William Warren Bates, who served the East Hampton and Springs Fire Departments for a combined 58 years and founded Bates Electric, a company still going strong after 50 years in business, died at Southampton Hospital on Oct. 12 of congestive heart failure. He was first diagnosed last year.

Born in the Bronx on July 1, 1935, to John H. Bates and the former Mabel Knowles, he attended Our Savior Lutheran School there before graduating from Christopher Columbus High School, where he was on the basketball and swim teams. Swimming came easily to a boy whose summers were spent with his family at Hither Hills in Montauk and at Lazy Point on Napeague.

During one of those summers he met the former Evelyn Saar of East Hampton. The two decided to get married on Oct. 15, 1954, in Bennetsville, S.C., and arrived there just in time to have Hurricane Carol as a wedding guest. They returned to their East Hampton rental after their honeymoon to find Mr. Bates’s draft notice in the mail, and he served for two years in Germany before they were reunited.

Mr. Bates worked for several electrical contractors while the family, now with two young sons and a daughter, moved from rental to rental. In 1965, with Darrell Parsons, he started his own company. Mr. Parsons died suddenly the following year, and Mr. Bates carried on alone.

At about the same time, the Bateses bought a house on Ocean View Avenue in Springs, where they have lived ever since.

Because Springs did not have its own fire department at the time, Mr. Bates joined East Hampton’s, becoming captain of Company 4. Eight years later, when the Springs department opened, he stayed on in East Hampton until he could be replaced as captain, then joined the Springs Fire Department. He was a Mason for 56 years, and a member of the American Legion.

Mr. Bates, who was a pillar of the Springs Presbyterian Church affairs and local youth activities — Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Little League and more — coached the first female competitor in the East Hampton Little League. She was the catcher, and the story received wide coverage in the region.

One year, the Bates Electric men’s baseball team needed a co-sponsor. Young Anthony Iacono was on the team, and the Iacono family agreed to co-sponsor it; it became the Electric Chickens.

He loved working in his yard, his family said, calling it his therapy. He was a woodcarver, too; some of his furniture is still in the family house. He also enjoyed golfing, boating in his Boston Whaler off Barnes Landing, and water-skiing.

His wife and children, Susan Brown, Bruce Bates, and Jim Bates, all live in Springs; his sons now run Bates Electric. He also leaves four granddaughters, one grandson, and six great-grandchildren. Two sisters, Doris Lipfert and Trudy Persina, died before him.

Visiting took place at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on Sunday, with burial on Monday at Cedar Lawn Cemetery here.

Elsie Lawall Treleaven came to know Amagansett as a teenager, when her parents had a summer house on Bluff Road. She learned to sail at the Devon Yacht Club and developed a deep love of the hamlet, eventually returning to live there with her family in the early 1960s.

“She cared deeply about preserving Amagansett’s natural beauty,” said her daughter Gwyneth Claiborne. “That’s why she got involved in the Amagansett Village Improvement Society.” She was president of the society for a number of years and also served on the Amagansett School Board.

Mrs. Treleaven died of congestive heart failure on Oct. 8 in Fairfield, Conn., where she had moved in recent years to be closer to family. She was 90 and had been in declining health for the past few months.

Born in Easton, Pa., to Frederick Lawall and the former Elizabeth Reeder, she grew up in Great Neck and graduated from Bennett Junior College in Millbrook, N.Y. After college she moved to Manhattan, where she worked at Seventeen magazine before meeting her first husband, Richard Dougherty, with whom she had a daughter, Lisa. The marriage ended in divorce, and she later married  Harry Treleaven Jr., with whom she had a son, Bruce, and a daughter, Ms. Claiborne. That marriage also ended in divorce. 

Her mother was “very inquisitive by nature,” Ms. Claiborne said. She was passionate about art and politics. A “very strong Democrat,” she had worked locally on behalf of a number of Democratic candidates.

She loved to read, said her daughter, especially at Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett, and was an accomplished cook, able to prepare dishes from all over the world long before it became the fashion. Family and friends said they have fond recollections of her memorable cooking. She also lent her culinary talents to AVIS’s Summer Splash parties every year.

