Priscilla Weld Huntington, an unwavering advocate for children who was a founding member of what is now the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center in East Hampton, died on Sept. 7 at Peconic Landing in Greenport. She was 93.

Born in Norwich, Conn., on May 20, 1922, Mrs. Huntington was the youngest of the three daughters of Julie Bradlee Weld and John Perit Huntington. She graduated from the George School, a private Quaker high school in Newtown, Pa., in 1939, and went on to earn a degree in psychology from Sarah Lawrence College and a master’s in clinical child psychology from the University of Chicago.

In 1943, she married Sidney E. Rolfe, whom she had met while at Sarah Lawrence. They lived in Manhattan and in Princeton, N.J., where Mr. Rolfe taught at the university, and spent their summers in East Hampton.

They were divorced in 1958, and Mrs. Huntington later had a brief second marriage. Afterward, she traveled extensively throughout Europe and the United States, her family wrote, and lived for a time in Provence, France, in a towcalled Claviers, and in Penngrove, Calif., in Sonoma County wine country. She spent summers in Guysborough, Nova Scotia, before moving in 2003 to Peconic Landing. Her family said the staff at the retirement community was particularly compassionate in caring for her.

“Cherished of her wit, warmth, and strong personality, Priscilla was an excellent cook and a wonderful hostess,” the family wrote. “She was foremost an avid reader and environmentalist, involved in many causes.”

Mrs. Huntington is survived by two nieces, Ann B. Horsman and Susan B. Evans, both of Waterford, Conn., and a nephew, John H. Browning of Wareham, Mass.

A memorial service will be announced at a future date. Memorial contributions have been suggested to Nova Scotia Nature Trust, Box 2202, Halifax, N.S., Canada B3J 3C4; Peconic Land Trust, P.O. Box 1776, Southampton 11969, or the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center, P.O. Box 63, East Hampton 11937.

Jean DePasquale, a longtime resident of Montauk, died at home on Sept. 20 of respiratory failure. She was 87 years old.

Mrs. DePasquale came to Montauk in the early 1960s with her husband, Gene DePasquale.

In the late 1970s, the couple moved to Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, where Mr. DePasquale was vice president of the construction company Anchor Engineering. They returned to Montauk after three years.

Mrs. DePasquale “never had a mean word for anybody,” her son, Eugene DePasquale of Montauk said. “She was always pleasant,” and she loved her family, her pets, gardening, reading, and summertime barbecues. Her husband died in 2007.

She was born on Dec. 17, 1927, to Peter Johnson and the former Florence Herbert and was raised in Freeport, where she was active in the Dean Street Chapel in her youth. She graduated from Freeport High School and worked at the Doubleday bookstore in Garden City, where she enjoyed meeting authors and eventually became a manager. She also lived in Syosset and East Williston.

In addition to her son Eugene DePasquale, Mrs. DePasquale is survived by another son, James DePasquale of Bridgehampton. A third son, Bruce DePasquale, died in 2006. A sister, Barbara Brown, who lives in Rhode Island, and six grandchildren also survive.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Montauk Community Church, with the Rev. Bill Hoffman officiating. Burial will follow at Montauk’s Fort Hill Cemetery. Memorial contributions have been suggested to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.

Louisa Edith Edwards, who sold real estate with the Edward Pospisil agency and had lived on Old Montauk Highway in Amagansett before moving to North Carolina, died on Oct. 3 in Montrose, Calif., after a stroke, her family said. She was 98.

Mrs. Edwards’s interests were wide-ranging. She was a photographer who had shows in Amagansett, North Carolina, Florida, and California; her work also appeared in this newspaper. She rode horses, trained dogs for obedience and field trials, and hunted along with her husband, Kenneth Stratton Edwards Sr., often at Spring Farm near Sag Harbor, where her dogs retrieved downed birds.

She was born Louisa Edith von Castel on Sept. 2, 1917, in Boston. Her parents were Werner von Castel and Anna Marie Maiwald. She grew up in Bremen, Germany, where she spent about five years, and on Long Island, where she later met and married Mr. Edwards, a commercial fisherman who kept a dragger, Alwa, in Montauk Harbor.

