William Biase of Montauk died on Feb. 14 at Flower Hospital in Dothan, Ala., where he had been living since 2011. The cause was complications of diabetes. He was 61.

Mr. Biase joined the Marine Corps after high school and, among other places, he served at the 29 Palms Base at the air ground combat center in the high desert of California. He did tank and mobile vehicle research and computer work there, and after his service ended worked for 12 more years for the civilian manufacturer of the equipment at 29 Palms.

He was born at Southampton Hospital on July 2, 1957, to Edna Sorensen and William Biase of Montauk, who died before him. He graduated from the Montauk School and East Hampton High School, where, his family said, he developed a love of music and played in the school band.

Mr. Biase, called Bill by his friends, was married and divorced twice; he did not have children. He returned in 2006 to Montauk after having to retire early because of illness, and left in 2011 for Dothan. He remained active in veterans organizations and was a member of Sons of the American Revolution and the Marine Corps League.

According to his friend Jackie Howell of Enterprise, Ala., he also enjoyed gardening, traveling, history, cooking, and his two dogs. “Bill liked to tell stories about growing up in Montauk, and also about all the places he lived and traveled in, in the Marines,” she said. “He also liked to help people, especially at Christmas, when he would donate to Toys for Tots.”

His mother, Edna Biase, who worked for a time at The Star, was a longtime and active member of the Montauk Community Church, where she was renowned for baking her lemon meringue pies, which Mr. Biase and his sisters loved to eat.

His two sisters, Christine Biase of New York City and Carol Nye of Montauk, died before him. A brother-in-law in Montauk and a niece in East Hampton survive.

There will be a funeral at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday at Sunset Memorial Park Funeral Home in Dothan, followed by burial at Fort Mitchell National Cemetery in Fort Mitchell, Ala.

Memorial donations have been suggested to the Montauk Community Church, P.O. Box 697, Montauk 11954.

Robert Warren Sucsy, a family doctor who practiced in East Hampton for more than 20 years, died at home in Blue Hill, Me., on Jan 9. He was 94 and had been attended in his final days by his wife of 30 years, the former Corinne Byers.

Born on Feb. 21, 1924, in Brooklyn to the former Viola Conrad and Arthur Sucsy, he grew up in Valley Stream and attended the public high school, where he was quarterback of the football team and an accomplished wrestler. 

The parts of his childhood he cherished most were said to be family fishing trips to Maine. 

He attended Amherst College in 1942, but joined the Navy soon after to serve in the war. Deployed to the Philippines as an ensign with Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 33, the boat was poised to invade Japan just as the war ended. 

 Dr. Sucsy received his medical degree from Long Island College of Medicine after his service. While in school, he married Grace Evelyn Valentine. The couple lived first in Colorado, where he was a doctor at the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, and later in Maryland, where he worked at the Aberdeen Proving Ground.

In 1954, they moved to East Hampton. His family said he was known here as a dedicated and tireless physician who often made house calls. He raised his four children in East Hampton after being divorced.

An outdoorsman, Dr. Sucsy loved the woods, and his family said he was most at peace while sitting by a fire in the company of good friends. 

 In 1975, he fufilled his lifelong ambition to live in Maine. He moved to Peter’s Cove in Blue Hill, Me., living full time with his second wife, Judy Morris, whom he had met in East Hampton. The couple moved to Billings Pond Farm, Me., where he married Ms. Byers after his second marriage ended.

In addition to his wife, his children,  Dr. Robert James Sucsy of Newport, R.I., Mark Conrad Sucsy of East Hampton, Peter Valentine Sucsy of Keystone Heights, Fla., and Maral Sucsy Pugh of South Dartmouth, Mass., survive. Nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren survive as well. 

A memorial service will be held at a date to be announced. Condolences can be sent to P.O. Box 701, Blue Hill, Me. 04614. The family has suggested memorial donations to the Blue Hill Public Library, 5 Parker Point Road, Blue Hill, Me. 04614.

Albert C. Riggs Jr., a businessman and historian who collected old boats, cars, and houses, died at home in Santa Fe, N.M., on Jan. 13. He was 94 and had been a Sag Harbor resident for 20 years. 

An Army veteran who served during World War II, he remained on active duty for 20 years. He graduated from Harvard University before the war, and he returned afterward to earn a master’s degree in business. 

Around that time, he married Frances Louise Craven, his childhood sweetheart, and the couple had three children. They divorced in 1968. 

Mr. Riggs held executive positions at Hazelton Labs and the National Health Lab. 

