A self-taught architectural draftsman and dedicated enthusiast of politics, sailing, skiing, and waterskiing, Otis Allan Glazebrook IV of Bell Road in Springs died on March 28 at home. He was 65. The cause of his death was not known pending a coroner’s report, his life partner, Mary Trabona, said.

Mr. Glazebrook had for many years run a home-insulation business in East Hampton. When he tired of that, he bought an early personal computer and learned how to use it for drafting. Ms. Trabona said that such things came easily to him, as he had been very mechanically inclined from the time he was a boy and retained a lifelong interest in understanding how things worked.

His interests in history and politics led him to study his family genealogy. He was a frequent letter writer to The East Hampton Star and blogged about his contrarian views on Americanthinker. org.

He was born on Aug. 6, 1948, in Philadelphia to Otis Allan Glazebrook III and the former Suzanne Howard. He grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and attended school there. He was a competitive skier from a very early age, gaining skills at Whiteface Mountain upstate. During summers, he water-skied at the family’s house on Lake Placid.

He went on to join the ski team at the Fountain Valley School in Colorado. He left school to move to Vail, Colo., to train for the national ski team, but a knee injury put an end to his hopes.

During this period Mr. Glazebrook water-skied competitively in amateur meets, then did so professionally in water shows.

After a time, his recreational interests turned to sailing, and he raced on Lake Champlain and in the Wednesday night races off Sag Harbor. In the 1980s he worked on keel designs for America’s Cup racers, Ms. Trabona said.

Later, Ms. Trabona said, when he decided he was not exercising much more than his lungs (yelling at other sailors), he sold his boat and returned to waterskiing.

He was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternal society, which had been founded by a great-grandfather of his, and served on its board of directors. He also designed the organization’s headquarters in Indianapolis, which evoked the ATO badge. As a draftsman, he did work for many South Fork architects and served on the Sag Harbor Zoning Board of Appeals.

In addition to Ms. Trabona, Mr. Glazebrook is survived by his mother, his siblings, Zina Glazebrook of Maine, Michael Glazebrook of New York City, and Larkin Glazebrook of South Salem, N.Y., and two nephews.

A service for him was held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on April 5. Burial was in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Va.

The family has suggested memorial donations to the Fountain Valley School, 6155 Fountain Valley School Road, Colorado Springs 80911, or to Alpha Tau Omega, 32 East Washington Street, Suite 1350, Indianapolis 46204.

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An earlier version of this obituary incorrectly listed Mr. Glazebrook's siblings as his children.

Cornelius O’Connell, a retired East Hampton school administrator who was known as Neil, died at Southampton Hospital on April 8. He was 70 and had been ill with pneumonia.

Mr. O’Connell began his career as an elementary school teacher and then became an assistant principal.

From 1977 to 1985 he served as the principal of the John M. Marshall Elementary School in East Hampton, where he instituted a full-day kindergarten program. After nine years as the East Hampton School District superintendent, he went on to serve as superintendent of the Fishers Island School until retiring in 2000.

In retirement, Mr. O’Connell was an adjunct professor at the former Southampton College, now Stony Brook Southampton, and was an active member of the Knights of Columbus as well as a committed volunteer for Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton.

He was born in Brooklyn on March 11, 1944, a son of Helen and James O’Connell, and grew up in Cambria Heights, Queens, where he attended Sacred Heart Catholic School.

While attending the State University at Brockport, he met Stephanie Menegaux, who would become his wife. Mrs. O’Connell survives. The couple were married for 46 years.

After graduating from college in 1965, Mr. O’Connell went on to earn a master’s degree in education from Queens College. He received his doctorate in educational administration from Columbia University in 1980.

Besides his wife, Mr. O’Connell is survived by a daughter, Marjorie Egan of Garden City, and a son, U.S. Navy Commander (Ret.) Michael O’Connell of Memphis.

Two sisters, Margaret Conroy of Oakton, Va., and Joanne Kamholtz of Farmington, Me., also survive, as do three grandsons. A daughter, Jennifer Miller, and a brother, James O’Connell, predeceased him.

Mr. O’Connell enjoyed spending time with his grandsons, his daughter said, and going clamming in the summer.

A Mass was said at Most Holy Trinity on Monday, with Msgr. Donald Hansen officiating. Burial followed at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery in East Hampton.

Memorial donations have been suggested to the American Cancer Society, 75 Davids Drive, Hauppauge 11788.

John David Leo, who retired as East Hampton’s assistant postmaster in 1982 after 25 years with the Postal Service, died of leukemia on Feb. 26 at home in Matthews, N.C. He was 92.

Prior to his tenure with the Postal Service, Mr. Leo was a truck driver for Schwenk’s Dairy and Railway Express, and he transported South Fork potatoes and produce to Hunts Point Market in New York City. He moved to North Carolina in 1998.

