Vivian Holder was “a very elegant and sophisticated woman,” said her daughter, Corey Ann Holder of East Hampton. Ms. Holder, who came from Brooklyn to East Hampton in the 1980s to care for her mother and thereafter lived on Three Mile Harbor Road, died on Nov. 13 at Southampton Hospital of complications following a stroke.

A breast cancer survivor, she had been ill for several years with diabetes, kidney disease, and dementia. “She had a silent strength that you wouldn’t see immediately,” her daughter said, “but if you got to know her, to see her in her life, you’d see how amazingly strong she was.”

Ms. Holder was born on July 21, 1929, in Brooklyn to William Williamson and the former Gladys Williams. She grew up there and graduated from Girls High School, an 1886 Victorian Gothic structure in the borough’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood that is now a designated New York City landmark.

She loved horseback riding, skiing, and traveling to Barbados. At one time, she owned and operated a dress shop in Brooklyn. When her mother died in 1992, Ms. Holder inherited the Three Mile Harbor Road property and managed it as well as other properties in East Hampton and Brooklyn, her daughter said.

Ms. Holder’s marriage ended in divorce in the 1970s. Her former husband died in 2002. In addition to her daughter, Ms. Holder, who was an only child, is survived by three cousins and their seven children, with whom she was very close.

A funeral took place on Saturday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, followed by burial at Cedar Lawn Cemetery, also in East Hampton.

Ms. Holder’s daughter has suggested memorial contributions to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, 2600 Network Boulevard, Suite 300, Frisco, Tex. 75034 or nationalbreastcancer.org.

Marie Norkin Warach, a former president of the Artists Alliance of East Hampton and a longtime resident of Springs, died in New York City on Nov. 18 at the age of 98.

Over the course of her long life, Mrs. Warach succeeded in a number of art-related careers. She was at various times a children’s-wear and knitwear designer, the author and illustrator of children’s books, a freelance photographer, a secretary at the Museum of Modern Art, and a licensed art therapist, all the while continuing to paint. Her work was exhibited both here and in the city, at Guild Hall, Ashawagh Hall, and the Nabi Gallery in Chelsea, among others.

With her first husband, the cartoonist and theatrical caricaturist Sam Norkin, she came to Springs in the mid-’50s. They rented a small house from Gerson and Judith Leiber on Old Stone Highway for a few years before building a house of their own on Shadow Lane in nearby Barnes Landing. They had been married for about 30 years when they divorced, in 1968.

Mrs. Warach was born on 113th Street in Harlem on Feb. 19, 1917, the daughter of Jacob and Diena Goldinger Sieff, and grew up in Queens. She was the valedictorian of her high school graduating class, but, said her daughter, Laura DeSena, her father advised her not to attend college, “for she would then be too smart to attract a husband.” Instead, she studied at the Art Students League and at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and married Mr. Norkin when she was about 20. Sometime in her 50s, she entered Hunter College, and graduated summa cum laude.

Her second husband, who survives, was Bernard Warach; they were married in the late ’70s and bought a house on Harrison Avenue, Springs, where they have spent six months a year ever since.

In addition to her daughter, who lives in Miami, Mrs. Warach leaves a son, Richard Norkin of San Francisco, and two grandchildren. Graveside services took place on Friday at Mount Ararat Cemetery in Lindenhurst.

Lynn Rauch, who spent many summers with her sister, Patricia Story, in East Hampton, died at home in Delray Beach, Fla., on Friday, surrounded by family. The cause was lung cancer.

Mrs. Rauch, who was 84, began visiting here in the 1950s. Ms. Story, who survives, was a school nurse who owned the Three Mile Harbor Boat Yard with her husband, and when in East Hampton Mrs. Rauch could often be found on the water. Later, her daughter Terri Rauch settled in East Hampton as well.

Born in St. Albans, Queens, on May 3, 1931, to Michael Clark and the former Helen Pugh, Mrs. Rauch graduated from high school on Long Island. She was attending the Pennsylvania College for Women in Pittsburgh when she met her future husband, Ted Rauch, who was studying at the University of Pittsburgh. They raised their six children in Pittsburgh, and retired to Florida in 1989.

Mrs. Rauch “devoted her life to supporting her family in their every endeavor,” her daughter wrote. In her free time she enjoyed tennis and tending to an array of orchids. A devout Catholic, she was a founding member of St. Louise de Marillac parish in Pittsburgh.

