John Ecker

Mr. Ecker was appointed an agent for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States in 1958 and worked out of its Riverhead office covering the East Hampton area. He also worked for a time for the E.T. Dayton agency in East Hampton. He bought the Richard T. Gilmartin Insurance Agency in Montauk in 1964, renamed it John Ecker Insurance, and ran it until he retired in 2005. Mr. Ecker was appointed to the East Hampton Town Board following a board member’s resignation in 1960. He won election as a town justice of the peace that November. His brother, the late Edward Ecker Sr., was later a town supervisor. Mr. Ecker was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion. He was active at Guild Hall in East Hampton and was on the Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church parish council. He was a life member of the East Hampton Lions Club and deeply committed to its charitable projects. He also was a member of the Independent Insurance Agents Association of New York.