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E. Vincent Wyatt Jr.

Thu, 03/10/2022 - 09:37

Feb. 19, 1930 - March 2, 2022

E. Vincent Wyatt Jr. of Greenfield, Mass., an expert in industrial production and engineering materials who held several patents, died of a heart attack on March 2 at the Greenfield Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. He was 92 and had been in good health.

He was born on Feb. 19, 1930, in West Medford, Mass., to Ernest V. Wyatt Sr. and Lillian Grimshaw Wyatt, who were originally from East Hampton. His mother, whose family had owned the Grimshaw Oyster Company at Promised Land, died when he was 6 and he was raised by his maternal grandmother.

Mr. Wyatt graduated from East Hampton High School with honors in 1948. He played on the football team here and was also an Eagle Scout. He went on to Cornell University, where he earned a degree in mechanical engineering, staying an extra year to complete more advanced studies.

He married Maryse Armin on Dec. 27, 1952. They celebrated 62 years of marriage before she died in September 2015. Together they founded the Gordon Door Company, which produces basement bulkhead doors that Mr. Wyatt invented. The company is still in business today. The couple moved to Ashfield, Mass., in 1983 and to Greenfield in 1988.

During his career, Mr. Wyatt worked for Pratt and Whitney Tool, Smith Gates Company, and Curtis-Wright Corporation in New Jersey. In addition to his invention of the cellar doors, he held four patents. His family said he could always “be counted on to solve complex problems.” He loved to read and was also an enthusiastic spectator of football.

He leaves two sons, Peter C. Wyatt of Newburyport, Mass., and John A. Wyatt of Wethersfield, Conn.; a daughter, Susan W. Peterson of Milford, N.J., and two grandchildren, Christopher and Sara Peterson.

The family received visitors on Sunday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton and on Monday the Rev. Joseph L. Cundiff IV of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church conducted a graveside service at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton.

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