For several decades there was barely a day when Rae Burgess could not be seen taking a brisk walk along the highway in Montauk, “waving to all,” her daughter Ginger Spinelli wrote. “Weather never stopped her and she pushed on to the next sunny day,” continuing her walks well into her 80s.

Mrs. Burgess, who was 96, died on Monday at Southampton Hospital. Visiting hours were yesterday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. She was to be buried at Fort Hill Cemetery in Montauk.

She was born in New York on April 29, 1920, to Louis Hazen and the former Flora Abravaya. Her father was born in Istanbul and her mother was from Madrid. She grew up in New York, speaking only Spanish until she entered school, and was married in November 1939 to Joseph Burgess. 

The couple raised two daughters, Ginger and Florence (Lori), in Glen Rock, N.J., and after retirement split their time between Montauk and St. Croix before settling full time on Ditch Plain Road in Montauk. When Lori Louis was killed in a car accident, Mr. and Mrs. Burgess took in their granddaughter, Rachel, and raised her in Montauk.

Mrs. Burgess worked at White’s Pharmacy in Montauk and also at Claudia’s Carriage House and Scentsations in that hamlet. She was a member of the Montauk Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary for many years.

She was a generous host and an excellent cook, and her meals were renowned among her granddaughter’s friends. “Rae was loved by so many, and a friend to all,” Ms. Spinelli wrote.

Her husband died in 2003. In addition to her daughter, Ms. Spinelli, who lives in West Milford, N.J., she is survived by three grandchildren, two great-granddaughters, and two brothers, Jack and Albert Hazen. A third brother died before her.

A memorial is being planned for the spring.

Her family has suggested contributions to the Montauk Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary, 12 Flamingo Avenue, Montauk 11954.

Andrzej Wasilewicz was an actor, writer, director, producer, and musician, but he also was a political activist who fought for democracy in Poland. On Dec. 13, the anniversary of the day in 1983 that martial law was imposed there, Mr. Wasilewicz died of complications of Parkinson’s disease at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn. He was 65 years old.

Mr. Wasilewicz, who lived on the South Fork for about 18 years, most recently at Windmill Village in East Hampton, fled Poland and arrived in Brooklyn in 1980. In 2009, he received a Gold Star of Merit at the Polish consulate in New York for his support of democracy and humanitarian efforts.

During the 1970s in Poland, he was in 43 feature films, 16 made-for-television films, and 14 stage productions. Friends said his was a household name during that decade and that he drew comparisons to Tom Cruise. He also composed more than 60 songs, some of which were collected in an album called “Solidarity.”

His daughter, Nisia Wasilewicz, who lives in Tulum, Mexico, said her father’s writing and songs “were a celebrated symbol of an underground movement.” She said, “He detailed the darkness of this world to me with an exposure to film, literature, and music typically inappropriate for a child. He prepared me thoroughly for everything that was to follow, and for that I will always owe him my deepest gratitude. I am insightful and spirited and unyielding because of him.”

He was born March 10, 1951, in Bialogard, Poland, and was raised in Koszalin, not far from the Baltic Sea. In his youth, he enjoyed summers surrounded by nature at a family-owned cottage in Mielno, Poland. He attended the University of Poznan, studying psychology, and later enrolled in the Academy of Performing Arts in Warsaw.

Shortly after he arrived in the United States, he enrolled in Columbia University, where he studied screenwriting and directing, earning a master’s degree in fine arts. He wrote, directed, and produced Polish-language programs in the 1980s, and was a production assistant for the American Motion Picture Company and New Line Cinema. He also lectured on film at Columbia.

Mr. Wasilewicz played classical guitar, enjoyed watching international soccer, and held a third-degree black belt in judo, in which he had been a champion as a teenager. He supported organizations that benefited Native Americans and wounded veterans.

“He fought for freedom his whole life. Being in America was a blessing for him. He was an extremely intelligent, sensitive, and artistic man who gave to everyone and had an open heart,” Joan Henry, an East Hampton friend, said.

