Obituaries

Patricia Clarke Topping, who founded Swan Creek Farms in Bridgehampton with her husband, Alvin Topping, died of lung cancer on March 14. She was 76.

Adelaide H. Dunlop, a 1955 graduate of East Hampton High School, died on Feb. 10 in Venice, Fla., where she had been living since 2006. She was 84.

Robert Beahan Shnayerson, a respected editor at Life, Time, and Harper’s magazines who first came to the South Fork in 1960, died at home in Hillsdale, N.Y., on March 6 of complications of vascular disease. He was 96.

E. Vincent Wyatt Jr., an expert in industrial production and engineering materials who held several patents and who grew up in East Hampton, died of a heart attack on March 2 at the Greenfield Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Massachusetts. He was 92.

Evelyn Spiegler made a career as a fund-raiser in the nonprofit sector in international relations and the health care field, and after her retirement from New York University Medical Center in 1995 divided her time between Montauk and Forest Hills, Queens, where she died on Saturday.

Harold Foster of Foster and Briand Construction died of lung cancer on March 1 at home in Montauk.

John Allan Diamond, who ran his father’s business, Diamond’s furniture store on Main Street in East Hampton, until 1995, died on March 2 at home in East Hampton. He was 70 and had been ill with Alzheimer’s disease.

John R. DiPace, retired from the New York City Department of Sanitation and the trucking company he owned in the Bronx, went on to become a masseur at Gurney's Inn in Montauk. He died of metastasized bone cancer at home in East Hampton on March 3.

Marie Ann Field of East Hampton died of heart failure at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton on Feb. 27. She was 74.

Tony Walton, who worked for more than six decades in theater, film, television, ballet, and opera, died at his apartment in New York City on March 2 of complications of a stroke. He was 87.

Beverly Schanzer, who retired to Sag Harbor after a successful media career that included work as a writer and producer in the CBS news division and at NBC, died on Feb. 14 at Peconic Landing in Greenport. She was 83 and had Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Clarence John Blowe Jr., a veteran of the Marine Corps who grew up in East Hampton, died on Jan. 20 at his residence in Manhattan. He was 65.

Darleen Emma Deleski of Sag Harbor, remembered as the “heart of the family,” died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Feb. 13 at the age of 73.

Visiting hours for Harold Foster of Montauk will be held on Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A funeral Mass will be said on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk.

Kathleen Kirkwood, a fashion entrepreneur known as “the diva of shoulder pads” and a member of the Montauk Historical Society, died on Nov. 5 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.

Pamela C. Anderson, a retired mathematics assistant at East Hampton High School who coached gymnastics, softball, basketball, volleyball, and a champion bowling team, died of cancer at home in East Hampton on Sunday.

Robert W. Hettiger of East Hampton, an Army veteran and prolific wildlife and combat artist, died of complications from an arterial stent placement at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Feb. 16. He was 73.

Ronald Patrick Balcuns of Springs, a master builder and carpenter, died on Feb. 20 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

Susan Dorothy D’Angelo, who lived on McGuirk Street in East Hampton, died on Nov. 23 at her son Christopher D’Angelo’s home in Rockville Centre. The cause was complications of diabetes.

Theodore Leroy Meyer, a well-loved physical education teacher and football and wrestling coach in East Hampton, died on Feb. 25 at his Florida home. He had been living with cancer for the past three years.

Tony Walton, the award-winning director and production designer for theater, film, television, ballet, and opera, who had deep connections to Sag Harbor, died at his apartment in New York City on Wednesday from complications of a stroke. He was 87.

Virginia W. Backlund, a public health nurse for many years, died at home in East Hampton on Feb. 15. She was 101.

Edwin Livingston Sherrill Jr., a descendant of one of East Hampton’s early families and a member of the East Hampton Village Board for many years, died on Jan. 19 in Charleston, S.C. He was 99.

Vincent Elias Grimes, “the oldest living person born in Montauk,” died on Sunday at home at the age of 93.

Eric Alexander Suddueth, a musician, animal lover, and waterman who lived and worked in Montauk for more than 30 years, died on Feb. 7 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 60 years old. 

The family of Adelaide H. Dunlop will receive visitors on Monday from 9 to 10 a.m. at the Farley Funeral Home at 265 South Nokomis Avenue in Venice, Fla. A funeral Mass will be said at Epiphany Cathedral Catholic Church, also in Venice, at 11 a.m.

Visiting hours for Virginia Backlund of East Hampton will be tomorrow from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, with a funeral service on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Presbyterian Church on Main Street.

Jason Epstein, author, publisher, and founder of The New York Review of Books, died at home in Sag Harbor on Feb. 4.

Joseph L. Fitzgerald, a charter member, former chief, and 57-year member of the Springs Fire Department, died on Feb. 4 at home on Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road. He was 94.

Robert B. Kay, an attorney who moved into executive positions in the hospitality and health care fields, died of cancer in New York City on Feb. 7. He was 82 and had lived part time in Amagansett.