A graveside service for longtime West Tisbury seasonal resident Henry E. Bessire will be held on Sunday at 2 p.m. in the West Tisbury Cemetery. Mr. Bessire died unexpectedly on Nov. 18 in New York. He was a Vineyard Conservation Society board member, an institutional developer for New York’s Lincoln Center in the 1950s and for his alma mater, Princeton University, in the 1970s.

A funeral service will be held tomorrow at St. Ignatius of Antioch Church in New York. A complete obituary will appear in a future edition of the Gazette.