Thomas S. Waller

Thomas Stewart Waller, a former Springs resident who ran a computer store in Bridgehampton while living here, died on Nov. 16 in Portland, Ore., of a heart attack. He was 61. 

Mr. Waller owned Computers Unlimited on Butter Lane in the 1990s and continued to do freelance tech work afterward. He was a member of the American Legion in Amagansett, sponsored a Springs Little League team, the Megabytes, and coached youth roller hockey at the town youth park on Abraham’s Path in Amagansett. 

“He loved working with kids,” said his daughter, Elizabeth Waller of New York City.

Mr. Waller was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, on March 13, 1955, to Thomas Edward Waller and the former Norma Wolfe. He grew up in Hamilton and in Orange County, Calif., and remained a lifelong fan of the Canadian Football League’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1973, and was stationed at Fort Sill in Oklahoma. 

After earning a master’s in education from California State University at Fullerton, he taught elementary school in Santa Ana, Calif., in the 1980s. In 1990, he and his wife, the former Julie Pospisil, moved to Springs to raise their daughter and son, Andrew, close to her family in Montauk. The marriage ended in divorce.

Mr. Waller was an involved and loving father, his daughter said. In 2010 he retired to Orange County to care for his elderly parents, and relocated to Portland in 2015 after their deaths.

In addition to his children, both of whom live in New York City, he is survived by a brother, David Waller of Orange County. His children plan a private celebration of his life, in Canada.

Contributions in his memory have been suggested to Pets for Vets, which trains shelter dogs to be service animals and then provides them to veterans free of charge. The address is P.O. Box 10860, Wilmington, N.C. 28404.