Following her years in North Carolina, Mrs. Edwards moved to Port St. Lucie, Fla., then to Sunland, Calif., last year, where she lived in an apartment just a few doors away from her daughter-in-law, Jobette Edwards.

Her husband died in 1980. A son, Kenneth S. Edwards Jr., died in 1983. In addition to her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Edwards leaves two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

A graveside service in memory of Bonnie Lee Cullum, who died in February at the age of 71, will be held on Oct. 10 at 11 a.m. Ms. Cullum, who had cancer, was a 1961 graduate of East Hampton High School. She worked as the office manager at Robert E. Otto Glass in Wainscott for 33 years. The memorial service will take place at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton. Her family said it will be a simple service, and casual attire has been requested.

Michael C. Volk loved Montauk and his East Lake Drive residence, and had no interest in living anyplace else. One of the aspects of the hamlet that most thrilled him, his son said yesterday, was playing a round of golf at Montauk Downs.

“Despite the challenges he faced, he was a good-hearted man,” his son, Michael Volk of Honolulu, said. “He was always helpful. There was not a bad bone in his body.”

Mr. Volk died on Sept. 15 at Stony Brook University Hospital of complications following a fall. He was 62.

He was born to Edward Volk and the former Madelaine O’Brien on June 30, 1953, at Southampton Hospital. Growing up on Essex Street in Montauk, he attended the St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic school and later East Hampton High School. After graduating, he went to work in the family business, Volk’s Montauk Disposal.

He was a volunteer firefighter with the Montauk Fire Department and a member of the Montauk Friends of Erin.

He met his future wife, Joan Cangelosi, who was originally from Queens, in Montauk. They settled down and had two children — in addition to Mr. Volk, a daughter, Kristin Greene, who now lives in Hampton Bays. The couple divorced when the children were young.

In addition to his children, Mr. Volk is survived by two sisters, Rosemary Pitts Volk of Cornelius, N.C., and Judie Crocitto of Deerfield Beach, Fla.

Mr. Volk was cremated. The family held a private service.

Donations in his memory have been suggested to the Montauk Fire Department, 12 Flamingo Avenue, Montauk 11954.

Sloane Shelton, an actress who had voluminous credits but may be best known on the East End for having portrayed the fierce mother of a Bonac fisherman in the world premiere of Joe Pintauro’s adaptation of Peter Matthiessen’s “Men’s Lives” at the Bay Street Theater, died at her Wainscott home on Sept. 17 of pulmonary fibrosis after a long illness. She was 81.

Steve Hamilton, who with his wife, Emma Walton Hamilton, was a co-founder of the theater, said that “when first introduced to the audience in ‘Men’s Lives,’ the matriarchal character describes her family’s generations-old home in the dunes by declaring, ‘This is my lair!’ ” He called it a “feral and unforgettable moment,” in which Ms. Shelton “not only claimed her place center stage that evening — the very first night of Bay Street Theater’s existence — but she instantly took up residence” in their hearts.

Following “Men’s Lives,” Ms. Shelton appeared at Bay Street in “Eudora,” a one-woman play about the writer Eudora Welty, which Sybil Burton Christopher, also a co-founder of the theater, commissioned.

Over the years, Ms. Shelton worked with Eva Le Gallienne, Sylvia Sidney, Kathleen Chalfant, and Vanessa Redgrave. She appeared with Meryl Streep in the film “One True Thing” and with Dustin Hoffman in “All the President’s Men.” She also had roles in the award-winning Vietnam dramas “The Basic Training of Pavlo Humel” and “Sticks and Bones” at the Public Theater in Manhattan, and in “Dinner at Eight” at Lincoln Center, in which her character drops the soufflé.  

She was born on March 14, 1934, in Hahira, Ga., to Clarence Shelton and the former Ruth Evangeline Davis, both of whom worked at a local mill. The family later moved to Asheville, N.C.

Enrolling in Berea College in Kentucky, which was founded for students of limited means, Ms. Shelton immersed herself in the theater; she wrote, directed, produced, and starred in a play about an Italian family in New York City, called “The Snow Is Mud.” She also built the sets. She was later to say, “I’d never been in New York, didn’t know one Italian, and hadn’t seen snow.” Her first stage appearance was in elementary school, as Cinderella.

