Edward Many Deems Jr.

Edward Many Deems Jr. of Quogue died on Saturday, August 9, at the Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead. He was 92.

Mr. Deems was born in December, 1915, and raised in Forest Hills Gardens, New York, and in Ottawa, Canada. He graduated from Northwood School in Lake Placid, New York, and attended Dartmouth College.

During World War II, he was stationed in St. Lucia as a military police sergeant with the United States Marine Corps.

Mr. Deems was a vice president at Railroad Accessories Corp,, a signal company founded by his father that manufactured and sold signal equipment to American Railroads and Canadian Pacific and is now part of CCI Marquardt Corporation.

He met Zephyr Marguerite Boyajian in 1945 in Forest Hills Gardens, and the couple married in 1947. They came to Quogue in 1954 and rented for two years before building a house on Quogue Street in 1957.

Following his wife’s death in 1974, he travelled between Forest Hills Gardens and Quogue before permanently moving to his home in Quogue in 1984.

Mr. Deems was an active athlete, playing tennis as a member of the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills and at the Seignory Club in Ottawa, Canada. He was an avid skier and golfer, and was a member of at least two “fixture” foursomes at the Quogue Field Club, of which he was a member. He stopped playing golf at age 87.

He also was a member of the Shinnecock Yacht Club, where he kept an inboard motorboat, and enjoyed fishing in the Shinnecock Inlet with his family.

Mr. Deems is survived by a daughter, Josephine Deems of New York City; and a son, John Deems and his wife Brenda of Salt Lake City, Utah.

A memorial service will be held at a later date.