The son of Hnat and Fredonia Hlywa, Mr. Leo was born at his family’s house on Floyd Street in East Hampton on Oct. 18, 1921. He was drafted into the Army Air Forces in 1942 and flew as a radio operator and gunner on B-17s out of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla. He remained in the service after the war as a radio operator for planes being flown to aircraft graveyards in Arizona.

After his discharge, Mr. Leo worked at the Carlson School on Terbell Lane in East Hampton, a resident facility for handicapped children. There he met Elva Lourdes Klein, a co-worker, whom he married on Nov. 6, 1948. Mrs. Leo died on May 3, 2011.

Mr. Leo is survived by three children, Alison Rampersad of Delray Beach, Fla., Frances Johns of East Hampton, and Anette Morrison of Charlotte, N.C. Seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren also survive him. A daughter, Stefanie Leo, died before him.

A funeral Mass will be said on April 26 at 2 p.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton, where Mr. Leo was a member. The Rev. Paul Dahm will officiate. Mr. Leo’s ashes will be buried at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery on Cedar Street next to his wife and daughter.

John Spencer Davis Jr., an interior designer, artist, and musician, died on March 25 in Alexandria, Va. Mr. Davis, whose last years were spent on Maidstone Lane, East Hampton, in a house owned by his parents for about 50 years, was 64. He had been ill for a long time, his family said.

Known as Jock, he was born in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 24, 1949, to Spencer Davis and the former Sarah Kimball. He attended the Landon School in Bethesda, Md., until ninth grade, and graduated in 1968 from the Salisbury School in Connecticut.

A year later he became a professional recording artist. With his band, Swamp Gas, he made two albums that were produced by Buddha Records in conjunction with Artie Kornfeld, who produced the Woodstock Festival that same year. Mr. Davis and the band members lived at the time on a farm in upstate New York, and often appeared on the same stage as the Grateful Dead.

He also lived for a while in Aspen, Colo., but by the early 1970s he was in New York City, working as a studio musician and songwriter for both radio and television. Throughout his life, his family said, he never stopped playing music, later contributing the song “Tell Me” to “Metropolitan,” a film directed by Whit Stillman that received an Academy Award nomination in 1990.

On Sept. 18, 1982, he married Denise Wilburn Davis in Alexandria, where the couple made their home. The next year, with his mother, he opened Living Well, an interior design business in Washington, where they frequently worked with East Hampton-based clients. The name of the business was later changed to Jock Davis Design Group.

Mr. Davis’s work was published in Southern Accents magazine, The Washington Post, and American City and Country, which featured the Bridgehampton house he decorated for the late Peter Jennings. He retired from the business in 2008.

He was an accomplished artist as well, with his design clients often commissioning his paintings.

His parents were longtime members of the Maidstone Club. Though their main residence was in Bethesda, the family spent as much time as possible in East Hampton, summers, weekends, and holidays, and Mr. Davis had many friends here. He knew a number of resident artists, Willem de Kooning among them.

In 2003 Mr. Davis, his wife, and his mother came to live on Maidstone Lane year round. Sarah K. Davis died in November at the age of 87.

Mr. Davis is survived by Denise Wilburn Davis, his wife of 31 years. He also leaves a brother, Christopher Kimball Davis of Moss Beach, Calif., and a sister, Tracy Tucker Davis, of East Hampton.

A memorial service will be held on May 3 in Virginia.

Margaret Bryan Hedges-Yost, a summer resident of Wainscott for many years, died on March 18 in Syracuse following a stroke. She was 102 and had lived in the Menorah Park senior citizens home there for five years.

Mrs. Hedges-Yost, who was known as Peggy, was a psychiatric social worker at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City for several years before moving to Syracuse in 1941 with her husband, Herbert Hedges Jr. There, she went to work for Child and Family Services then chose to stay home to care for their sons.

She also became active in her community, volunteering at Rockefeller Memorial Church as a Sunday school director and being a member of Zonta Circle, among other church activities.

After her marriage, much of her time every summer was spent at the family farm in Wainscott. She could be found watching the moon rise over the ocean in the evenings, and after she had grandchildren, she introduced them to nature. Under her guidance, they became great sleuths, her family said, finding the best places to go for beach plums and making jelly and learning to identify birds by appearance and song. 

After Mr. Hedges died in 1988, she married William Yost, a designer who made stained-glass windows. They shared seven years of marriage, during which she shared his interest in glass and collected Steuben and Sandwich glass.

