Bruce Erickson, a lifelong fisherman and longtime resident of Montauk, died last Thursday at Heartland Health Care Center in Fort Myers, Fla. Mr. Erickson, who was 72, had been ill with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for the last nine years.

“Bruce grew up on his father’s fishing boat,” said Darby Doerzbacher, a family friend. Early photographs, Ms. Doerzbacher said, depicted Mr. Erickson tethered to the foremast so he would not fall overboard while his parents fished. “He was an amazing fishing talent,” she said, adding that it was often said that “he could smell swordfish.”

Bruce Petty Erickson was born on July 14, 1941, at Southampton Hospital to John Erickson and the former Dorothy Petty. He grew up in Amagansett and Montauk. He attended East Hampton High School before joining the Navy, serving as an officer. He was stationed in Morocco.

After leaving the Navy, Mr. Erickson returned to Montauk and bought a boat, the Marge-E. He later sold it and moved to Florida, where he bought a shrimp boat, the Skimmer. He sailed the Skimmer back to Montauk, added a pulpit, and rigged it to harpoon swordfish.

One summer, Ms. Doerzbacher said, he and his father became the subject of a photo essay by the author and photographer Kevin McCann. According to Mr. McCann’s website, the project had started as a book and documentary film project in 1975, “photographing two seasons on the Georges Bank in the North Atlantic with a legendary father-and-son harpooning team.”

Mr. Erickson left Montauk for Florida in 1979, where he continued a life on the water, both fishing and delivering boats to South America. Ultimately, he settled down on the land, running Villers Seafood, a shrimp-packing plant in Fort Myers Beach. He returned once again to Montauk, in the early 1990s, before retiring for health reasons.

“He was such a part of Montauk fishing history,” Ms. Doerzbacher said.

Mr. Erickson’s marriage to Penny Cidlowski ended in divorce. He leaves a daughter, Cynthia Wanamaker of Clearwater, Fla., and three grandchildren. A sister, Brenda Schmittinger of Barnegat, N.J., also survives, as does a niece. Another daughter, Kim, died in childhood.

Mr. Erickson was cremated. A private memorial service will be held in Montauk at a date to be determined.

Edmund L. Downes was a huge Nascar fan. He loved watching it on television, and he used to have season tickets to the Dover International Speedway in Delaware, where he would take his family to watch his all-time favorite driver, the late Dale Earnhardt Sr.

Mr. Downes, a retired carpenter, died at home on Jesse Halsey Lane in Sag Harbor on May 4 at the age of 73. His family buried him with his favorite Nascar baseball hat and a hammer.

Mr. Downes had emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and debilitating back pain, his son, Edmund J. Downes of Sag Harbor, said.

Mr. Downes, a carpenter for the better part of his life, was a hard worker. “He worked so that we could do better,” his son said.

Born at Southampton Hospital on Dec. 7, 1940, Mr. Downes was a lifelong Sag Harbor resident. His parents were Edmund M. Downes, who worked at the old Bulova watchcase factory, and the former Genevieve Bruzdoski. He grew up on Green Street in the village and later moved to Fordham Street.

While attending Pierson High School, he met Marilyn Menaik. They were married for 51 years and built their house on Jesse Halsey Lane. She survives him.

He was employed by Joe Labrozzi and later Pat Trunzo Sr. A member of the Sag Harbor Fire Department for 17 years, he held the ranks of captain and warden.

Mr. Downes was especially close with his grandchildren, Frank Capozzola, who often went with his grandfather to the races, and R.J. Capozzola. They could often be found at Mr. Downes’s house, hanging out with Pop, as they called him.

In addition to his wife, son, and grandchildren, he is survived by two daughters, Catherine Capozzola and Lynn Politi, both of Sag Harbor.

A Mass was said at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Sag Harbor on May 7, followed by burial at St. Andrew’s Cemetery. His family recommended donations in his memory to the Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance Corps, of which his son is the president, P.O. Box 2725, Sag Harbor 11963, or East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.

Nancy Mulford Swank, a descendant of the Amagansett Mulford family, died of a heart attack on April 25 in Chapel Hill, N.C., where she had lived since 1979. She was 80.

