Martha Mary Whelan Robinson, who grew up in East Hampton, “dedicated her life to finding housing for the homeless and the developmentally challenged” and later worked to expand literacy education. She died of A.L.S. on Feb. 7 at the age of 65.

Joan Dickson of Amagansett, a social worker, birdwatcher, and later in life an accomplished painter and printmaker, died on Oct. 30. She was 92.

Hal Buckner, who for more than 20 years focused on the female figure as the central imagery in his artwork, died at home in Water Mill on Jan. 26. He was 85.