Edward Bagozzi returned to Solvay. He owned Bagozzi's Grill at the Milton Avenue address above. He was a member of the Solvay Tyrol Club, the Solvay Tigers A.C., the Solvay-Geddes Community Youth Center and the Adelphia Club, along with the Solvay-Geddes Veterans Association and the Stanley Pennock Post 2893. He died in 1996 at the age of 75.

Guido Bagozzi was a younger brother of Silvio and Fiore, the Bagozzi twins, who began the Bagozzi Twins Funeral Home in Solvay.

Daniel F. Balduzzi, Marine private, a 1937 graduate of Solvay High School and son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel F. Balduzzi, Hayes Road, is on four-day leave from service in Africa. Balduzzi was a member of the Solvay High baseball team and prior to his enlistment worked at Solvay Process Company. (12/10/42)

Pvt. Patrick Baratta, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Baratta, 311 Cogswell Avenue, Solvay, is stationed at Camp Forrest, Tullahome, Tennessee, in the Signal Battalion. He was employed by Crucible Steel Company before entering the service March 20, 1943. (5/12/43)

Pfc. Patrick Baratta has returned to Signal Corps duty at Nashville, Tennessee, after an eight-day furlough with his parents. (11/17/43)

Pfc. Patrick Baratta has just completed a four-month course at Fort Monmouth, NJ. (5/31/44)

After eight months overseas duty in the European theater of operations, Corp. Patrick Baratta of Solvay, has returned to the states and is spending a 30-day furlough with his family. While overseas he served with the 61st Signal Battalion. (8/31/45)

Joseph Barone was deployed on day four of the Normandy invasion. He received the American Defense Service Medal, good Conduct Medal and the Purple Heart. Later he worked at the Veterans Administration Medical Center for 30 years and was an active member in the Syracuse chapter of the Disabled American Veterans Organization. He died in 2008 at the age of 93.

Pvt. John W. Barry, son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Barry, 605 Montrose Avenue, Solvay, was graduated from the airplane mechanics school at Marfa, Texas. (7/24/43)

S/Sgt. John W. Barry of 605 Montrose Avenue, Solvay, was promoted to his present rank while serving with the Eighth Air Force. (6/5/45)

Technical Sergeant Lawrence T. Bellucci, 24, of 423 Lionel Avenue, Solvay, has been selected from the finance department of the station complement, Madison Barracks, to attend the Finance Department's Officer Candidate School at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. He formerly attended Syracuse University and Powelson Institute. (9/22/42)

Lt. Lawrence T. Bellucci of Solvay was promoted to his present rank from second lieutenant at Camp Shanks. He has two brothers in service, Benjamin Bellucci, a naval air cadet at Glenview, Illinois, and Matthew Bellucci, in the Signals Corps at Camp Crowder, Missouri. (3/7/44)

Corp. Mathew J. Bellucci, formerly of 601 Abell Avenue, was promoted to his present rank at Camp Crowder, Missouri. (9/18/44)

Matthew Bellucci became a staff sergeant and photo lab supervisor in World War 2. He died in 2012 at the age of 95. He was a carpenter and after he retired he worked for the village of Solvay department of public works.

Lawrence Bellucci returned from the war and worked for General Electric, Carrier Corporation and Lipe Rollway before he retired to Stuart, Florida, in 1986. He died in 2011 at the age of 93.

Severino J. Benedetti probably never was sent to the Pacific; he was discharged from the Army at Fort Dix, New Jersey in December.

Severino and Agabito weren't the only pair of Benedetti brothers who served in the war. Albert J. and John Benedetti, perhaps cousins of Severino and Agabito, also were in the Army.

Fred Berger was an inspector with the Syracuse Fire Department. After he retired, he moved to Florida where he died in 2001 in Port Orange. He was 78.