Mrs. Swank, who retired as an administrative assistant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, had been a piano teacher for 30 years and played for several organizations.

She was born on May 25, 1933, in the family house on Main Street, Amagansett, to Charles Mulford and the former Evelyn Miller. She grew up in the hamlet, one of the first children to attend the newly built Amagansett School, and graduated from East Hampton High School and from Virginia Intermont College in Bristol, Va.

Her future husband, Robert Swank, was the manager of the Long Island Rail Road’s Amagansett station. There was an apartment above a waiting room then, where he lived. They married in 1956, and he eventually became an auditor for the railroad. The couple lived in Smithtown until moving to North Carolina upon his retirement.

During their years on Long Island, Mrs. Swank taught piano and worked as a bank teller for a time. In Chapel Hill, both husband and wife sang in the choir of the United Presbyterian Church. According to their son, Edward Swank, her interests ran to classical music, medieval English history, and genealogy.

Mr. Swank died in 2000. In addition to her son, who lives in Chapel Hill, Mrs. Swank leaves two grandchildren. Another son and a daughter, William and Barbara, died before her. Her twin brother, George Thomas Mulford, died in 1978.

She was cremated. Her ashes will be buried in Amagansett’s East End Cemetery in the Mulford family plot, beside her husband’s and daughter’s.

Christopher A. Cosich, a well-known bodybuilder and strength and fitness coach, died at home in Amagansett on April 21. He was 47 years old.

Born on Nov. 5, 1966, in Huntington to John Cosich and the former B. August Samuelsen, Mr. Cosich grew up in Lake Ronkonkoma. After graduating from Sachem High School he went on to St. Michael’s College in Vermont, where he majored in English and history.

He stayed in Vermont for a few years, his mother said, doing odd jobs in Burlington, but eventually moved to Manhattan and took a job at Pumping Iron Gym in Yorkville. He had been coming to Amagansett from childhood, said his mother, and after several years in the city he moved here and opened a gym, New Image Fitness, in his garage. He worked one-on-one with clients, helping to develop some top local bodybuilders, among them Beni Shoshi and Zivile Ngo.

In a 2011 interview, Mr. Shoshi told The Star that proper diet was the key to bodybuilding. “Chris Cosich knows all about nutrition, and I just listened to what he said. I did everything he told me to do,” he said.

In addition to his work in the gym, Mr. Cosich, who was highly knowledgeable about World War II, founded the Long Island chapter of Honor Flight, a nonprofit organization that works on behalf of veterans. Over the years the group has flown more than 1,000 veterans to Washington, D.C., to visit the National World War II Memorial there.

Mr. Cosich’s marriage to Anke Albert ended after seven years, in 2013. His mother is his only survivor.

Mr. Cosich, who took his own life, was cremated. His ashes will be placed in the gardens of two East Hampton churches, his mother said.

Memorial donations have been suggested to Honor Flight Long Island, attention Virginia Bennett, Southampton Town Hall, 116 Hampton Road, Southampton 11968. The organization is planning a memorial service at Southampton High School on June 1, the time to be announced.

Robert Willis Espach, who was an attorney for more than 50 years, died of complications of cancer at Stony Brook University Hospital on Saturday. He was 84.

Mr. Espach, who lived in Sag Harbor Village for 57 years, was in general practice, mostly family and real estate law. He remained at work through his illness.

He moved to Sag Harbor in 1957, after two years in the Army, which involved serving at the Army’s European headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany. Mr. Espach started his law practice in Southampton but later opened an office as a single practitioner in Sag Harbor, where, among other clients, he represented the Sag Harbor School District in connection with its first bond issue.

After several years, he became a partner with Bryan Hamlin and Ben Michael in Bridgehampton, where he practiced until 1977. He then returned to working as a sole practitioner in Sag Harbor, finally closing his office on 25 Washington Street in 1999 and joining with Stephen A. Grossman and Associates in an “of counsel” capacity.

A lifelong Long Islander, Mr. Espach was born in Floral Park on April 1, 1930, the first child of Edgar W. Espach and Helen Petrat Espach. A graduate of Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park, he earned a bachelor’s degree at Hofstra University in 1952 and a law degree at Brooklyn Law School in 1955.

