Roger Ames, a celebrated composer and conductor who had lived in Springs for 20 years, died of A.L.S. at home in Cumberland, Me., on Jan. 6. He was 77.

Joan Tyor Carlson of Sag Harbor died on Jan. 8 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing. A writer for publications including Billboard magazine and Collier’s, she was also a ghostwriter on several autobiographical books.

Ed Allen, a pastor in Ohio and formerly of Springs, died of Covid-19 on Saturday at the Wooster Hospital in Wooster, Ohio.

Kathleen Carley, a founding member of Concerned Citizens of Montauk and for many years a summer resident of East Lake Drive in that hamlet, died on Jan. 2.