Dino Levi, 77

Dino Levi of Outlook Avenue in East Hampton died on Oct. 16 at N.Y.U. Langone Medical Center in Manhattan of complications from his cancer treatment. He was 77 and had been diagnosed eight months ago.

Mr. Levi, who began living in East Hampton part time with his wife in 1971, was a regular volleyball player at the ocean beach in Amagansett and also enjoyed boating and skiing. He had his own hangar at East Hampton Airport, where he kept a small plane; he had begun flying in connection with his fabric-importing business. In addition to being an importer, he owned a weaving mill in Lincoln, Me., which produced high-end worsted yarn for women’s fashions.

Dino Levi was born in Milan on Aug. 24, 1940, to the former Parda Contini and Elio Levi. He moved to New York City in 1960 and attended City College for three years, majoring in industrial psychology. He had always been interested in learning to fly, his widow said, and when he realized how much time flying himself would save when he had to visit clients in the South, he took lessons and bought his own plane.

On Sept. 27 1963, Mr. Levi married the former Leslie Dash, who survives. They started living on the East End full time in 1976. In addition to his work with fabric and fashions — and creating his own computer programs for those businesses — Mr. Levi had once launched a small charter airline company and a business transporting military personnel.

He had requested a large party for family and friends to celebrate his most unusual and interesting life, which Ms. Levi is organizing and expects to host next summer. In the interim, family members held a small memorial lunch on Oct. 28. Mr. Levi donated his body to Stony Brook University for medical research.

In addition to Ms. Levi, a sister, Daniela Levi, and a niece, both of Milan, survive, as do his daughter, Lara Petrick of Sea Cliff, and one grandson.