A memorial for Joy Mayfield, a former East Hampton resident who died on July 11, will be held on Saturday from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. at the Hayground School in Bridgehampton.

A memorial gathering for Dale Booher, an architect and garden designer who lived in East Hampton in the 1970s, will be held on Saturday at 2 p.m. at his house on Shelter Island. Mr. Booher died on Sept. 15.

An obituary will appear in a future issue.

A memorial gathering will be held in Springs on Saturday for Rossetti Perchik, who died on May 7. It will begin at 11 a.m. with a ceremony on the beach at Maidstone Park, which will be followed with a reception at Michael’s restaurant on Maidstone Park Road.

Rae Ferren, whose distinctive impressionistic paintings captured the space and light of the East End, died on Sept. 6 at Southampton Hospital. She was 87 and had been ill for several years with progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare neurological disorder.

A mainstay of the East Hampton art community for more than 50 years, Ms. Ferren worked for 15 years at Guild Hall as registrar and associate curator before retiring in 1985 to paint full time. During that period, she helped the institution’s director, Enez Whipple, gain accreditation for the museum and championed the work of younger artists of the region, as well as those more established.

Born in Brooklyn on June 29, 1929, to David Tonkel and Rebecca Tonkel, who were not related, she showed talent for drawing at an early age and attended the all-girls Commercial High School in Brooklyn. “In those days it was respectable for girls to study commercial art — illustration, textile design, fashion design, advertising,” she told Robert Long in a 2001 profile in The Star. “But the teachers were much deeper than that. We started with strong drawing and painting fundamentals.”

After an unhappy week at the Parsons School of Design, she enrolled in the Brooklyn Museum Art School, where one of her instructors was John Ferren, an abstract painter who had lived in Europe during the 1930s, where he exhibited with Kandinsky, Miro, and Giacometti. “He worked with Picasso and helped stretch the canvas for ‘Guernica,’ ” according to the Ferrens’ son, Bran.

In 1949, despite an age difference of more than 20 years, the Ferrens married. They lived in a loft on Ninth Street in Greenwich Village, and she was thrust into the milieu of the New York School. Conrad Marca-Relli lived downstairs, Franz Kline upstairs. Milton Resnick and Philip Pavia were among their close friends.

While the Ferrens first visited Springs in 1950, they spent their summers in Los Angeles, where Mr. Ferren had built a house, until relocating to Springs in 1967. They also spent a year in Beirut, from 1963 to 1964. “It was a period of cultural warming-up,” she told Mr. Long. “And the Museum of Modern Art suggested John, in part because he spoke French.”

Throughout their early years together, they developed separate artistic careers, he favoring abstraction, she an impressionistic style inspired by Bonnard, Monet, and Innes. While she painted portraits and still lifes, she is most closely identified with her landscapes.

After her husband died in 1970, Ms. Ferren continued to paint, although her time was also taken up with the management of his estate and gallery exhibitions as well as her job at Guild Hall. She had begun to exhibit in the 1960s and had her first solo exhibition at Gallery East in Amagansett in 1977.

Reviewing that show for Newsday, Malcolm Preston described her painting “Summertime Past”: “It seems to capsulize the spirit of Rae Ferren’s current show. It has about it an aura of wistful nostalgia, something of the shimmer of Impressionism, a rich, sensual surface, and an interesting blend of realism with the emotional and intuitive aspects of Abstract Expressionism.”

Over the course of her career, in addition to dozens of individual exhibitions, Ms. Ferren’s work entered more than 150 private collections and was included in more than 100 invitational group shows.

In addition to her son, she leaves one grandchild. The family lives in Los Angeles and has a house in Springs.

Her son is especially fond of a quotation of his mother’s from Mr. Long’s profile: “We understand art without having to learn anything about it. It’s like great music. You don’t have to study it to get the language, to enjoy it. You feel good looking at art, and it’s a goodness that can’t come from anything else. And you know, I’m so glad to belong to that tribe of people.”

