George C. Kamper of Southampton, the founder of GCK Enterprises, a construction company, died of cancer on Friday at Stony Brook University Hospital. He was 56, and had been ill for nine months. 

Born on Dec. 8, 1962, in New York City to Costas Kamper and the former Mary Tsapos, he grew up in the Bayside neighborhood of Queens.

After graduating from high school and trade school, he moved to the East End, where he began his career in construction. He went on to build more than 300 homes in the area. 

He was an animal lover, he collected classic cars, and he was an enthusiastic boater.  

He is survived by his mother, Mary Kamper of Sag Harbor, a daughter, Samantha Kamper of New York City, a son, Alexander Kamper of Providence, R.I., and a brother, Ted Kamper of Queens. 

A memorial service will be held on Sunday at noon at the Bell and Anchor restaurant in Noyac. Father Constantine Lazarakis of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Hamptons, in Southampton, will attend. 

The family has suggested donations to Fighting Chance, a Sag Harbor cancer counseling center, at fightingchance.org.

Leonard L. Cooper of East Hampton, the owner of Cooper Sandblast, who had cancer and had been ill for several years, died on Sunday at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton. He was 75. 

Known as Bit, Mr. Cooper was born on Dec. 17, 1943, in Salinas, Calif., to the former Rita Lester and Dr. Francis L. Cooper. He attended elementary and high school in East Hampton and graduated from Cheshire Academy in Connecticut. 

In 1962, he joined the Marines and served for four years. He then earned a degree from Southampton College. 

Mr. Cooper was a lifelong member and an elder of the East Hampton Presbyterian Church for many years. He was also a member and a former president of the East Hampton Lions Club. 

His wife, Andrea Daniels Cooper, two sons, Peter Cooper and Thomas Cooper, both of East Hampton, a twin brother, Robert Cooper of East Hampton, a sister, Frances Cooper Hirsh of Slidell, La., and four grandsons survive. 

A memorial service will be held at the Presbyterian Church on Wednesday at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Scot McCachren officiating.

The family has suggested memorial donations for the church, 120 Main Street, East Hampton 11937.

Laura Anne Krupinski, the daughter of the late Ben and Bonnie Krupinski, died on Monday in Hampton Bays, where she lived. She was 53. A funeral will be held at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton on Saturday at 10 a.m., followed by a graveside service. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Mary Holland Miller, a retired Springs School teacher who became a key figure in understanding the archaeology of East Hampton Town, died on Jan. 22 in Marlborough, Mass. She was 86.

Ms. Miller was born in Squantum, part of Quincy, Mass., on Aug. 7, 1932, the daughter of Walter Holland and the former Margaret Haines.

Also known as Lois and Dutchie or Dutch, Mrs. Miller was both a teacher and a student throughout her life, her family said. She attended North Quincy High School and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University in Massachusetts. She moved to Amagansett in 1965 and from there to East Hampton in 1967.

After teaching fifth grade for many years at the Springs School, she moved to Virginia Beach, Va., where she earned a master’s degree at Atlantic University and went on to travel in Mexico, Egypt, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, and eventually to her beloved Ireland.

She was “fortunate to be able to pursue many of her varied interests, engaging in each with passion and vigor. She lived a full life, surrounded by things she loved,” her family said.

For many years, Ms. Miller conducted archaeological work in East Hampton. Among the projects she worked on were a Native American living site at Georgica Pond and Colonial structures in Northwest Woods, sometimes getting volunteer assistance from her students and former students.

Ms. Miller helped form the Sebonac Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association, which functioned for 10 years as an arm of the East Hampton Town Planning Department.

In the mid-1970s and early-1980s, builders were not required to alert a municipality when artifacts were found. However, the chapter was able to gain the cooperation of developers at various places around town, including at Three Mile Harbor in East Hampton and Culloden Point in Montauk, as well as produce survey maps of potential archaeological sites of the entire Town of East Hampton.

“It’s the knowledge that the artifacts bring, not the artifacts themselves, that makes archaeology so interesting,” Ms. Miller said in a 1978 interview in The East Hampton Star.

At one site where Ms. Miller worked, the Terry farm in Northwest, overlooking Alewife Brook Road, the team found a 1,000-year-old Native American site under two layers of 18th-century habitation.

In 1983, a housing development was planned for Fort Hill in Montauk overlooking Fort Pond Bay. The bulldozers had begun to roll when Indian burial remains were unearthed. Native Americans in full ceremonial dress visited Town Hall in protest.

