Obituary: Lucille Marfing, of Southampton, Dies at 89

Info and photo via Brockett Funeral Home

Lucille Marfing, of Southampton, died on August 14, 2015 at Southampton Hospital. She was 89.

Marfing was born in Flushing, New York on June 25, 1926 to Edward and Louise Moore.

She attended Bayside High School and graduated from Flushing Hospital Medical Center in 1945 as a registered nurse.

She moved to Southampton in 1954 and worked at Southampton Hospital as the head nurse in the maternity department for 38 years.

After retiring in 1993 she spent every day at Coopers Beach in Southampton Village with her many friends always sitting to the left of the lifeguard stand.

Marfing is survived by her daughter, Colleen D’Italia and husband Anthony, her daughter, Kathleen Lanahan and husband Peter Lang, two sons, Patrick Lanahan and John Marfing; her sister Colleen Frankenbach; seven grandchildren, seven great grandchildren and two nieces and a nephew.

She was predeceased by a son Edward Lanahan.

The family received friends on Monday, August 17 at the Brockett Funeral Home in Southampton where a funeral service was conducted on Tuesday, August 18 Reverend Stephen McWhorter.

The interment followed at Southampton cemetery.