Bill Hopson, an Army veteran and founding member of Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton in 1954, died on March 29 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. The East Hampton resident was 95.

Leland N. Winslow, who established a painting company in Amagansett in 1981, died of cancer at home there on March 11. He was 91 and had been ill for four years.

Lester Ross, a former employee of East Hampton Town as well as a master electrician and Army veteran, died on March 22 at Sumner Regional Medical Center in Gallatin, Tenn. Mr. Ross, who was known as Poppy, was 83. The cause of death was heart failure, his family said.

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