  While living in Washington, D.C., and New York, he and Ellen Keiser, his companion for many years, lived on his favorite wood boat, Applejack. Later, he bought and restored a house in Sag Harbor, where he lived before moving to Santa Fe in 2014 to be closer to his daughter, Katherine Riggs.

Born on April 2, 1924, in Bellingham, Wash., to the former Esther Larsen and Albert Riggs Sr., he was known for his keen intelligence and love of history. He contributed personal archival materials on J.J. Donovan, an early community leader in Bellingham who had been a friend of his family, to Western Washington University. His passion for collecting old things turned him into an expert Dumpster diver, his family said. 

In addition to his daughter, he is survived by two granddaughters and two great-grandchildren. His ex-wife and two sons, Ted Riggs and Chuck Riggs, died before him. 

A private memorial ceremony will be held when Mr. Riggs’s ashes are dispersed at Bellingham Bay.

‘When Barbara Lee Clark went into the hospital not long ago, her daughter Heather Reylek had to smile when she came to the question on the paperwork she was filling out that asked when her 95-year-old mother retired. 

“I said, ‘Retired?’ She’s still working, what’s ‘retired?’ ” Mrs. Reylek said. “To the day she died, she was still a registered insurance agent and she was still working for Amaden Gay. She’d still do the training every year and get the checks. She still had her customers.” 

Mrs. Clark, who was known as Buzzy, was also a fan of the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle and active in civic causes throughout her life in addition to being a wife, career woman, and mother of seven children. She died on Jan. 20 at home on Shelter Island of complications of colon cancer.

Mrs. Clark was born on Sept. 3, 1923, in Brooklyn to John Beith Smith Jr. and the former Elna Margretha Kolstad. She graduated from Richmond Hill High School before attending the Juilliard School for vocal training and the New School for Social Research. 

She was working as a secretary at the Pan American Airlines offices in the Chrysler Building in Manhattan when she found her way to eastern Long Island one summer with some Brooklyn friends who were vacationing here.

She and her friends chose some lodging on Shelter Island, at what is now Camp Quinipet, and it was there that she met her future husband, Robert Arthur (Bucky) Clark. They were married on Sept. 12, 1948, and spent the early years of their married life in Locust Valley, where Mr. Clark worked on a private yacht before returning to his native Shelter Island at the request of his parents, who were longtime caretakers of what is now the Mashomack Preserve when it was still a private estate. They eventually bought a piece of land near Taylor’s Island in Mashomack, and it was there that the couple raised their family while Mr. Clark continued his work as a yachtsman, caretaker, fisherman, and charter boat captain. He died in 2000. They lived intermittently over the years at Mashomack’s manor house, overseeing the property “both when it was a private estate and during the time when it operated as a private hunting club,” her family wrote.

Mrs. Clark returned to the work force after her children were in school. She was employed at Rowe Industries for many years and later became a licensed insurance broker with the Amaden Gay Agencies in East Hampton. 

She was a founding member of the Shelter Island branch of the League of Women Voters, and belonged to numerous other groups, including the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 281, the Shelter Island Coecles Harbor Association, and several choirs and choral societies.

Mrs. Clark’s love of the arts and civic engagement endured throughout her life, much like her love of her careers. She was a loyal visitor to the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn., and a dedicated international traveler to spots as far-flung as Thailand, Cuba, Spain, and Argentina. She faithfully donated money to progressive causes such as Doctors Without Borders, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Planned Parenthood. 

She is survived by her children, Virginia Ann Garbowski of Hampton Bays,   Patricia Ann Hurley of Naples, Fla., and Mrs. Reylek, Wendy Sanwald, John Fulton Clark, Keith Robert Clark, and Andrew Albertus Clark, all of Shelter Island. She is also survived by 14 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Clark’s memorial service was held at the Shelter Island Presbyterian Church on Saturday. At her request, her cremated remains were mingled with those of her late husband and her late father. 

Since Mrs. Clark supported so many progressive causes and the arts, the family has suggested donations in her memory to a like-minded organization of the donor’s choice.

Of the many notable things he did in his life after growing up in the small town of Paxton, Mass., Robert T. Griffin always said one of his earliest accomplishments remained among his proudest: He became the first member of his family to graduate from college when he completed his degree at Holy Cross in 1969. 

After serving two years in the Army, Mr. Griffin launched his 14-year career with Aetna. He spent the next 28 years with Paine Webber and the UBS financial services firm, where he was a vice president.

Mr. Griffin and his wife, Eileen Morris, were married on Dec. 7, 2016, and maintained residences in East Hampton and Stuart, Fla., where he died of cancer at home on Jan. 11. He was 71. 

