Michael Lauretano, president of the Morris Fire Co., said the van was traveling on Route 109, heading toward the wedding venue at South Farms. “There were about 27 people in the bus.

After the last football game of Butler High School's 1943 season, Van Wilpe left school to join the Navy. He was assigned to the destroyer U.S.S. Bassett in the Pacific fleet, and it was on that ...