UPDATE: Anna Pump Remembered For Grace In And Out Of The Kitchen; Memorial Home Visit Scheduled For Sunday

A representative from the Bridgehampton Inn said Thursday that no public service or mass will be held for Ms. Pump, but visitors who would like to pay tribute to her are welcome to stop by her home Sunday from 1-3 p.m. at 2964 Noyac Road in Sag Harbor.

In lieu of flowers, people are asked to make donations in Ms. Pump's memory to the John Jermain Memorial Library. Ms Pump had served on several of the library's ad hoc committees.

Anna Pump, a renowned chef, cookbook author and innkeeper, died Monday night after she was struck by a vehicle on Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton.

Ms. Pump, 81, was in the crosswalk near the Bridgehampton Post Office at about 7:30 p.m. when she was struck by a westbound 1997 Dodge pickup truck. She was taken to Southampton Hospital by Bridgehampton Fire Department ambulance and pronounced dead there shortly after.

Southampton Town Police identified the driver on Tuesday as 40-year-old Luis Ortega of Water Mill. According to a press release, Mr. Ortega was arrested and charged with circumvention of an interlock device, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, and failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. After being taken to police headquarters in Hampton Bays for processing, Mr. Ortega was released to seek medical attention; he is due to be arraigned in Southampton Town Justice Court next month. Police did not elaborate on the nature of his injuries.

Detective Sergeant Lisa Costa of Town Police said Mr. Ortega was charged because he was driving a vehicle that was not his own—and, due to a prior DWI conviction, he is required to operate a vehicle with an interlock device, essentially a breathalyzer installed on a motor vehicle’s dashboard, requiring a breath test before the vehicle can be driven.

Det. Sgt. Costa added that Mr. Ortega was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol when his vehicle struck Ms. Pump.

Detectives are still investigating the accident, and anyone with information is asked to call the Southampton Town Detective Division at (631) 702-2230, or Suffolk County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS.

Ms. Pump is well known locally as owner of the Loaves & Fishes Food Store on Sagg Main Street in Sagaponack since 1980, and of the Bridgehampton Inn on Montauk Highway since 1994, the latter in conjunction with her daughter, Sybille van Kempen. She also helped manage the Loaves & Fishes Cookshop in Bridgehampton with Ms. van Kempen, who first opened that store with her husband, Gerrit, in 2003.

She was the author of several popular cookbooks, including The Loaves & Fishes Cookbook," "Country Weekend Entertaining" and her latest, "Summer on a Plate."

On Tuesday, friends and peers were shocked to hear about the death of Ms. Pump, who had lived in Sag Harbor since 1978. They remembered her to be a hard-working, elegant woman, both in and out of the kitchen.

Ina Garten, the Food Network host, first met Ms. Pump in 1979, when the latter was an aspiring cook who had recently moved to the Hamptons from New Jersey.

Ms. Garten was interviewing candidates for a chef position at her Barefoot Contessa food shop in Westhampton Beach, and she had asked Ms. Pump, one of the interviewees, to cook her something. Ms. Pump responded by inviting Ms. Garten to lunch at her home, where she cooked her a frittata.

To this day, Ms. Garten credits Ms. Pump for mentoring her as she established her culinary career, not to mention being the first person to serve her a frittata.

“I just remember meeting her and thinking, 'I want to be friends with this woman,'” Ms. Garten said in a phone interview on Tuesday. “When I met her, I didn’t know anything about cooking. She was incredibly warm and generous to me. Rather than being competitors, we were friends and supporters.”

Bridgehampton resident Fred Cammann had met Ms. Pump in the early 1980s, just as her high-profile career began to take form. His in-laws, Eleanor and Albert Francke, had advertised for a chef to cook at their home in Bridgehampton, and Ms. Pump responded.

The Franckes got to taste all of her edible creations before anyone else, Mr. Cammann said, and once in a while he had the good fortune of trying them out himself.

“Every so often, my wife, Nora, and I would be included in the food going in and out of that house,” he said. “She was very imaginative. Whatever you could get at the Bridgehampton Inn, I’m sure we ate. She tried out every recipe she had.”

Mr. Cammann, who still lives in Bridgehampton and is a member of the hamlet's Citizens Advisory Committee, added that Ms. Pump's death ought to be a wake-up call for Southampton Town as well as state officials. For months the committee and other community members have been pushing for lighted crosswalks and better traffic control at Brdigehampton's Main Street crosswalks, where there have been several accidents involving vehicles and pedestrians over the past few years.