Adventurous outside of the kitchen as well, she traveled widely, with Italy and France among her favorite destinations.

In addition to Ms. Claiborne, who lives in Fairfield, Conn., she leaves her son, Bruce Treleaven of Montclair, N.J. Her daughter Lisa Dougherty died before her. She is also survived by two sisters, Janet Sass of Manhattan and Betsy Grant of Greenwich, Conn., and by four grandchildren.

A private ceremony with family and close friends will take place in Amagansett at a future date. Condolences can be left online at LeskoPolkeFuneralHome.com.

Florence Lillian Talmage, an East Hampton native who spent her entire life in the town, died on Oct. 10 at the Peconic Bay Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Riverhead, at the age of 86. She had been diagnosed with cancer about a year ago.

Mrs. Talmage was born at home on Feb. 19, 1930, one of three children of Sidney N. Bye and the former Christine E. Mott. She attended East Hampton High School and married William W. Talmage soon after leaving school, on Jan. 24, 1948.

A homemaker, she was happiest spending time at family gatherings, relatives said, and gardening with her husband, who died in 2012. She is survived by three of her four children: Mark Talmage, Christine Talmage, and William Talmage, all of East Hampton. Another daughter, Brenda Talmage Grodski, died in 2013.

She also leaves two siblings, Carolyn Bye Seacord and Sidney Bye, both of East Hampton, as well as six grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

Visiting hours were held on Friday at the Yardley and Funeral Home in East Hampton, followed by funeral services on Saturday. Burial was at Green River Cemetery in Springs.

The family has suggested memorial donations for American Legion Post 419, P.O. Box 1343, Amagansett 11930. Mrs. Talmage’s brother is a past commander of the post.

Elizabeth Lee White, a Montauk Historical Society president for 20 years who was a charter member of the Montauk Lighthouse Committee when it took over stewardship of the Light, died on Oct. 10 at the age of 76.

Known as Betsy, Ms. White was the vice president of the historical society at the time of her death. Her family said she died at Southampton Hospital after being stricken at a historical society dinner that night. 

She was born on July 10, 1940, in Detroit to Lester A. Lee and the former Elizabeth Harris. She graduated from Redford High School in that city and obtained a degree in education at the University of Florida.

 Ms. White came to Montauk with friends in 1961 to spend a summer working at the Montauk Manor. She met her future husband, Dick White Jr., that summer, and the couple married in 1963. She subsequently taught seventh and eighth-grade English at the Montauk School from 1964 to 1966 and, with her husband, was an owner of White’s Liquor Store. The couple divorced in 1991.

 Ms. White also was the founder of the Lighthouse gift shop, which began as a small room in the Lighthouse itself and was later expanded. She was also a deacon and assistant treasurer of the Montauk Community Church.

One of Ms. White’s sons, Rick White of Montauk, said he will remember his mother’s strong will. “She had a lot of different setbacks, and it never seemed to hold her back,” he said. “It almost seemed to make her work harder and persevere.”

Ms. White was a history buff who enjoyed traveling and had been to Europe, India, Morocco, Greece, Australia, and Hong Kong, among other places.

“Betsy was a force,” Catherine Ecker Flanagan, a friend, wrote on the Montauk Historical Society website. “Straightforward and intelligent, she was a person who didn’t tiptoe through life. She was always willing to back up her belief with lots of hard work.”

In addition to her son Rick White, Ms. White is survived by another son, Lee White of Montauk, a daughter, Heather Saskas of Sag Harbor, and six grandchildren.

The Rev. Bill Hoffman of the Montauk Community Church, who had known Ms. White well, officiated at a service there on Saturday. Rick White and Greg Donahue of Montauk also spoke. She was buried at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton.

The family has suggested memorial donations to the Montauk Community Church, P.O. Box 698, Montauk 11954, or to the Montauk Lighthouse, for which information can be found online at montauklighthouse.com/donate.

 “Our town has lost one of our greatest champions,” Ms. Flanagan’s tribute  says.

