There will be a graveside service at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton tomorrow at noon for Margaret Schorsch, a former Montauk resident who died yesterday in Rocky Point, where she lived. She was 94. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

A graveside service for Patricia Young, a clerk at the East Hampton Post Office who died on Dec. 8, will be held Monday at the Jamesport Cemetery on the North Fork. Ms. Young, who was 59, lived on Town Lane in East Hampton. An obituary for her will appear in a future issue.

A celebration of the life of Clyde Lyle Jackson, 58, a former Montauk resident who died at home in Exmore, Va., on Nov. 14, will take place at Sammy’s restaurant on West Lake Drive in Montauk on Sunday at 3 p.m. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Gary J. Tweed, who had a house on Robertson Drive on North Haven for 25 years, died on Dec. 9 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City at the age of 70. He had cancer and had been sick for about seven weeks, his daughter Kimberly Regan said.

An Army veteran, he was a business owner and real estate developer. He was born on Oct. 17, 1945, in Maspeth, Queens, to George H. Tweed and the former Anna S. Koberlein.

Mr. Tweed is survived by his wife, Nadine Brown, whom he married in 2011, and two daughters, Ms. Regan, a Rye, N.Y., resident, and Kelly Maldutis of New York City. Two grandchildren also survive.

A viewing will be held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor tomorrow from 2 to 4 and from 7 to 9 p.m. A Mass will be said at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church on Saturday at 11 a.m., followed by burial at Oakland Cemetery, both in Sag Harbor.

Roland A. Reich, a former East Hampton resident who had worked for New York Telephone in Manhattan for 42 years, died on Saturday in North Kingston, R.I., where he had lived for about two years. He had been ill for about six months, his family said.

He was born on Jan. 21, 1928, in Astoria, Queens, to Anton Reich and the former Amalia Huber. His father was a master carpenter and passed skills on that Mr. Reich would use building and carving, including in making his award-winning duck decoys, his family said. He grew up in Astoria and Flushing, Queens, and served a year in the Army.

With his wife and children, Mr. Reich had kept a vacation place on Oakview Highway in East Hampton, which became a year-round home following his retirement from the phone company.

Among Mr. Reich’s interests was fishing, something he shared with his sons, Robert Reich of Montauk and Richard Reich of Narragansett, R.I., and, according to a note in a 1979 East Hampton Star, with his wife, the former Pauline Rupel, whom he had married on Jan. 1, 1950. He docked a boat at the Three Mile Harbor fishing station. He and his wife enjoyed angling for fluke in the bay during the warm summer months, his son Richard Reich said.

Mrs. Reich died in 2008. Mr. Reich is survived by four grandchildren and one great-grandson. His funeral was private.

Memorial donations have been suggested to the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association, 1 Cedar Street, East Hampton 11937.

Margaret E. Till Edeline, who was a young actress in London before moving to this country, died on Dec. 12 at her daughter’s house in Norfolk, Va. She was 91 and had had breast cancer, but the precise cause of death was uncertain.

Mrs. Edeline was born in Surrey, England, on June 28, 1924, the only child of Henry Charles Routledge and the former Edith Biffen. She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, and between 1940 and 1948 had a career on the London stage, appearing in dramatic productions, many of which were by Shakespeare.

 She was married Roland (Jim) H. Till just after World War II, and they moved to the United States in 1949, settling in Allendale, N.J. She then appeared in several dinner-theater productions and had a small role in “The Guiding Light,” a television series.

The couple became part-time residents of East Hampton in 1964 but Mr. Till died in a plane accident in 1970. In 1974, she married Jacques Edeline, who died in 1980. Mrs. Edeline moved to East Hampton full time that year.

Her family said she “settled into a very happy life with games of bridge and many social gatherings.” She also worked in the John Drew Theater box office at Guild Hall. She moved to Virginia Beach, Va., in 2002. Mrs. Edeline enjoyed traveling and was known to have visited more than 30 countries.

“She was a people collector and loved to tell stories about her travels and people that she met,” her daughter, Alison C. Till, said. “She was very gregarious and outgoing.”

 In addition to her daughter, Mrs. Edeline is survived by five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Two sons, Russell H. Till and Colin H. Till, died before her. Her family said her body was given to medical science. She eventually will be cremated, and her ashes spread on the water.

A celebration of Mrs. Edeline’s life will be planned for a future date. Memorial donations have been suggested to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, which can be made online at giving.mskcc.org or sent to 1275 York Avenue, New York 10065.

Robert Roy Metz, who had been the president and C.E.O. of United Media, a licensing and newspaper-syndication company that launched and syndicated the “Garfield” and “Dilbert” comic strips under his leadership, died of pneumonia on Sunday at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton. He was 86.

