Ronald Budd Hildreth, a retired international patent lawyer and law school lecturer, died at home in Montauk on Tuesday. He was 82 and had a stroke, his family said.

Mr. Hildreth was in the 11th generation of Southampton Hildreths. He was born on June 24, 1933, in Bay Shore to Joshua Budd Hildreth and the former Jane Haag and grew up in Blue Point.

He was the valedictorian of Bayport High School in 1950 and then went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, from which he received at degree in chemical engineering in 1954. He was the first of his family to graduate from college.

While serving in the Army at the Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey, Mr. Hildreth went on to Rutgers University, receiving a master’s degree in business administration in 1957. He got his law degree in 1961 from the Georgetown University School of Law, where he finished third in his class.

In 1969, when he was 35, he became a partner in the Brumbaugh, Graves, Donohue, and Raymond firm in New York City. He retired in 2003 from Baker Botts, also in Manhattan, which had merged with his previous firm.

Mr. Hildreth was a professor of patent law at Long Island University from 1968 through 1977 and an adjunct professor of patent, trademark, and copyright law at the St. John’s University School of Law beginning in 1972. He won elected office as a Garden City committeeman.

  He was the author of “Patent Law: A Practitioner s Guide,” a textbook in use in classrooms today. He was formerly a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Virginia Bar, and the New York Industrial Property Law Association.

Mr. Hildreth is survived by his wife, the former Joan Cashman, to whom he was married for 57 years, and their children, Steven Ronald Hildreth of Floral Park, Bradley Budd Hildreth of Garden City, Jane O’Keeffe, also of Garden City, Elizabeth Anne Hildreth of Lake Forest, Ill., and Jeffrey Cashman Hildreth of Montauk. He leaves 15 grandchildren.

Mr. and Mrs. Hildreth and their children first rented a house in Montauk for two weeks in 1964 and then bought a parcel of land on Old Montauk Highway, where they had a house built, moving in around Labor Day of 1966. In the summers they divided their time between Garden City and the Montauk house, with Mr. Hildreth working three long days at the law firm to be able to relax for more time with his family.

As an international patent lawyer, he traveled widely, Mrs. Hildreth said, visiting 103 countries and all 50 states, some for pleasure, most for work. “He was a real go-getter,” she said. While the couple were very social while in Garden City, Montauk was all about relaxation. “He was extremely devoted to his family,” Mrs. Hildreth said.

Mr. Hildreth was president of the Hildreth Family Association for 30 years. He was an active member of the Cherry Valley Club in Garden City and a member of the University Club in Manhattan.

Visiting hours are today at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

A funeral Mass will be said for him at 11 a.m. tomorrow at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk. Burial will be at Fort Hill Cemetery in that hamlet. Memorial donations have been suggested to St. Therese, 67 South Essex Street, Montauk 11954.

Loretta Lynch, a former custodial worker at East Hampton High School whose care extended to all of the students she came in contact with, many of whom called her “Ma,” died on June 6 at the William Childs Hospice House in Palm Bay, Fla. She was 77 and had been diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer in late May.

Ms. Lynch “dished out plenty of wisdom” to the youngsters she befriended, her family said. Acting far beyond her custodial duties at the school, where she worked for 26 years, she served as “psychologist, social worker, disciplinarian, rescuer, and friend” to the youngsters who turned to her with their problems. She helped many of them reach graduation, the family said, by acting as a “positive, caring, supportive, and often tough role model.” Many of those whose lives she touched kept in contact over the years, well past their high school days.

She was born in the Bronx on Jan. 26, 1939, the youngest of three children born to Kenneth R. and Nellie A. Wilson. Her family moved to Montauk when she was a teenager, and she attended East Hampton High School.

She was married on Dec. 31, 1959, to Robert W. Lynch, who died before her. The couple raised two sons, Robert W. Lynch III, known as Bobby, and Stephen K. Lynch.

Ms. Lynch had a “fiery spirit,” her family said, and “knew that the only way to truly live was to engage in life with gusto, use elbow grease to get the job done, and do all things with love in service to God.”

She didn’t mince words and had a tough outer shell, her family said, but would pray for all she loved, even those “on her list” of people who had gone astray. A warm person with a caring, sensitive heart, she made friends wherever she went.

In 1995, Ms. Lynch retired to her house in Barefoot Bay, Fla., where she volunteered at a soup kitchen, helped the homeless, and volunteered at the Sebastian River Medical Center. She joined the Moose Lodge and a group called the Orioles, enjoyed swimming, and attended St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church.  Her religion grew more important to her in recent years, and she was devoted to Bible study over the last several of them.

Ms. Lynch is survived by her son, Stephen K. Lynch, the East Hampton Town Highway superintendent. She was like a mother to his wife, Regina, for the last 35 years, the family said. She is also survived by three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Her eldest son, Bobby Lynch, died before her. She also leaves three nieces and seven grandnieces and grandnephews.

