Kathleen Louise Neuhaus was a gardener and a baker, but she especially enjoyed painting. She was particularly adept at lighthouses and seascapes in watercolors and acrylics, and often gave her paintings to family and friends.
“When she gave somebody a gift, it was something she really put her heart into,” one of her daughters, Terri Curles of Sebastian, Fla., said.
Mrs. Neuhaus, a 44-year resident of East Hampton, died of congestive heart failure on June 3 at Sebastian River Medical Center in Florida. She was 76 and had been ill for several years.
Born in Southampton on Sept. 25, 1946, to George McGuire and the former Grace Miller, she grew up here and graduated in 1964 from East Hampton High School, going on to have a 30-year career in the insurance business.
She and Kenneth R. Neuhaus, who is from an old East Hampton family himself, were married in January of 1965; the couple moved to Florida in 1990. Mrs. Neuhaus was a member of the Eagles Club in Grant, Fla., and the American Legion in Sebastian.
Her husband survives, as do their two children, Ms. Curles and Barbara Peele, also of Sebastian. A brother, George McGuire, and a sister, Patricia Duran, died before her.
Her only grandson, Brian K. Russell, died in 2021, which inspired his mother, Ms. Curles, to start an organization called Wings of Love of the Treasure Coast, which supports families who have lost loved ones to suicide by creating butterfly memorial gardens. Mrs. Neuhaus was “extremely proud” of the work done by the foundation, her family said in suggesting memorial donations there. The address is P.O. Box 733, Roseland, Fla. 32957.
Mrs. Neuhaus was cremated; no services are planned.