Mr. Wasilewski had been married and divorced. In addition to his daughter, he is survived by a brother, Zigmond Wasilewicz, who lives in Poland. A memorial service was held at the Polish Slavic Center in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on Dec. 18, and another will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. tomorrow in the community room at Windmill Village I, 207 Accabonac Road, East Hampton.

A graveside service was held at Oak Grove Cemetery in Amagansett on Saturday for Edna Mae Steckowski, 86, who died on Dec. 28 at her Miankoma Lane, Amagansett, home, which she and her husband built in 1950. A descendant of some of the original East Hampton settlers, Mrs. Steckowki, who spent her entire life in Amagansett, had had Alzheimer’s disease for many years.

She was born in Southampton Hospital on March 24, 1930, to Gilbert Parsons and the former Edna Bennett. She and Stanley Steckowski Jr. of Sagaponack, a Navy veteran of World War II, were married on April 18, 1948.

A homemaker, Mrs. Steckowski was particularly adept at sewing and was a longtime member of the Amagansett Presbyterian Church sewing club and its craft group, which raised many thousands of dollars for the church over the years. She loved fishing on her husband’s boat, as well as reading and gardening, and was a member the Ladies Auxiliary of the American Legion.

The couple raised three sons, all of whom survive: Gilbert Steckowski and Barry Steckowski of East Hampton, and Peter Steckowski of Huntington. Mrs. Steckowski is also survived by four grandchildren. A daughter, Gay, died in infancy.

Toward the end of her life, Mrs. Steckowski was cared for by East End Hospice, with a hospice worker on hand at the time of her death. The family has suggested that donations in her memory be made to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.

Daniel Ryan Shields Sr., who had been a painting contractor, an East Hampton Town Parks Department employee, and an Amagansett Fire Department captain, died on Dec. 27 at Southampton Hospital of congestive heart failure and complications of the disease.  He was 79 and had been ill for some time.

With his wife, the former Joy Lyons Roesel of Sagaponack, who survives, Mr. Shields traveled across the United States and throughout England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. They were married in September 1996 and shared an appreciation for classic cars. Wearing matching jackets, they went to many local and out-of-state car shows over the years and exhibited their 1955 Crown Victoria in many parades. The car was noted for its vintage and also for being black, pink, and white, with a Betty Boop doll in the backseat.

Mr. Shields was born in Southampton on Aug. 23, 1937, the son of the former Alice Fithian and Charlie Shields. He attended East Hampton schools, and was on their football and baseball teams. He couldn’t wait for East Hampton’s Town Pond to freeze, his family said, since he played ice hockey and was a terrific figure skater.

As a member of East Hampton High School’s football team of 1952, the only undefeated, untied team in East Hampton’s history, he was recently inducted into the high school’s Athletic Hall of Fame.

After graduating from high school, he entered the Navy at age 17 and was stationed in Sanford, Fla.

In 1959, he married Linda Lee Finch of Amagansett. The couple lived in that hamlet, where Mr. Shields established his own painting company. He later took a job with the town, where he worked until retirement.

An active member of the Amagansett Fire Department for 15 years, Mr. Shields was the captain of Company 2.

When his first wife suffered a debilitating illness and became wheelchair-bound, he dedicated himself as her caregiver. “He helped everyone in need before himself,” and was known in the community for his selflessness, his family said. Linda Shields died in 1992.

In addition to his current wife, Mr. Shields is survived by a son, Daniel R. Shields II of Amagansett, and a daughter, Darlene Shields Bartoletta of Tampa, Fla., along with five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Also surviving are a sister, Patty LaCarrubba of Amgansett, three stepchildren, Michael Roesel and Ricky Roesel of Sag Harbor and Kristy Brabant of East Hampton, and seven step-grandchildren.

A wake was held on Friday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, followed by a service at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton, the Rev. Donald M. Hanson presiding. Burial took place on Saturday at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery in East Hampton.

