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Y. (WENY) -- The body of the Marine Sergeant who was killed in California earlier this month will be returning home for funeral services next week. 21-year-old Marine Corps Sgt. Christopher Truax, Jr. is originally from Horseheads and was found with a gunshot wound to the head in San Diego, California this past Sunday. According to his obituary, the family will welcome relatives and friends to His Tabernacle Church on Tuesday, September 18th with calling hours between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Funeral services will immediately follow at 3 p.m. with Full Military Honors.Truax, Jr. will be laid to rest at Woodlawn National Cemetery in Elmira at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, September 19th. In lieu of flowers, the family is asking those who wish to remember Chris to consider donating to a GoFundMe established by the family. Proceeds from that campaign will go towards setting up a trust fund for his son, Christopher Truax, III. The GoFundMe page can be found here: https://www.gofundme.com/RememberChrisJr...

He grew up in Bronzeville, one of six children of a railroad waiter. In 1941, at 16, he started working for the Chicago & North Western line as a “fourth cook” — a euphemism for dishwasher.He rose to be a top chef in an era when movie stars and politicians crisscrossed the country by rail, disembarking in Chicago at Union Station to pose for publicity pictures. Mr. Cain, 92, who’d been in declining health, died Aug. 7 at his South Shore home, according to his son Charles. He was one of the last surviving C&NW dining-car employees from the glamorous heyday of train travel.Leland “Sugar” Cain was a top chef with the Chicago & North Western railroad. Mark LlanuzaDuring more than 50 years with the railroad, he prepared prime rib and apple pie for tens of thousands of passengers, his meals — served on fine china and linens — helping to make rail travel leisurely and luxurious. Actor Yul Brynner and comic Jackie Gleason were among those who rode his trains. When he started with the railroad, African-Americans weren’t welcome as conductors or engineers. “It was unheard of back then,” said train historian Mark Llanuza, who works for Metra.“There was a lot of racism,” said Mr. Cain’s friend Ralph Justen, former executive director of the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin.The many African-American men who worked in train kitchens often weren’t visible to passengers, but Mr. Cain and others contributed to the railroads’ success, said Edward Burkhardt, a former boss. “One of the ways they competed with each other was their dining cars,” said Burkhardt, a former C&NW vice president who’s now chief executive officer of Rail World, a transportation consulting firm. “He was a great chef but also Mr. Personality.”    “He cooked the best porterhouse steak,” Burkhardt said. After riding Mr. Cain’s r...

Y. (WENY) -- Fallen New York State Trooper Nicholas Clark will be laid to rest at his alma mater Alfred University this weekend. 29-year-old Clark was killed after responding to reports of a suicidal individual on Welch Road in the town of Erwin.The suspect, Stephen Kiley, was reportedly killed by a gunshot wound. Clark had been a state trooper since 2015 and had just recently moved to the Bath barracks in 2017. Both calling hours and the funeral service will take place at Alfred University's James McLane Physical Education Center, located at 99 North Main Street in Alfred.Calling hours will take place on Saturday, July 7. They are open to the public from 1 - 6 p.m.The Funeral service will begin on Sunday, July 8 at 11 a.m. Parking for both the calling hours and the funeral service can be found at Alfred State College, located at 10 Upper College Drive in Alfred.Attendees will be bused from Alfred State College to Alfred University. ...