MIDDLETOWN - Hildegard (Manz) Cesca passed peacefully on Sept. 28, 2023, in Middletown. She was 98.Hilde was born April 5, 1925, in Munich, Germany, and grew up in the small town of Wasserburg am Inn. At 21, while working for the Americans as a secretary after the World War II, she met Aldo Cesca, a