{"id":1232,"date":"2016-12-03T13:32:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T18:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2016-12-03T18:54:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T23:54:15","slug":"william-e-matthies-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=1232","title":{"rendered":"William E. Matthies, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MatthiesW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1233\" alt=\"matthiesw\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MatthiesW-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>SUNSET BAY:\u00a0 William E. Matthies, Jr., 79, of Ontario Street, Irving, died Thursday, December 1st, 2016 at Mercy Hospital, Buffalo, following a lengthy illness.\u00a0 He was born in Buffalo, on March 9, 1937, the son of the late William E. and Verna (Fix) Matthies, Sr.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Matthies worked for the former Dresser Industries as a Steelworker for 25 years and as a Custodian for Depew Central School, for 10 years.\u00a0 He served in the Navy Reserves for 8 years and was a life member of the Alden Volunteer Fire Department.\u00a0 Mr. Matthies was a member of the American Legion Post #148, Silver Creek, an active member of the Sunset Drifters Snowmobile club and volunteer handyman for the Samuel Cimino VFW Post #6472, Silver Creek, until his illness.\u00a0 He loved spending time with his family, snowmobiling and boating.<\/p>\n<p>As per Mr. Matthies request, there will be no public viewing or services, because in death, he gave life as an organ donor.\u00a0 The family appreciates all your condolences and a special thank you to the Sunset Bay Fire Department and the people of Sunset Bay for watching over him while riding his scooter.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Harlean J. (Gray) Matthies of Sunset Bay, three children, Karen, Chris and Nancy, two brothers, Gerald (Margaret), Carl (Ann) and<\/p>\n<p>a sister, Carolyn.\u00a0 Also surviving are 8 grandchildren Jason, Philip (Patti), Yvonne, Steven, Jenny (Shawn), Shannon, Justin (Amanda) &amp; Samantha, 7 great grandchildren Aurora, Billy, Crystal, Phenix, Philip, Jr., Brian &amp; Olivia.\u00a0 Besides his parents he was predeceased by his father-in-law &amp; mother-in-law George &amp; Mildred Sulzbach, Jr., a son William E. Matthies, III and 2 sisters Sharon &amp; Linda.<\/p>\n<p>Services are private and at the convenience of family.\u00a0 Private Interment will be in Glenwood Cemetery, Silver Creek.\u00a0 The family suggests memorials may be made to Sunset Bay Fire Dept., 12798 Allegany Road, Sunset Bay, Irving, NY 14081.<\/p>\n<p>Arrangements are by Riles &amp; Woolley Funeral Home, Forestville.\u00a0 To post condolences go to www.rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUNSET BAY:\u00a0 William E. Matthies, Jr., 79, of Ontario Street, Irving, died Thursday, December 1st, 2016 at Mercy Hospital, Buffalo, following a lengthy illness.\u00a0 He was born in Buffalo, on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}