Obituaries

Robert John Burke, an ironworker who had spent many summers in Sag Harbor, died on March 24 at San Simeon by the Sound Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Greenport. Mr. Burke had been ill for three years. He was 78.

Richard Hugh Ketcham, who moved to East Hampton after retiring from a 30-year career with IBM in 1985, died on March 19 at the Chautauqua Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Dunkirk, N.Y. He was 91.

John Q. Trojanowski, a renowned neuropathologist and director of the Institute on Aging at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, died of complications of chronic spinal cord injuries on Feb. 8 in Philadelphia. A former summertime renter in Springs, he was 75.

Visiting hours for Richard Janis of East Hampton will be held on Sunday from 4 to 7 p.m. at Yardley and the Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A graveside service will take place Monday at 11 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery on Cedar Street. Mr. Janis, who died on Wednesday, was 66. Condolences for his family can be shared in care of Yardley and Pino, online at yardleypino.com. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

A funeral Mass for Margaret Adele Hannibal, a former Pantigo Road, East Hampton, resident, will be said on Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton, with burial to follow at the church cemetery on Cedar Street. Mrs. Hannibal, who was known as Maggie, was 86 and died in Asheville, N.C., on Tuesday. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Lester Ross, a former employee of East Hampton Town as well as a master electrician and Army veteran, died on March 22 at Sumner Regional Medical Center in Gallatin, Tenn. Mr. Ross, who was known as Poppy, was 83. The cause of death was heart failure, his family said.

Lester A. Walker Sr., a retired head of custodial services at East Hampton High School, died of cardiac arrest on March 21 in Wellington, Fla. He was 80.

Leland N. Winslow, who established a painting company in Amagansett in 1981, died of cancer at home there on March 11. He was 91 and had been ill for four years.

"She was an amazing cook, and loved to eat and feed her friends and family. She enjoyed entertaining," said Robert Lager, a cousin of Anita Sheldon of Springs. Ms. Sheldon died at home during the early morning hours Friday, at the age of 88.

Bill Hopson, an Army veteran and founding member of Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton in 1954, died on March 29 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. The East Hampton resident was 95.

Patricia B. Zaykowski, the first woman to be elected president of the Sag Harbor School Board, died at home in Dunedin, Fla., on March 10 after a brief illness. She was 89.

Richard Joseph Sigmund of Brooklyn and Springs, an artist and art installer, died of cancer on March 16 at East End Hospice’s Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 71.

Henriette Abel Stackpole, a physician who had a summer home in Amagansett, died on March 3 at Huntington Common in Kennebunk, Me. She was 87.

Patricia Clarke Topping, who founded Swan Creek Farms in Bridgehampton with her husband, Alvin Topping, died of lung cancer on March 14. She was 76.

Lawrence B. Knowles of East Hampton, known for his years working at Stuart’s Seafood in Amagansett and the Seafood Shop in Wainscott, died of congestive heart failure on March 6 at South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore. He was 90.

Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner, an executive for the Estee Lauder Companies and a philanthropist who supported programs in New York City and Sag Harbor, died in Manhattan on Feb. 26. She was 92.

Adelaide H. Dunlop, a 1955 graduate of East Hampton High School, died on Feb. 10 in Venice, Fla., where she had been living since 2006. She was 84.

Robert Beahan Shnayerson, a respected editor at Life, Time, and Harper’s magazines who first came to the South Fork in 1960, died at home in Hillsdale, N.Y., on March 6 of complications of vascular disease. He was 96.

Marie Ann Field of East Hampton died of heart failure at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton on Feb. 27. She was 74.

Evelyn Spiegler made a career as a fund-raiser in the nonprofit sector in international relations and the health care field, and after her retirement from New York University Medical Center in 1995 divided her time between Montauk and Forest Hills, Queens, where she died on Saturday.

Tony Walton, who worked for more than six decades in theater, film, television, ballet, and opera, died at his apartment in New York City on March 2 of complications of a stroke. He was 87.

John Allan Diamond, who ran his father’s business, Diamond’s furniture store on Main Street in East Hampton, until 1995, died on March 2 at home in East Hampton. He was 70 and had been ill with Alzheimer’s disease.

Harold Foster of Foster and Briand Construction died of lung cancer on March 1 at home in Montauk.

John R. DiPace, retired from the New York City Department of Sanitation and the trucking company he owned in the Bronx, went on to become a masseur at Gurney's Inn in Montauk. He died of metastasized bone cancer at home in East Hampton on March 3.

E. Vincent Wyatt Jr., an expert in industrial production and engineering materials who held several patents and who grew up in East Hampton, died of a heart attack on March 2 at the Greenfield Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Massachusetts. He was 92.

Visiting hours for Harold Foster of Montauk will be held on Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A funeral Mass will be said on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk.

Virginia W. Backlund, a public health nurse for many years, died at home in East Hampton on Feb. 15. She was 101.

Kathleen Kirkwood, a fashion entrepreneur known as “the diva of shoulder pads” and a member of the Montauk Historical Society, died on Nov. 5 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.

Darleen Emma Deleski of Sag Harbor, remembered as the “heart of the family,” died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Feb. 13 at the age of 73.

Susan Dorothy D’Angelo, who lived on McGuirk Street in East Hampton, died on Nov. 23 at her son Christopher D’Angelo’s home in Rockville Centre. The cause was complications of diabetes.