A service was held on Sept. 10 at Green River Cemetery in Springs, where she was buried beside her husband. “Instead of traditional memorial contributions, it would likely have been her wish to please find a young artist and give him or her encouragement and support, to keep his or her artistic flame alive during these often challenging times,” said her son. “Our artists such as Rae Ferren, through their creations, speak to us in novel ways, enrich out world, elevate us, and cause us to think more deeply about ourselves.”

Memorial donations if preferred can be made to CurePSP, 404 5th Avenue, Third Floor, New York 10001

Florence Wildner-Fox, who died in Buenos Aires at the age of 102 on Sept. 7, came to Montauk in an unusual way. She had been living in Manhattan for a long time and was often in Macy’s, where, while on a lunch break from her jobs at American Express and with the Argentine navy, she stumbled upon a surprising opportunity, her daughter-in-law, Ines Wildner-Fox, said. She was invited to put a $5 deposit down on a house in Montauk and was given a round-trip train ticket so she could go there to see it. It was a Leisurama house, one of many built in Montauk in the early 1960s, and she ended up buying two of them.

  “She came home after shopping at Macy’s and told the family, ‘I just bought two houses, one for my son and one for my daughter,’ ” Ms. Wildner-Fox said. The smaller of the two cost $14,000 and the slightly larger one $18,000. “It was the best $10 investment our family ever made,” Ms. Wildner-Fox said. The thing that Mrs. Wildner-Fox found amazing, according to her daughter-in-law, is that the Leisurama houses came “completely supplied with towels, toothbrushes, sheets, pots, pans, and dishes.”

From that time on, Mrs. Wildner-Fox divided her time between Montauk, Cooperstown, N.Y., and Buenos Aires.

She was born on Nov. 8, 1913, in Buenos Aires to Domingo de Oro and Maria Balmaceda. She and her husband, Ernest Wildner-Fox, whose family had immigrated to Argentina from England, were married in 1935 and moved to Manhattan in 1948. He died in 2007.

 In addition to her daughter-in-law and son, Ernest Wildner-Fox of Fort Myers, Mrs. Wildner-Fox is survived by a brother, Guillermo de Oro, a daughter, Florence Wildner-Fox of Nokomis, Fla., and Montauk, a granddaughter, and three great-grandchildren. Numerous family members are in Argentina.

Partly because her daughter was born on the same day as St. Therese, Mrs. Wildner-Fox was especially devoted to St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk. On Oct. 7, the church bells will be rung in her honor and “Ave Maria” will be played that morning.

Donations in Mrs. Wildner-Fox’s memory have been suggested to St. Therese of Lisieux Church, P.O. Box 5027, Montauk 11954. She was buried in the Garden of Peace in Pilar, Buenos Aires.

At the heart of Edward Albee's life is a bit of mystery. He was born on March 12, 1928, as Edward Harvey, in, as most accounts agree but not all, Washington, D.C. Some say it is unclear where his exact birthplace was, citing somewhere in Virginia.

Since he apparently did not attempt to contact his birth parents and was adopted at 2 weeks of age, it is not likely that any information about his early or natural parents' background will emerge. Much, however, is known about his life with his adoptive parents and the plays he offered to American and international audiences to award-winning and popular acclaim.

The Montauk resident and founder of the Edward F. Albee Foundation died at home on Friday after a short illness. He was raised by Reid and Frances Albee, a wealthy couple who brought Mr. Albee up in Larchmont, N.Y. By all accounts, he had a rebellious youth and attended a number of schools before graduating from Choate in Connecticut. He then attended but dropped out of Trinity College in Hartford.

His father inherited his wealth from a family business of vaudeville theaters that became the RKO Organization with the advent of film. Mr. Albee was named for his paternal grandfather. Although he showed great enthusiasm for the arts and theater at an early age, his natural inclinations were thwarted by his more conventional upbringing, and he left school to live in New York City when he was 20. After using up some family money, he took odd jobs until a decade later a short work, "Zoo Story," opened in Berlin and then New York City in 1959. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" followed in 1962 and then the Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Delicate Balance" in 1966.