After living in New York City for a short time, Ms. Shelton auditioned for and won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, returning to live in Greenwich Village and pursue her career. She was in the soaps “Another World” and “As the World Turns,” went on two tours with the National Repertory Theatre, and was a guest artist for six months in Auckland, New Zealand. She was known for helping budding playwrights, and she enjoyed teaching youngsters about the craft of acting.

In 1983, she wrote and produced “Millay at Steepletop,” a documentary film about Edna St. Vincent Millay and Norma Millay, which was directed by Kevin Brownlow and shown in New York City at the Museum of Modern Art.

When Ms. Shelton spent time away from the theater, she enjoyed travel, Greece, summers in Maine, dogs, poker, drawing, and the sea. She and Jan Buckaloo, her companion for almost 50 years, were married in 2009.

In addition to Ms. Buckaloo, Ms. Shelton is survived by two nephews and their families. Donations in her memory have been suggested for any charity that helps poor children

Walter Allan Lee, a bank trust officer who grew up in East Hampton, died last Thursday at his winter residence in The Villages, Fla. He was 83 and had been in declining health for several years.

Mr. Lee, who was always called Allan, distinguishing him from his father, Walter Ormond Lee, was born at Southampton Hospital on New Year’s Day 1932. His mother was the former Emma Hulse of East Hampton. Except for a few years during World War II, in Norfolk, Va., and San Francisco while his father was in the Navy, the family lived on Church Street here. Mr. Lee graduated from East Hampton High School in 1950 and from Bryant College in Rhode Island in 1952.

His banking career began following his service as an Army corporal in Japan and in Korea. Working first for the Irving Trust Company Manhattan, he then took a job at the North Fork Bank and Trust in Mattituck, and, after studying at Rutgers University’s Stonier Graduate School of Banking, became an officer at the South Shore Bank in Quincy, Mass. He worked there until his retirement in 1990. After he and his wife, the former Diane Ellen Bedell, moved to Florida, the family’s Hingham, Mass., home became their summer residence.

Sailing was one of Mr. Lee’s favorite leisure pursuits. He owned a Marshall catboat and would tell friends that he had acquired his love of catboats from Everett T. Rattray of East Hampton, a childhood friend. Mr. Lee also enjoyed fishing, camping, gardening, and golf.

His wife survives, as do two children, Donna Lee O’Malley of Essex, Vt., and Christopher Allan Lee of Apple Valley, Minn. He also leaves four grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held in Massachusetts at a future date. Memorial contributions have been suggested to the Cornerstone Hospice Foundation, 2445 Lane Park Road, Tavares, Fla. 32778.

Walter Allan Lee, a bank trust officer who grew up in East Hampton, died last Thursday at his winter residence in The Villages, Fla. He was 83 and had been in declining health for several years.

Mr. Lee, who was always called Allan, distinguishing him from his father, Walter Ormond Lee, was born at Southampton Hospital on New Year’s Day 1932. His mother was the former Emma Hulse of East Hampton. Except for a few years during World War II, in Norfolk, Va., and San Francisco while his father was in the Navy, the family lived on Church Street here. Mr. Lee graduated from East Hampton High School in 1950 and from Bryant College in Rhode Island in 1952.

His banking career began following his service as an Army corporal in Japan and in Korea. Working first for the Irving Trust Company Manhattan, he then took a job at the North Fork Bank and Trust in Mattituck, and, after studying at Rutgers University’s Stonier Graduate School of Banking, became an officer at the South Shore Bank in Quincy, Mass. He worked there until his retirement in 1990. After he and his wife, the former Diane Ellen Bedell, moved to Florida, the family’s Hingham, Mass., home became their summer residence.

Sailing was one of Mr. Lee’s favorite leisure pursuits. He owned a Marshall catboat and would tell friends that he had acquired his love of catboats from Everett T. Rattray of East Hampton, a childhood friend. Mr. Lee also enjoyed fishing, camping, gardening, and golf.

