Louisa E. Edwards, 98

Louisa Edith Edwards, who sold real estate with the Edward Pospisil agency and had lived on Old Montauk Highway in Amagansett before moving to North Carolina, died on Oct. 3 in Montrose, Calif., after a stroke, her family said. She was 98.

Mrs. Edwards’s interests were wide-ranging. She was a photographer who had shows in Amagansett, North Carolina, Florida, and California; her work also appeared in this newspaper. She rode horses, trained dogs for obedience and field trials, and hunted along with her husband, Kenneth Stratton Edwards Sr., often at Spring Farm near Sag Harbor, where her dogs retrieved downed birds.

She was born Louisa Edith von Castel on Sept. 2, 1917, in Boston. Her parents were Werner von Castel and Anna Marie Maiwald. She grew up in Bremen, Germany, where she spent about five years, and on Long Island, where she later met and married Mr. Edwards, a commercial fisherman who kept a dragger, Alwa, in Montauk Harbor.

Following her years in North Carolina, Mrs. Edwards moved to Port St. Lucie, Fla., then to Sunland, Calif., last year, where she lived in an apartment just a few doors away from her daughter-in-law, Jobette Edwards.

Her husband died in 1980. A son, Kenneth S. Edwards Jr., died in 1983. In addition to her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Edwards leaves two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.