These plays set out what would become the model for not only his 25 plays to come but the plays of others: experimental, intense, and provocative. Many would go on to achieve more success and awards and even two more Pulitzers, for "Seascape" of 1975 and "Three Tall Women" of 1994.

The money he made from "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" was channeled into his foundation back in 1967. At the foundation's heart is the William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center, or "the Barn," as it is more commonly known, in Montauk. The property offers residencies to writers and artists from mid-May to mid-October for four and six-week blocks of time. It continues to operate to this day.

Mr. Albee was known to spend time with the residents and also for his impromptu readings at East Hampton's LongHouse Reserve, where Jack Lenor Larsen, his friend from the time he moved to the city, lived and worked to create the gardens and art installations on the property. Mr. Larsen mentioned a few years ago that he, Mr. Albee, and Andy Warhol were all friends in their very early days in New York City and then throughout their lives. "We always knew what we wanted to do," Mr. Larsen said of himself and Mr. Albee. "Andy was different, he didn't know. That's why he did so much."

According to The New York Times, Mr. Albee left no survivors. His longtime partner, Jonathan Thomas, died in 2005.

Allen Bradley Bennett, a Bonacker who grew up in Springs and lived most of his life in Amagansett, died on Aug. 26 at Southampton Hospital. He was 65, and had been diagnosed with cancer four years ago.

He was born at the same hospital on July 16, 1951, to Alvin Leslie Bennett and the former Sarah Smith, and grew up here, graduating from East Hampton High School. He married another Bonac graduate, Carol Ann Eames, on April 17, 1971.

Mr. Bennett, who was self-employed as a carpenter, was a fisherman, a longtime volunteer with the Amagansett Fire Department, and a member of the East Hampton Baymen’s Association and the Dory Rescue Squad. He was also a member of the Sons of the American Legion.

After their marriage, the Bennetts settled in Amagansett. They had two sons, Allen Bennett Jr., now the chief of the Amagansett Fire Department, and Steven Bennett of Amagansett. Their father was a firefighter in the hamlet for 34 years.

In 1999, Mr. Bennett ran on the Republican ticket for East Hampton Town Trustee, but lost in a close election.

Besides his sons and wife, he is survived by three grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on Aug. 30, the Rev. Steven Howarth of The Amagansett Presbyterian Church officiating. Mr. Bennett was a member of the church.

The family has suggested donations in his memory to the Amagansett Fire Department, P.O. Box 911, Amagansett 11930, or St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, P.O. Box 50, Memphis 38105.

Helen Walsh, a 10th-generation descendant of Thomas Talmage, one of East Hampton’s original settlers, died on Sept. 14 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton. She was 93.

The daughter of Ferris G. Talmage and Clara M. Bell, she was born at home on Long Lane, East Hampton, on May 23, 1923. She graduated from East Hampton High School in 1940 and from Syracuse University in 1944, where she was a member of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority.

Mrs. Walsh was married to Raymond Hamilton of Amagansett in 1945 after he returned home from World War II. They had two children, Prudence T.H. Carabine of East Hampton and David Raymond Hamilton, who does not survive. Her husband died in 1969.

She married Robert Walsh in 1974. They moved to Hampton Bays, and she taught high school English at the Bridgehampton School for 10 years during that time. Ms. Carabine said her mother, who was a life member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, East Hampton chapter, “loved researching history, especially Long Island history.” She also taught courses at Southampton College’s Center for Creative Retirement, where she was a charter member, on women in the Bible and on early musical instruments on Long Island.

Ms. Carabine also spoke of her mother’s inclusive approach to East Hamptoners of different ethnic backgrounds and religions.

Mrs. Walsh was a member of the a cappella group the Sweet Adelines and was an elder of the East Hampton Presbyterian Church, where she taught Sunday school and served as president of the Women’s Association. She was a former president also of the Olde Towne Garden Club in Southampton.

In addition to her daughter, who lives in East Hampton, Mrs. Walsh is survived by two grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, three stepdaughters, and four step-grandchildren. Her second husband predeceased her, as did her two brothers, David and Stephen Talmage, and a grandson, Sean Ferris Carabine.