United Media also syndicated such popular comic strips as Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts” and distributed hundreds of features, among them “Marmaduke,” “Nancy,” “The Born Loser,” “Miss Manners” by Judith Martin, columns by Jack Anderson and Alan Dershowitz, and editorial cartoons by Mike Peters and others. The company’s Pharos Books division also published “The World Almanac,” among other nonfiction titles, and a subsidiary, TV Data, sold TV listings to newspapers.

The comic strips were “not only enormously successful on the comics pages but on a wide array of licensed products,” his family wrote. He “led the company into a major international expansion,” they said, opening offices in Toronto, Amsterdam, and Tokyo. He also established a joint venture with Lee Mendelson that produced children’s animated television programs.

In 1992, United Media donated the Robert Roy Metz Collection of more than 83,000 original cartoons by over 100 cartoonists to Ohio State University’s Cartoon Library and Museum. Mr. Metz retired in 1994.

He was born in Richmond Hill, Queens, on March 23, 1929, to Robert R. Metz Sr. and the former Mary Kissel. His family wrote that he was “proud of being a native New Yorker” and of never having lived anywhere but Queens, Manhattan, Babylon, and East Hampton, where he lived part time in a house on Swamp Road for 30 years. He was a full-time resident for 12 years.

Mr. Metz graduated from Richmond Hill High School and from Wesleyan University “and all his life seemed somewhat amazed that through scholarships and assistance from his beloved older sister, Edith, he had been able to attend such a good school.” He supported Wesleyan as an alumnus, taking part in a number of fund-raising campaigns, and was the agent for the class of 1950.

Mr. Metz began his career as a copy boy at The New York Times in 1951 and was promoted to the foreign news desk the next year. He worked for five years as a reporter and editor with the International News Service until it merged with United Press in 1958, at which time he became an assistant news editor at the Newspaper Enterprise Association. He went on to become its president in 1972 and became a vice president in 1976 of United Feature Syndicate, which merged to form United Media.

“History, politics, and the news were his lifelong passions, and he read nonfiction and biography voraciously,” his family said. In his younger years, he had considered a career in the ministry, and after choosing journalism would say that he was “spreading the word of man rather than the word of God,” they wrote.

He was an enthusiastic traveler, with a particular love of England, France, and Italy, and he and his wife had rented houses in New York and London and for two extended periods in France and Italy. He loved the theater and enjoyed good food and wine, doing the meal planning, shopping, and cooking at home until recent years.

Mr. Metz was a member of the Union League Club in New York and a former trustee of Goodspeed Opera in East Haddam, Conn., and the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. He also was a member of the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor.

Mr. Metz’s first marriage, to Beth Blossom, with whom he had two sons, ended in divorce. He was married to Susan Blair on May 18, 1984. She survives, as do his sons, Robert Metz of New York City and Christopher Metz of Olympia, Wash., and a stepson, Allen Hahn of Bloomington, Ind. Three grandchildren also survive. Edith Metz Magee, his sister, died before him.

Visiting hours will be on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A funeral service is planned for Monday at noon at the Old Whalers Church.

Mr. Metz’s family has suggested contributions to the Wesleyan Fund, Wesleyan University, 318 High Street, Middletown, Conn. 06459, to the Group for the East End, P.O. Box 1792, Southold 11971, or the Old Whalers Church, P.O. Box 1241, Sag Harbor 11963.

John L. Niles Sr., 84, who coached powerhouse Bridgehampton High School Killer Bees boys basketball teams in the 1980s, teams that beat the likes of Brooklyn’s Boys and Girls High, Hempstead, and Amityville, died Saturday in Conway, S.C., a town near Myrtle Beach to which he and his wife, Nancy, who predeceased him, moved when he retired in 1991.

Joe Niles, a son who lives in Charleston, S.C., said Monday that his father had been born in Harrisburg, Pa., on Oct. 23, 1931, but had been reared in Bridgehampton, “in a house across the street from the school, toward the intersection where the monument is.”

Mr. Niles went to the Bridgehampton School, where he played six-man football, basketball, and baseball, after which, his son said, he attended the University of Buffalo.

Mr. Niles’s wife, the former Nancy Ross, also grew up in Bridgehampton. They had five children, Michael, Stephen, John Jr., whose nickname is Jay, Joe, and Michelle Paterson, all of whom survive him. Both Mr. and Mrs. Niles, at one time or another, served on the Bridgehampton School Board.

“Basketball in Bridgehampton really began with Roger Golden,” Mr. Niles said during an interview in 1997, when he returned here to celebrate with his successor, Carl Johnson, and his players, the school’s seventh Class D state championship. Mr. Golden coached for a decade, beginning in 1970, and so did Mr. Niles, from 1981 to 1991.

Under Mr. Golden, the Bees, then known as the Bridgies, won state championships in 1978, ’79, and ’80, and Mr. Niles followed suit with state titles in 1984 and ’86. His 1985 team was a state finalist, and his ’91 team was a state semifinalist. The 1986 and ’89 teams, moreover, won county small schools championships. In addition, he won numerous coach-of-the-year awards.