Officials secured a grant for a lighted crosswalk that is expected to be installed in front ot the Hampton Library this fall, but Mr. Cammann said the same needs to be done at the other crosswalks.

CAC member Julie Burmeister said she has become “overwhelmed” with the lack of enforcement from police, the town and the state, the latter of which manages Montauk Highway from Water Mill to Montauk. She said that the streetlight near the Bridgehampton Candy Kitchen has not been working, and that a sign, typically in the center of the road, warning motorists of pedestrians in the crosswalk by the post office had been lying on the side of the road. Resident Dick Bruce had installed the sign back in December—having purchased it with his own money.

“What is the last straw?” Ms. Burmeister said. “We’ve been saying that for at least two, three years. It’s gone on and on and on. Essentially a do-nothing police force, a do-nothing Town Board.”

Ms. Burmeister and other CAC members have pushed for more traffic control officers as well, and she brought the situation to the attention of Town Police Chief Robert Pearce over the summer. “That was a joke. He assigned more, but there were two at a crosswalk. There’s no enforcement. We need cameras, I think,” she said.

Others involved in the Hamptons culinary scene also admired Ms. Pump's clever recipes and entrepreneurship.

For Colin Ambrose, owner of Estia's Little Kitchen in Sag Harbor, and Eric Lemonides, owner of Almond in Bridgehampton, she was also a beloved customer.

"When Anna visited, my heart would jump and flutter," Mr. Ambrose wrote in an email. "She was truly the 'Queen of Cuisine' in the neighborhood. She had a sensibility for entertaining that inspired everyone who mentioned her name. Approaching her table was always a joy, and I'm honored to have had the opportunity to serve her."

Mr. Lemonides recalled the moment he first met Ms. Pump at the Loaves & Fishes Food Store as a young teenager—he and his friends only had enough money to each buy a croissant and a Coca-Cola, but they were charmed by Ms. Pump's friendly service.

Fast-forward a number of years later, and she was dining at his restaurant almost every Tuesday night with her friend Barbara White Ford.

“She was one of my inspirations out here. Literally, literally, literally," Mr. Lemonides said. “When we were reopening Almond on the corner, we decided we wanted to wallpaper our bathrooms with cookbooks of people who inspired us over the years, and the only people in our bathrooms were Alice Waters, Gael Greene and Anna Pump.”

Ms. Ford, who was close friends with Ms. Pump for nearly four decades, knew her a bit differently: Ms. Ford was her landlord for the Loaves & Fishes Food Store, and over the years the relationship blossomed into a friendship. Both were widowed around the same time–Ms. Ford in 2006 and Ms. Pump in 2007–and they often traveled together and had dinner at least once a week.

And while Ms. Pump will be widely remembered for her cooking endeavors, her memory will live on with Ms. Ford for many other reasons.

“She made family first and foremost. She was ... very much the matriarch,” Ms. Ford said. “They were very close-knit. They were quite an exemplary vision of what family should be like.

“She was an amazing person. She lived life to the fullest,” Ms. Ford continued. “She was full of energy. An incredible role model, and just a wonderful friend. As much as a shock this is, I’m grateful she did not have a long suffering.”

Tracy Mitchell, executive director of the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, which Ms. Pump often patronized, said she particularly admired Ms. Pump's energy and go-getter approach to life.

"I never thought of her as an older person because, quite frankly, I thought of her as a contemporary of mine. That’s how involved in life that she was. She was busier than most of my friends are," Ms. Mitchell said. “She was ageless to anyone who knew her. I think any of us who said, 'Hey, do you think of ever slowing down?' You’d get this look like, 'What are you talking about?'”

Ms. Pump is predeceased by her husband of 53 years, Detlef Pump. She is survived by two children, Ms. van Kempen and her husband, Gerrit, and Harm Pump and his wife, Nancy; a granddaughter, Karina; and three grandsons, Stefan, Kyle and Taylor.

In an interview with The Bridge, the Bridgehampton Historical Society's annual magazine, in 2010, Ms. Pump explained how and why she came to live in the Hamptons: She and her husband had spent two weeks in a friend's rented house on Meadow Lane in Southampton Village in the late 1970s, and they were instantly reminded of the small little towns in which they'd grown up in Germany—nothing but potato fields, sea gulls, and the smell of the ocean.

That alone is what encouraged Ms. Pump to move here.

"It’s a very small community," she had said. "It’s country life, I love it. We fell in love with the Hamptons.”

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