Obituaries

Sally Matson Edwards died on Monday at home on Hook Pond Lane, East Hampton, a family residence for 70 years, less than a month shy of her 96th birthday.

Jason Spielberg, a former East Hampton resident and landscape business owner here, died on July 9 at Thompson Health Center in Canandaigua, N.Y., of respiratory failure resulting from pneumonia.

Her family was with her when Mary Margaret Struk Niggles died at home in Wainscott on July 6 after a long illness. She was 91.

Robert Lachmann of Montauk and Longboat Key, Fla., a former co-owner of the Montauk I.G.A., Boathouse Restaurant, and Lido Motel, died of a heart attack at his summer residence in Montauk on July 1. He was 86.

Zoia Foster, the daughter of the Rev. Dr. Katrina D. Foster, formerly of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Amagansett, and Pamela Kallimanis, died peacefully at home on Saturday.

Larry Wartur, an engineer on a number of major public projects in the metropolitan area, died at home in Springs on June 27 at the age of 88.

Joseph H. Pombo, a lifelong resident of East Hampton, died on Tuesday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. He was 93.

A funeral for Roger Walker, a former East Hampton Town justice, will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church. Mr. Walker, who was 91, died at home in Wainscott on Sunday and will be buried at the Wainscott Cemetery. A full obituary will appear in a future issue.

Andrew Volet, a fashion-industry executive turned East Hampton real estate agent who lived on Accabonac Road, died on June 19 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. The cause was cancer. He was 87.

Esther Keller, formerly of East Hampton, died of congestive heart failure on June 16 at the Trustbridge Hospice in Delray Beach, Fla., just a few days shy of her 95th birthday.

Laurie Nell Frick of Springs, a singer with the Choral Society of the Hamptons, died on June 8 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 79.

Paula Ivy Liss of East Hampton, the head librarian and a popular faculty member at Southampton High School for 26 years, died of cancer on June 10 in Douglaston, Queens.