The project was stopped when town officials found a town law that prohibited the disturbance of any abandoned cemetery. The town fathers who approved the ordinance might not have had Indian graves in mind, but the law slowed the subdivision application. Eventually the town condemned the land, and the sacred place became present-day town-managed Fort Hill Cemetery.

Not long after, with the help of Ms. Miller, Larry Penny of the Town Natural Resources Department, and State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., who was an East Hampton planning board attorney at the time, the town pressed for including protection of archaeological sites when the local version of the new State Environmental Quality Review Act, or SEQRA, was created.

From that point on, whenever a project required a review for a special permit on environmental grounds, a search for historically significant items was required. If the state’s map of archaeologically sensitive areas indicated such finds were likely, the developer was then required to hire a contract archaeologist to do cursory “shovel tests.” If these indicated the presence of artifacts or features, a more extensive search was generally required.

Her first husband, Lt. Junior Grade Henry LeRoy Miller of East Hampton, died on Nov. 16, 1956, when the Navy aircraft he was aboard crashed near Atmore, Ala. They had married on June 15, 1954, in Squantum.

Ms. Miller, who had lived on Conklin Terrace in East Hampton Village, is survived by her daughter, Lanelle Miller Jalowiec of Quechee, Vt., and her two sons, Will Van Hazel of Los Angeles and Henry LeRoy Miller, Jr. of Lafayette, Colo.

The life of Dennis James Snyder will be celebrated with a 10:30 a.m. Mass at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk on Sunday, a year after his death of heart failure in Florida. A gathering will follow at the Montauk Fire Department on Flamingo Avenue, and all will be welcomed, Mr. Snyder’s family said.

Mr. Snyder, who was 57, died of heart failure on March 10, 2018, at the Wuesthoff Medical Center in Rockledge, Fla. He was cremated. 

Mr. Snyder was a diesel mechanic and heavy-equipment operator by trade. He loved to go to the Riverhead Raceway to watch the stock cars roar around the track or race his No. 38 car himself, just as his father had raced before him. But Mr. Snyder’s greatest passions, besides his family, were the Montauk Fire Department and striking up conversations with whomever he met.

“Dennis never met a stranger,” Maureen Mooney, his younger sister by two years, said with a laugh this week. “When he still lived in Montauk he used to say to me, ‘C’mon, let’s go to the deli and grab a cup of coffee real quick.’ And it would be two and half hours before we were heading back home. He’d be asking everybody, ‘How is your father doing? What can I do? What can I do to help you?’ ”

“We used to call him the mayor of Montauk. It was the same after he moved to Florida. I lived there 30 years and he knew more people in the two years he was there.” 

Ms. Mooney said because of other illnesses and losses in their extended family, her brother’s memorial service in Montauk was delayed until this week because “I wanted to give him a proper service there. He loved being part of the Montauk community.”

Mr. Snyder was born in Far Rockaway on Oct. 11, 1960, to Harry Peter Snyder Jr. and the former Marilyn Ann Walsh. He attended St. Mary Star of the Sea School and Far Rockaway High School, where he was chosen football captain. 

He married Nancy Ann McMahon, who survives him, on July 14, 1985, and they moved to her native Montauk, where they spent the next 32 years. He eventually rose from firefighter to chief at the Fire Department. Late in his life he used to joke that he always carried a set of rosary beads as “insurance.”

In addition to his wife and sister, who lives in Pawtucket, R.I., he is survived by a daughter, Jennifer Lynn Snyder, also of Pawtucket, a son, David James Snyder of Montville, Ohio, and his mother, Marilyn Hutchison. He is also survived by two brothers, Richard Snyder of Inwood and Thomas Snyder of East Hampton, and another sister, Elizabeth Gruen of Palm Bay, Fla.

When Amy Sheree Parker was a child, she loved floral design and singing in the choir at Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton, where her mother, Queen Davis-Parks, served as a deacon. Throughout her life, Ms. Parker’s connection with her mother remained especially strong. 

The two of them enjoyed shopping together and watching TV shows such as “Touched by an Angel.” After Ms. Parker’s health struggles accelerated last year following open-heart surgery, she asked her sister, Aleta Williams, to make her a pie — and not just any pie. She wanted some serious comfort food.

