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Shelter Island Funeral Home on Shelter Island. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Shelter Island Presbyterian Church. Interment will follow at the Shelter Island Cemetery.
Memorial donations to the Island Gift of Life Foundation would be appreciated. Envelopes will be available at the funeral home.
A complete obituary will follow.
Charles “Tony” A. Smith of Greenport died Sept. 27. He was 60.
Viewing services will be held Sunday, Oct. 2, from 7 to 9 p.m. at DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Southold. Homegoing services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Oct. 3, at Clinton Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church in Greenport. Interment will follow at the First Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Southold.
A complete obituary will follow.
Elizabeth L. Terry passed away Sept. 27, 2016, while a resident at Sunrise Senior Living in Fairfax, Va. She was 96 years of age and had resided at Sunrise since 2006.
Ms. Terry was born and raised in the Town of Southold, on eastern Long Island and was the third child of Rensselaer G. Terry Sr. and Helen Wright Terry. She graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1941 and initially worked in New York City before traveling to Germany for work with the US government. Later she returned to New York City to take court reporting training and then worked for many years as a civilian court reporter for the U.S. government at various locations including U.S. Air Force bases in Westhampton; Tripoli, Libya; and Okinawa, Japan. While stationed abroad she enjoyed traveling and later traveled in this country.
In the 1960s she returned to the United States and was employed by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Economic Opportunity Job Corps in Washington, D.C. She retired in the 1980s and continued to reside in Washington, D.C., where she volunteered as a docent at the Corcoran Museum and also served on the board of her condominium.
Her nieces and nephew and their families have many fond memories of family get-togethers with Aunt Libby and of visiting her at her F Street NW condominium in Washington, DC. Libby was a most generous and gracious aunt who took a special interest in remembering her nieces and nephew, grandnieces and nephews and other family members, and so enjoyed family get-togethers.
Missing her deeply are her niece Martha Holcombe and husband, Thomas of Kent, Conn.; her niece Barbara Charnews and husband, Daniel of Centerport and her nephew, Richard Terry and wife, Margaret Doran of Lake Placid, N.Y.; her grandnieces and nephews, Melissa Holcombe and husband, Peter Kirkiles of Kent, Conn.; Wendy Holcombe and husband, Carl Kawaja of San Francisco; Alec Holcombe and wife, Dieu, of Athens, Ohio; Daniel Charnews of Huntington and Beth Dermody and husband, Stephen of Hopkinton, N.H..; and great-grandnephews and nieces including Sam, Evan and Will Kirkiles; Catherine, Marcus and Noelle Kawaja; Asa and Thomas Holcombe and Matthew and Ryan Dermody. Libby had a number of dear friends in the Washington, D.C. area including Trini and Roy Lundgren, who took her into their home and cared for her after her fall in 2006 awaiting placement at Sunrise for rehabilitation. Ms. Terry was predeceased by her brother, Rensselaer G. Terry, Jr. and her sister, Constance T. Hauser.
A memorial service will be scheduled in Southold at the convenience of the family and interment will be at Willow Hill Cemetery in Southold.
The family requests that any memorials in Libby’s memory be given the Southold Free Library, P.O. Box 697, Southold, NY 11971; First Universalist Church of Southold, PO Box 221, Southold, NY 11971, or to a charity of the donor’s choice.
This is a paid notice.
Herman H. Hubbard of Mattituck died Sept. 27. He was 90. The family will receive visitors Monday, Oct. 3, at Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport. An 11 a.m. funeral service will be held Tuesday, Oct. 4, at Unity Baptist Church in Mattituck. Burial will follow at the First Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Southold.
A complete obituary will follow.
Edward D. McDermott of Mattituck, formerly of Queens Village and Brooklyn, died Sept. 29 at his home. He was 89.
The son of Edward and Bridget McDermott, he was born Aug. 28, 1927.
Mr. McDermott served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1945 to 1946 and was a battalion chief for the FDNY in Brooklyn.
He loved spending time with family and is survived by his wife, Dorothy (née Morse), of Mattituck; his children, Dennis of Mattituck, Monica, of Greenport, Joseph, of Oakdale, Mary Murray of Floral Park, Gerard, of New Hampshire, Paul, of Setauket, Jeanne, of Floral Park and nine grandchildren.
A memorial Mass will take place at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, at Our Lady of Good Counsel R.C. Church in Mattituck. Interment will follow at Sacred Heart Cemetery in Cutchogue.
Arrangements were in the care of Coster-Heppner Funeral Home in Cutchogue.
Memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimers Association.
Herman Hubbard was a familiar face for anyone who walked the halls of Mattituck High School up until the early 1990s.
