Linda Suzanne Deeb Metcalf, who owned the Lume candle store in Amagansett for 12 years and lived in that hamlet for more than 20, died of dementia on Dec. 28 at the Bellhaven Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care in Brookhaven. She was 79 and had been ill for six years.
Before moving to Amagansett in 1993, she lived in New York City for 30 years, and there from the late 1970s to the early 1980s she worked as an animator for the television series “Schoolhouse Rock,” which aired during ABC’s Saturday morning children’s programming from 1973 to 1984, with themes including grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics. Ms. Metcalf learned animation on the job, her family said.
Her lifelong passions included going to the beach, gardening, and spending time with family and friends.
Ms. Metcalf was born in Columbus, Ohio, to Richard Deeb and the former Helen Delahant on July 10, 1943. She grew up in Nutley, N.J.
Her marriage to David Metcalf ended in divorce in 1993.
Her survivors include a son, Tristan Metcalf of New York City, and a daughter, Hannah Metcalf of Sag Harbor, as well as two sisters, Pamela DeFronze of Southampton and Nancy Crosby of
Cape Cod. A third sister, Cynthia Russoniello, died before her.
A service will be held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
