Nicholas Santa Maria, Vietnam War veteran

Santa Maria

Nicholas Santa Maria, 59, of Aventura, Fla., formerly of Gardenville, died Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006.

Mr. Santa Maria was born in Gardenville and graduated from West Seneca Central High School and attended Miami Dade College in Florida.

He served in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1971 during the Vietnam War in the 1st Infantry-The Big Red One.

He was a bank clerk and did clerical work in the West Seneca Area until moving to Florida in 1979.

He is survived by his mother, Stella; two brothers, Benedict and Joseph; and three sisters, Jacqueline Roth, Carol Vasquez and his twin Nancy Cumagun, as well as many nieces and nephews.

Arrangements were made by the Lithgow Bennett Philbrick Funeral Home in Miami.