His wife survives, as do two children, Donna Lee O’Malley of Essex, Vt., and Christopher Allan Lee of Apple Valley, Minn. He also leaves four grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held in Massachusetts at a future date. Memorial contributions have been suggested to the Cornerstone Hospice Foundation, 2445 Lane Park Road, Tavares, Fla. 32778.

Josephine DiSunno, who died at Southampton Hospital at the age of 95 on Tuesday, will be remembered, her family said, for her generosity, indomitable spirit, and devotion to family, church, and community.

She was born in Sag Harbor to John and Mary Falkowski on Jan. 25, 1920, the youngest of four children. When she was still a young child, her father died at the age of 30, leaving her mother to manage through the Great Depression. From those early years, her family said she learned “to be frugal and stay strong.”

Attending St. Andrew’s Catholic School in Sag Harbor, she had to leave in 12th grade to help support the family. She became a devout Catholic, practicing her faith into her 90s and receiving communion at home when she became too frail to attend church.

On June 4, 1939, she married Amato (Mike) DiSunno, and they moved into a house on Bunker Hill Road in Amagansett, which was, in effect, a DiSunno family compound. The house had no indoor plumbing. Eventually, when they had the resources, they made  improvements themselves, adding plumbing, and they were the first on the block to have a hot water heater, a double-roller wringer washing machine, and a hot water shower. Their home was later moved to O’Brien Court in Amagansett, where it is owned by a granddaughter.

In 1952, Mr. DiSunno took the money they had carefully saved to make a down payment on a bulldozer and start an excavation business, known over the years as Mike DiSunno and Son. Mrs. DiSunno worked as a bookkeeper and helped deliver sand and run other errands for the business. From the age of 12, their sons began working in the business after school and on weekends. Mr. DiSunno eventually became a popular East Hampton Town highway superintendent. He died in 1985.

The couple had four children, Carmine and John DiSunno of Amagansett and Suzanne DiSunno Brown of Atlanta, who survive, and Constance DiSunno O’Brien, who does not. Seven grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren survive as well. As her children were growing up, Mrs. DiSunno was a Cub Scouts den mother and a Brownie leader. She became a charter member of the Amagansett Fire Department’s Ladies Auxiliary in 1955, where her husband served as chief and later as a commissioner, and she remained a member for 60 years.

A member of the South Fork Country Club for decades, where she enjoyed golf, Mrs. DiSunno also was a champion bowler and a member of what was known as “The 300 Club” for bowlers. She traveled frequently, which was made possible by discounted fares since one of her daughters worked for Delta Airlines. The couple had enjoyed visiting Europe, San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, and Bermuda, among other destinations. For many years, they spent winters in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Viewing hours are today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Amagansett, with a Mass of Christian burial tomorrow morning at 10. Mrs. DiSunno will be buried at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery in East Hampton. Memorial contributions have been suggested to the Amagansett Fire Department and Ambulance, 439 Main Street, P.O. Box 911, Amagansett 11930-0911.

Rosemary E. Shilson, a jewelry designer and interior decorator who was an active member of the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society, died on Sept. 19 at Stony Brook University Hospital, following a stroke. She was 84 years old.

Her family, who called her Rosie, said she was known to have a classic, charming, and warm decorating style. In her jewelry business, which was called Stone Flower, she used gems from around the world. In the 1950s, before going into design, Mrs. Shilson worked as a marketing and advertising assistant at a publishing company in New York City.

She and Thomas H. Shilson were married in July of 1962, and came to live in East Hampton. They also lived for about 20 years in Grosse Pointe Park, Mich., and had homes in Jupiter, Fla., Santa Fe, N.M., and Beaufort, S.C., before returning to East Hampton in 1988 in their retirement, where they had a house on Sandra Road in Springs for 30 years.

Mrs. Shilson, a longtime member of the L.V.I.S., was said to have been integral to the success of the silent auctions at its annual fairs. The couple loved to sail and were members of the Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett for many years.