Dianne d’Etreillis Roussel, who was an artist and designer from a young age and through Roussel Art Conservation, a family firm, worked on Ronald Reagan’s official White House Christmas ornament and many sculptures at Lincoln Center and Rockefeller Center, died on Dec. 25 at Haven Hospice in New York City of complications of lung cancer. She was 56.

Ms. Roussel had a long career, which included being the director of design of Thai Presents, a manufacturer of pewter and bronze decorative objects in Bangkok, where she lived for eight years and traveled around the world to visit clients. She relocated to the South Fork in 1998, first to Sag Harbor and then to East Hampton, where she founded Surfaces, which specialized in high-end furniture and art restoration.

Her family described her as an adventurous traveler who spoke English, French, and Greek in addition to Thai. She skied in the Austrian Alps and went yak-skiing in Tibet. With friends, she trekked to remote areas in Borneo and Sulawese, staying in huts and rafting with tribesmen. She also did scuba diving in the Andaman Sea, where she observed giant whale sharks. Wherever she went she left a legacy of generosity, supporting girls with school tuition and families with money for medical aid, her family said.

  She was born Oct. 19, 1960, in Providence, R.I., to the former Christine Leo and Christian Roussel. At the age of 11, three of her drawings and a letter were published in Peter Max’s “Super Poster Book.” She was also selected that year from hundreds of applicants to join the Children’s International Summer Village, a global, camp-based peace organization. She would later say that camping with 43 kids from many different countries helped form some of her strongest beliefs.

Ms. Rousell attended Public School 6 and the High School of Music and Art in New York City before going to Athens, Greece, where she lived for three years, attending the American Community School. She earned American and European degrees and won an international art award upon graduation.

Coming back to New York at the age of 17, she became the youngest designer at Tiffany & Co., where she worked on awards, monograms, and calligraphy. She left Tiffany in 1979 to attend the School of Visual Arts in New York City and, at the same time, worked as a finisher of bronze and stone sculptures at the Reproductions Studio of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Joining the family firm as a painter, gilder, and project manager, she designed a Frederic Remington chess set for the Time-Life corporation in addition to working on museum-quality sculpture and the Reagan Christmas ornament.

In East Hampton, aside from her work with Surfaces, Ms. Roussel studied ballroom dancing and adopted and placed many needy animals, including a stray dog she named Woofie, whom she found bedraggled and starving alongside a road. Her beloved pug, Bruno, who became known for the costumes he wore in Sag Harbor’s Ragamuffin parades, was a companion for 19 years. Her family said she had striking red hair, joie de vivre, and an expanding circle of friends.

“Dianne was beautiful, glamorous, insightful, and had a wicked sense of humor. She was also kind, generous, and loving to a great number of people, but had a special place in her heart for her family, especially her nieces and nephews, whom she adored without reservation. We are fortunate to have had Dianne in our lives. She fought hard to live and died too young,” her family said.

Ms. Roussel is survived by her mother, Christine Roussel of New York City and East Hampton, a sister, Elizabeth Rousell of Sag Harbor, a brother, Marc Rousell of Sag Harbor, and four nieces and nephews.

Donations in her memory have been suggested to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, Tenn., 38105. A memorial service will be held on Jan. 28 at 11 a.m. at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East

Hampton.

Cecilia Coleman met Arthur L. Coleman Jr., a radiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, in 1950. On their first date, wrote her son Edward Coleman of Green Bay, Wis., and Tulsa, Okla., they went into a Catholic church near the hospital and lit a candle together. She “silently prayed that he might be the one,” he wrote. The couple married on May 26, 1951, at the Church of St. Augustine in Larchmont, N.Y., and remained together until Dr. Coleman’s death in 1996.

Mrs. Coleman, who spent summers in Montauk from the 1960s until recently, died on Dec. 10 at Astor Terrace, the rehabilitation unit of the Odd Fellow Home nursing facility in Green Bay. She was 94.

