Robert “Al” Persichitti of Fairport, New York fell ill during a stop in Germany last week and died in a hospital.
US Navy veteran is being mourned following his death while en route to France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a trip friends said he'd talked excitedly about making.
“He’s been to most of the World War II remembrances down in Washington and Louisiana, and he wanted to get to the D-Day remembrance ceremony, too," Leone, pastor of the Church of Saint Jerome in East Rochester, where Persichitti attended Mass every week, said by phone.A friend who was travelling with Persichitti said a doctor was with him when he died on May 30.
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