Winifred Irene McKinney of Indialantic, Fla., who had led a peripatetic life  living abroad as a stewardess and traveling, died on Aug. 6 at an assisted living facility in Florida. She was 95 and had been in good health until the last year and a half.

Ms. McKinney was known to her friends in Montauk as Wini. She came to Montauk in the 1970s after her brother, Roy Norman, built the Port Royal Hotel and Shipwreck restaurant. She lived there till 1995, when she moved to Florida.

She was born in Windsor, Ontario, in Canada, on Sept. 30, 1922, the oldest of four children of Harry Norman and the former Winifred Hartley, who were British immigrants. She grew up in Niagara Falls.

Ms. McKinney drew maps in the cartography department of the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II, her family said, later becoming a stewardess for the British Overseas Airways Corporation. She married a Trans World Airlines pilot, Thomas Morgan, and they lived in London but later divorced. Her second husband was Alexander McKinney, a Pan Am executive. They lived in Paris and also divorced.

Her family said that good food and animals were among Ms. McKinney’s interests. In Montauk, she loved the beach, “ocean and bayside both,” they said. While living in Indialantic, she volunteered at Holy Name of Jesus, a Catholic beachside community.

Two sons, Thomas Morgan and Stephen McKinney, both of Marin County, Calif., survive, as do three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Even though she was the oldest of three siblings, they died before her. 

Ms. McKinney was cremated. Her sons are planning a memorial in San Francisco. They suggested memorial donations to the A.S.P.C.A., P.O. Box 96929, Washington, D.C. 20090-6929.

Robert McKinny Barnes, an architect and longtime resident of eastern Long Island, died on Sept. 30 after returning from a trip to Italy and France. He was 68. He collapsed while exercising at a gym in New York City and was rushed to New York Presbyterian Medical Center where he was pronounced dead of an apparent heart attack. A funeral for him was held on Saturday, at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton. 

Together with Christopher Coy, his lifelong friend, Mr. Barnes founded Barnes Coy Architects in 1993. In their 25-year collaboration, Barnes and Coy completed more than 250 projects and developed an approach to architecture grounded in the iconic sources of 20th-century design, from Frank Lloyd Wright to Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, and Marcel Breuer, and with an emphasis on site, natural materials, surface texture, and light. Their houses were minimal and responsive to the environment and the immediate surroundings. While most of their projects were on eastern Long Island, the firm also had work in California, Colorado, Georgia, Florida, St. Bart’s, and Costa Rica. 

All of their architecture, whether here or around the world, was said to be grounded in the spirit of place and a response to light, water, and natural topography. The curving facade of an 11,000-square-foot house in Water Mill, for example, echoes the concave setback line from the wetlands that surround a small pond, while the opposite side of the house opens to the Atlantic Ocean with hovering, box-like bays that run parallel to the site’s coastal erosion hazard line. 

Although they built commercial and institutional projects, the architects came to specialize in single-family residences, one-of-a-kind dream houses for affluent clients that expressed a casual and intimate relationship with sea, sky, and individual lifestyles. Except for a brief period in the retro-1980s and ’90s, when they were financially obliged to dabble in the postmodern historicism that crept over the Hamptons, they otherwise stayed true to their roots in the modern movement. 

But theirs had never been a static form of modernism. Much of the work has a restless shifting of planes, rotation, hovering volumes penetrating other volumes, ethereal moments of flotation set in contrast to the sometimes anxious shifting of axis, and the use of contrasting forms in the tradition of late Cubism and Purism, in which the curvilinear unsettles the rectilinear. (Mr. Barnes was never afraid of exploiting the dynamism of a curve.) 

 Without exaggerating or falling into sentimental cliché, it’s tempting to draw parallel lines between the architecture and the multifaceted personality of an architect. There was always a kind of wildness in Robert Barnes’s eyes, mixed with quiet, thoughtful reflection. You never knew what to expect: a moment of soulful contemplation, intellectual discourse, or a sudden leap into unknown and possibly dangerous behavior. 

 When in his teens, Mr. Barnes would regularly submit his body to the feckless gods of the sea. Whether swimming at Wiborg’s Beach in East Hampton or Indian Wells in Amagansett, he loved being crushed by the largest waves. His inner circle of friends even made up a name for it: “greebled,” whether diving into the foamy turbulence in hurricane season, body surfing the biggest waves, and sometimes being dragged out by a sea pussy and swept a mile or more down the beach before clambering ashore, exhausted but exhilarated and laughing in defiance. 

