Robert Bennett of Neck Path, Amagansett, died on Tuesday at the age of 77. A celebration of his life will be announced for a date in the late spring, his wife, Anna Mae Bennett, said. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

    Mary Kernell, a longtime resident of Amagansett, died early Tuesday morning at Southampton Hospital. She was 87 years old.

    A full obituary will appear in next week’s Star.

    William G. Field, who started Field Appliance Service in East Hampton with his daughter and son, died on Jan. 7, in Ellenton, Fla., after an automobile accident. He was 80.

    Mr. Field was born in Springs on April 22, 1932, to William H. Field and the former Concetta Alberti, and was “an original Bonacker,” his family said.

    After graduating from East Hampton High School in 1950, Mr. Field, who was called Bill, served in the 8th Calvary Regiment of the 1st Calvary Division during the Korean War. Later wounded in action, he finished out his enlistment with the 101st Airborne Division.

    Mr. Field married Phyllis Bovie of East Hampton, with whom he had three children. Their marriage ended in divorce. He later married the former Barbara Wils of Sag Harbor.

    Mr. Field worked for Sears as a major appliance technician and after retiring, started his own appliance repair business with his daughter Susan Lee Field and son, William F. Field, who continues to run the business. His daughter Lori Ann died before him.

    Mr. Field retired and moved to Florida 17 years ago. He was also retired from the Army National Guard as 1st Sergeant of Company F in Riverhead. At the time of his death, he had been the commander of the American Legion Kirby Stewart Post 24 in Bradenton, Fla., for more than three years.

    In addition to his wife, who lives in Florida, he is survived by his daughter, Susan Lee Field of Naples, Fla., and his son, William F. Field of East Hampton. He also leaves two grandsons, two great-grandsons, and a sister, Gertrude Creaser of Florida.

    A memorial service was held at the American Legion Post in Bradenton on Friday. An inurnment service with full military honors will be held at the Sarasota National Cemetery on Jan. 28. A memorial at the American Legion Post 419 in Amagansett will be held at a later date.

    Donations can be made on his behalf to Veterans Relief Fund c/o Kirby Stewart Post 24, 2000 75th Street West, Bradenton, Fla. 34201.

    Myron Shulman, an architect who designed houses that embraced the openness and light of the East End, died on Jan. 7 at his house on Sarah’s Lane in Amagansett of Parkinson’s disease. He was 72 and had been in declining health for 13 years.

    Known to his friends as Bud, he was born in Newark to Murray Shulman and the former Augusta Charry on Feb. 17, 1937. Growing up in the Weequahic section of the city, he graduated from Weequahic High School, then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture.

    He worked in Manhattan for a long time, with one of his favorite projects being Lincoln Square Synagogue, which opened in 1970.

    During the mid-1970s, he moved to the East End and began designing houses, starting in Springs. Soon he was designing houses in Southampton and throughout East Hampton Town.

    He met his future wife, Michelle Labbat, at that time.

    “His architectural aesthetic included not only contemporary, but also traditional design,” Ms. Shulman wrote recently. “All of his homes were one of a kind and were noted for their incredible light.”

    He built so many of the houses on Beverly Road in Springs that it was nicknamed “Bud’s Alley,” she said.

    Speaking on the phone yesterday, Ms. Shulman said her husband was a hands-on architect, drawing each plan himself, never using a computer. “He was often at Riverhead Lumber, choosing each 2-by-4 plank of wood himself.”

    The two were married in 1989.

    In an e-mail, Mr. Shulman’s stepson, Marc Kenny, recalled Mr. Shulman’s fond love of intellectual discussion, whether the topic was history, art, or spirituality.

    His wife said that he enjoyed talking about their born religions, hers being Catholicism, his being Judaism.

    “Jesus was Jewish,” he liked to remind people.

    He had a sense of humor, Mr. Kenny recalled. “He never met a corny joke he didn’t love.”

    “He loved walking on the beach,” Ms. Shulman said. “He was very solitary. His true love was designing for his clients.”

    But his mind was always on design aesthetics. Laughing, Ms. Shulman said that she would caution him when they went visiting friends by saying, “Please do not embarrass me by redesigning their house while they are there!”

    “He’d never be late to the table when pancakes were being served,” Mr. Kenny said.

    Besides his wife and Mr. Kenny, who lives in Pasadena, Calif., Mr. Shulman is survived by two sisters, Ellen Petty of Minneapolis, and Betty Jersperson of Farmington, Me., and three other stepchildren, Lisa Bass of Southampton, Stephen Kenny of East Hampton, and Bryan Kenny of Los Angeles.

    A memorial service will be held in early summer at his house.

    The family asks that memorial donations in his honor be made to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978, or to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, Grand Central Station, P.O. Box 4777, New York 10163-4777.

