Ricky Schellinger “had a heart of gold, and would do anything for anybody,” his family said. “He was a great guy.”
Mr. Schellinger, who was 70, died on Sunday at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He had cancer. A service was held yesterday at the Mclaughlin Heppner Funeral Home in Riverhead.
Born at Southampton Hospital on May 8, 1954, to Morley Schellinger and the former Florence Ott, he grew up in Amagansett and attended school here. He had worked as a truck driver for the Schenck Fuel Oil Company in East Hampton and at the Three Mile Harbor Boatyard before becoming the maintenance man at the East Hampton mobile home park on Oakview Highway, a job he held for about 20 years.
He lived in Springs and moved to Hampton Bays 25 years ago. He still enjoyed clamming and fishing here, and in his younger years was a car fanatic, his family said.
He is survived by four children, Paul Schellinger of Pittsburgh, Heather Schellinger of East Hampton, Nicole Schellinger of Riverhead, and Penny Johnson of Maryland. He also leaves a brother, Morley H. Schellinger of Riverhead, a sister, Sally Riva, who lives in Connecticut, and five grandchildren. A sister, Elean Quackenbush, died before him.
