Obituaries
Firefighter, Restaurateur Roger Westerhoff Dies at 78
Visitation is Wednesday and Thursday and the funeral will be Friday.
Roger M. Westerhoff, of the Westerhoff family who owned the long-time Southampton Village staple restaurant John Duck's, died on Tuesday.
Born Dec. 1, 1934, in Port Jefferson, he was 78.
Westerhoff was a 53-year member of the Southampton Fire Department, according to Second Assistant Chief Chris Brenner.
Brenner said Westerhoff stayed active in the fire department, as a key member of the antique truck barn committee. “He cooked for many events throughout the fire department, whenever you needed Roger there,” he
“Roger never had a bad thing to say about anybody," Brenner added.
Among Westerhoff's survivors is his wife, Frances.
According to a 2008 New York Times article on the closure of John Duck's, Westerhoff sold his share of the family restaurant in 1995.
Visitation will be Wednesday and Thursday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at O'Connell Funeral Home.
The Southampton Elks will have a fraternal service at the funeral home Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. and the Masonic Old Town Lodge No. 908 will have a service at 8 p.m.
The Southampton Fire Department will host firematic services at O'Connell on Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
A funeral service is planned Friday at 11 a.m. at First Presbyterian Church of Southampton followed by burial at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in
Center Moriches.
