Virginia Archer, 75

Virginia Archer, a longtime Montauk resident and member of the Montauk Community Church choir, died at Southampton Hospital on May 31. Ms. Archer, better known as Bonnie, had had kidney trouble, her daughter Lisa Ward said. She was 75.

She was born to Alfred Archer and the former Virginia Hanrahan on July 25, 1940, in Brooklyn, where she grew up. She graduated from St. Joseph’s Academy, an all-girls school in Brentwood, and went on to attend Brooklyn College.

Ms. Archer’s parents had a house on West Lake Drive in Montauk, and she came to know and love the hamlet as a teenager.

She was married in 1961, and became “a full-time mom,” her daughter said. The young family spent summers in Montauk and the rest of the year in Brooklyn, and moved out east full time in 1971, buying a house on South Flint Street, one of the few in the neighborhood at that time. Ms. Archer and her husband divorced in 1986.

“She loved the beaches and the water, and photography,” Ms. Ward said. “She would photograph anything.”

Ms. Archer enjoyed entertaining as well, and cooking for her guests. Though her main focus was her family, she found time to co-found the Hegner Agency, a real estate firm, in the 1970s. She was a member of the Montauk Village Association.

In 1976, she went to work for East Hampton Town, becoming secretary to Supervisor Eugene Haas, a job she held until his term ended the following year.

Two of her three daughters, Ms. Ward and B.J. Hegner, live in Montauk; Laura Hegner lives in Patchogue. She is also survived by a sister, Penny Archer of Haymarket, Va., and two grandchildren.

Ms. Archer was cremated, and her ashes will be disbursed near one of her favorite landmarks, The Montauk Lighthouse. Funeral services were held on Saturday at the Montauk Community Church. Donations in her memory can be made to the church, P.O. Box 698, Montauk 11954.