Shirley Theodora Ford Garrett, who spent her childhood summers in Sag Harbor and retired there in 1996, died at home on Oct. 16. She was 81 and had had Parkinson’s disease for about three years.

Mrs. Garrett was close to her sister, Marian Ford Pryce of Sag Harbor, who affectionately called her “the volunteer of America” this week. She was a familiar face at the food pantry of St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in Bridgehampton, the Animal Rescue Fund thrift shop, and the Retired Senior Volunteer Program, whose members look out for older people living alone. 

She also volunteered at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, calling it a way to keep “in tune with young people . . . a lively experience,” when she and Mrs. Pryce were interviewed for “Voices of Sag Harbor: A Village Remembered,” a 2007 book of more than 80 reminiscences. The two have a chapter all to themselves in the book, called “The Ford Sisters,” in which they recall their childhood summers on Liberty Street with their great-grandmother Theodosia Jordan. The sisters remembered eating a lot of fish caught by their father and grandfather, sometimes frying it up right on the beach, and picking blueberries.

Mrs. Garrett was a lay Episcopal minister at St. Ann’s, where she not only helped administer the sacrament but also read. She was also the corresponding secretary of the Eastville Historical Society and gave tours for the society of local landmarks. “I see volunteering as a way of helping others and thereby enriching my life,” she said in “Voices of Sag Harbor.”

She was born on Nov. 24, 1935, in Queens, one of three children and the second daughter of Theodore Nathaniel Ford and the former Edith Williams. She took business classes on weekends while a student at Jamaica High School in Queens and later attended Baruch College. A great traveler, she visited several countries in Europe with friends during two summer vacations; later, she and Mrs. Pryce made frequent trips to the Caribbean.

Mrs. Garrett’s first job was with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in New York City. After marrying Wendell Raymond Garrett Sr., she moved with him to Wappingers Falls, N.Y., where she worked for IBM. The company transferred her to Boulder, Colo., just about when the Garretts divorced, and she moved to Boulder with their son, Wendell Garrett Jr., who was about 10. She became an export analyst for IBM, making sure that its computers ordered by other countries met all shipping and procedural regulations and that her counterpart at the other end was there to receive the shipment. This gave her contacts all over the world, especially in Italy, many of whom stayed in touch with her for the rest of her life.

The Rev. Timothy Lewis officiated at a memorial Mass held at St. Ann’s on Saturday, and blessed her ashes, which are with her sister and will be dispersed at a later date. In addition to her sister and her son, both of Sag Harbor, Mrs. Garrett is survived by a brother, Theodore Ford of Queens, and two grandchildren.

The family has suggested donations in her memory for the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, 1359 Broadway, Suite 1509, New York 10018, or the Eastville Community Historical Society, P.O. Box 2036, Sag Harbor 11963.

Margaret Dowdney Watson, a prolific painter who lived and worked in East Hampton and Manhattan, died on Oct. 14 at Flesher’s Fairview Health and Retirement Center in Fairview, N.C. She was 92 years old.

Mrs. Watson, who was known as Peggy, exhibited her scenes of the South Fork and the city both here and nationally. In the 1950s, she produced cover drawings for magazines; in the ’60s, she appeared on television to show her work, and in 1996, a Star art critic deemed her paintings “wonderful.”

“Conversation was always filled with wit, intellectual brilliance, and memories of the past,” her family wrote. “She was a fantastic storyteller and a great listener. She freely offered wisdom with no wasted words, simple and funny. Those of us who were fortunate to know and have Peggy as a friend will dearly miss her.”

Mrs. Watson was born in New Jersey on July 10, 1924, to Louis Purcell Dowdney and the former Genevieve Emmerson. She grew up in Manhattan, attending the Hewitt School, and in East Hampton. The story went that when she was in the first grade, her teacher considered her drawings far more advanced than her classmates’, and told her mother the child would be an artist someday. Her parents promptly enrolled her in art lessons.

Here in East Hampton she was an active member of the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons who often adopted rescue pets and advocated for animal rights.