Syracuse Herald-Journal, September 1, 1944
Lieut. James W. Bethka, 28, son of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Bethka of Marion Avenue, Fairmount, and husband of Mrs. Eleanor Gronau Bethka, was killed in an airplane crash in St. Louis yesterday.

Lieut. Bethka was chief test pilot at Scott Field, Illinois. He was a graduate of Solvay High School where he was a widely known athlete.

Lieut. Bethka and his wife were married July 5, 1941, and a son, Norman Bethka, was born to them five months ago. His wife and child were with him at Scott Field.

Surviving besides his wife, son and parents are two brothers, Sgt. Edwin Bethka, now at Hamilton Field, California, and Pvt. Albert Bethka, who just received his wings as aerial gunner at Lowry Field, Colorado.

John Bianchi's father, John Nicholas Bianchi, and uncle, Anthony, operated the Bianchi Meat Market. John William Bianchi served with the 7th General Hospital and after the war lived on Century Drive, Westvale, before moving to Homer, New York. In 1976 he retired from Carrier Corporation and moved to Brunswick, Georgia. He died in 2007.

Pelleno John Bianchi was known as Bill. He founded several businesses, including S & L Paving Corporation and Bianchi-Trison Corporation. He remained in Solvay and died in 1990 at the age of 66.

When the Syracuse Herald-Journal noted his birthday in 1990, the headline was "Mr. Mushroom" Turns 70. Patsy (aka Pat) Bianchi raised mushrooms on his farm on Belle Isle Road for about 25 years. As far as I know, Patsy Bianchi now lives on Scarboro Drive, Solvay.

After the war Eugene J. Bianco worked as manager in the reservations department for American and Mohawk-Allegheny airlines, retiring in 1977. He was a member of American Ex-Prisoners of War, 8th Air Force-351st Bomb Group and Solvay Geddes Veterans. He died in 2002 at the age of 81.

S/Sgt. Victor A. Bieganowski died in action in 1945 with the 25th Infantry Division of the U. S. Army. He was awarded a Silver Star and a Purple Heart.

Arthur Chester Bieganowski retired in 1980 as sales manager at Cole Muffler. He died in 2001 at the age of 86.

Asher Black became a doctor in Syracuse and president of St. Joseph's Hospital. He served throughout World War 2 in the U. S. Army Medical Corps and was discharged in 1946 with the rank of major. He did not retire until 2006, then he and his wife, Lilly, moved to Boca Raton, Florida, where he died in 2012. He was 95.

Max Black, son of Mr. and Mrs. Meyer L. Black, 1105 Cogswell Avenues, Solvay, has been cited for being in the first octile for scholastic standing in the Army Air Forces Pre-Meterology Detachment at Brown University. He is in the top eighth of his unit according to grades in his courses. Black is a former student at Syracuse University. (8/21/43)

Pvt. Max Black, son of Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Black, 1105 Cogswell Avenue, Solvay, and Pvt. David de Lima, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul de Lima, 821 Comstock Avenue, concluded preliminary work under AAF Training Command academic study program at Brown University. They are members of the AAF Technical Training Detachment. (6/1/44)

My guess is that Max Black — identified as Maxie in the 1940 census — is known today at Dr. Martin M. Black, another highly respected Syracuse doctor. A third brother, Howard, also is a doctor, in Pittsburgh. And if I'm not mistaken, one of their sisters, Celia Black Jacobs, was a music teacher in the Solvay school system.

Bernard L. Blair worked 36 years at Syracuse China. He died in 2001 at the age of 81, survived by his wife, the former Theresa Licameli; a daughter, Judith B. Wentworth of Pennellville, and son David Blair, of Syracuse.

Roger A. Blais was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, but moved to Geddes and graduated from Solvay High School. He and his wife, the former Elizabeth J. Obert, and their family moved to Phoenix, New York, in 1951. Blais died there in 2002; he was 77. Roland Silvanus Blais settled in Liverpool. He died in 1991 at the age of 64.

Blake was killed in action; no details are available.

Robert J. Blewett moved to Camillus and retired in 1982 after 38 years as an engineer at New York Telephone. He died in 1999 at the age of 77.

From Jack Durkin's column in the Syracuse Herald-Journal, June 11, 1943:

Three Borrell brothers of softball are serving with the armed forces. They are Chris, George and Tony, all in the Army. George is probably the only Syracuse player who ever hit a home run off Harold “Shifty” Gears of the Rochester Kodaks. He struck the blow while playing with Solvay Process in a state tournament here.

Aniel J. Bosco, the man with an unusual first name, died in 1995 at the Veterans Administration Medical Center near Syracuse after a brief illness. He was 84.

William H. "Bill" Bowers Jr. went on to have a long and varied career in music, teaching at Cato-Meridian Central School in Cato, New York; Saint Petersburg Junior College in Florida; Cal Western University in San Diego, California, and Southwest Junior High School in Chula Vista, California. He also played trumpet and trombone in orchestras assembled in San Diego for concerts and touring musicals. He moved from San Diego to Placerville, California, in 1986, and died in 2009 at the age of 89.

I wish the newspaper had described his mother's reaction. If it had been my mother, she would have screamed, "Don't ever do that again!" Joseph Botz returned to Solvay, was a supervisor at the Onondaga County Water Authority and a member of the Solvay Volunteer Fire Department. He retired in 1979 and died in 1998 at the age of 81.

A third son, Clarence "Bud" Bray, also served in the Navy during the war.

Daniel J. Brock retired as co-owner and operator of Brock Sales Company. He died in 2000 in Minden, Louisiana. He was 82.

Henry A. Brostek, son of Mrs. Anna Brostek, 1204 Woods Road, Solvay, recently appointed a naval aviation cadet, has been sent to the air station at Pensacola, Florida, for flight training. (6/29/42)

Corp. Joseph J. Brostek, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Brostek, 1204 Woods Road, was promoted to his present rank at Hunter Field, Savannah, Georgia. He entered service May 9, 1942, Prior to entering service he was employed by Solvay Process Company. (8/17/43)

Anthony Brostek worked at Allied Chemical for more than 30 years. He died in 2001 at the age of 89. Frank J. Brostek was employed 42 years with the village of Solvay Electric Department. He died in 1996 at the age of 72. His son, Daniel, has been very active in village affairs. Henry Brostek died in 2005 at the age of 87. He lived for several years in Clark, New Jersey, where he worked for Karnak Corporation, before he returned to Central New York. Stanley Brostek died in 1977. The last thing I read about William Brostek is that he and his wife, Leona, were celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary. That was in November, 2011.

Donald M. Brown also was connected with the Brostek family through his marriage to Jane A. Brostek, sister of the sons of Anthony and Anna Brostek mentioned above. She died in 1987. Donald M. Brown retired as a foreman at Allied Chemical Corporation. He died in 2002 at the age of 84. Survivors included a daughter, Barbara A. Pirro of Solvay, and two sons, David E. Brown of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Donald T. Brown of Liverpool.

After the war John G. Bryan graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and became art director for the Geer DuBois Advertising Agency in New York City, retiring in 1986. He returned to Central New York and was living in Marcellus when he died in 1997 at the age of 73.

Kenmore Street is off Montrose Avenue, a few blocks from the Westcott Reservoir. If Kenmore isn't inside the Solvay village line, it should be. Buzze (right) also fought in the Korean War and rose to the rank of colonel.

The link above is to a story about his Korean War adventures and his life in retirement up to his death in 2001.

Paul R. Byrns Sr. moved to Liverpool and worked for Crouse-Hinds Company. The Army veteran received the Victory Ribbon, EAME Theatre Ribbon, American Theatre Ribbon and two Bronze Stars. He died in 1995 at the age of 71.

Note: Charles Baracco and his wife, the former Catherine Lombardi, celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary in 2012