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‘Gene’s not going anywhere’: Community helps WWII vet stay in Orange home >Tom Mann at T.S. Mann Lumber Co. crafted four raised garden beds for 93-year-old U.S. Navy veteran Eugene Litchfield of Orange. Staff Photo/Domenic Poli > >Community members volunteered their time and effort to make U.S. Navy veteran Eugene Litchfield’s house wheelchair accessible. This is a newly-built ramp behind his East River Street house in Orange. Staff Photo/Domenic Poli > >U.S. Navy veteran Eugene Litchfield, 93, tests out his electric wheelchair on his newly built ramp at his home on East River Street in Orange on Thursday morning. Litchfield recently fell in a backyard garden that he shares with a neighbor and was considering senior housing until community members stepped up. Staff Photo/Domenic Poli