Mr. Espach wed Dorothy M. Collins in 1954. They were married for 54 years, until her death in 2008. They had one son, Steven R. Espach, who survives.

A Presbyterian, he was christened by his grandfather the Rev. Augustus C. Espach at St. Paul’s German Presbyterian Church in Elmont, the church in which he would later be married.

He served as a deacon, trustee, and elder at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor, and was the church school superintendent and clerk of Session for many years. He also served as a trustee of the Presbytery of Long Island, president of its trustees, and as the trustees’ recording clerk for more than 30 years.

Mr. Espach was a member of the Sag Harbor Lions Club for roughly 50 years, serving as secretary and treasurer for much of that time. He was president of the club for a year and led many committees, including one to organize and secure tax exemption for the Sag Harbor Lions Club Charitable Trust. After his time as president, he continued to serve as secretary or treasurer of the club, and finally as secretary treasurer.

He was director and a trustee of the Sag Harbor Historical Society, as well as trustee and secretary of the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum. For several years he was a secretary of the Masons’ Wamponamon Lodge in Sag Harbor. A longtime member of the Bridgehampton Club, he was also a member of the New York State and Suffolk County Bar Associations.

Visiting hours were yesterday. A funeral will be held today at the Old Whalers Church at 11 a.m. Mr. Espach’s ashes will be buried at Oakland Cemetery in Sag Harbor tomorrow, at a time to be announced at the funeral.

His family has suggested memorial donations to the Old Whalers Church, P.O. Box 1241, Sag Harbor 11963, the Sag Harbor Lions Club Charitable Trust, P.O. Box 158, Sag Harbor, or the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, 322 Eighth Avenue, Seventh Floor, New York City 10001.

“Life was good, and so were we,” William Daniel Wall’s spouse, Patrick Travis, wrote of the 49 years he and Mr. Wall spent together. Mr. Wall, who was 71, died on March 21 at the Indian River Medical Center in Vero Beach, Fla., of undiagnosed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and sleep apnea, following an incident a week earlier.

They had been married on Dec. 11, 2013, “because we finally could,” Mr. Travis wrote.

Over the years, the couple lived in Manhattan and on Fire Island, moving to East Hampton after they lost 58 friends to AIDS, and spending winters in North Hutchinson Island, Fla., in recent years.

Mr. Wall was born in Freeport on June 25, 1942, to William Henry Wall and the former Evelyn Siganoc. He grew up in Massapequa, graduating from high school in 1959 before joining the Navy. He served from 1960 to ’64, teaching swimming to naval cadets in Pensacola, Fla., and then being stationed in Boston and on the U.S.S. Boston, where he became a gunner’s mate and participated in the blockade of the Black Sea during the Cuban missile crisis. He earned citations of honor and duty.

After his service, Mr. Wall went to trade school in Patchogue to become a hairdresser. It was there, in 1965, that he and Mr. Travis met. They “rescued each other and never looked back,” Mr. Travis said. They were successful in business and wise in their real estate investments, Mr. Travis said.

“Billy loved to cook and was very good at it. His recipes are famous,” Mr. Travis wrote. He also enjoyed gardening and was “a farmer at heart,” who used much of what he grew in his cooking.

The couple lived in Manhattan from 1967 to 2008, spending summers at Fire Island Pines until 1989. In 1970, they hired the architect Horace Gifford to build a glass house for them on Great South Bay. It was on the cover of several magazines, appeared in architectural textbooks, and was included in a book on the architect published last year. In 1982, they sold the house, which had been called “a modern monolith,” and bought a classic cottage on the ocean there. They then moved to Settlers Landing in East Hampton, where they built another house. They shared their home for 12 years with a black poodle, M.E. Rainstorm, who, Mr. Travis said, looks for Mr. Wall every day.

Mr. Wall is also survived by a half sister, Laurie Urban of Mount Olive, Miss., and by nieces and nephews who were like children to him, Mr. Travis said. They are Eric Dell, Jason Dell, and Jacqueline Zima Dell of Amityville and Karen Travis of Lake Worth, Fla. A sister, Mary Ellen Dell, died before him in 2002.