Born on Sept. 18, 1922, in Brooklyn to Edward Maguire and the former Cecilia Gannon, she moved with her family to Larchmont when she was 12. She graduated from St. Gabriel High School in New Rochelle in 1940 and the College of New Rochelle in 1944. She later earned a master’s degree in medical social work from Fordham University in the Bronx.

During the Korean War, Mrs. Coleman’s husband was stationed with the Army Medical Corps in Sendai, Japan, where their first two children were born. In the mid-1950s, her husband completed his residency at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology in St. Louis, where two more children were born. Another four were born after the family moved to Larchmont in 1955.

Mrs. Coleman and her husband were active members of the Church of St. Augustine and the Larchmont Yacht Club for 30 years. In 1977, the couple moved to Buffalo, where Dr. Coleman had a radiology practice at the Sisters of Charity Hospital. They later moved to Olean, N.Y., where he worked with the Olean Medical Group.

The two loved to travel, visiting Europe, Asia, and South America. Their faith was of paramount importance, her son wrote. The family enjoyed hiking, skiing, sailing, and swimming together. The kitchen table was the center of many warm memories, her son wrote. Mrs. Coleman was proud of her Irish Catholic heritage and taught its traditions to her children with loving respect.

Later in life, she lived with her children in their respective homes. Most recently, she lived with her son Edward in Green Bay and at Astor Terrace.

Mrs. Coleman’s four siblings died before her, as did a son. In addition to Edward Coleman, six other children survive. They are Arthur Coleman of Larchmont, Mary Cecilia Kelly of Rye, N.Y., Peter and Paul Coleman, both of Bridgeport, Conn., Gerard Coleman of Galveston, Tex., and Eugene Coleman of Montauk. Twenty-one grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren also survive.

Visiting hours were on Dec. 13 at Newcomer Funeral Home in Green Bay. A Mass of Christian burial was offered on Saturday at Holy Cross Church in Fairfield, Conn., the Rev. Alfred Pecaric presiding. Burial followed at St. Thomas Cemetery in Fairfield.

Mrs. Coleman’s family has suggested memorial contributions to the Monastery of the Holy Name of Jesus Discalced Carmelite Nuns, 6100 Pepper Road, Denmark, Wis. 54208, or holynamecarmel.org.

The Star has received word of the death of Phebe M. Smith, an East Hampton native who was a descendent of the Dominy family of furniture and clock-makers. Mrs. Smith died on Sept. 25 at Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie, Wyo., having come down with an infection four days before. She was 91 years old.

Born here on Aug. 22, 1925, she was one of two children of Carl F. Mason and the former Phebe Dominy. She graduated from East Hampton High School and later received laboratory training to become a nurse during World War II, which ended before she received her degree.

In May 1946, in East Hampton, she married Walter R. Smith, after he completed Army service and finished a degree at Purdue University. He worked as a mining engineer, and the couple lived in several cities, among them Ironwood, Mich., Virginia, Minn., Fairless Hills, Pa., Hackensack, N.J., and Ten Sleep, Wyo. They returned briefly to the South Fork, living in Amagansett between 1952 and 1955.

Over the years, Mrs. Smith found plenty to do as a homemaker raising their  seven children. She enjoyed reading, sewing, and cross-stitch, and had a keen interest in her family genealogy. Through her children, she became involved in religious education and the Cub Scouts, and was an auxiliary volunteer at a hospital in Ten Sleep. She belonged to the Order of the Eastern Star for most of her adult life, wherever they lived.

Mrs. Smith lived most recently at the Spring Wind Assisted Living Center in Laramie. Her husband died in 2011. She is survived by a sister, Caryl Englestead of Panguitch, Utah, and by her children, Kent Smith of Saratoga, Wyo., Jeff Smith of Laramie, Bruce Smith of Seattle, Molly Hollingsworth of Placerville, Calif., Dave Smith of Greenville, N.Y., Sally Mackey of Rock Springs, Wyo., and Walt Smith of Bozeman, Mont. She leaves 27 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Smith was cremated. Family members plan to return to East Hampton next summer to scatter her ashes off Three Mile Harbor.