When he was about 15 or 16 years old, Mr. Barnes was able to hold forth about Meister Eckhart‚ a 13th-century German mystic, arguing about the ascent of the soul and an individual’s relationship to God. He had been well educated by the English Benedictine monks at Portsmouth Priory, and what may have started as an ecclesiastical joke would turn into a serious discussion. An unusually incisive mode of inquiry was always evident in his thinking, whether he was talking about Le Corbusier or making fun of organized religion and what he considered the excessive abuses of the Catholic Church. Despite an irreverent sense of humor, he was a spiritual seeker in his own way throughout life. This came through in his architectural work and the close, almost intimate relationship he developed with clients: He listened to their wishes, counseled them, and went about trying to interpret and fulfill their dreams of domestic tranquillity. In this way, he may have also been serving as a kind of priest or spatial guru, offering clients a revelatory experience of space and light, as well as a chance for self-discovery. 

As Mr. Coy, his design partner and life-long friend, said in a church eulogy on Saturday: “Rob would always try to find the truth in a house and that was the fastest pathway to beauty.” 

Robert McKinny Barnes was born on July 15, 1950, in Garden City. His father was Robert M. Barnes Sr., a developer-builder who had completed several projects in the Hamptons; his mother was Elizabeth James Barnes. He graduated from Portsmouth Priory (now Portsmouth Abbey) in 1968, where he was taught by English Benedictine monks. He attended Georgetown University from 1968 to 1971 and then entered the five-year architecture art planning program at Cornell University, where he came under the influence of Colin Rowe, an erudite English critic and architectural theorist, as well as Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente, a Chilean architect and artist. After working for several New York firms‚ including DePolo Dunbar and Daniel Goldner, and for Norman Jaffee, Mr. Barnes partnered with his life-long friend and fellow Portsmouth Priory student Christopher Coy to found Barnes Coy Architects with offices in Bridgehampton and Manhattan.

He is survived by an older brother, Michael Barnes, and several nieces and nephews. Charitable contributions in his memory have been suggested to the Robert Barnes Scholarship Fund. Details can be found by emailing [email protected].

Beautiful, elegant, fiercely loyal to family and friends,” and “whip smart,” Heather Kilpatrick had a distinguished 35-year career in publishing law, first as attorney for Time magazine during the Watergate scandal and later as counsel for Doubleday and Company, Random House, and Time Warner’s book division.

Ms. Kilpatrick, who died at home in Sag Harbor on Sept. 20 at the age of 72, earned her law degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill. She was one of only 10 women in a class of 300 and finished in the top third of her class. She went on to earn a Master of Laws degree in trade regulations from the New York University School of Law. 

At Time Incorporated, she was responsible for reviewing the legal implications of the magazine’s editorial content and worked with “writers and editors to achieve legally precise reporting without compromise of legitimate editorial prerogatives,” she wrote on her résumé. At Linden and Deutsch, where she worked for a year following that, her responsibilities included regulatory, publishing, and entertainment matters, and at Doubleday she was responsible for all legal matters in the broadcasting, publishing, and the retail bookshop division. She retired from Time Warner as deputy general counsel. 

Ms. Kilpatrick was born on June 28, 1946, in Richmond, Va., a daughter of John Thomas Kilpatrick Jr. and the former Jane Cavenaugh. She grew up in Richmond and though she moved north to live and work and traveled extensively, she never lost her Southern accent, her husband, Stephen Byers, said.

The two met at a dinner party in New York in the late 1980s. He was “crazy smitten right off,” he wrote in her eulogy. Mr. Byers was deputy editor at National Geographic, editor of its book division, and served on the board of its Expeditions Council. 

They were married three years later, in November 1991, and embarked on all sorts of expeditions together. She was a Professional Association of Diving Instructors-certified scuba diver, and they traveled each year to the Caribbean. She also joined her husband and the late author Peter Matthiessen on fishing trips to Montana, where Mr. Byers had lived for many years. 

They traveled to Europe many times. Ms. Kilpatrick had spent a junior year abroad in Lyon, France, and remained fluent in French. 

“For more than half of our 27 married years, she was my rock and my savior,” Mr. Byers wrote. Eleven years ago, while delivering a talk on libel law to book editors, “her mind went blank like an erased blackboard, and she couldn’t continue,” he said. Tests revealed early onset Alzheimer’s disease. “Then I became her rock for the last 12 years of her life,” her husband wrote. 

The couple had a house in Sag Harbor throughout their marriage, and also kept an apartment in New York. They split their time between the two until retirement, and then were in Sag Harbor most of the time after that. Ms. Kilpatrick remained at home during the full course of her illness, her husband looking after her with the help of a caregiver, Nga Nguyen. 

She was buried on Sept. 29 at Oakland Cemetery in Sag Harbor, with the Rev. Michel Engu Dobbs of the Ocean Zendo in Bridgehampton officiating at a graveside service. 

In addition to her husband, she is survived by her siblings John Thomas Kilpatrick III of South Boston, Va., Charles Hynds Kilpatrick of Richmond, and Holly Kilpatrick of Brooklyn, and by three nieces and a nephew. Her brother Michael Cavenaugh Kilpatrick died before her.

