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Fallen hero makes final homecoming

Updated: Friday, 12 Nov 2010, 2:04 PM EST
Published : Friday, 12 Nov 2010, 12:40 PM EST

WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) - A Williamsville man has made his final homecoming.

Specialist Blake Whipple arrived at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve station Friday, one week after he was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.

His calling hours are Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at Amigone Funeral Home, in Amherst.

Then a mass of Christian burial will be celebrated Monday at 10 a.m. at St. Gregory the Great Church in Williamsville.

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