Marian Ford Pryce, a retired nurse anesthetist who started spending summers in Sag Harbor in 1936 and lived in the Chatfield’s Hill neighborhood, died on Nov. 15 at Stony Brook University Hospital at the age of 82 following a stroke. Her death was sudden, her daughter, Courtney Pryce-Hudson, said, despite her having been ill with cancer that had gone into remission.

Born on Aug. 9, 1934, the oldest child of Theodore Nathaniel Ford and Edith Williams Ford, she grew up in Queens and spent her childhood summers in Sag Harbor Hills. She attended Jamaica High School, where she excelled academically, particularly in the sciences.

She went on to Hunter College in Manhattan with the hope of pursuing a teaching degree. She quickly realized that teaching was not for her, her family said, and she enrolled at Lincoln School of Nurses in the Bronx. Once she graduated in 1956, she began working as an operating room nurse at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan.

She took an interest in anesthesiology and in 1961 enrolled in a two-year course for nurse anesthetists offered by the postgraduate medical school of New York University at Bellevue and became a certified registered nurse anesthetist. She also worked at Mercy Hospital.

She married Ronald Altman Pryce on Dec. 9, 1962, and they eventually moved to Freeport on Long Island. With their children they shared many happy times over the summers in Sag Harbor with friends and family. They bought a house on Carver Street in 1974.

In 1998, Ms. Pryce retired from La Guardia Hospital to take on the role of “full-time grandmother, a job she often said she enjoyed more than nursing,” her family said. The following year, the Pryces moved full time to Sag Harbor, “where they introduced their grandchildren to all of the pleasures that living on the eastern end of Long Island offers.”

Her family described her as “a caring and nurturing friend who could always be counted on for her wisdom, strength, and sense of humor,” and said she was the “ultimate caregiver.” Even as her own health declined, she cared for her sister, Shirley Ford Garrett, who had Parkinson’s disease, until her death in October.

Ms. Pryce’s husband died in 2009, and her son, Ross Pryce, died in 2015.

In addition to her daughter, who lives in Laurelton, Queens, a brother, Theodore Ford of Jamaica, Queens, survives her, as do three grandchildren and a nephew. Services were held last week.

Herbert Knoblach, a Montauk resident who was a pioneer in mako shark fishing and had worked at Hither Hills State Park and the Montauk Marine Basin, died at home on Friday of the complications of diabetes. He was 84 years old and had been ill for two years.

Mr. Knoblach grew up in Middle Village and spent teenage summers working on charter boats out of Fish Shangrila in Montauk. He moved to Montauk after serving in the Navy during the Korean War. A friend, Joe LiPani of Montauk, called him “a gentle giant.” He began shark fishing on the Sinbad in the mid-1960s and, Mr. LiPani said, “always caught and released blue sharks and any other fish that they did not want to keep.”

Mr. Knoblach had a lifelong passion for woodworking and boat building, having built a sailboat with his brothers when he was a teenager. A consummate craftsman, his family said he was happy to share what he knew with others and to offer help.

Kim Fagerland of Amagansett said her father had regretted not staying in the Navy, in which he served for four years and had been a boatswain’s mate on the battleship Wisconsin before settling in Montauk.

He was born on June 26, 1932, in Middle Village, one of the three sons of George Frank Knoblach and the former Mary Ann Schneider. He attended high school there.

Mr. Knoblach was introduced to his wife-to-be, Jane Hart, through a mutual friend at Idlewild Airport, where she worked for Pan Am. They married on Sept. 7, 1955. She survives, as do two daughters, Ms. Fagerland and Marianne Athanosios of Sebago, Me.

The family wrote that Mr. Knoblach was “trusted and respected, known for his cheerful outlook on life, his honesty and integrity, and could always be counted on to lend a hand.” He had a lifelong interest in hunting as well as fishing and boat building.