Her husband has suggested donations in her memory to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978, or to Fighting Chance, P.O. Box 1358, Sag Harbor 11963.

Ruth Nasca, a painter whose work was exhibited in at least 50 solo shows, died on Oct. 4 at Mather Hospital in Port Jefferson. She was 89 and had been ill for five months after having a stroke. She had lived in the same East Hampton house since 1988.

Ms. Nasca started artwork at 13. As a young woman, she took a course at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also went to a summer class at Yale taught by Willem de Kooning. In 1951, she received a B.F.A. at the State University at Buffalo. She earned a master's in art education there in 1972.

Although her work was reminiscent of de Kooning's and a bit of Picasso's, "She was unique and not really in a category," said her daughter Sally Morrison.

On the South Fork, Ms. Nasca exhibited at the Clayton-Liberatore Gallery and Home Collette in Bridgehampton, the Merz Gallery in Sag Harbor, and Ashawagh Hall in Springs. She was in many group shows and won top prizes at the Ruth Sherman Gallery in Manhattan, the National League of America Pen Women at the Vanderbilt Museum, and, in 2016, at the Southampton Cultural Center. Her work is in the permanent collection at Guild Hall.

In a written statement, Ms. Nasca said, "People are important to me. Since 1990, I have been creating poster paintings: drawing the nude model directly on movie posters with oil pastels. The process continues . . . using expressive colors, strong shapes, and bold drawing to transform the artwork into a new meaning . . . I found the individuality of the face as important as the human form. . . ."

She was born on May 2, 1929, in Buffalo, one of two children of the former Eva Seeberg and Simon Greenbaum.

Ms. Nasca lived in a number of places throughout her life, including Pittsburgh, Arlington, Va., and Illinois.

She was married to Lester Morrison on Dec. 27, 1952. They had two daughters, Sally Morrison of Rocky Point and Marsha Morrison, who died in 1983. Mr. Morrison died in 1970.

In 1974 she married Anthony Nasca. After he died in 1986, she lived in Quogue for a few years before moving to East Hampton, where she enjoyed being part of the artists community. Although she did some teaching in Buffalo, "she was very focused on art, did art, went to art openings, read books on art . . . " Ms. Morrison said. Ms. Morrison's husband, Steve Subject, helped to take care of Ms. Nasca and she considered him a son, Ms. Morrison said.

She was cremated, and in accordance with her wishes, there was no service, nor will there be a memorial. Ms. Morrison suggested memorial donations to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York City 10028, or Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton 11937.

Kenneth E. Scott, who was retired as superintendent of the East Hampton Town Parks and Recreation Department, died at home in Springs on Tuesday. He was 74. A service will be held on Monday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton from 4 to 8 p.m. Burial will be on Tuesday at Cedar Lawn Cemetery on Cooper Lane. The hour had not been set as of press time.

An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Lea Guyer Gordon of Litchfield, Conn., a native of East Hampton who later in life had a house in Sagaponack, died on Sept. 19. The cause was said to be congestive heart failure. She was 90.

Mrs. Gordon had a career in publishing as a researcher and reporter at Newsweek Magazine, Time Magazine, and Time-Life Books, and later as a nonfiction editor at Meriwether Press and Macmillan Publishing, and as a senior freelance editor at Reader’s Digest General Books. After 35 years she retired, and became a fine-arts appraiser and a member of the Appraisers Association of America.

She was born here on July 9, 1928, to George W. Guyer and the former Margaret Gay. She was a graduate of the Mary A. Burnham School in Northampton, Mass., and of the class of 1950 at Pembroke College, then the women’s college adjunct to Brown University.

Mrs. Gordon, who also lived in Manhattan, was a former member of the Garden Club of East Hampton and, with her husband, the late Richard Blake Gordon, had been a member of the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club and the Maidstone Club. They had no children.

She was buried at East Cemetery in Litchfield. The Rowe Funeral Home there handled the funeral arrangement

Shirley Justine Overton of East Hampton died on Oct. 10 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. She was 78 and had been diagnosed with cancer four years ago.

Mrs. Overton’s family said she loved gardening and spent many hours at it. Her favorite flower was the sunflower. She also took photographs of beaches on the East End, where she had spent many summers with her sister. She made postcards of her photos that were sold at the Party Shoppe in East Hampton.

She was born at Southampton Hospital on Oct. 5, 1940, one of two children of the former Julia Golaski and Theodore Bruzdoski. She grew up in Water Mill and later moved with her family to Southampton, where she graduated from Sacred Hearts School.

She worked for many years at the telephone company in Southampton and also at Sears in East Hampton.

When she was 20 she married James H. Overton of East Hampton, who survives her. She was a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother, often taking care of her two grandchildren when they were little, her family said.

