Geraldyne G. (Gerry) DeBettencourt of Oak Bluffs died on Dec. 19 at the Cape Heritage Nursing Home in Sandwich. She was 79 and was a well-known figure on the Island, where she had owned a coffee shop and served as an Oak Bluffs selectman.

A funeral mass was celebrated on Thursday, Dec. 23 in Our Lady Star of the Sea Church on Massasoit avenue in Oak Bluffs. Interment followed in the Sacred Heart Cemetery in Oak Bluffs. Donations in Gerry’s memory may be made to an Island charity of one’s choice. A complete obituary will follow in a future edition of the Gazette.