“She wanted a sweet potato pie from my [late] mother’s recipe, which I had,” said Ms. Williams, who lives in Washington, D.C. “I sent it to her with her daughter and she called me and said, ‘It tastes just like Mom used to make!’ — which I took to mean it was a pretty good pie.”

Ms. Parker, who was 50, died on Friday of complications of the flu and heart failure at Southampton Hospital. She was born on July 30, 1968, in Southampton, grew up in East Hampton, and most recently lived in Calverton. She graduated from East Hampton High School in 1986.

She is survived by her fiancé, Rodney Brumsey, and her children, Blake Parker and Dayshawn Boynton, both of East Hampton, and Azaria Davis of Alexandria, Va. She is also survived by her stepfather, Leon Parks, and her stepmother, Patricia Gill-Parks, both of Southampton, and by her father, James Parker of Hampton, Va. 

In addition to her sister, she leaves a brother, Chris Parker of East Hampton, a stepbrother, Gregory Parks of Winston-Salem, N.C., and a stepsister, Tiffany Parks of Laurel, Md.

Ms. Parker was cremated. The family intends to bury her ashes with those of her mother.

A memorial service will be held on April 7 at 1:30 p.m. at Triune Baptist Church in Sag Harbor, the congregation she belonged to at the time of her death.

Frank Paul Kennedy, a retired member of East Hampton Town Marine Patrol who responded to in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, with the East Hampton Town Police Department, died last Thursday in Hospice of Health First in Palm Bay, Fla. He suffered from a 9/11-related cancer for seven years, his family said. He was 61.

Mr. Kennedy was among 11 town officers who responded to a New York Police Department request for help from law enforcement personnel in the days after the attacks on the World Trade Center. The men spent 36 hours helping to secure a perimeter.

As recently as last month in a letter to the editor in The Star, Mr. Kennedy wrote about his illness, saying that he was diagnosed with a cancer that New York State, the Social Security Administration, and the U.S. Department of Justice have attributed to the toxins present at the Ground Zero site. In the letter, he wrote of his regrets — none of which included going to Ground Zero. But, he said, he was saddened that officials in the Town of East Hampton had never acknowledged his illness.

In an email to this writer on Sept. 11, 2018, Mr. Kennedy wrote: “The heroes that died on 9/11 should never be forgotten, nor should the fire, and law enforcement officers that are passing away on a daily basis. I will be among them shortly. Although many people in town government know of my plight I have never received any recognition. I am bitter about this after serving and honorably retiring from the Marine Patrol. I do not claim to be a hero, rather I’m someone who did his job and would do it again knowing the outcome.”

He followed up by saying he hoped his illness would somehow be recognized for the sake of his wife, Shelby, and his son, Ian.

Mr. Kennedy was born in Queens on Sept. 3, 1957, to Francis Kennedy and the former Gloria Ferretti. He grew up in Massapequa Park. He graduated from Saint John the Baptist High School in West Islip in 1975, and joined the Navy, serving from 1976 to 1982 on the carrier John F. Kennedy as an antisubmarine technician.

It was on a blind date in Virginia Beach while he was in in the Navy that he met the former Shelby Weaver, whom he would go on to marry on Aug. 28, 1982.

After he retired from the Navy, he worked for a time as a broker on Wall Street, but he found he wasn’t a white-collar worker, his wife said. He became a deputy sheriff in Orange County, N.Y., where they lived for three years before moving to Springs. His parents had a house here and he had spent time surfing in Montauk as a teen. The couple raised their son in Springs.

In the early 1990s, Mr. Kennedy was hired as a part-time Marine Patrol officer, a job that eventually became full time. He rose to the rank of senior harbormaster, wearing sergeant stripes.

Ed Michels, the chief harbormaster, worked with Mr. Kennedy directly and said it was a big loss when Mr. Kennedy retired in 2010. “He was a valued member of Marine Patrol, very competent, a very good harbormaster.” He called him a “go-to guy.”

East Hampton Town Police Chief Michael Sarlo remembered Mr. Kennedy as part of the department’s deployment to New York City on Sept. 11. “He was a very nice guy who truly enjoyed the job,” he said.

Eddie Ecker, the former town police chief, said he worked with Mr. Kennedy when he was a Marine Patrol officer and when he was assigned to the town’s code enforcement housing task force. “He was always ready to pitch in and help out,” he recalled.

Friends may recall he enjoyed riding motorcycles, classic cars, and cheering on the New York Giants and Mets — he was an avid fan, his wife said.

