Frederick Sousa

IN MEMORIAM Frederick J. Sousa Sr., Oneonta; Highly Decorated WWII Veteran ONEONTA – Frederick J. “Gramps” Sousa Sr., 89. a decorated World War II veteran who received a Purple Heart but didn’t receive eight other commendations for seven decades after his records were destroyed in a fire,  passed away Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, at the state Veteran’s Home in Oxford. For many years, he was also president of the union at NYSEG, where he worked for 43 years. Wounded in…