It was Ms. Morris, a 40-year resident of East Hampton Village, who introduced Mr. Griffin to East Hampton 18 years ago. “When we were there, we loved doing all the things people there love to do,” Ms. Morris said. “We played golf, we loved the beach, we loved being able to walk into town to go to the movies and Guild Hall. We had a lot of family we visited in the area.” 

Mr. Griffin was born on Aug. 28, 1947, to C. Robert Griffin and Dorothy Jule Griffin in Worcester, Mass. He is survived by a brother, John Griffin of Spencer, Mass., and was predeceased by his other brother, Ricky Griffin.

He is also survived by a son, Christopher Griffin of San Diego, two stepdaughters, Kelly Morris of Santa Fe, N.M., and Hillary Heidelberg of Palm City, Fla., and a stepson, Whitten Morris of Brooklyn. He leaves one granddaughter and four step-grandchildren.

A funeral Mass was celebrated on Jan. 16 at St. Andrew Catholic Church in Stuart. Mr. Griffin was cremated. A remembrance of his life will be held for family and friends on March 12 in Stuart at the Morris-Griffin family home.

The family has suggested memorial donations to Treasure Coast Hospice, 1201 S.E. Indian Street, Stuart, Fla. 34997.

Edward Henry Arnold, a civil engineer who helped construct the Delaware Aqueduct for the New York Board of Water Supply, died of primary myelofibrosis at home in San Antonio, Tex., on Monday. A frequent summer resident of Montauk, he was 92. 

Born on Dec. 22, 1926, in Mount Vernon to the former Clara Nellie Plume and Charles Frederick Arnold, he graduated from Isaac E. Young High School in New Rochelle, where he was captain of the stage crew and a member of the track team. 

During his senior year in 1944, he enlisted as an aviation cadet in the Naval Reserve, and completed the Navy’s accelerated one-year college-training program at Wesleyan University. 

He went on to study engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he joined the Navy’s R.O.T.C. program. After spending five weeks at a Navy training center, he became a seaman second class on the U.S.S. Oklahoma City CL-91 stationed in San Francisco.

He received an honorable discharge from the Navy in 1946, and returned to Rensselaer, where he completed two bachelor’s degrees, one in science and one in civil engineering, over the following two years.

After graduating, he received a commission in the Navy as an ensign in the Civil Engineer Corps. He also obtained a private pilot’s license. 

While working on the Delaware Aqueduct, he lived in a boarding house in Claryville, where he met Marion Griffing, an Amagansett native and a teacher, who would become his wife of 68 years. The couple raised a family of five in Kinderhook, N.Y. 

He traveled to Turkey in 1950 to help reconstruct a coal mine, and the following year he was recalled to military service during the Korean War. He and his wife were stationed in Adak, Alaska. 

Over the course of his military career, he received the American Defense Service Medal, the World War II Victory Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, and the Naval Reserve Medal. 

After being released from active duty in 1953, he worked as an engineer for various companies, including Texaco. 

While living in Kinderhook, he served as a member of the planning board, the zoning board of appeals, the zoning commission, and as town engineer. He was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, and the Kinderhook Elks Lodge 2530. 

He also started a surveying business out of his home, which he ran for 30 years. By the time he retired, he had covered nearly every foot of Columbia County, his family said. 

During his time in Montauk, he loved to hike along the dunes, swim in the ocean, sail, and fish. He also loved to ski, make movies on the computer, explore the Catskill Mountains, and meticulously maintain his lawn with his John Deere tractor. 

He is survived by his wife, and five children, Patricia Buss of McLean, Va., Gray Kendrick of San Antonio, Laurie Arnold of Denver, Amy Gumaer of Chevy Chase, Md., and Kurt Arnold of East Greenbush, N.Y. Three brothers, Richard Arnold of Prescott, Ariz., Robert Arnold of Coral Springs, Fla., and Kenneth Arnold of St. Augustine Shores, Fla., and six grandchildren also survive. His eldest brother, Charles, died before him. 

A memorial service will be held at the Kinderhook Reformed Church at a later date. The family suggests memorial contributions to the church at kinderhookreformedchurch.com.

Lyndon Wood English, a computer programmer in the early days of the science, died of Alzheimer’s disease at his San Diego home on Feb. 5. Raised in East Hampton Village, he was 73 and had been ill for several years. 

He was born on March 29, 1945, to the former Evelyn Cleaves and Lyndon W. English Sr., who was killed in action in World War II shortly after his Army unit reached France. The younger Lyndon was born at Southampton Hospital a few months after his father’s death.