In addition to her husband, her grandchildren, and her sister, Doris Schiavoni of Sag Harbor, two daughters, Susan Payne and Donna Bates, both of East Hampton, survive. 

Mrs. Overton was cremated. Her ashes will be buried on Saturday at Oakland Cemetery in Sag Harbor, where there will be a graveside service at 11 a.m. The family has suggested memorial donations to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.

Eileen Bock of Montauk, who once had been executive director of the hamlet’s senior nutrition program, died on Monday at the Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead. She was 82. Ms. Bock was cremated and her ashes are to be buried at Fort Hill Cemetery in Montauk. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Kathryn Frances McGuirk, who worked for many years in the nurse’s office at East Hampton Middle School, died at home on the corner of Newtown Lane and McGuirk Street in East Hampton on Oct. 2 after a brief illness. She was 87. 

Mrs. McGuirk’s roots here run deep, her family said, and she was a descendant of one of East Hampton’s founding families. 

She was born Catherine Frances McGuire in Southampton on July, 5, 1931, to Edward Francis McGuire, who had grown up in Sag Harbor, and Nora Durkan, who came here from County Mayo, Ireland. She preferred the alternate spelling of her name, and went by that or simply Kate for most of her life. 

Her grandparents were Alec and Phebe McGuire, who raised 19 children in East Hampton. She spent her childhood years in various East Hampton neighborhoods including Freetown, Cove Hollow Farm, and Below the Bridge. 

During the 1938 Hurricane, she and her family took refuge in a garage apartment on an estate near Town Pond.

In eighth grade, she met her future husband, John Leo McGuirk Jr. They married on Jan. 16, 1954, at St. Philomena’s Church, which is now Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, and spent 64 years together. 

After graduating from East Hampton High School, she took a secretarial job at the Promised Land Fish Factory. She was also a telephone operator, and, from 1971 to 1993, she worked in the nurse’s office at the middle school. 

She was a parishioner at Most Holy Trinity, a member of the Sweet Adelines women’s singing group, and a Girl Scout leader. 

She is survived by her husband and five children, Susan McGuirk, John McGuirk III, and Barbara Tracey of East Hampton, Sandra Kalke of Mooresville, N.C., and East Hampton, and Mary Ellen Hess of Frisco, Tex. She also leaves a brother, Edward Francis McGuire Jr. of Melbourne, Fla., and 11 grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, and numerous cousins. A son, Patrick, died before her.

The family welcomed visitors at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on Friday. A funeral Mass was said on Saturday at Most Holy Trinity Church, the Rev. Peter Garry officiating. Burial was at the church cemetery in East Hampton. 

The family has suggested contributions to East End Hospice at P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.

Janet T. Sellers loved anything she could do outdoors, from gardening, swimming, kayaking, water-skiing, and whitewater rafting in the warmer months to horseback riding, hiking, skiing, and ice-skating in the cooler ones. “You name it, she tried it,” her family wrote. 

Mrs. Sellers, who lived in Springs for many years but who had since moved to Cape Coral, Fla., died on Aug. 25 in Cape Coral. She was 81 and had been in declining health since a stroke four years ago. 

A service was held on Sept. 5 at the Springs Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Sellers was buried at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton.

Born on June 2, 1937, in Far Rockaway, Queens, to Henry Arthur Charlton and the former Dorothy Elizabeth Jennings, she grew up there, and as a child often visited Springs, where her parents had a house on Gerard Drive. 

She graduated from George W. Hewlett High School in Nassau County in 1956, and earned an associate’s degree in applied science from New York City Community College in 1958.

Fresh out of school, Mrs. Sellers worked as a laboratory technician at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Far Rockaway.

She and Frederick E. Sellers Jr. were married on June 20, 1959. In 1970, the couple moved to Springs. Mrs. Sellers became “C.E.O. of her home while raising her children” — Pamela, Scott, and Matthew — her family wrote. She also worked as a teacher’s aide at the Neighborhood House Preschool in the early 1970s and later became a senior citizens program supervisor, overseeing transportation for East Hampton Town’s Department of Human Services.

She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, served on the Springs Fire Department ambulance squad, and volunteered her time at the food pantry at the Springs Presbyterian Church. In addition to her outdoor pursuits, Mrs. Sellers loved family, friends, and travel. 

She and her husband retired to Florida in 2006. 

Mrs. Sellers is survived by her children, Pamela Bennett of East Hampton, Scott Sellers of Big Sky, Mont., and Matthew Sellers of Cape Coral, and by 12 grandchildren and four nieces and nephews. Her husband died before her, as did a sister, Lois Bauer. 

The family has suggested donations to the Springs Food Pantry, 5 Old Stone Highway, East Hampton 11937, online at springsfoodpantry.com, or to the Springs Presbyterian Church, at the same street address.