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Laurens Central bus driver and custodian

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William E. Brooks Jr., 76; Longtime Laurens Bus Driver, Custodian

IN MEMORIAM: William E. Brooks Jr., 76; Longtime Laurens Bus Driver, Custodian LAURENS – William E. Brooks Jr., 76, who retired after 23 years of service to Laurens Central School as a custodian and bus driver, lost his courageous battle with cancer on Aug. 16, 2017. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, on Jan. 17, 1941, he moved to Upstate New York as a young man, marrying  Harriet Bucca-Brooks of Reading, Pa., while living in Elmira.  The couple had two children, Daniel…

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