    Thomas Solheim, a Navy veteran who worked at the Montauk I.G.A. for many years, was found dead at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk last Thursday. The cause of death has not been determined. He was 56.

    He was born on Dec. 28, 1956, on Staten Island, a son of John and Gladys Ford. Mr. Ford survives and lives in Montauk.

    Mr. Solheim served as a gunner’s mate in the Navy for 19 years. Two years ago he was arrested in Montauk and implicated in the 1992 murder of James Horton, a fellow sailor, in South Carolina. At the time, Mr. Solheim’s friends and fellow workers at the I.G.A. expressed shock at the arrest. Charles Welty, another sailor, subsequently confessed to the crime.

    In addition to his father, Mr. Solheim is survived by three brothers, Stanley Solheim of Florida, Randy Solheim of Staten Island, and John Ford of Staten Island, and a sister, Debra Medina of New Jersey. He leaves a number of nieces and nephews.

    Mr. Solheim was a member of St. Therese of Lisieux, where a funeral Mass was celebrated on Tuesday. Burial followed at Fort Hill Cemetery in Montauk. Memorial contributions were suggested for the church, 55 Etna Avenue, Montauk 11954.

Nina Capilets, who spent many summers living near Gardiner’s Bay in Amagansett, died shortly after a massive stroke on Dec. 20 in Naples, Fla. She was 89.

    One of her five daughters, Corrine Capilets of Amagansett, said yesterday that her mother held on after the stroke until all of her daughters arrived in Florida and gathered together with her, when she died peacefully.

    Born in Brooklyn to Antonio Lazzara and the former Josephina Bonura on March 23, 1923, she graduated from Grover Cleveland High School and went on to study to be a dietician, a profession she pursued for many years.

    She married Joseph Capilets, who survives, in July 1943. They raised their family in Garden City and Syosset.

    As the family grew, they started vacationing in Amagansett. “We came out every summer,” her daughter said. “She liked going to Montauk. She loved fish.”

    Her favorite seafood was lobster. “She was famous for eating every bit of the lobster,” her daughter said. The family would frequently barbecue on the beach.

    “She wanted to be fashionista, but she had five girls,” Ms. Capilets said. Even so, she was a master of the art of shopping, and she and her husband always made an attractive couple, she said. “She loved to dance. She was perky. She had more energy than all of us.”

    She enjoyed the kitchen and cooking, pasta and meatballs being a specialty.

    In recent years, she lived on Marco Island, Fla. She had an orchard there, with oranges, grapefruits, and lemons.

    In addition to her husband, who lives on Marco Island, and daughter, she is survived by her other daughters, Joanne Finnegan of Sarasota Springs, N.Y., Candace Sendrak of Vernon, Conn., Nina Ammerman of Naples, Fla., and Amagansett, and Caryn Teague of Arvada, Colo. Three granddaughters, three grandsons, four great-grandchildren, and a brother, Anthony Lazzara of Naples, Fla., also survive.

    The family will receive friends at the Hodges-Josberger Funeral Home on Marco Island next Thursday from 3 to 5 p.m. A Mass will be said at St. Marco Catholic Church on Friday, Jan. 11, at 10 a.m., with burial to follow at Marco Island Cemetery. Memorial contributions have been suggested to Avow Hospice, 1095 Whippoorwill Lane, Naples, Fla. 34105.

    Joan Mercado, who had worked in the hospitality and travel industries, died last Thursday at 74 in Conroe, Tex., where she was visiting her son, George Mercado, and his family. Her family said she had been in poor health, but her death was unexpected.

    Ms. Mercado lived in Montauk in the 1980s, where she worked as an administrative assistant to Nick Monte of Gurney’s Inn. For a number of years, she also owned a coffee shop at the Atlantic Terrace, a Montauk motel. For the last 10 years, she was a resident of Windmill Village II in East Hampton, where she made many friends. She had been a partner in Springs Travel with her daughter, Jacqui Candemir, before she retired.

    She was born Juana Santiago to John and Martha Fischetti Santiago on July 27, 1938, in Brooklyn, where she attended Prospect Heights High School, a school for girls. She and her husband, George Mercado, with whom she had two children, moved to Puerto Rico in the early 1960s. There, she became the first female manager of Palmas Del Mar Resort in Humacao. She returned to the United States in 1981.

    According to her family, Ms. Mercado’s four grandchildren were her greatest joy in life, and she was looking forward to the birth of her first great-granddaughter in April.

    Visiting hours were held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on New Year’s Day, and a Mass was said for her at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton yesterday morning. Burial followed in the church cemetery.

    Ms. Candemir said donations in her mother’s memory would be appropriate to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, a charity close to her heart. The address is 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, Tenn. 38105.

     Margaret E. Stokes, who was 93 and lived at the mobile home park on Oakview Highway in East Hampton, died at home on Christmas Day. She had lived in this area for more than 30 years.

