Barbara Rickards

Barbara Gordon Rickards, who lived on Schellinger Road in Amagansett for the last 35 years of her life, died of heart failure at home on Monday. She was 84 and had been in declining health for the past year.

“She enjoyed her family,” said her daughter Liz Pucci of East Hampton. “She enjoyed antiquing and painting — she was a painter.”

Ms. Rickards was born on Sept. 8, 1930, to Donald P. Gordon and the former Clarissa Hervey in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens. She grew up in that borough’s Bayside neighborhood and graduated from Bayside High School in 1948. For a time she lived in Islip before becoming a year-round resident of Amagansett in 1979.

She worked in the housewares department of Stern’s in East Hampton until its closing. “She loved the job, loved being there,” Ms. Pucci remembered.

With her husband, Edward C. Rickards, who died before her, she raised four children: Ms. Pucci, Rick Rickards of Newfane, Vt., Gregg Rickards of Wainscott, and Laurie Jahoda, also of Wainscott. Ms. Rickards is also survived by seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild, as well as a sister, Elizabeth Onderdonk of Baldwinsville, N.Y.

Ms. Rickards was cremated. A service will be held tomorrow from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, at which Ms. Pucci’s husband, Bob, and son, Nicholas, will read. The Rev. Donald M. Hanson will officiate.

The family has suggested memorial contributions to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978, or eeh.org.