“He was a good coach — he coached me in the C.Y.O. league and in junior high — and was an even better person,” said Coach Johnson, who played on three of Bridgehampton’s state-championship teams and has coached four of them. “He was there 100 percent for these kids. He did anything and everything for them. He meant a lot to the kids and to the community.”

Ronnie Gholson, who played for Mr. Niles on the junior varsity and varsity between 1984 and ’87, and Louis O’Neal, who coaches now at Southampton High School, and who played for Mr. Niles in junior high, agreed.

“In three years we maybe lost one or two games,” said Mr. Gholson. “We beat Amityville my junior and senior years, in ’87 we beat Boys and Girls, we beat Hempstead. . . . Yes, we had talent, what with players like Troy Bowe, Bobby Hopson, Darryl Hemby, Tim Jackson, Chris Parker, Polis Walker, Duane White, Rodney Harris, and Kevin Dance, but a lot of the credit goes to him. He didn’t just roll the ball out onto the court and say, ‘Play.’ He knew the game, he worked us hard in practices, and then when gametime came he allowed us to play with freedom, with creativity.”

Bowe went on to play at the University of Hawaii, Hopson at Wagner, Harris at Southampton College, where he was one of the leading 3-point shooters in the country, and Gholson at the University of Bridgeport.

Mr. Gholson, who has coached the Westhampton Beach High School’s boys varsity basketball team since 2003, credits Mr. Niles with having turned his life around.

“Coming into my freshman year I was about to go down the wrong path, but he got me into a summer camp, with his son Joe, at Potsdam. That camp wasn’t just about basketball — they talked to us about work, about dedication and commitment, and asked us to think about what we wanted to be when we grew up. It was a great experience. As a result of it, I became a different player, a different person. And it was because of him.”

A memorial service for Mr. Niles, who is also survived by seven grandchildren, will be held on Dec. 5 at Hillcrest Mausoleum Chapel in Conway at 10 a.m.

Asked if there would be a gathering of some sort here for Mr. Niles, Coach Johnson said, “We’re hoping to honor him on Feb. 5, the day we play Stony Brook. We’re hoping that our Wall of Fame will be up by then, but if it’s not, we’ll honor him anyway.”

Joanne Shea Cole, whose family said she dedicated her life to healing practices and service to others, died on Friday in Albany. She was 69 and had pancreatic cancer for three months.

Ms. Cole, who divided her time among Malibu, Calif., Hollywood, Fla., and East Hampton, was a lifelong vegetarian and yogi who was in the process of becoming an addiction counselor before her death.

“She loved the beach and the ocean, and no place was more special to her than the Hamptons, where she spent many happy years,” her family said.

She was born in the Bronx on Feb. 9, 1946, and grew up there. She is survived by her partner of 25 years, Sandy Cole, her son, David Shea of East Chatham, N.Y., and two granddaughters.

Private memorial services for family and friends on the South Fork and in California will be planned at a later date. Memorial donations have been suggested to the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, P.O. Box 901, Wainscott 11975, to The Daily Word, at dailyword.com/donate, or to Science of Mind, at scienceofmind.com.

Jody Lee Kalafut, who grew up in Montauk and with her husband operated Jody’s Country Kitchen on the hamlet’s Main Street from 1978 to 1982, died on Oct. 25 at her East Hampton house, where she and her family had lived since 1989. Her death was unexpected and the cause may have been a heart attack, her sister, Marcia Edelstein Darrow of Pelham, N.Y., said. Ms. Kalafut was 56.

“She was an extraordinary cook and baker,” her sister said. “She did incredible holiday baking — Christmas cookies and rugelach.”

Ms. Kalafut was born on Nov. 29, 1958, in Manhattan to Harvey Edelstein and the former Ruth Salzberg. She graduated from East Hampton High School before earning a degree in hotel technology from Sullivan County Community College in Loch Sheldrake, N.Y.

She and Kenneth Kalafut, who survives, were married on Oct. 16, 1982. The couple ran the restaurant and catering business that bore her name. Ms. Kalafut became a stay-at-home mother after the birth of her second child, and also worked in distribution for The New York Times for 10 years. 

She was an active parent, her sister said, serving as a Girl Scout leader, a member of the PTA, and “a class mother extraordinaire” for her daughters throughout their years at the John M. Marshall Elementary School.

In addition to her husband and sister, Ms. Kalafut’s daughters, who survive, are Dr. Sarah Kalafut of Manhattan and Rachel Kalafut of East Hampton. A brother, Richard Edelstein, died in 2012. Her parents also died before her.

The family has suggested contributions toward a memorial tree for Ms. Kalafut. Contributions can be sent to the Memorial Tree Fund, East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society, 95 Main Street, East Hampton 11937 or lvis.org.