Robert Winslow, 91

Robert Winslow, who co-owned and operated the Amagansett I.G.A. for almost 30 years, died on Nov. 12 in Lafayette, Colo., where he had moved three years ago. The cause was a chronic infection. Mr. Winslow, who was 91, had been ill for five years. 

With his business partner, Robert Moss, Mr. Winslow ran the I.G.A. at its Main Street, Amagansett, location for 10 years before moving it, 50 years ago, to its current location on Montauk Highway. 

“Bob Moss and Bob Winslow, proprietors of the local I.G.A. store, are having an appreciation sale this week,” read an Amagansett note in The Star’s Oct. 29, 1959, issue. “This is in lieu of their grand opening, which had to be postponed because of the pressure of the summer season. The ladies of the community are to be presented with orchids, which will be flown in from Hawaii.”

“He had the store, so he worked,” said his daughter JoAnn Geyer of Franklin, Wisc. “It was always a big treat for us if he could make it to the beach or backyard picnics.”

Robert L. Winslow was born on March 28, 1926, in Waterbury, Conn., to Leland Newtown Winslow and the former Mildred Edwards. His father died when Mr. Winslow was a child, said another daughter, Corinne Page of East Hampton, and his mother felt that life for her five children would be easier in a rural setting. The family moved to a house on Hand Lane in Amagansett, and Mr. Winslow grew up there. He attended the Amagansett School and East Hampton High School. 

At 18, he enlisted in the Navy, serving as an aviation machinist’s mate on the U.S.S. Attu, an escort carrier named for one of the Aleutian Islands. 

Mr. Winslow and Lois Sweeting were married on Sept. 17, 1946. They had met at East Hampton High School, in Ms. Geyer’s recollection. Mrs. Winslow, who was born in Montauk and grew up on Abraham’s Path in Amagansett, died in 2015. 

In 1948, Mr. Winslow built a house next to the one in which he had grown up, where he and his wife would remain until moving to Colorado. The couple were members of the Amagansett Presbyterian Church. Mr. Winslow also served with the hamlet’s Fire Department. 

“He was very family oriented,” Ms. Geyer said, “always wanting to be with the grandkids.” He enjoyed gardening, collected coins, and liked to travel. He and his wife went to Europe several times, she said. 

In addition to Ms. Page and Ms. Geyer, a son, Robert B. Winslow of Lafayette, Colo., survives. Six grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren also survive, as does a brother, Leland N. Winslow of Amagansett. 

Mr. Winslow was cremated. His family will hold a private memorial service at a future date.