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Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. June 3 in Eastern Hills Wesleyan Church, 8445 Greiner Road, Clarence, for Phillip Ganze, a senior systems integrator for Science and Engineering Node Services who died May 28 in the Cleveland Clinic. He was 40. Ganze had been in the Cleveland Clinic since April 7 awaiting a heart transplant.
A native of Newark, N.Y., Ganze received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from UB in 1994. He worked at UB as a senior project manager for 13 years.
He also was an accomplished pianist and a member of the worship team at Eastern Hills Wesleyan Church.
Peter D. Buch, director of ophthalmic imaging at UB’s Ira G. Ross Eye Institute, died unexpectedly May 23 in his North Tonawanda home. He was 48.
Born in Munich, Germany, where his father was a diplomat with the U. S. State Department, he attended schools in the Washington, D.C., area. He graduated from the University of Delaware and earned a degree in biomedical photography from Rochester Institute of Technology before serving an internship at the Wilmer Eye Clinic at The Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore.
Buch joined the Department of Ophthalmology in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in the mid-1980s. He was director of ophthalmic imaging at UB’s eye clinic at the Erie County Medical Center, then moved to the Ross Eye Institute when it opened in 2007.
He taught ophthalmic imagining at RIT and was a clinical assistant professor at UB. He was active in the Ophthalmic Imaging Society and the Ophthalmic Photography Society.
Buch also owned and managed his own business, iPHOTO, and taught techniques of digital ophthalmic imaging around the nation. At the time of his death, he was taking part in research into treatments for keratosis, an eye disease in young people.
A memorial service was held on Sunday.
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