Oeffner had worked as an insurance agent for two days before Hurricane Andrew struck. The couple lived in Delray, Fla., and Ms. Her favorite city, said her family, was Cairo, where she got the chance to ride a camel. In 1989, she traveled the world with her college roommate. She married Michael Dunning, had two children, and moved to Cape Cod, where she founded and edited Sandscript, a national poetry magazine. 25, 1944, in Southampton to the former Grace Dominy and Walter Renkens, she was the salutatorian of her graduating class at East Hampton High School, and a National Merit Scholar.Īs the editor of the school’s Beachcomber newspaper, she interviewed Carl Yastrzemski, a Hall of Fame baseball player for the Boston Red Sox.While at Northwestern University, where she majored in journalism, she interviewed the Hall of Fame hockey player Gordie Howe.Īfter college, she worked at the Encyclopedia Britannica in Chicago. She was 74, and had been ill for six months.īorn on Aug. Barbara Oeffner, an East Hampton native and a 10th-generation relative of Nathaniel Dominy, one of the town’s early settlers renowned for his woodworking and clockmaking skills, died on Jan.
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