Besides her sister, she is survived by her husband of 64 years. She leaves five other children in addition to Terri Rauch, who are Betsy Rauch and Barbara Link of Plantation, Fla., Todd Rauch of Issaquah, Wash., Kathleen Smith of Florence, S.C., and Patty Harper of Oviedo, Fla. Twelve grandchildren survive.

A memorial Mass will be said tomorrow at 1 p.m. at St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church in Delray Beach. The family has suggested donations to the Hospice of Palm Beach County Foundation, 5300 East Avenue, West Palm Beach, Fla. 33407, or hpbcf.org.

Robert Louis Peters, a standout high school and college football player who was a jack of all trades as an adult in East Hampton, died on Oct. 18 in St. Petersburg, Fla., where he had gone to visit a sister. He was 64 and had an incipient liver condition.

Mr. Peters, a 1969 graduate of East Hampton High School who was called Bobby, graduated from the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut in 1974, where he was captain of its two-time National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II championship football team and was named an all-New England middle linebacker.

He was born on Aug. 10, 1951, at a naval hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., to Paul L. Peters and the former Lucille Mott. The family were frequent visitors to East Hampton, where Mrs. Peters’s parents and siblings lived. They came to live here full time when he was a junior in high school and his father retired from the Navy.

Mr. Peters was a fervent supporter of the East Hampton High School football team. When the Bonackers returned to the field this year and defeated Southampton High School in September, after having failed to play in 2014, Mr. Peters was asked to pose for photographs with the team. Earlier, he had been involved with a local youth football league and was one of the founders of the East Hampton Touchdown Club, an early booster group at East Hampton High School. He was also a baseball fan.

In 1975, he and Encie V. Peters, whom he knew from high school, were married. She survives. In his working life, Mr. Peters owned and operated Pete’s Coop, a chicken-and-hamburger eatery in East Hampton in the late 1970s, and had been an East Hampton Town bay constable in the mid-1970s. He also had been a lifeguard, a buyer and seller of seafood and sea sponges, and a real estate broker. He enjoyed the bays and the oceans of the East End, and loved cooking and spending time with his family.

“People kind of gravitated to him. He always had a very positive personality and kind of a jovial side,” said his son, Robert Peters Jr. of East Hampton. “He was a good guy, in general. Very joyous, very loving.”

Among his pastimes, his son said, were backgammon and games such as Yahtzee.

Mr. Peters’s daughter, Kalie Peters of East Hampton, also survives, as does one grandchild and the sister he had been visiting, Nancy Cummings of Punta Gorda, Fla.

His family will hold a memorial gathering here in the spring. A funeral and burial service had been held at Palms-Robarts Funeral Home and Memorial Park in Sarasota, Fla. Memorial contributions have been suggested to the East Hampton Athletic Booster Club, 81 Newtown Lane, Box 153, East Hampton 11937.

A military memorial service for Margaret F. D’Andrea, followed by the burial of her ashes, will take place on Nov. 14 at 10 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery. Friends and family will gather at 11:30 to celebrate her life at the Wainscott Chapel, 65 Wainscott Main Street.

Mrs. D’Andrea, who was an Army Air Corps nurse during World War II and later an active community volunteer, died on Oct. 6 at the age of 93.

Helen Everett of Sag Harbor, who spent 27 years as an elementary school teacher there and many more years volunteering with Southampton Hospital and the Dominican Family Health Service, died on Oct. 14 at the age of 93.

Mrs. Everett was born at home in Sag Harbor on Jan. 14, 1922, after her parents, John Kondratowicz and Stephan Kuczynski, were unable to get to Southampton Hospital; a snowstorm had left the roads impassable.

She attended St. Andrew’s Parochial School, Pierson High School, and Ithaca College, and later completed graduate work at New York University and Southampton College. She began her teaching career in Canisteo, a town in western New York State; later taught in Amityville, and then came to the Sag Harbor School District, retiring in 1981 after almost three decades.

She then began volunteering at the hospital and the family health service. Her family wrote that Mrs. Everett enjoyed traveling and visited cities throughout the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. She also liked knitting, crafts, bicycling, walking, swimming, and playing cards, notably canasta.

She is survived by three children, Gayle Ratcliffe of North Haven, William Everett of Noyac, and Charles Everett of New Jersey. Five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren also survive. One son, David Everett, predeceased her, as did a sister, Irene Kondratowicz.