Burial, at Green River Cemetery in Springs, was private. There will be a memorial service at the Presbyterian Church on Oct. 22 at 11 a.m., followed by a reception at the Session House.

Cmdr. Stewart R. Graham, a helicopter pioneer who served in the Coast Guard for 26 years, died at home in Naples, Me., on Aug. 13. He had been ill for a month and was 98 years old. Cmdr. Graham was stationed in Montauk in the late 1930s, and he helped rescue efforts when the Hurricane of 1938 hit.

Born on Sept. 25, 1917, in Brooklyn to the former Edith Stewart and William Moutrie Graham, he came from a military family and had lived throughout the country, including Alaska, when he was growing up. He graduated from high school in Brooklyn and then signed up with the Coast Guard, becoming an aviator. Later, he learned to fly and repair helicopters, as well as the development of the hydraulic lift, according to his niece, Dawn Rana Brophy of Amagansett.

He was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross and two air medals during his service and was inducted into both the Coast Guard and Navy Halls of Honor. Because of his renown, he and his wife, the former Thomasina Rana, were invited to the Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh residence. More recently, the Belgian government had invited him to a ceremony in Belgium at which he was to be knighted in recognition of the role he played in the rescue of the passengers who survived a Sabena Airlines DC-4 flight that crashed on a hillside in Gander, Newfoundland, in 1946. He died before being able to receive the honor in person.

Mr. Graham and his wife, who was known as Mae, met while he was stationed at Montauk. She died in 2014 after their long marriage. Her relatives, Peter Rana Jr., Diana Voor­hees, and Rose Lester, and their families are his survivors here.

In addition to the Rana relatives and his niece, he is survived by two sons, Ross Graham of Naples and William Peter Graham of Jacksonville, Ore., and by two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

His ashes are to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Steven Charles Overby, a furniture buyer for Macy’s in New York City for many years who rose to become a senior vice president at the company, died on Sept. 6 at Stony Brook University Hospital, where he had been under care since a home accident at the end of August. He would have been 72 later this month.

Mr. Overby lived in Amagansett with his wife, Sylvia Overby, an East Hampton Town councilwoman. Nicknamed “the colonel” by his sons’ friends for his “tough love and guidance,” he was devoted to his family.

Born in Huntington on Sept. 25, 1944, to Otto L. Overby and the former Geraldine Sullivan, he grew up there, graduating from Huntington High School before earning a degree at Northwestern University in Chicago in 1966. He went on to receive a law degree from Northwestern Law School.

During the Vietnam War, Mr. Overby was a lawyer with the federal government’s Defense Supply Agency. He then followed in his father’s footsteps at Macy’s. His work with the department store took him to recently opened China in 1978 to lead foreign trade agreements on Chinese rugs. He also traveled to India, Egypt, and Europe, buying rugs and furniture for Macy’s. He was transferred to Atlanta in 1978 and met his future wife, Sylvia Wilson, there. He later opened his own furniture and rug stores in that city.

The Overbys were married on March 26, 1981. They built a house in Amagansett three years later and split their time between Amagansett and Atlanta until 1994, when they moved here full time. Mr. Overby had vacationed in Montauk every summer as a child. “His happiest moments were on the beach,” his wife said.

He was an accomplished tennis player and golfer, and later in life brought home numerous trophies from tournaments here and in Florida. He had made it to the men’s Montauk Downs C-Flight final this year, and although he was unable to compete due to his accident, his fellow players awarded him the trophy.

Mr. Overby also enjoyed designing and building houses, taking great pleasure in poring over plans for friends and family and for the renovation of his own house several years ago.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by his sons, Alec Sullivan Overby of Garden City and Andrew Dwight Overby of Amagansett, and by a grandson. He also leaves two sisters, Gail Savage of Exeter, N.H., and Barbara Blasch of Boston, and three nephews.

An open house and celebration of his life for family and friends will be held at his Seabreeze Lane residence on Sept. 25 from 3 to 6 p.m. “He loved life and did not want to have people mourn,” his wife said.

Donations in his memory have been suggested to the East Hampton Food Pantry, online at easthamptonfoodpantry.org.