    Ms. Stokes enjoyed spending time with her family and loved a good yard sale or a treasure-hunting trip to the East Hampton Town dump in the days when reusable items were collected and distributed. She also played bingo and Scrabble and was an active member of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton. Whether cooking for her family or crocheting afghans, her Yorkshire terriers — Tootsie, Toby, and Lacey — kept her company. Janet Dillon was her longtime caregiver and companion.

    Ms. Stokes was born in Ridgewood, Queens, on Nov. 30, 1919, the daughter of George Heinrich and the former Katherine Mueller. She and Jeremiah J. Whooley were married on Sept. 2, 1940. He died in 1957. Her second marriage, on July 12, 1963, was to Patrick J. Stokes, who died in 1972.

    Before relocating to East Hampton, Ms. Stokes had worked as a part-time teacher in Ozone Park, a library assistant in Queens, and in the gift-wrapping department the Gertz department store in Jamaica.

    She is survived by two children, Kathleen M. Barry of Noyac and Jerry Whooley of Clarendon, Vt., and by six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

    A Mass of Christian burial is to be said at Most Holy Trinity Church at 11 a.m. on Jan. 19. The Rev. Msgr. John C. Nosser will officiate.

    Holly B. Zink Miller of Dogwood Street in Noyac died on Sunday at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton. She was 58. Her death followed treatment for pneumonia at Southampton Hospital, her family said.

    Ms. Miller was described by her family as a mother and homemaker with a loving, generous spirit. She was an extraordinary cook, they said, and enjoyed sharing her baking and chocolate-making talents with her loved ones, especially during the many memorable celebrations she hosted at home.

    She was born on Nov. 16, 1954, in Fresh Meadows, Queens, to Frederick Zink and the former Isabelle Kurajian, both of whom died before her. She attended Francis Lewis High School in Fresh Meadows and then Queens College.

    Ms. Miller is survived by her husband, James T. Miller, with whom she moved to Noyac about 20 years ago. Their son, Gregory Paul Miller, is the proprietor of the Sag Harbor Service Station and Harbor Heights Fuels, which is also in Sag Harbor.

    She was “like a mother” to Nadia Covey, the mother of her grandson, Gregory Paul Miller Jr., who was born in February, her son said.

    A service will be held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor on Sunday at 3 p.m.

    Sandra Cantey, a master gardener who designed the gardens at Home, Sweet Home in East Hampton in the 1970s and was also involved in a number of other village activities, died at Southampton Hospital on Dec. 28 after a long illness. She was 74.

    As a member of the Ladies Village Improvement Society, Ms. Cantey had been a chairwoman of the summer fair and of the Nature Trail committee. Other members remarked on her “deep love for the trail.” She remained involved in the society until recently. She was also a lay minister at St. Luke’s Church and made numerous hospital visits to comfort the sick and dying. She served at one time on the East Hampton Village Design Review Board.

    In the 1970s, Ms. Cantey obtained a degree in horticulture from the Cornell Cooperative Extension in Riverhead. She had an expansive organic vegetable garden and also wrote a gardening column for The East Hampton Star, in addition to her work at Home, Sweet Home.

    Born in Austin, Texas on July 3, 1938, to Emory Ambler Cantey and the former Gladys Aileen Westbrook, Ms. Cantey’s family traced their roots in America to the 1600s and the earliest founders of the Carolina Colony.  Following the Civil War, they moved west to Fort Worth, Tex.

    Ms. Cantey grew up in Fort Worth, where she graduated from Arlington Heights High School. She was a “speed reader with near perfect memory,” wrote her son, Phelan Wolf of Amagansett. She enjoyed horseback riding and performed with a local theater company called the Reeders School.

    After receiving a bachelor’s degree in English literature at Vassar College and a master’s in psychology from New York University, Ms. Cantey spent a year at the Southern Methodist University Law School before traveling to Europe, principally France, with David Addickes, an American painter whom she eventually married. The couple lived in Paris and Antibes, where she learned to speak the language and prepare French cuisine.

     Following her divorce from Mr. Addickes, Ms. Cantey met Peter Wolf, a doctoral student, in Paris. The two married and moved to Manhattan, raising their children, Phelan and Alexis, there and at a summer house in Springs.

    Ms. Cantey was a guidance counselor at Brooklyn College, and became active in the Vietnam War peace movement. In the mid-1970s, she and the children moved to their Springs house full time, while Mr. Wolf continued to work in New York.

    The marriage ended in divorce, and Ms. Cantey was briefly married to a high school sweetheart, while splitting her time between East Hampton and Fort Worth. She lived mainly in East Hampton for the past 10 years.

     In addition to her son, and her daughter, Alexis Wolf of Pittsboro, N.C., Ms. Cantey is survived by four grandchildren. A funeral was held on Friday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton. Her ashes were buried in the St. Luke’s Memorial Garden.