Obituaries

Shirley Theodora Ford Garrett, who spent her childhood summers in Sag Harbor and retired there in 1996, died at home on Oct. 16. She was 81 and had had Parkinson’s disease for about three years.

Mrs. Garrett was close to her sister, Marian Ford Pryce of Sag Harbor, who affectionately called her “the volunteer of America” this week. She was a familiar face at the food pantry of St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in Bridgehampton, the Animal Rescue Fund thrift shop, and the Retired Senior Volunteer Program, whose members look out for older people living alone. 

Elizabeth Lee White, a Montauk Historical Society president for 20 years who was a charter member of the Montauk Lighthouse Committee when it took over stewardship of the Light, died on Oct. 10 at the age of 76.

Elsie Lawall Treleaven came to know Amagansett as a teenager, when her parents had a summer house on Bluff Road. She learned to sail at the Devon Yacht Club and developed a deep love of the hamlet, eventually returning to live there with her family in the early 1960s.

Florence Lillian Talmage, an East Hampton native who spent her entire life in the town, died on Oct. 10 at the Peconic Bay Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Riverhead, at the age of 86. She had been diagnosed with cancer about a year ago.

Mrs. Talmage was born at home on Feb. 19, 1930, one of three children of Sidney N. Bye and the former Christine E. Mott. She attended East Hampton High School and married William W. Talmage soon after leaving school, on Jan. 24, 1948.

William Warren Bates, who served the East Hampton and Springs Fire Departments for a combined 58 years and founded Bates Electric, a company still going strong after 50 years in business, died at Southampton Hospital on Oct. 12 of congestive heart failure.

Angelina Anna Ross of Sagaponack died on Sept. 30 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Westhampton Beach. She was 73 and had had pancreatic cancer for four years. Donna Ross Levy said her mother had responded well to chemotherapy and survived longer than most who have that illness. “She was a fighter, very strong willed,” Ms. Levy said.

Charles Sheridan Preusse, a former East Hampton resident who served in the Air Force and had a career at the New York Stock Exchange, died on Oct. 3 at the home of one of his sons in Frederick, Md. He was 76 and had pancreatic cancer.

Visiting hours for Betsy White of Montauk, who died on Monday at Southampton Hospital, will be held tomorrow from 1 to 5 and from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

Visiting hours for Florence Talmage of Springs will be held tomorrow from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

George E. Wyeth learned to love East Hampton while serving with the Air Force at Camp Hero in Montauk, and when he was discharged several years later he returned to the South Fork.

Henriette de Sieyes Montgomery, a devoted environmentalist who headed the board of Group for the South Fork, now known as Group for the East End, for several years in the 1980s and 1990s, died on Sept. 26 at her apartment in Manhattan. She was 93 and had been in declining health.

Henrik Krogius, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, writer, and producer for television news who was instrumental in preserving the Poxabogue area of Sagaponack, died at home in Brooklyn Heights on Oct. 4. He was 87 and had prostate cancer, his family said.

Klaus Kertess, a curator, writer, and art dealer whose enduring influence in the art world began 50 years ago when he opened the Bykert Gallery on East 81st Street, died of a heart attack at home in Manhattan on Saturday.

Louise Riker Edmonds, a Latin teacher at the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., for 42 years, died on Sept. 27 at the Sunrise at Ivey Ridge assisted living home in Alpharetta, Ga., where she had recently moved.

Terry Hoyt, a volunteer emergency medical technician for many years and a former ambulance captain for the Bridgehampton Fire Department, died of cancer at home on Saturday.

Dale Booher, an architect and garden designer who was among the founders of the Hayground School in Bridgehampton, died on Sept. 15 at home on Shelter Island.

Jill Beth Sleed of Kingston, N.Y., a daughter of Judy Sleed of East Hampton and the late Joel Sleed, died at the Kingston Hospital on Friday, surrounded by family members and her best friend.

Kent Edward Metz Sr., who grew up in Wainscott and graduated from East Hampton High School in 1968, died on Sept. 17 in a truck accident in Florida.

Mary H. Mulholland had been in failing health for a while, but according to her daughter Brigitte M. Lenihan of Springs, that didn’t keep her from enjoying her 89th birthday party, which 50 people attended. She died at home in Springs almost three weeks later, on Sept. 26.

Suzanne Ellen Goell, a pianist who had written art and music reviews for The West End Word, a community newspaper in St. Louis, eventually becoming its managing editor and publisher, died at home on Hand’s Creek Road in East Hampton on Sept. 12 of heart failure.

Bernard Pollock, an actor and stage manager on Broadway who divided his time between New York City and East Hampton, died in Manhattan on Sept. 14 after a long illness.

Carroll Livingston Wainwright Jr., a former attorney for the Rockefellers and volunteer for many nonprofit organizations, died at home in East Hampton on Sept. 26.

A memorial gathering for Dale Booher, an architect and garden designer who lived in East Hampton in the 1970s, will be held on Saturday.

A memorial for Joy Mayfield, a former East Hampton resident who died on July 11, will be held on Saturday.

Visiting hours for Mary H. Mulholland will be this evening from 6 to 9 at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

John Bennett, a retired music teacher who taught at many schools on the South Fork and was the organist at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton for nearly 30 years, died at Southampton Hospital on Sunday.

John Stanislaus Wegorzewski, an arts and entertainment publicist in Manhattan and on the East End, died on Sept. 11 at New York University Langone Medical Center of complications from cancer.

Joseph Rigano of Montauk, who was known as Jay, died on Saturday at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Westhampton Beach.

Ashby Grantham, an orthopedic surgeon at what is now New York/Presbterian Hospital and a professor at Columbia University Medical Center, died on Sept. 19 at Southampton Hospital.

Alfred Grella, a Marine Corps veteran who was awarded the Purple Heart after being wounded in World War II, and who had been a professional baseball player with New York Giants farm teams, died at home in Springs yesterday.