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Salvatore Louis "Flash" Faraci

 

Salvatore was born in Middletown, Connecticut on November 2, 1928.​ He attended Middletown High School from 1945 - 1948, where he excelled in football and track and he earned his nickname Flash because he was one of the fastest players on the football team. After high school, he was offered a scholarship to the University of Alabama, but turned it down and attended Santa Rosa Junior College, in Santa Rosa, California, from 1948 - 1950. There he would continue his love for football and track. After college, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in the 1950's. In 1958, he married Sandra Lynn (Horan) Faraci at St. Sebastian Church in Middletown, CT. After he served his country, Flash would continue to show his love for country and town by rising in the ranks of the Middletown Police Department. There he would serve as the Captain of Detectives and designed the Horan and Dingwall Shooting  Range in Middlefield, Connecticut for the FBI and Middletown Police Department. In 2009, the range opened and the city of Middletown dedicated Flash by name the road to the range "Captain Salvatore "Flash" Faraci Lane". In 1991, Flash retired from the Middletown Police Department as a captain. In 1996, Flash was acknowledged for his talent, on the football and track teams in Middletown and Santa Rosa, and was inducted into the Middletown Sports Hall of Fame Class of 1996. In 1999, his 1949-50 Santa Rosa football team was inducted into the Santa Rosa Junior College Athletics Hall of Fame. Then in 2004, his 1945 Middletown High School football team was inducted into the Hall of Fame, which now made him a three-time Hall of Famer in two different hall of fames. On November 9, 2010, Flash passed away at the age of 82. He was married to former Middletown Register of Voters, Sandra Lynn Faraci, had two children, Gary William and Rochelle Marie, and had three grandchildren, Dylan Louis, Christina Catherine Faraci, and Gabriel Louis Villaba.