Maryse Armin Wyatt

Maryse Armin Wyatt, who graduated from East Hampton High School in 1949 after having spent her childhood in Brooklyn, will be remembered by her family as a gentlewoman and collector of beautiful and useful things. She was 84 and died on Sept. 11 at home in Greenfield, Mass., after a year-long illness.

“Maryse was the number-one ingredient in my life. A nice girl, a gentle person, and she radiated a warm glow,” said her husband of 62 years, E. Vincent Wyatt Jr.

She was born on Dec. 27, 1952, to Harry C. Armin and the former Edith Kelly. Her family came to Amagansett after her father retired. Her future husband was also a student at East Hampton High School, but they did not begin dating until they were in college, he studying engineering at Cornell University and she dietary science at Alfred University, part of the State University of New York. They were married in December of 1952.

 The couple lived in different places as Mr. Wyatt’s career progressed in the industrial and mechanical engineering fields, among them Philadelphia, Woodridge and Rivervale, N.J., West Hartford, Conn., Saratoga, N.Y., and Ashfield, Mass. Mr. Wyatt is related to the East Hampton Grimshaw family, and they returned to East Hampton to visit their families from time to time. They settled in Greenfield in 1988 after the death of Mr. Wyatt’s father.

Mrs. Wyatt was an inveterate collector of such decorative objects as paperweights, shells, landscape paintings, Chinese artifacts, pewter, and china. Mr. Wyatt said his wife enjoyed estate sales and thrift store shopping, always hunting for the perfect find.

In addition to her husband, Mrs. Wyatt is survived by three children, Peter Wyatt of Newburyport, Mass., John Wyatt of Hartford, Conn., and Susan Peterson of Hampden, N.J., and two grandchildren. A graveside service was held before burial on Sept. 16 at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton.