Obituaries

Leland N. Winslow, who established a painting company in Amagansett in 1981, died of cancer at home there on March 11. He was 91 and had been ill for four years.

Lester A. Walker Sr., a retired head of custodial services at East Hampton High School, died of cardiac arrest on March 21 in Wellington, Fla. He was 80.

Lester Ross, a former employee of East Hampton Town as well as a master electrician and Army veteran, died on March 22 at Sumner Regional Medical Center in Gallatin, Tenn. Mr. Ross, who was known as Poppy, was 83. The cause of death was heart failure, his family said.

Bill Hopson, an Army veteran and founding member of Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton in 1954, died on March 29 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. The East Hampton resident was 95.

Henriette Abel Stackpole, a physician who had a summer home in Amagansett, died on March 3 at Huntington Common in Kennebunk, Me. She was 87.

Patricia B. Zaykowski, the first woman to be elected president of the Sag Harbor School Board, died at home in Dunedin, Fla., on March 10 after a brief illness. She was 89.

Richard Joseph Sigmund of Brooklyn and Springs, an artist and art installer, died of cancer on March 16 at East End Hospice’s Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 71.

Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner, an executive for the Estee Lauder Companies and a philanthropist who supported programs in New York City and Sag Harbor, died in Manhattan on Feb. 26. She was 92.

Lawrence B. Knowles of East Hampton, known for his years working at Stuart’s Seafood in Amagansett and the Seafood Shop in Wainscott, died of congestive heart failure on March 6 at South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore. He was 90.

Patricia Clarke Topping, who founded Swan Creek Farms in Bridgehampton with her husband, Alvin Topping, died of lung cancer on March 14. She was 76.

Adelaide H. Dunlop, a 1955 graduate of East Hampton High School, died on Feb. 10 in Venice, Fla., where she had been living since 2006. She was 84.

Robert Beahan Shnayerson, a respected editor at Life, Time, and Harper’s magazines who first came to the South Fork in 1960, died at home in Hillsdale, N.Y., on March 6 of complications of vascular disease. He was 96.

E. Vincent Wyatt Jr., an expert in industrial production and engineering materials who held several patents and who grew up in East Hampton, died of a heart attack on March 2 at the Greenfield Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Massachusetts. He was 92.

Evelyn Spiegler made a career as a fund-raiser in the nonprofit sector in international relations and the health care field, and after her retirement from New York University Medical Center in 1995 divided her time between Montauk and Forest Hills, Queens, where she died on Saturday.

Harold Foster of Foster and Briand Construction died of lung cancer on March 1 at home in Montauk.

John Allan Diamond, who ran his father’s business, Diamond’s furniture store on Main Street in East Hampton, until 1995, died on March 2 at home in East Hampton. He was 70 and had been ill with Alzheimer’s disease.

John R. DiPace, retired from the New York City Department of Sanitation and the trucking company he owned in the Bronx, went on to become a masseur at Gurney's Inn in Montauk. He died of metastasized bone cancer at home in East Hampton on March 3.

Marie Ann Field of East Hampton died of heart failure at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton on Feb. 27. She was 74.

Tony Walton, who worked for more than six decades in theater, film, television, ballet, and opera, died at his apartment in New York City on March 2 of complications of a stroke. He was 87.

Beverly Schanzer, who retired to Sag Harbor after a successful media career that included work as a writer and producer in the CBS news division and at NBC, died on Feb. 14 at Peconic Landing in Greenport. She was 83 and had Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Clarence John Blowe Jr., a veteran of the Marine Corps who grew up in East Hampton, died on Jan. 20 at his residence in Manhattan. He was 65.

Darleen Emma Deleski of Sag Harbor, remembered as the “heart of the family,” died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Feb. 13 at the age of 73.

Visiting hours for Harold Foster of Montauk will be held on Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A funeral Mass will be said on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk.

Kathleen Kirkwood, a fashion entrepreneur known as “the diva of shoulder pads” and a member of the Montauk Historical Society, died on Nov. 5 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.

Pamela C. Anderson, a retired mathematics assistant at East Hampton High School who coached gymnastics, softball, basketball, volleyball, and a champion bowling team, died of cancer at home in East Hampton on Sunday.

Robert W. Hettiger of East Hampton, an Army veteran and prolific wildlife and combat artist, died of complications from an arterial stent placement at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Feb. 16. He was 73.

Ronald Patrick Balcuns of Springs, a master builder and carpenter, died on Feb. 20 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

Susan Dorothy D’Angelo, who lived on McGuirk Street in East Hampton, died on Nov. 23 at her son Christopher D’Angelo’s home in Rockville Centre. The cause was complications of diabetes.

Theodore Leroy Meyer, a well-loved physical education teacher and football and wrestling coach in East Hampton, died on Feb. 25 at his Florida home. He had been living with cancer for the past three years.

Tony Walton, the award-winning director and production designer for theater, film, television, ballet, and opera, who had deep connections to Sag Harbor, died at his apartment in New York City on Wednesday from complications of a stroke. He was 87.