Services are to be held at the East Hampton Fire Department, but a date has not yet been set.

Virginia Natalie Veronica Stier, a Montauk resident who was active in the community and known for her hospitality, died on Sunday, at Southampton Hospital. She was 85 years old and her death was attributed to natural causes.

Mrs. Stier was a volunteer, serving soup for many years at the clam chowder contest during the annual Montauk Chamber of Commerce fall festival and drinks to golfers during the annual Montauk Chamber of Commerce outing at the Montauk Downs fifth hole, which is near the house she and her husband, James G. Stier, purchased about 40 years ago. She also helped the volunteers in the garden area of the annual East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society Fair.

She was born on Dec. 23, 1930, in Flushing, Queens, to James A. Nicholson and the former Ellen Gilmore. She lived in Bayville while growing up and graduated from St. Dominic High School in Oyster Bay in 1948.

She and Mr. Stier, whom she had met through mutual friends, were married in 1955. The couple had seven children, though two children, a son, Michael, and a daughter, Katrina, died in infancy. The family lived in Montclair, N.J., and were frequent visitors to the South Fork before buying their house in Montauk. During the 1970s, Mrs. Stier worked as a floor manager at Lord & Taylor on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The couple moved to Montauk full time in the late 1980s.

Mrs. Stier loved gardening, swimming, and traveling, her family said, and had visited Bermuda, Italy, and China. She was a dedicated member of St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk, where the Rev. Tom Murray was to officiate at a Mass of Christian burial at 10 this morning.

One of Mrs. Stier’s daughters, Gretchen (Gigi) Callahan of Nantucket, Mass., described her mother as a strong and determined woman. Her friend Linda Barnds, whom she knew for 25 years, said, “She was one of a kind. She was classic, down to earth, and friendly with everybody. She will be missed.”

In addition to her husband and daughter Gretchen, she leaves another daughter, Heidi Barberio of Waltham, Mass., and three sons, Kenneth Stier of Brooklyn, Greg W. Stier of Albuquerque, and Gerard Stier of Hoboken, N.J., and five grandchildren.

Mrs. Stier will be buried following the Mass at Fort Hill Cemetery in Montauk. Memorial donations have been suggested to the Portsmouth Abbey School, 285 Cory’s Lane, Portsmouth, R.I. 02871.

A memorial service will be held tomorrow for Alton Terry Gholson, who died on May 31 at the age of 61 in Las Vegas, where he had lived for the past 13 years. The service will be held at the First Baptist Church of Bridgehampton, of which Mr. Gholson had been a member, from 7 to 9 p.m. Mr. Gholson, a talented musician, grew up on Norris Lane and graduated from Bridgehampton High School.

Raymond John Warme of Montauk, a retired construction contractor, died at Stony Brook Hospital on June 26 of complications following surgery. He was 78 years old.

Mr. Warme, who was known as Ray, was born in the Bronx on March 30, 1938, to Gustaf Warme and the former Mary Collins. He went to work at an early age and, in 1957, married Barbara Passemante. The couple moved to East Hampton in 1976 with their four daughters, and to Montauk about 10 years ago.

With a business partner, Kris Michelsen, Mr. Warme worked on the original Montauk Yacht Club and many other projects.

He especially enjoyed entertaining friends and gardening. His family wrote that “he was a true gentleman, generous, loving, well-respected, and loved by those who knew him.”

Mr. Warme’s wife died in 1992; a daughter, Maureen Jarvis, also predeceased him. His surviving daughters are Dawn Dunn of East Hampton, Adele Seitz of Colorado, and Corrin Pease of New York. He is also survived by five grandchildren, two brothers, Michael Warme of Pine Beach, N.J., and Richard Warme of East Hampton, and his girlfriend, Orla Troy.

Visitation will take place today from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, with funeral services tomorrow at 11 a.m. Burial will follow at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton.

Susan W. Duke, who grew up in Laredo, Tex., and moved north with her husband to live in Noyac and Sag Harbor for 31 years, died Monday at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quogue. She was 61 and had had a debilitating bowel disease for many years.

Born on Dec. 28, 1954, in Inglewood, Calif., to Max Watts and the former Mary Lawrence, Mrs. Duke soon headed with her family to Laredo, where she went to school and earned an associate business degree from the Texas A&M International University.  After college, she worked as a personnel director in Arlington, Tex. It was there that she met Woody Duke Jr. through mutual friends.

“Susan was engaged to another man,” Mr. Duke said yesterday. “I said to her, if he ever gives you any trouble, let me know.” She decided then and there that she was wearing the wrong man’s ring, he said. They were soon married.

