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OLEAN, N.Y. (AP) — A funeral is being held for a 19-year-old Paul Smith's College student from western New York who drowned after suffering a seizure and falling into an Adirondack lake.
Police say Nicolas Pendl died on campus Tuesday after a seizure caused him to tumble down an embankment into shallow water at the edge of Lower St. Regis Lake.
The resident of the town of Allegany in Cattaraugus County had a preexisting seizure disorder.
A funeral will be held Saturday at St. Bonaventure Church in Olean.
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