Memorial contributions in Mrs. Everett’s name have been suggested to the Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance Corps, P.O. Box 2725, Sag Harbor 11963, or East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.

Alfred Howell Conklin died at home in East Hampton on Monday, just days after his 100th birthday. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Through his work with the International Rescue Committee, which spanned three decades, Robert P. DeVecchi was credited with helping to save the lives of millions of refugees who fled foreign conflicts. Mr. DeVecchi, who held several leadership roles with the I.R.C. and was recognized with a number of humanitarian awards, died on Oct. 26 at his home in Southport, Conn. He was 85. A cause of death was not provided.

Mr. DeVecchi joined the I.R.C. in May of 1975, and in a 2005 interview with The East Hampton Star, he recalled thinking that he was “going from unreality to reality . . . going through the looking glass.” The ensuing months saw Mr. DeVecchi coordinating the I.R.C.’s Indochinese Refugee Resettlement Program, then the largest refugee resettlement effort in United States history. He launched humanitarian efforts in 28 countries, including Rwanda, Iraq, Sudan, Congo, Somalia, Bosnia, and Kosovo.

Mr. DeVecchi rose through the organization’s ranks, becoming its program director in 1980, its executive director in 1985, and its president and chief executive officer in 1993. He would hold that position until 1997, when he was elected president emeritus of the I.R.C.

Mr. DeVecchi retired that year to East Hampton with his wife, Betsy Stettinius Trippe, who was a third-generation East Hampton resident before her death in 2009. They lived in a carriage house on Dunemere Lane that once belonged to her grandparents.

He was born on Oct. 6, 1930, in New York City, and attended the Buckley School in Lawrenceville and the Collegiate School in New York City. He graduated from Yale University in 1952, served two years in the Air Force, stationed in Europe, and returned to the states to attend Harvard University, where he completed his master’s degree in business administration in 1956.

Prior to joining the I.R.C., Mr. DeVecchi, who was fluent in French and had a working knowledge of Italian and Polish, was a foreign service officer for the U.S. Department of State. He served in places ranging from Washington, D.C., to NATO headquarters in Paris to U.S. embassies in Warsaw and Rome. When he joined the I.R.C. in 1975, he and his first wife, Florence Lincoln Sloan, had just been divorced. He told The Star in 2005 that “something told me that this was the challenge I was looking for.”

Mr. DeVecchi was awarded the Peacemakers Award of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C., in 1996 and received the I.R.C.’s Freedom Award in 1998. In 2005, Yale University granted him an honorary doctorate of humane letters, with a proclamation that read, “Undaunted by the vast enterprise of assisting those displaced by war, famine, and flood, you have retained an optimism of the possible.”

He was a longtime member and director emeritus of Refugees International and was a member of the FilmAid Advisory Council. He also counted among his memberships the Maidstone Club, St. Anthony’s Hall, the Century Club, the Yale Club, and the Pequot Yacht Club.

Mr. DeVecchi is survived by a sister, Margaret Gabriel of Washington, D.C.; two daughters, Margaret Lincoln DeVecchi of Northampton, Mass., and Angela DeVecchi of Watertown, Mass.; four stepchildren, William Douglass of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., William Duke of New York City, Terry Marsh of Bremen, Me., and John Duke of Providence, R.I.; and 13 grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at St. James Church at 865 Madison Avenue in Manhattan on Dec. 4 at 11 a.m., with a reception to follow at the Union Club. Memorial donations have been suggested to the I.R.C., which can be contacted at 855-9RESCUE or P.O. Box 6068, Albert Lea, Minn. 56007-9847.

Robert Craig Yardley of Dorset, Vt., who was a standout student-athlete at East Hampton High School and then enjoyed a long career teaching history at his alma mater, died on Oct. 25 at the Albany Medical Center, surrounded by his family. He was 79, and had been ill for a long time, his family said.

Over the course of 54 summers, Mr. Yardley worked at the Maidstone Club, directing the beach operations and the Junior Activities program. He was known for running a tight ship, the family said. He expected things be done right, they said; he was firm but fair. In 1989, the club’s governing board established the Robert Yardley Award, which is given each summer to a boy and a girl in the Junior Activities program who distinguish themselves in sportsmanship and character, principles Mr. Yardley instilled in hundreds of children, both there and in the schools.

