Frank Edward Marra, 101, Succumbs To COVID-19 Retired Banker Leaves Local Survivors Born in New York City at the height of the deadly Spanish Influenza on Sept. 24, 1918, Frank Edward Marra succumbed to complications of COVID-19 on April 5, 2020, in White Plains at the age of 101. The son of the late Arthur and Mary Marra, Frank resided for most of his long life in Yonkers, and had winter residences in Boca Grande and Sarasota, Fla. Upon Graduation…
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Battle of the Bulge
IN MEMORIAM Graham Duncan, WWII Veteran, 35-Year SUNY Oneonta Professor ONEONTA – Graham Duncan, a published poet and 35-year SUNY Oneonta English professor who, with the 87th Infantry during World War II, witnessed Buchenwald’s liberation, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, following a brief illness. He was in his 90s. His wife of 69 years, Evelyn Duncan, was at his side at his passing.…
IN MEMORIAM Landin Van Buren, 94, WWII Combat Veteran, Vice Principal ONEONTA – Landin Irving Van Buren, 94, who fought in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II and later rose to vice principal at Oneonta Junior High School laid down his working tools on Sept. 25, 2017. Landin was born May 3, 1923, in Oneonta, where he lived his entire life except for the World War II years. He graduated from Oneonta High School in 1941, and…