{"id":1254,"date":"2016-12-31T08:41:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2016-12-31T08:41:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T13:41:10","slug":"obituary-notice-sean-w-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=1254","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Notice &#8211; Sean W. Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MurphyS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1255\" alt=\"murphys\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MurphyS-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>FREDONIA:\u00a0 Sean W. Murphy, 58, of Spring Street Fredonia, died Friday, December 30th, 2016 at his residence.\u00a0 He was born in Dunkirk on December 8, 1958, the son of James &#8220;Turk&#8221; J. Murphy, of Dunkirk and the late Margalo &#8220;Maude&#8221; (Merkt) Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Murphy was a graduate of Dunkirk High School, Class of 1977, attended Edinboro University for 2 years, transferred to Fredonia State University and graduated in 1981.\u00a0 He worked as a Chief Lab Technician with the former Niagara Mohawk, Dunkirk, starting in 1983 and retiring in 2016 from NRG Dunkirk Operations, Inc., after over 30 years of service.\u00a0 He previously worked as a Police Officer for both Dunkirk &amp; Fredonia Police Departments for a total of 5 years.\u00a0 Mr. Murphy was a volunteer fireman and life-member of both the Pioneer Hook &amp; Ladder #1, Dunkirk and the Fenner Hose Co. #2, Fredonia.\u00a0 He was also a member of many social clubs in Dunkirk, liked to travel and loved his family.<\/p>\n<p>Surviving besides his father are his wife Jody R. (Sanders) Murphy, of Fredonia, whom he married on May 2, 1986, two sons Sean James Murphy, of Las Vegas, NV; Shane Raymond Murphy, of Bar Harbor, ME; two brothers, James (Gayle) Murphy, II, of Fredonia; and Kevin Murphy, of Dunkirk.\u00a0 Also surviving are nephews &amp; nieces Jim Murphy, III, Colleen (Tyler) Mihalic, Ronald (Kelly) Duliba, Christy (Ben) Muck, Matthew Duliba and Zachary Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>Friends are welcome to call at Riles &amp; Woolley Funeral Home, 39 Main Street, Forestville on Tuesday, January 3rd from 4-8 pm.\u00a0 No funeral services will be observed.\u00a0 Private Interment will be at the convenience of the family Perrysburg Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>To post condolences go to www.rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FREDONIA:\u00a0 Sean W. Murphy, 58, of Spring Street Fredonia, died Friday, December 30th, 2016 at his residence.\u00a0 He was born in Dunkirk on December 8, 1958, the son of James&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-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","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=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}