Mr. Yardley was born on Aug. 24, 1936, at Southampton Hospital, to Fred Yardley and the former Ruth Fithian. The family traces its maternal roots back to East Hampton’s earliest settlers. He grew up on McGuirk Street with an older brother, Fred, and a younger sister, Cathy, in a house built by their father. He excelled academically, while quarterbacking the undefeated, untied 1952 football eleven — the only such team in the football program’s 82 years. The entire team was voted into the school’s inaugural Hall of Fame in 2012.

As good as he was at football and basketball, he was just as good a swimmer. A lifeguard at the Maidstone each summer as a young man, he rescued a good number of swimmers caught in rip tides. During one of those summers, he met Isabel Masotti of Mineola, who became his wife. They were together for 60 years. While most knew him as Bob, his wife always called him Robert.

After graduating from Ithaca College, Mr. Yardley returned to the South Fork. The Yardleys lived briefly in Sag Harbor before making their home in Amagansett. He first taught in Westhampton, then, after about 10 years, took the East Hampton job, first in the middle school and then in the high school. He also coached football. He retired in 2001 after 31 years in East Hampton schools.

Mr. Yardley’s interest in history extended beyond the classroom. “He was a voracious reader, typically finishing at least one book a week,” his family wrote. His favorite subjects, they said, were U.S. presidents and other historical personages. “Thick volumes always surrounded his reading chair.” He also loved bicycling, and would ride for long distances well before it became a popular sport.

Mr. Yardley was an early member of the town planning board. He foresaw, and was troubled by, the wave of development that engulfed the town in later years, his daughter said. He began taking his family to Vermont on vacation to experience the small-town feel he had grown up with in East Hampton. About 15 years ago, he and his wife decided to make Vermont their home, and they moved to Dorset.

The couple raised four children in Amagansett, where they lived for more than 30 years. Mr. Yardley was said to be proud that his children carried forward the simple but important values he had taught them: kindness, generosity, a strong work ethic, and a sharp sense of humor. His life, his family said, was filled with deep friendships, loving family memories, and lots and lots of laughter.

In addition to his wife of over 60 years, he is survived by a daughter and three sons. They are Alison Yardley-Fantini of Amagansett, Peter Yardley of Tarrytown, N.Y., Michael Yardley of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Craig Yardley of Atlanta. He also leaves five grandchildren and two siblings, Fred Yardley of East Hampton and Cathy Flanner of Florida.

A small service was held in Manchester last week. Mr. Yardley was cremated.

Memorial contributions have been suggested to an organization that was important to him, the MPN Research Foundation, 180 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1870, Chicago, Ill. 60601.

Genevieve F. Hewitt, an author, columnist, and former home building and decorating editor at Good Housekeeping magazine, died on Oct. 26 in Manhattan after a brief illness, her family said. She was 88.

Ms. Hewitt had been a part-time Rivers Road, East Hampton, resident for many years. In 1983 she fulfilled a lifelong dream, buying land in Northwest Woods, where a few years later she had a house built. She and her late husband, Richard G. Hewitt, whom she married in 1989, spent nearly every weekend there.

Her family said she loved the fresh corn sold at the Bistrian stand at the corner of North Main and Cedar Streets in East Hampton and the food at the Barefoot Contessa and Round Swamp Farm.

Ms. Hewitt, who was born on Aug. 11, 1927, in Manhattan to Abraham M. Fisch and the former Alice Silver, grew up there and in Scarsdale, N.Y. After building her house here, said her family, she was devoted to the East Hampton Library and enjoyed maintaining her flowerpots, including growing fresh mint for iced tea. She loved to swim in her pool, cook and bake, and watch movies in an upstairs loft at the Rivers Road house. Other interests included The New York Times crossword puzzle and travel.

She was a graduate of Smith and Barnard Colleges. In addition to Good Housekeeping, her career included contributions to Woman’s Day, House Beautiful, and House and Garden magazines, and a syndicated column, which she wrote for 12 years.

She was an accomplished bridge player, the family said, reaching status as a gold life master.

Ms. Hewitt leaves a sister, Nancy Fish of Los Angeles, and two daughters, Elizabeth Meyer of Old Saybrook, Conn., and Katherine Meyer of New York City. Three grandchildren survive as well. Her brothers, Richard and Stephen Fisch, died before her, as did her first husband, William B. Fernandez. Mr. Hewitt died in 2008.

Donations in Ms. Hewitt’s memory have been suggested to Smiletrain.org, or by phone, 800-932-9541.