Known to friends as Lyn, he graduated from East Hampton High School, where he was a standout player of Bonackers basketball, in 1963 and received a degree in computer technology from Michigan State University in 1968. He remained a fan of the university’s basketball and football teams throughout his life. He loved to watch their games on television, and had traveled as far as Maui to cheer them on in person. 

In 1967, he married Marilynn Golcar. The couple raised two children in Michigan until, after tiring of shoveling snow, they moved to Del Mar, near San Diego. They divorced in 1980.

Mr. English worked as a computer technician for several San Diego businesses, including PSA Airlines, and was also a part-time real estate agent.

While visiting his mother, Cleavie, in East Hampton in 1996, he met Teresa Cuomo, a teacher at the Amagansett elementary school, whom he would marry three years later. They split their time between the East End and the West Coast, and loved to travel to exotic locales, play bridge, take bicycle rides, and go dancing.

He was a marathon runner, a golfer, he loved to play the stock market, and he had a laugh that was contagious. 

He is survived by his wife, Teresa English, two daughters, Kimberly Kuhn of Cary, N.C., and Koreen English of Fuquay-Varina, N.C. Two stepchildren, Ian Mannino of Sag Harbor and Sara Mannino Kent, of Southampton also survive, as do seven grandchildren. 

A gathering will be held on March 16 in San Diego, followed by a graveside service at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton on May 4. 

The family has suggested donations to Kindred Hospice at curohealthservices.com or the Alzheimer’s Association at alz.org.

Madeline Boddy, a bookkeeper and office manager at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk for many years, died on Jan. 22 at St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown. She was surrounded by family, with her granddaughter, Aria Kelly, holding her hand. “She went on her own terms,” her family wrote, “and had a ‘no frills’ cremation in accordance with her wishes.” She was 87, and had been in good health until just a few weeks before her death; indeed, she had only last year retired from her position at the church, where she had been a familiar and welcoming presence for decades. 

A funeral Mass will be said on Feb. 23 at noon at St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church in Ronkonkoma, with Father Mike Rieder, formerly of St. Therese, presiding. A memorial will follow from 1 to 4 p.m. “to celebrate this lovely lady,” her family wrote, adding that “all are invited, all are welcome.”

Ms. Boddy was born in Brooklyn on Nov. 30, 1931, to Angelo Nicholes and the former Mary Piacente. “She has been a die-hard New Yorker ever since,” her family said, “just ask the State of Arizona, where she lived for only six months before coming back.”

The eldest of four children, Madeline started sewing at an early age, making many of her own clothes. After graduating from high school, she worked for stores such as Henri Bendel and Martin’s, and at Butterick Fashions, where she met her future husband, Kenneth H. Boddy, through mutual friends. She later started her own shop in Greenwich Village, the Green Frog, where she made and sold children’s clothing. 

Madeline Nicholes was married to Kenneth H. Boddy in 1956. He was “the greatest of all people,” her family wrote. They began visiting the East End and in 1959 bought the third buildable lot on West Lake Drive in Montauk. The house they built there still stands. “Montauk brought both of them great joy, as did many generations of Boston terriers, who would fog up the windows on the ride out there every weekend from Queens.”

Their daughter, Claudia, was born in 1972, “and this dynamic duo became a trio,” the family said. 

After Mr. Boddy died, Ms. Boddy moved to Montauk full time. The house “has been home to countless pets, hearty meals, boisterous renditions of Sinatra, and a total of four generations of strong (crazy) Italian women at the same time,” her family wrote. “It was always loud and always warm, which is exactly how they liked it.”

Ms. Boddy worked at St. Therese of Lisieux for the past 25 years. She also volunteered her time in any church role through which she felt she could be of service. 

She finally retired in 2018, at the urging of her family, who told her she could finally take it easy. “This was not met with agreement,” they wrote. “She was stubborn, she was abrasive, she was intimidating, she was tenacious, she was witty, she was a force of nature, and she will be missed.”

In addition to her granddaughter, she is survived by her daughter, Claudia Boddy of Arizona, and by her sisters, Helene Rice of Florida and Rosemarie Hintz of New Hyde Park. Her “prized possession” was her beloved Jack Russell, Petey, “ a.k.a. Schnikelfritz, who has now retired to happily live out the rest his days with his human sister,” her granddaughter wrote.

Herbert G. Wiegand and Carolyn Leary first met in Conway, N.H., a town in the Mount Washington Valley ski area where Mr. Wiegand had taken a job and Ms. Leary was visiting to contemplate whether she wanted to make a career change from a job at a Boston TV station. 