The couple moved to Noyac in 1995 with their 3-year-old daughter, Cori. Mrs. Duke became an executive secretary in the Southampton School District, working there for six years until her illness required surgery. She then was active in the Sag Harbor community and became involved with the day camp run by the now defunct Stella Maris School.

Mrs. Duke was an artist who loved to sketch and do crafts, her sister-in-law, Terri White, said yesterday. She loved shopping and frequenting her  favorite store, T.J. Maxx, which earned her the nickname Maxxinista. She also enjoyed going to Long Beach in Sag Harbor and playing games of Scrabble there with her husband’s extended family.

Mrs. Duke was cremated, and it is Mr. Duke’s wish that after he dies his ashes will be mixed with hers and dispersed. A Mass of Christian burial was held at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Sag Harbor on Tuesday.

Mrs. Duke is survived by her daughter, Cori, now Mary Cora Smith of Southampton, in addition to her husband, and by three grandchildren. Her parents also survive; her mother lives in Laredo, while her father settled in Corpus Christi, Tex. Also surviving are a sister, Sharon Garant of San Antonio, and a brother, Kenny Watts of Corpus Christi.

Memorial donations have been suggested to East End Hospice, 481 Riverhead Road, Westhampton Beach 11978.

Ellen G. Fine, who after a successful career at Bloomingdale’s developed nine home furnishings and women’s clothing stores called Fine Design, one of which was on Newtown Lane in East Hampton, died unexpectedly of an aortic dissection on June 7 at her Manhattan office. A resident of Manhattan and East Hampton, she was 70 years old.

Ms. Fine began at Bloomingdale’s in New York City as a furniture buyer in 1973 and rose to become a regional manager. She started Fine Design on a pushcart at Manhattan’s South Street Seaport in 1986, selling hand-knit and cotton sweaters. With help from contacts at Bloomingdale’s, she expanded her business and soon opened her first shop in the Chelsea neighborhood. Her Newtown Lane shop was her third and her favorite, Elizabeth Fine of New York City, a daughter, said.

“She used to have this big summer sale in August, and people would line up around the block,” Elizabeth Fine recalled. “She was Ralph Lauren before there was Ralph Lauren. She loved keeping her store open year round and decorating it for Christmas. It was important for her to be seen as a local business.”

Fine Design had stores in Boston, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., before they closed in 1993 as the economy slowed. Ms. Fine later became a financial adviser with Janney Montgomery Scott, where she was a vice president of investments at the time of her death. Elizabeth Fine said her mother “was breaking glass ceilings before it was popular.”

She was born on July 12, 1945, in Pittsburgh to John C.S. Ginder and the former Jean Buttermore. She grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, and attended Cardinal Mooney High School there, graduating in 1963. She moved to Boston in 1965 after visiting friends in Provincetown and taking a liking to Massachusetts. She later moved to New York City and, in 1982, received a bachelor’s degree from Marymount Manhattan College.

 A brief first marriage ended in divorce. She and Sidney L. Weinberg, who had met through her position at Bloomingdale’s, were married in 1979. Friends soon introduced them to the East End, where they became frequent visitors, and they bought a house in Northwest Woods about 30 years ago. Mr. Weinberg died in 2004.

Ms. Fine loved gardening, going to restaurants, art exhibitions, and to the beach, even in winter. She enjoyed entertaining and staged an annual clambake. She also enjoyed painting, spending time each summer at the Art Barge in Napeague. Her work included landscapes, houses, and flowers, among other subjects.

In addition to her daughter Elizabeth, Andrew Fine, a son, and Jean Weinberg, her youngest daughter, both of whom live in New York City, survive, as do six grandchildren. She also is survived by four siblings, Mary Ginder of Colorado, Richard Ginder of Florida, Don Ginder of North Carolina, and John Ginder of North Carolina.

A member of St. Jean the Baptiste Catholic Church in New York City, she was buried on June 11 at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery in East Hampton. Her family said she would be remembered as a “beloved matriarch, tenacious businesswoman, cherished friend, mother, sister, and aunt.”

Lester Forbell Jr., who was called Zeke by family and friends, died at home on Queens Lane in East Hampton on June 7. He was 61 and had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer last summer.

Mr. Forbell was a skilled mechanic, with a passion for cars. He worked for the East Hampton Town Highway Department starting in 1995, and had previously worked at local junk yards and the old North Main Texaco in East Hampton. “He was the type that it got fixed right the first time,” his wife, the former Marianne Hawkins, said. Any free time he had was always spent working on cars. He had a 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1, which he had restored and took to shows all over Long Island.

In recent years, Mr. Forbell and his son, Lester Forbell III, served in the pit crew for Cory Midgett, a cousin who races at Riverhead Speedway. Mrs. Forbell said it had brought them closer together. The raceway dedicated the race to Mr. Forbell on Saturday.

He was born at Southampton Hospital on Dec. 13, 1954; his parents were Lester Forbell and the former Mildred Havens, whose family has been in East Hampton for several generations. He grew up in East Hampton and Amagansett and attended East Hampton High School.