Mrs. Shilson’s daughter-in-law, Carol McCarthy  Shilson of Chicago, said she had “an understated elegance” and a giving nature with much inner strength. The family also noted that she enjoyed gardening, painting, playing hostess for her family and friends, and dogs. She would be remembered, they wrote, for her graciousness, hospitality, sense of adventure, and great sense of humor.

She was born on March 23, 1931, the youngest of five children of Bernard Frances Golden and the former Rose Murphy. She was raised in Brooklyn, where she attended Visitation Academy and later Fontbonne Hall Academy. The family owned a house in Westhampton where they spent summers.

All of Mrs. Shilson’s siblings died before her and Mr. Shilson died in March of 2012. She is survived by her son, Jason Thomas Shilson of Chicago, and one grandson.

A funeral service was held on Sept. 23 at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. Memorial donations have been suggested to the Ladies Village Improvement Society, 95 Main Street, East Hampton 11937, or the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, P.O. Box 901, Wainscott 11975.

Albert Bunce, who lived on Cosdrew Lane in East Hampton for 40 years, died on Sept. 17 in Lady Lake, Fla., from complications of surgery. He was 83.

Mr. Bunce and his wife, Patricia, were very much a part of the East Hampton community. He coached his sons on the Schwenk’s Dairy Little League Team for 16 years and she worked in the East Hampton Schools for over 13 years.

Mr. Bunce was known to pile as many kids in his car as possible for games and always made sure his players laughed, had fun, and learned sportsmanship above all else, his family said. His favorite rivalry back then was the Pantigo team, coached by his longtime friend Fred Bock. He also served in the East Hampton Fire Department for 32 years as a member of Company No. 6, and was a brother in the Star of the East Lodge for 30 years.

Born Albert Joseph Bunce on June 8, 1932, in Ozone Park, Mr. Bunce was the eldest of five children born to the former Catherine Jean Zawadski and Albert Ray Bunce.

He married Patricia Needham on Aug. 9, 1952, after he met her on a blind date. They were together for 61 years until her death in 2013. The couple had five children, four of whom survive: Robin Shepherd of Wake Forest, N.C., Michael Bunce Sr. of Lady Lake, Fla., Kevin Bunce Sr. of East Hampton, and Keith Bunce of Benson, N.C. A son, Bruce Brunce, died in 2013. Mr. Bunce is also survived by a sister, Penny Defraia of Albequrque, as well as eight grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

In 1967, after living in Patchogue, Mr. Bunce moved his family to East Hampton, where they lived first on Osborne Lane and then Cosdrew Lane, where the door was always open for friends and family.

Mr. Bunce’s work was in the Middle East for a time. From 1973 through 1978 he worked in Saudi Arabia as a logistics construction supervisor, and traveled back and forth to East Hampton to be with his family during those years. In the late 1970s, he started his own steel building company, which soon became Al Bunce and Sons Construction Co. In early 1990, he partnered in the family business of Long Island Coffee Company and Vermont Pure Bottled Water.

In 2006, the business was sold and he and his wife retired to the Villages in Lady Lake to enjoy the warmer weather. “There they met new friends instantly to add to their treasured friends in East Hampton,” his family wrote.

He was always positive, steady, and loyal, his family said. He and his wife traveled many miles over the years to visit their children and to see their grandchildren participate in school sports. The proud grandfather was known to be quite enthusiastic during wrestling matches — all contests for that matter. One of his favorite trips recently was to see his grandson Michael Bunce Jr. play for Team USA in the 21 and under World Rugby Championship in Guyana.

Mr. Bunce loved the beaches of East Hampton, particularly Wiborg’s Beach, where he spent much time with his family when his children were young. He was in East Hampton last year to attend one of his grandson’s weddings and a football game of another grandson. “It was what he lived for and always looked forward to. It was a very happy time for him, the perfect vacation,” his family said.

He was “a father who was always happy, upbeat, and ready for anything and enjoyed everyone in his life and was loyal to his friends,” Kevin Bunce Sr. said. “He was just always there for us.”

His family held a private service in Lady Lake on Oct. 3. A family friend, the Rev. Charlie Rumpel, officiated. Mr. Bunce was cremated and his ashes will be spread off Wiborg’s Beach during a memorial service next year.

Donations in his memory may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis 38105.