Vivian Holder, 86

Vivian Holder was “a very elegant and sophisticated woman,” said her daughter, Corey Ann Holder of East Hampton. Ms. Holder, who came from Brooklyn to East Hampton in the 1980s to care for her mother and thereafter lived on Three Mile Harbor Road, died on Nov. 13 at Southampton Hospital of complications following a stroke.

A breast cancer survivor, she had been ill for several years with diabetes, kidney disease, and dementia. “She had a silent strength that you wouldn’t see immediately,” her daughter said, “but if you got to know her, to see her in her life, you’d see how amazingly strong she was.”

Ms. Holder was born on July 21, 1929, in Brooklyn to William Williamson and the former Gladys Williams. She grew up there and graduated from Girls High School, an 1886 Victorian Gothic structure in the borough’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood that is now a designated New York City landmark.

She loved horseback riding, skiing, and traveling to Barbados. At one time, she owned and operated a dress shop in Brooklyn. When her mother died in 1992, Ms. Holder inherited the Three Mile Harbor Road property and managed it as well as other properties in East Hampton and Brooklyn, her daughter said.

Ms. Holder’s marriage ended in divorce in the 1970s. Her former husband died in 2002. In addition to her daughter, Ms. Holder, who was an only child, is survived by three cousins and their seven children, with whom she was very close.

A funeral took place on Saturday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, followed by burial at Cedar Lawn Cemetery, also in East Hampton.

Ms. Holder’s daughter has suggested memorial contributions to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, 2600 Network Boulevard, Suite 300, Frisco, Tex. 75034 or nationalbreastcancer.org.