She was born in Bath, N.Y., to Daniel Beach Bryan and the former Anna Rowlett Aulls on Nov. 27, 1911. She graduated from Syracuse University in 1933, where she was a member of the Alpha Phi sorority and received a master’s degree in social work from Case-Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

She was among the oldest and most loyal of Syracuse University sports fans, dating to when one of her brothers was its athletic director there in the 1930s and ’40s. Her Saturdays in the fall were spent cheering the football team; Sundays included following her favorite Syracuse players in the pros.

She is survived by her sons, Bryan Hedges of Syracuse and Sagaponack and Stephen Hedges of Rochester and Sagaponack, six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

A celebration of her life and burial will be at a later date in the Wainscott Cemetery.

Contributions in her memory have been suggested to the Employees Fund, Menorah Park, Hodes Way, 4101 East Genesee Street, Syracuse 13214.

Earl Lee White Jr., a retired aviation radar technician and resident of Springs, died at home on March 26. He was 84 and had been ill for some time.

Mr. White and his brother Gerald, with whom he shared their Fireplace Road house, had lived here part time since 1966; they became year-round residents in 2001. Their father, said Gerald White, found the property by chance in 1963 after responding to an ad for land in The New York Times but not caring for what he was shown. He drove up North Main Street to look around, kept on going to Three Mile Harbor Road, and saw a For Sale sign “way out” on Fireplace, Mr. White said.

Father and sons came out from New Rochelle, N.Y., nearly every Sunday to cut trees and brush and work on what would be a weekend house, he said — a process that lasted about three years.

Like his father, Earl White Jr. was good with his hands. “He could fix anything,” his brother said. He kept a vegetable garden, and the brothers eventually built a second house nearby as a rental investment.

Earl Jr. was “quiet, modest, had a dry sense of humor,” his brother said. “Everybody loved him.”

He was born on May 5, 1929, in Charlotte, N.C., to Earl Lee White and the former Anna-Louise Leech. After the Depression, the family moved to Jersey City, N.J., and later to New Rochelle, where Mr. White graduated from Isaac E. Young High School.

He served in the Air Force from 1950 to 1954, where he was trained in radar systems and taught recruits about their inner workings. He was stationed overseas in Japan and Korea and was in Vietnam years before the war there began. Later, he worked for Lockheed Aircraft at Idlewild Airport (now J.F.K.), and for A.R.R., a Jersey City aviation firm. He retired in 1961.

Another brother, Charles Kenneth White, died before him. In addition to his brother Gerald, he is survived by a nephew.

Larry Zarsky, an entrepreneur who left a definitive mark on the clothing and licensing industries, died in East Northport on March 31 at the age of 72. A resident of East Hampton for many years, he had been ill with mantle cell lymphoma for six weeks.

Mr. Zarsky, who was known as Larry Z, was part of the original sales and marketing team that brought Bic pens to this country in the 1960s. Next, setting his sights on the fashion industry, he was one of the first salesmen to represent Esprit de Corp., helping the clothing brand to expand its worldwide reach in the mid-1970s.

In later years, he formed Icon Partners, a celebrity branding and licensing firm. In 2004, Icon Partners signed Jessica Simpson, the actress and singer, and started a leading celebrity brand. The company also acquired the first and only celebrity license for Usher, the R&B singer and actor, later launching his line of fragrances. Other celebrity clients included Paula Abdul, Montel Williams, LL Cool J, Naomi Campbell, Carol Alt, Kanye West, and Ice T.

In his civic life, Mr. Zarsky was active in Wings Over Haiti, Meals on Wheels, the Edwin Gould Services for Children and Families, and the Pet Philanthropy Circle, among other organizations.

He enjoyed drumming and singing, and was a talented painter.

Mr. Zarsky was born on Dec. 8, 1941, in the Bronx to Harry Zarsky and the former Pearl Yanovich. While growing up, he split his time between the Bronx and Los Angeles.

In 1959, he served with the National Guard, based at Fort Ord, a former military post on Monterey Bay in California. Between 1965 and 1979, he lived in Miami.

He is survived by Patricia Walker Zarsky, his wife of 18 years. He is also survived by two daughters, Karie Zarksy Bennett of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Erica Zarsky Connors of Saratoga, Calif. He leaves two grandchildren and two siblings, Michael Zarsky and Ellen Weisman, both of Woodland Hills, Calif.

Mr. Zarsky loved beautiful, sunny days. A celebration of his life is planned for early summer, at a date to be determined. As he was fond of both the East and West Coasts, his ashes will be dispersed on the Atlantic as well as the Pacific Oceans.

His family has suggested memorial contributions to the Visiting Nurses of Suffolk County, 505 Main Street, Northport 11768.

Antje Katcher, a Springs poet, publisher, and photographer, died of pancreatic cancer on April 7. She was 66.

Ms. Katcher, a person of wide-ranging interests and talents, was also a professional translator, political activist, and financial analyst.