And if you ever shopped at Mattituck Plaza over the years, you might have seen him there too, broom in hand.
Mr. Hubbard, who died in his sleep of natural causes at the age of 90 Tuesday, lived a simple life with his nine children on Factory Avenue. He never sought the spotlight and his life was defined by hard work.
But one day after the custodian’s death, a memorial post on a Mattituck alumni Facebook page led to a response that might have surprised even the man himself. The post had hundreds of reactions and comments, with almost all of them referencing Mr. Hubbard’s signature smile and head nod.
“I’m just blown away by the number of responses,” said 1983 Mattituck graduate Susan Fisher, who has run the page for five years. “This is the most responses I have ever seen on a post.”
For 1996 Mattituck High School graduate Rob Hopkins, who said he befriended Mr. Hubbard in the halls of school, the response came as less of a surprise.
“I think most of the kids had a connection [with him],” Mr. Hopkins said, adding that Mr. Hubbard was quick to offer advice or lend a helping hand to students. “I can’t fathom that he knew just how important he was to a lot of us.”
Mr. Hubbard worked as a custodian for the Mattituck-Cutchogue School District from 1968 to 1994 and one of his daughters, Katherine Hubbard, said she believes he called out sick just once in that time. He’d help take care of his children during the day before working the 2 to 10 p.m. shift at the high school.
“My dad was always working,” Ms. Hubbard said. “We had to make him take a vacation.”
For many of those years, Mr. Hubbard also held a second or a third job, working at Wickham or Sidor farms, cleaning the Southold Presbyterian church or doing masonry work. He swept the parking lot at Mattituck Plaza well into his 80s.
“He used to leave when it was dark in the morning and come home when it was dark at night,” daughter Audrey Kaypak said. “The joke was that he didn’t want to be in the house with all of the girls,” she added, getting a chuckle from her sisters.
Katherine Hubbard combs through family photos along with sisters Janice Barnez and Marie Hubbard-Brown. (Credit: Krysten Massa)
Mr. Hubbard had eight daughters and a son, William, who died in 1996. His daughters described their father as protective of them and they said he’d joke with his son-in-laws to be careful, warning them he was once a boxer.
“He would try and be tough, but he would never hurt a fly,” Ms. Hubbard said.
Her father was also careful with his money, wearing shoes with holes in them and saying they were “still good,” she joked.
But when it came to his daughters, they were never left wanting. His wife Thelma, too. Even after the couple separated, he’d still drop by her house for anything that needed fixing or to take out the trash.
“He was still doing things for her up until she died [in 2009],” Katherine Hubbard said.
Mr. Hubbard would lend his helping hand to neighbors too, his daughters said, telling them to just pay him what they saw fit. Ms. Kaypak said his daughters all inherited their father’s work ethic.
“He raised us to be strong,” said another daughter, Marie Hubbard-Brown.
Paul Demchuk, a longtime custodian with the district, said his colleague “never had a bad word to say about anyone.”
“He always had a smile like it was the best day of his life,” Mr. Demchuk said. “We’re going to miss him.”
Mr. Hubbard will be buried alongside his wife at First Presbyterian Cemetery in Southold along with the ashes of one of his granddaughters, Tasia Laksono, who died in 2010 at 15 years old.
Mr. Hubbard is survived by each of his daughters, 16 additional grandchildren, and 21 great-grandchildren.
His family will receive friends at the Horton-Mathie Funeral Home on Monday, Oct. 3 from 3 to 7 p.m. An 11 a.m. funeral service will be held the following day at Unity Baptist Church on Factory Avenue in Mattituck.
Top Caption: Herman Hubbard in 1996, sweeping in the Mattituck Plaza parking lot. (Credit: Hubbard family photo)
Clara V. Cross of Laurel died Sept. 30 at the Acadia Care Center in Riverhead. She was 95.
The daughter of Guisseppe and Angela (Viverito) Vespucci, she was born Nov. 4, 1920, in Hoboken, N.J.
Ms. Cross attended the Rhode Island School of Nursing and from 1943 to 1945, during World War II, served as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army as a nurse. She worked for Mercy Hospital in Rockville Centre.
Ms. Cross was a member of the Riverhead American Legion and Riverhead Women of the Moose.
Family members said she enjoyed stamp collecting, music, reading, traveling and learning about different cultures.
She was predeceased by her husband of 72 years, Harold, in 2014 and is survived by her daughters, Deborah Boschetti of Laurel, Sara Petricini and Susie Amador, also of Laurel; 10 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
Cremation was private. A funeral service will be announced at a later date.
Arrangements were in the care of Coster-Heppner Funeral Home in Cutchogue.
Memorial donations may be made to Riverhead American Legion.
