{"id":1273,"date":"2017-02-08T11:56:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2017-02-08T11:56:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:56:20","slug":"obituary-notice-gerald-frontuto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=1273","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Notice &#8211; Gerald Frontuto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FrontutoG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1274\" alt=\"FrontutoG\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FrontutoG-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>GOWANDA:\u00a0 Gerald Frontuto, 80, a resident of Gowanda Rehabilitation &amp; Nursing Center, formerly of Forestville, died Monday, February 6th, 2017 at his residence.\u00a0 He was born in Bloomfield, MI on December 20, 1936, the son of the late Rocco and Violet (Haveman) Frontuto.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Frontuto was a Vietnam Veteran having served in both the Army and Navy, receiving the Purple Heart, Vietnam Service Medal and Vietnam Cross of Gallantry w\/palm.\u00a0 He worked as a Security Guard for Pinkerton, Dunkirk.\u00a0 Mr. Frontuto was a member of Sheridan VFW Memorial Post #6390 and a former member of the South Dayton American Legion Post #1593.\u00a0 He enjoyed watching TV westerns.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include two sisters, Betty (Joe) Lansky, Jr., of Monroe Falls, OH; Rosealie Braymiller, of Fredonia, seven brothers, Robert Frontuto, of Forestville; Joseph (Helen) Frontuto, of Ripley; Charles Frontuto, and Peter (Carol) Frontuto, both of Jamestown; Paul (Marsha) Frontuto, of Forestville; Edward (Dorothy) Frontuto, of Ruskin, FL and Elmer (Pat) Frontuto, of Jamestown.\u00a0 Also surviving are several nieces &amp; nephews.\u00a0 Besides his parents he was predeceased by 2 brothers William &#8220;Buddy&#8221; Peter Frontuto and Alfred &#8220;Butch&#8221; Frontuto, a sister Evelyn Brown, 3 nephews Joseph D., Robert W. &amp; Brian K. Frontuto, a niece Doris Mead and 2 great nephews Joey Kunch and Ricky Hale.<\/p>\n<p>Friends are welcome to call at Riles &amp; Woolley Funeral Home, 39 Main Street, Forestville on Saturday morning from 10-11 am, from where Funeral Services will follow at 11 o&#8217;clock,with Pastor Grace Warren of the Forestville United Methodist Church, officiating.\u00a0 Military Services will be conducted in the Funeral Home by members of the Dunkirk Joint Veteran&#8217;s Council.\u00a0 Interment will follow in Forestville Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>To post condolences go to www.rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Usflag.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1218\" alt=\"usflag\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Usflag.gif\" width=\"102\" height=\"76\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Army.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-941\" alt=\"Army\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Army-150x150.jpg\" width=\"102\" height=\"102\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Navy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-404\" alt=\"Navy\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Navy-150x150.jpg\" width=\"103\" height=\"103\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOWANDA:\u00a0 Gerald Frontuto, 80, a resident of Gowanda Rehabilitation &amp; Nursing Center, formerly of Forestville, died Monday, February 6th, 2017 at his residence.\u00a0 He was born in Bloomfield, MI 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-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","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=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}