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Buck Forgione: He served his country, his town

Mar 08, 2019 615

BY: Steve Buchiere

The impact that Nicholas “Buck” Forgione had on the town he loved was deep. He was a three-sport star in high school, and some believe he is the best athlete ever to suit up in a Lyons uniform. For local police, he was the judge who would arraign a suspect in a pinch, day or night. In education, he was a longtime school board member and president.

He was the Korean War veteran left for dead by battlefield doctors who thought his wounds too severe to survive. Forgione, who died Jan. 30 at age 90 at the Canandaigua Veterans Administration Facility, was all those things, said his son, Nicholas Forgione. And more. “He was like that World War II greatest generation,” his son said by phone from his home in Massachusetts.

 

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SOURCE: https://www.fltimes.com

TAG : New York

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