A first marriage ended in divorce. She later married Leonard Watson, who died some years ago. Her longtime companion, Victor Teich, also died before her, as did her son, Tony Devine, her daughter, Wing Watson, two brothers, and a sister. She is survived by a niece, Clay Dilworth, two grandnieces, Samantha Johnson and Kate Dilworth, and three great-grandnephews, all of Asheville, N.C.

Mrs. Watson was cremated following private services in North Carolina. In her memory, her family has suggested adopting a dog from ARF or making a donation to the organization, at 91 Daniel’s Hole Road, Wainscott 11975.

Charles Sheridan Preusse, a former East Hampton resident who served in the Air Force and had a career at the New York Stock Exchange, died on Oct. 3 at the home of one of his sons in Frederick, Md. He was 76 and had pancreatic cancer.

Mr. Preusse, who was known as Chip, was born in New York City on Sept. 23, 1940, to Charles Francis and Josephine Florence Preusse. He attended the Kent School in Connecticut and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. After his college graduation in 1963, he joined the Air Force, for which he was deployed twice to the Pacific region and attained the rank of captain.

Mr. Preusse married Susan Kroner in September 1964 after having been introduced by their sisters. He left the Air Force in 1969 and eventually returned to New York, where he started a career trading in the stock market. He and his family lived in East Hampton full time between 1977 and 1989. 

While here, Mr. Preusse was a member of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, where he was in the vestry, and the Maidstone Club. He was also involved in the Boy Scouts while his sons were members.

In 1989, Mr. and Mrs. Preusse left East Hampton for Greenvale, S.C. From the early 1990s until 2005, they ran a Budget rental car and truck business together.

Mr. Preusse was a dedicated fan of the New York Yankees and the New York Giants, and loved playing golf, tending roses, and swimming in the ocean. His family said they were grateful to the staff of the Hospice of Frederick County “for their kind and compassionate care of him during his last days.”

He is survived by his wife and their four sons, Charles Preusse of Bronxville, N.Y., Andrew and Patrick Preusse of Seattle, and Christopher Preusse of Frederick. He leaves four grandchildren. A sister, Sandra, died before him.

Mr. Preusse was cremated, and a memorial service will be held today at 11 a.m. at All Saints Episcopal Church in Frederick. The family has suggested memorial donations to that church, at 106 West Church Street, Frederick, Md. 21701, or to the Humane Society of the United States, at humanesociety.org. Condolences can be shared online at staufferfuneralhome.com.

Henrik Krogius, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, writer, and producer for television news who was instrumental in preserving the Poxabogue area of Sagaponack, died at home in Brooklyn Heights on Oct. 4. He was 87 and had prostate cancer, his family said.

Having owned a home in Sagaponack since 1965, he became interested in the area that would later become the Long Pond Greenbelt when, in 1973, Fred C. Topping died, leaving 28 acres on the shores of Poxabogue Pond. A developer planned to build 16 houses there, but with the help of Barbara (Babby) French, Mr. Krogius and his wife, Elaine Taylor Krogius, lobbied town and county legislators, resulting in the county’s condemnation of the land and the creation of Poxabogue County Park.

The Long Pond Greenbelt, consisting of ponds, woods, and wetlands from Sag Harbor to Bridgehampton and Sagaponack, was formed. Mr. Krogius and his wife were honored as the first “champions of the greenbelt” by the Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt in 2008. The two also served on the board of the Group for the East End for several years. 

Mr. Krogius had a 27-year career as a writer and producer for NBC News and its affiliate in the city. In 1977, he won an Emmy Award for best local news program for his work on the 11 o’clock news, for which he was the producer for about eight years. He worked with such broadcast luminaries as Mike Wallace, Frank McGee, Edwin Newman, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Tom Brokaw, and Chuck Scarborough, his family said.

He was the editor of The Brooklyn Heights Press & Cobble Hill News for 22 years, during which time he was actively involved in the coverage of the creation of the Brooklyn Bridge Park along the East River. With Joanne Witty he wrote “Brooklyn Bridge Park: A Dying Waterfront Transformed,” a book that came out in September. He retired from The Press in 2013. 