“He was one of the most generous people,” his wife said. “No matter what, day or night, if somebody needed help he would do it,” she said, adding that he never expected anything in return.

The couple had been together for 34 years, but married after more than 11 years when Mr. Forbell surprised his wife with a shopping trip to purchase rings. 

In addition to his wife and his son, Mr. Forbell is survived by his son’s fiancée, Jamie Bennett. The couple and their children lived with Mr. and Mrs. Forbell on Queens Lane. Mr. Forbell’s siblings, Mona Forbell of East Hampton, Diane Forbell of Riverhead, and Carol Tarazavich of Mastic, and numerous nieces and nephews survive, as do two grandchildren, Jaiden Forbell, 7, and Emma Forbell, 5, who were “the absolute joys of his life,” his wife said.

A service was held last Thursday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, followed by private burial. The family has said that donations to cover Mr. Forbell’s medical expenses would be appreciated. They can be sent to Mildred Forbell, P.O. Box 518, East Hampton 11937.

Stephen Soreff, a sculptor who had taught design for many years at C.W. Post College of Long Island University, died of lung cancer on April 23 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He was 85 years old.

Mr. Soreff created found-object assemblages, which were exhibited at such galleries as Solar in East Hampton and at the Whitney Museum in New York City. Zachary Soreff of New York City, one of Mr. Soreff’s sons, said “his work was very much influenced by architecture, technology, and engineering.” His career at C.W. Post ranged from the early 1970s to the early 1990s.

He was born on Feb. 2, 1931, in the Bronx to Stephen Mayer Soreff and the former Jeanne Goldring. He grew up in Brooklyn and earned a degree in engineering from Brooklyn College, working for a time as a draftsman. He was drafted into the Army during the Korean War but was stationed in Germany and did not see conflict. His service to his country was said to have impacted his work as an artist, however. He and Helen Soreff, a painter whose work is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum, were married in 1960. She died in 1998.

His family said his lifelong interests included politics and culture as well as art. He enjoyed the South Fork, often remaining for six months of the year over the five decades he had a house here, and enjoyed going to restaurants, gallery openings, and film screenings. “He was a very friendly, popular guy. He was superintelligent. He was like an encyclopedia. He loved telling jokes. A lot of people knew him and loved him,” Zachary Soreff said. In his assemblages, “he would create anything from swords to high-heeled shoes to model airplanes. It was very interesting and challenging work,”

In addition to Zachary Soreff, Mr. Soreff is survived by another son, Alexander Soreff, and a brother, Richard Allen Soreff, both of New York City.

A private burial will take place on Sunday at Green River Cemetery in Springs, and a memorial service hosted by Mr. Soreff’s sons is planned for 4 p.m. that day at his house at 26 Whooping Hollow Road in East Hampton.

Chester Laird Uncapher and his wife earned dual pilot’s licenses in 1975, attending adult-education classes together in the evenings. Every summer, the couple hosted a pancake breakfast inside an airplane hangar attached to their house in Michigan, with friends either driving or flying in. They often served upward of 200 pancakes.

Mr. Uncapher died of a heart attack on June 1 while visiting his daughter’s house in East Hampton. He was 73.

Known as Chet, he was born on April 19, 1943, in East Aurora, N.Y., to Chester Uncapher and the former Sarah Zelda. In 1961, he graduated from Brookville High School in Pennsylvania. In 1965, he graduated from Clarion University in that state with a bachelor’s degree in education, later continuing his postgraduate studies at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich.

He also attended the American College of Financial Services in Bryn Mawr, Pa., earning certificates as a chartered life insurance underwriter and as a chartered financial consultant.

In 1962, he married Patti Lindemuth, his high school sweetheart. They were together for 53 years. She survives him and lives in Zeeland, Mich.

After Mr. Uncapher’s first year of teaching in Pennsylvania, the couple moved to Michigan, where he worked as an insurance adjuster, an elementary school teacher, a high school electronics teacher, and a cameraman for a Detroit television station. He also started his own financial-planning business, which he ran for more than 30 years.

Outside of work, he was an amateur radio operator, with a special call sign of W8HA. He belonged to the Experimental Aircraft Association, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, the Michigan Aviation Association, and the National Rifle Association.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Andrea Nichols of Jenison, Mich., and Karen Panish of East Hampton. He leaves two grandsons, 10 nieces, and six nephews.

Hoping to continue the Uncaphers’ pancake breakfast tradition, the family has planned one for mid-July in Michigan to celebrate his life.

His family has suggested memorial donations to the Michigan Aviation Education Foundation, 22436 Mylls Street, St. Clair Shores, Mich. 48081, or the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Young Eagles Program, P.O. Box 3816, Oshkosh, Wis. 54903.