December 4, 2004: Headlines: COS - Belize: Obituaries: Buffalo News : Belize RPCV Angelo M. Velasquez dies in Colorado
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December 4, 2004: Headlines: COS - Belize: Obituaries: Buffalo News : Belize RPCV Angelo M. Velasquez dies in Colorado
Belize RPCV Angelo M. Velasquez dies in Colorado
Belize RPCV Angelo M. Velasquez dies in Colorado
ANGELO M. VELASQUEZ, ADVOCATE FOR NEEDY ; DIED NOV. 16, 2004
Dec 4, 2004 - Buffalo News
A Mass of Christian Burial for Angelo M. Velasquez, an advocate for the disadvantaged, will be offered at 10 a.m. Dec. 11 in St. Mary of the Lake Catholic Church, S-4737 Lake Shore Road, Hamburg. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, Lackawanna.
Mr. Velasquez died Nov. 16 in Denver, Colo., where he had worked since 1978 as finance and development director of Rocky Mountain SER (Service, Education and Redevelopment), which helps needy families find housing and education. He was 61.
Born in Saginaw, Mich., he lived in the Buffalo area from 1951 to 1967. He attended Our Lady of Victory School and graduated from South Park High School. He was in the Peace Corps for three years in the Central American nation of Belize.
He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Detroit and his master's from the University of Colorado.
Survivors include a son, Francisco of Washington, D.C.; two sisters, Patricia Bachman of Durham, N.C., and Maria McArthur of Buffalo; and two brothers, David of Hamburg and James of Lackawanna.
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