A native of Finland, Mr. Krogius was born on March 26, 1929, in Tampere to Helge Krogius and the former Valborg Antell. He grew up in Finland and New York, and went on to study architecture at Harvard College, graduating in 1951. He served as a lieutenant in the Air Force from 1951 to 1953 and then studied at the Columbia School of Journalism, graduating a year later. He received a Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship from Columbia and reported as a freelancer from Europe, Asia, and Africa from 1954 to 1956. 

He was an award-winning photographer and the author of the 2003 book “New York, You’re a Wonderful Town! Fifty-Plus Years of Chronicling Goth­am,” a graphic portrayal of the city through his photographs. 

His wife of 51 years survives him, as do his sons, Sven Krogius of Brooklyn and Tor Krogius of Northampton, Mass. A brother, Tristan Krogius of Laguna Beach, Calif., and two grandchildren also survive. 

A service will be held at Grace Church in Brooklyn Heights on Nov. 5 at 11 a.m., the Rev. Anne Richards officiating.

Visiting hours for Betsy White of Montauk, who died on Monday at Southampton Hospital, will be held tomorrow from 1 to 5 and from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. 

A funeral service is planned on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at the Montauk Community Church, with burial to follow at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton. Mrs. White was 76. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Terry Jane Hoyt, a volunteer emergency medical technician for many years and a former ambulance captain for the Bridgehampton Fire Department, died of cancer at home on Saturday. She was 64.

Ms. Hoyt has been credited with leading several advancements in emergency care for the department, including establishing and overseeing its E.M.S. first responder vehicle program that preceded its paid first responder program, lobbying for the purchase of mechanical CPR devices, and maintaining and handling training for the department’s firefighter rehabilitation vehicle. 

Her family said she was also an integral part of a volunteer response system throughout East Hampton Town that, before fire departments started hiring paid providers, ensured that calls were answered.

Ms. Hoyt served as an assistant captain from 2011 to 2012 and as a captain from 2012 through 2014. In 2014 she was named the department’s captain of the year. She was also recognized by Suffolk County when she achieved 20 years of service, and was nominated for the 2014 Southampton Town Nancy Makson E.M.S. of Excellence Award.

“Terry Hoyt was a very fine and conscientious E.M.T.,” Bridgehampton Fire Chief Jeff White said. “Every call was an important call, and as captain everything was in order all the time. She will be missed.”

She was born on Sept. 3, 1952, in Ossining, N.Y., to Edward and Jane Hoyt. She grew up there and graduated from Ossining High School in 1969, going on to work for Union Carbide and Phelps Memorial Hospital. When her father became ill in 1979, Ms. Hoyt returned home to take care of her two younger brothers, raising them until they were finished with high school.

She moved to Southampton in 1989 and later to Bridgehampton. Her first position on the South Fork was with the Allan M. Schneider real estate firm, but in 1990 she got a job at Southampton Hospital, where over the course of 25 years she worked in various capacities, her favorite being registrar in the emergency room, a position she held for 17 years.

Ms. Hoyt joined the Bridgehampton Fire Department in 1993, following in the footsteps of her father, who had been a member of Ossining’s volunteer rescue squad.

“She was just that type of person, helping others before herself,” Philip Cammann, her husband of 19 years, said.

Ms. Hoyt and Mr. Cammann were married on Christmas Eve in 1997 in a chapel in Vermont that had no heat but was lit with Christmas lights. They often worked side by side in the ambulance. “We did good patient care together,” Mr. Cammann said.

When they were not busy responding to calls for help or facilitating training for other first responders, the couple enjoyed traveling to Europe and the Caribbean.

In addition to her husband, Ms. Hoyt is survived by two brothers, Ed Hoyt of Bridgehampton and Jim Hoyt of Las Vegas. Her parents and a sister, Donna, predeceased her.

A wake will be held for Ms. Hoyt at the Brockett Funeral Home in Southampton today from 6 to 9 p.m. Her burial will be private. Her family has suggested memorial donations to the Firemen’s Home of the Firemen’s Association of the State of New York at 125 Harry Howard Avenue, Hudson, N.Y. 12534.