He's been called a Delaware treasure. Ray Firmani, a World War II veteran who served his country and community, died at 103. "He's going to be missed. I'm still getting my head around him not going to be around," said Mitch Topal, Firmani's friend and biographer. Firmani called Delaware home for nearly a century and was one of the state's longest living World War II veterans.

"Ray was an incredible man. He spread goodwill everywhere he went and he made friends everywhere he went," Topal said. Firmani was born on September 19, 1921, to Italian immigrants. He graduated from Wilmington High School before enlisting and served our country in World War II in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot.