Veterans Thanked For Service

By Gene Doremus

Note: During the annual Patriotic Concert in July from the Community Singers, three area veterans were honored for their service.

Each was given a plaque while Gene Doremus read about the man’s service and life.

Gene researched the information shared.

Here are the tributes given to them: From the Halls of Montezuma Charles W. (Budd) Osborn 1944, World War II, Budd was in his mother’s womb.

His father, an Army Air Corps B-24 Navigator/Gunner, was killed in the South Pacific. More on that later.

Budd got his first four years of schooling in a one-room schoolhouse in Lansing. After 4th grade, he moved nine times back and forth across the Southern Tier of New York, ending up in Ithaca where he graduated from high school in 1964.

Budd excelled in physical fitness, winning often in various events, particularly ...