Mr. Wall was cremated. Mr. Travis said that when he dies their ashes will be mingled and dispersed at a favorite place.

    A memorial service and burial for Joyce King, who died on April 11, will take place tomorrow at 10 a.m. at Calverton National Cemetery. Ms. King, who grew up in East Hampton, died at Florida Hospital in Orlando, Fla., of complications related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She was 70.

Karin Terjesen Anderson, 45, of East Hampton, died at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City on April 28. She contended bravely with her illness during the course of the past three and a half years, her family said.

Mrs. Anderson, who her sister-in-law, Susan Grimes, said “was always the first one to lend a helping hand or to volunteer for a task, doing whatever she could to help her family and friends,” was born on Aug. 20, 1968, in Mineola, the daughter of Kristine and Norman Terjesen.

She grew up in Port Washington, and later earned a degree in secondary education at Southampton College. She and her husband, Robert B. Anderson Jr., were married on June 12, 1993. He survives, as do their children, Robert B. Anderson III, an East Hampton High School junior, and Katelyn R. Anderson, a freshman at the University of Kentucky.

Mrs. Anderson, who lived with her family on Hardscrabble Close in East Hampton, taught in the East Hampton School District.

“She was immensely proud of her children, and could always be found cheering them on at athletic events,” said her sister-in-law, who added that “Karin could often be seen walking to the beach or to the dog park in Springs with her beloved four-legged children, Cooper and Gilly. She had a way with dogs. They respected and loved her. A ‘dog whisperer,’ she could train them quickly.”

“She loved the outdoors and was drawn to the water. She spent summer days at Main Beach surrounded by friends. One only had to read her Facebook page to realize how loved she was.”

“Her blue eyes and broad smile drew people in,” said Mrs. Grimes. “She was incredibly fun-loving . . . she was always there.”

Mrs. Anderson’s father survives, as do her mother and stepfather, Kristine and Thomas Slater, of Portsmouth, N.H., a sister, Linda Kernell of Springs, and an aunt, uncle, and cousin, all of Lillehammer, Norway.

The funeral is to be held at 11 a.m. today at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton, with burial to follow at Cedar Lawn Cemetery.

The family has suggested that donations be made in Mrs. Anderson’s name either to Fighting Chance, P.O. Box 1358, Sag Harbor 11963, or to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York City 10065.

    Anthony Drexel Duke, who founded Boys and Girls Harbor in East Hampton in 1937, died yesterday in Gainesville, Fla. He was 95 and had cancer, his family said.

    Plans for celebrations of his life will be announced. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Timothy Scott Stanton, a Manhattan native and former advertising director for World-Wide Holdings Corporation, a family-run business started by his father and uncle, died in Chicago last Thursday following what his family said was a long-term illness. He was 56.

Mr. Stanton spent summers with his family on Hither Lane in East Hampton.

A friend of Mick Jagger’s, Mr. Stanton was a longtime fan of the Rolling Stones. He also enjoyed gardening, and a previous residence on Acorn Place in Amagansett was featured in a landscaping book published by Whitmores. He sold the property in 2009.

 Mr. Stanton’s wife, Agnes Stanton, whom he married on Oct. 21, 2008, in Manhattan, survives him. In recent years, Mr. Stanton had become a hands-on dad, looking after his youngest son, Conrad, who is 3.

He was previously married to Laura Stanton.

Mr. Stanton was born on March 5, 1958, to Arthur and Joan Stanton. His mother, born Louise Abrass, went by the stage name Joan Alexander. She was the voice of Lois Lane on the radio show “The Adventures of Superman” in the 1940s, and also performed the voice of the secretary Della Street on “Perry Mason.”

Mr. Stanton attended St. Bernard’s School and the Dwight School, both in Manhattan. In 1981 he graduated from New York University with a bachelor’s degree in English literature.

In addition to his wife and son, Mr. Stanton is survived by another son, Liam Stanton of Santa Barbara, Calif.

His ashes will be buried at the Stanton family’s plot at Southampton Cemetery in a private ceremony over the weekend. Friends will plan a memorial service at a later date.