In addition to his wife and daughters, Mr. Knoblach is survived by a brother, George Knoblach of Montauk, three grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. His brother Jack, who lived in Florida, died before him.

The family said that his ashes would be scattered in accordance with his wishes.

David Lee, who had owned a jewelry store in Sag Harbor and was active in many facets of the Sag Harbor and East Hampton communities, died on Nov. 29 at the Southampton Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing. He was 88 and had been in declining health following a series of falls in October.

A funeral was held on Dec. 1 at Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor, and a memorial service will be held there on Wednesday at 2 p.m., with Rabbi Daniel Geffen and Mr. Lee’s granddaughter, Cantor Rebecca Goren of Israel, officiating. He was buried at Chevra Kodetia cemetery in Sag Harbor.

Mr. Lee was president of Temple Adas Israel for many years, and seemed to have a hand in whatever may have been going on in Sag Harbor for more than half a century. “I try to keep moving, because a moving target is much harder to hit,” he told The East Hampton Star in a 1996 interview.

Mr. Lee and his first wife opened Cove Jewelers on Sag Harbor’s Main Street in the 1970s and ran it for 22 years.

Among his civic activities, Mr. Lee was the Sag Harbor School Board president in the 1960s, on the village zoning board of appeals, and was a founding member of the Merchants Association of Sag Harbor, which later became the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce. A longtime promoter of tourism on the East End and in Sag Harbor in the days after the Grumman and Bulova factories closed, he was a founding member and past chairman of the Long Island Convention and Visitors Bureau.

“He was most proud of anything he could do to help Sag Harbor thrive,” said his daughter Cheri Laviano.

Mr. Lee helped found the Sag Harbor Community Band in the late 1950s, and played with it for decades. “I’m not a musician,” he told The Star, “I just play the snare drum.” In recent years, he acted as M.C. at the band’s outdoor concerts on Bay Street. 

He was also a member of the Lions Club, the Wamponamon Masonic Lodge in Sag Harbor, and served for many years as the chairman of the board of the East Hampton Housing Authority, and, after moving to East Hampton, of the East Hampton Citizens Advisory Committee.

Her father described himself as “a conservative with real heart, Ms. Laviano said. He had served as a president of the Republican Club of East Hampton.

Mr. Lee was born in Manchester, England, on March 22, 1928, to Joseph Lee and the former Jean Mendelson. He attended Sheffield High School, Sheffield University, and British Army leadership schools, and served as a radar technician and operator with the British Army’s Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers from 1945 to 1948.

He, his parents, and two younger brothers were set follow his sister to the United States in 1948 when he met his future wife, Vera Falk, and decided to stay behind, Ms. Laviano said. His father told him, “It’s either everybody or nobody,” she recalled; if he stayed in England, the entire family would, too. He relented when his fiancée agreed to emigrate as well. The family lived briefly in Sayville with an aunt and then moved to an apartment above a diner in Sag Harbor. Mr. Lee became a U.S. citizen in 1953.

Having apprenticed as a watchmaker in England, Mr. Lee found work at Fritt’s Jewelers on Sag Harbor’s Main Street. His fiancée arrived in 1949, and they were married soon after her arrival. The couple built a house on the corner of High and Franklin Streets in the village and eventually opened the jewelry store. His wife died in 1995 and he was remarried to Joanna Paitchell, who survives.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, he worked for Rowe Industries, which had facilities in Sag Harbor, UpIsland, and overseas. He was vice president of the firm from 1968 to 1971. He had also worked in public relations, property management, and hotel operations over the years.

Even those who had not met him might have recognized his voice from the daily morning broadcasts he did on WLNG radio in Sag Harbor for many years. 

In addition to his wife, who lives in East Hampton, he is survived by his daughters, Michele Connar of Center Moriches and Ms. Laviano, who lives in Raanana, Israel, and by one granddaughter and two great-granddaughters.

Contributions have been suggested to Temple Adas Israel.