Nicholas A. DeFelice, a retired Allfirst Bank executive who served on various local charitable boards, died Saturday from metastatic melanoma at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The longtime Hunt Valley resident was 74. The son of Nicola DeFelice, an Italian immigrant and chemical factory worker, and Carmella DeFelice, a homemaker, Nicholas A. DeFelice was born and raised in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and graduated from Niagara Falls High School.

He obtained a bachelor's degree in sociology in 1964 from Niagara University and took additional graduate courses in sociology at State University of New York at Buffalo. From 1965 to 1979, Mr. DeFelice completed various banking related courses at the University of Georgia. During part of that period — in 1968 and 1969 — he served as a member of an Air Force ground grew that loaded bombs aboard warplanes. He was discharged with the rank of airman.