In 1988, she founded Three Mile Harbor, a poetry journal, which evolved into an independent press that published books by poets such as Enid Dame, Jean Kemper Hoffmann, and Pamela Kallimanis.

Her own work appeared in numerous journals and in two chapbooks, “Illegal Tender” and “For Bananafish,” which was a series of sestinas inspired by the titles of stories by J.D. Salinger. A posthumous volume of new and selected work is scheduled for publication this summer.

Ms. Katcher’s love of poetry blossomed after she came to New York from Germany in 1969 to work as an au pair. She fell in love with the city, and found work at the West German embassy, first as a clerk, then as a translator, while earning a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s in business administration from Columbia.

She studied with the poetry editor William Packard at New York University, and served for two years in the late 1970s on The New York Quarterly’s editorial board. At the same time, she worked with Gene Frankel, a Broadway director, at his Manhattan theater school.

In 1981, she took a job as a financial and budget analyst at what is now JP Morgan Chase. She worked on data processing centers in England and in East Asia, and spent a considerable amount of time in Hong Kong, leading to a deep appreciation of Chinese art and culture. When she left Chase in 2001, she became a freelance translator of documents, from German to English, and moved full time to the East End.

Ms. Katcher, who was born in Kiel, Germany, on Feb. 18, 1948, was a committed activist for a range of political and socioeconomic initiatives. As a co-chair of the South Fork chapter of the Long Island Progressive Coalition, she worked on health care, social justice, sustainable development, and campaign finance reform. She also worked on the affordable senior citizens housing project at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Amagansett.

She lent her efforts as well to the Committee for Peace in Palestine and Israel and to the vigils for peace held locally by the Women in Black.

She was an active member and supporter of the Incarnation Lutheran Church in Bridgehampton, where she served as treasurer, and of St. Michael’s.

Ms. Katcher is survived by a brother, Peter Dreyer, and a sister, Elke Kruse, both of Germany.

Memorial contributions have been suggested to Long Island Cares, 10 Davids Drive, Hauppauge 11786. A memorial service will be announced at a future date.

    Wilson Moore Griffing Jr., a 12th-generation Long Islander and a nearly lifelong resident of Amagansett, died of cardiac arrest on March 23 at a nursing home in Freeport after a prolonged period of failing health. He was 85.

    Mr. Griffing, who was known as Sonny, was born in Amagansett on Aug. 14, 1927, to Wilson Griffing and the former Irene Gosman. He grew up on Main Street. When his father died in 1977, Mr. Griffing inherited the house he was born in and continued to live there until the time of his own death.

    After graduating from East Hampton High School, he served in the Navy for two years. He later attended Clarkson University, graduating with a degree in electrical engineering in 1951.

    Mr. Griffing worked as an engineer at General Electric in Philadelphia in the 1950s. He later worked for the United States Postal Service in both Philadelphia and Amagansett.

    Described by his family and neighbors as a hidden treasure, Mr. Griffing was known as a “self-sufficient . . . gentleman” who led a “frugal, determined, solitary life.” He never had a car or television, and traveled around on an “ancient bicycle.” He was described as a “sort of local icon to some, who admired his determination to live life authentically and as he wished.”

    He was a passionate stamp collector with an impressive collection, sometimes finding his quarries in the recycling bins at the post office or through friends and neighbors.

    His neighbors welcomed the annual harvest of beans and fruits from a large garden that he tended. He was also known for having a sweet tooth, “finding it hard to make the gift of an entire plate of sweets last more than one day.”

    Mr. Griffing is survived by several nieces, a nephew, and many cousins.

    A memorial service is planned for May 1 at 1 p.m. at the Amagansett Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Steven Howarth will officiate.

    “He arrived in Montauk in 1979 on a houseboat and stayed for 25 years, loving every moment and everyone he met,” Richard J. Hall’s sister, Carol Hall Murray, wrote.

    Mr. Hall died on March 26 in Huntington of complications related to diabetes. He was 82.

    He was born on June 18, 1930, in Armonk, N.Y., to Esther and Warren Hall, and attended Armonk public schools. Later in life, he worked with antiques and sold magazines. He loved fishing, animals, and scavenging for treasures at local estate sales. 

    While in Montauk, Mr. Hall also lived at the Montauk Motel and the Avalon Lakefront Hotel and Motel. After leaving the hamlet, he spent three years at the Woodhaven Center of Care, an assisted living facility, in Port Jefferson Station. For the last two years of his life, Mr. Hall was deaf and blind.

    His final years were spent at the Hilaire Nursing Home in Huntington, near Ms. Murray, who saw him every day and was with him when he died.

    Mr. Hall was cremated and buried near Armonk. 

    In addition to his sister, who lives in Huntington, he leaves two brothers, Geoff Hall of Stamford, Conn., and Lynn Hall of St. Mary’s, Ga., and many nieces and nephews.