Ms. Leary had been to Cape Cod and taken family vacations from her hometown of Wakefield, Mass., to Maine as a girl, but when Mr. Wiegand took her to Montauk for the first time, she turned to him and said, “I can see why you love it here.”

The affection for the area endured throughout their lives.

The couple were married on May 3, 1975, and raised four children together, three of them from his first marriage. They later came to own a Wiegand family house near Montauk Point where they often stayed. In addition to their shared love of swimming in the ocean — “It’s warmer in Montauk,” Mrs. Wiegand said with a laugh yesterday, Mr. Wiegand also enjoyed gardening and bowling, tennis and baseball. They continued skiing after they were married, too, sometimes traveling as far as Germany, Switzerland, and France to do so.

Mr. Wiegand, 91, died in Littleton, Mass., last Thursday of cancer.

A burial and a graveside service for him will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Fort Hill Cemetery in Montauk. 

He was born in New York City on June 19, 1927, to Frederick Wiegand and the former Gertrude Domming and grew up in White Plains, N.Y. In addition to his wife, he is survived by four children, Kenneth Wiegand of Allendale, N.J., Trudi Puffer of Lee, N.H., Lisa Ferguson of Jupiter, Fla., and Kurt Wiegand of Trumbull, Conn., and by six grandchildren.

Mr. Wiegand earned a degree in electrical engineering from Denver University, where he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. He spent most of his career working for various companies in the nuclear power industry. He was also a World War II veteran who served in the Navy from 1944 to 1946.

The family has suggested donation to the American Macular Degeneration Foundation, P.O. Box 515, Northampton, Mass. 01061.

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Correction: An earlier version of this obituary misstated where Mr. Wiegand died. He died in Littleton, Mass., not Manhattan.

Ethel Kennedy Marran, a longtime summer resident of East Hampton who had been a member of the Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett, died on Saturday at her home in Vero Beach, Fla., surrounded by family, caregivers, and her loyal canine companion, Mister Dog. She died of complications of Alzheimer’s disease. She was 89. 

A proud feminist and progressive thinker, Mrs. Marran inspired and supported women through educational and health programs, her family said. Her daughter Elizabeth Marran described her as a quiet, simple, self-reliant woman.

“Though soft-spoken, she had a dry sense of humor that brought smiles to those around her. A woman who showed great ambition and determination throughout her life, Ethel was loved by many and will be deeply missed,” her family said in an obituary. 

She was born in Brooklyn on June 12, 1929, to John R. Kennedy and the former Ethel R. Leavy. She grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, and spent summers in Bayport. Her family moved to Tenafly, N.J. just as she graduated from Mount Saint Vincent High School. She went on to graduate from Marymount College in Tarrytown. 

At 25, Miss Kennedy married William R. Marran, and together they would raise six children. She enjoyed teaching first grade at Blue Point Elementary School for the first several years of their marriage, until 1958. Later, she pursued her passion for designing and building homes and was a partner in Marran Building Designs. She and her husband began buying property in Amagansett East, now Beach Hampton; he was the contractor, she the designer. Some they kept as rental properties, others they sold. 

“Her architecture reflected modern and practical solutions for busy parents,” her family said, describing how her role as a mother informed her work life. “Ethel’s homes were also welcoming and nurturing spaces and she always had extra potatoes for any last-minute visitors.”

The couple lived in Patchogue for a short period, then Bayport before moving to Cold Spring Harbor, where they lived until 1987. In her younger days, she loved sailing and touch football. In her later years, she enjoyed tennis, bicycling, and walking on the beach. On Long Island she was a member of the Sayville Yacht Club, and in Florida she belonged to the John’s Island Club. 

The Marrans spent summers as renters in Amagansett before buying her parents’ house on Pudding Hill Lane in the 1970s. While she wintered in Vero Beach, she returned to East Hampton with the sun, gathering with her children and grandchildren.

Mrs. Marran is survived by five of her six children: Elizabeth Marran of Boston, Lynn Marran of Fullerton, Calif., Jack Marran of Vero Beach, Laura Marran of San Diego, and Paul Marran of London. She is also survived by 11 grandchildren. A brother, Quentin Kennedy of Tenafly, also survives.

A son, William R. Marran III, and her husband of 50 years, William R. Marran II, died before her.

A burial service will be held tomorrow morning at 11 at the John’s Island Cemetery, followed by a lunch at the family home.

Her family suggested memorial donations to two causes she held dear: Planned Parenthood, which supports women’s health and education, at 123 William Street, 10th Floor, New York 10038; or the Indian River Boys and Girls Club of Vero Beach, 1729 17th Avenue, Vero Beach, Fla. 32960.