Ann Virginia Porter, who was a social worker at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City before retiring to Wainscott, died on March 4 at home there. She was 97 and had cancer.

Dolores Klaich, a journalist, editor, and educator formerly of East Hampton, died on March 8, International Women’s Day, in the Brattleboro, Vt., home where she had lived since 2004. She was 86.

Patricia Eames, who was active in Amagansett’s commercial fishing community for many years, died at home in East Hampton on Feb. 28. She was 85.

Teresa Carlin Kratzman of Augie’s Path in East Hampton, an executive and philanthropist who was passionate about education, died on March 18 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. She was 59.