In addition to his wife, who lives in Florida, and his son, who lives in Charleston, W.V., his siblings, Kevin Kennedy of Lindenhurst, Neil Kennedy of East Islip, and Kathleen Byrne of Mill Valley, Calif, survive. Three grandchildren also survive. He also leaves behind Indi, a 15-month-old golden retriever that he spoiled.

Mr. Kennedy was cremated. His ashes will be dispersed at a service at sea aboard a Navy vessel.

His family suggested memorial contributions in his name to the American Legion Post 419’s book scholarship fund or for a Sept. 11 memorial being constructed at the Legion property. The address is P.O. Box 1343, East Hampton 11937. 

Christopher Stuart Taylor, a boat builder who most recently worked at Three Mile Harbor Marina in East Hampton, died of a heart attack on Feb. 1 at Southampton Hospital. He was 46. 

Mr. Taylor attended Union County College in New Jersey for a time, but was drawn to the water and left to move to Buell Lane in East Hampton. 

Here he worked in residential construction and renovations until 2003, when he shifted to boat building, inspired, perhaps, by an uncle, David Clark, who was a boat builder in Rhode Island. He was also close with two other uncles, Paul Harvey and Bruce Harvey, who were commercial fishermen in Rhode Island. 

At Coecles Harbor Marina on Shelter Island, he built motor yachts, some as large as 57 feet. He started working for Three Mile Harbor Marina in 2017, and kept his own boat there, a 24-foot Jones center console. He enjoyed both rod and fly-fishing. 

Born on May 1, 1972, in Livingston, N.J., to Jeffrey Stuart Taylor and the former Linda Harvey, he grew up in Chatham Township, N.J., and graduated from high school there. 

Mr. Taylor is survived by his mother, who lives in East Hampton, a brother, Jonathan Taylor of Hamburg, N.J., and a niece and a nephew. 

Services were private. His family has suggested memorial contributions to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton, at stlukeseasthampton.org.

Audra Schutte Balcuns, who had been a public safety dispatcher for East Hampton Village and a volunteer emergency medical technician with the Springs Fire Department, died at home in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., on Feb. 20. Ms. Balcuns, who was 47, had Lyme disease and dysautonomia, an autonomic nervous system disorder, for four years. 

She had recently relocated to New Smyrna Beach with her husband, Michael Balcuns, to be closer to her mother, June Tilley, formerly of Springs. “It was there, when feeling better, that she ignited her passion for horses and volunteered at a rescue horse farm,” her family wrote. Not only did she love horses, but “she was rarely seen without her constant companion, Freddy, an adorable French bulldog,” they said. 

She also took great pride in decorating her house and loved to find treasures at yard sales. 

Ms. Balcuns was born in Southampton on Jan. 5, 1972, to Terry Schutte and the former June Rogers. She grew up in Springs and graduated from East Hampton High School. 

She and Mr. Balcuns were married on Sept. 13, 2013. 

In addition to her husband and mother, Ms. Balcuns is survived by her father, who lives in Port St. Lucie, Fla., a daughter, Ashley Helstowski of New Haven, Conn., and by her siblings Linda Platt of Hampton Bays, Nancy Sarris of East Hampton, Kim Settle of Clayton, N.C., and Patrick Schutte of Southold, and many nieces and nephews. A fourth sister, Susan Tiska, died before her.

A private service was held in Florida, and a memorial will take place in East Hampton in the future. Her family has suggested donations in her name to Dysautonomia International, P.O. Box 596, East Moriches 11940.

Beatrice Joy Petullo, who had worked in the pharmacy at White’s Drug Store in Montauk and been a housekeeper at the Sail Inn in the hamlet for the last eight years, where a celebration of her life is to take place at a later date, died at her Montauk home on Feb. 11. She was 68 and reportedly took her own life. 

“She always had a smile and a hello for everybody,” a friend, Sunny Vigilant, said. “She was a very private person, and led a simple life, but she had a supportive circle of friends that she loved dearly, and we loved her.” 

Born on March 21, 1950, in Montclair, N.J., to Angela and Angelo Petullo, she grew up in Northport and attended the elementary school of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in East Northport. She later lived in Huntington.

Two sons, Thomas Nauke and John Nauke, both of New York City, a brother, Jim Petullo of Florida, and a sister, Phyllis Petullo of Virginia, survive.