{"id":1516,"date":"2018-04-22T09:35:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T13:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2018-04-22T09:35:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T13:35:59","slug":"obituary-notice-thomas-e-burek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=1516","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Notice &#8211; Thomas E. Burek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/BurekT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1517\" alt=\"BurekT\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/BurekT-192x300.jpg\" width=\"95\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/BurekT-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/BurekT.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 95px) 100vw, 95px\" \/><\/a>FREDONIA:\u00a0 Thomas E. Burek, 71, of Castile Drive, Fredonia, formerly of Forestville, died Tuesday, April 17th, 2018 at Post Acute Medical Center, New Braunfels, TX.\u00a0 He was born in Gowanda on July 27, 1946, the son of the late Stanley G. and Ella C. (Kulpa) Burek.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Burek was a graduate of the former Cardinal Mindzenty High School, Class of 1964.\u00a0 He worked as an assembler for the Ford Stamping Plant in Woodlawn, for 25 years, retiring in 1989.\u00a0 Mr. Burek was a member of UAW local #897, a member of St. Rose of Lima &amp; the former St. John Bosco RC Churches, a lifetime member of the First Ward Falcon Club, Dunkirk and a former member of the Forestville Fire Department.\u00a0 He was an avid fisherman.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include a daughter, Jill (William) Michalski, of Fredonia; a son Todd (Carolyn) Burek, of San Antonio, TX; and two brothers, John (Pamela) Burke, of Akron, NY; Daniel Burek, of Seguin, TX.\u00a0 Also surviving are Joanne Burek of Forestville, grandchildren Mackenzie &amp; Nicholas Michalski and Matthew, Luke, Samuel &amp; Emma Burek and several loving nieces, nephews and cousins.\u00a0 Besides his parents he was predeceased by a sister Carol Mason.<\/p>\n<p>Friends are welcome to call at Riles &amp; Woolley Funeral Home, 39 Main Street, Forestville on Tuesday from 2-4 and 7-9 PM.\u00a0 A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated from Faith Community of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel-St. Rose of Lima Church, Center Street, Forestville, on Wednesday at 10 o&#8217;clock, with Rev. Joseph D. Porpiglia of St. Joseph\u2019s Church, Gowanda, officiating.\u00a0 PLEASE MEET AT CHURCH.\u00a0 Interment will follow in the Forestville Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>The family suggests memorials be made to the Forestville Fire Dept. Emergency &amp; Rescue Squad, PO Box 299, Forestville, NY 14062 or to the St. Rose Society, c\/o Pat Johnson, 1352 Stebbins Road, Silver Creek, NY 14136.\u00a0 To send condolences go to www.rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FREDONIA:\u00a0 Thomas E. Burek, 71, of Castile Drive, Fredonia, formerly of Forestville, died Tuesday, April 17th, 2018 at Post Acute Medical Center, New Braunfels, TX.\u00a0 He was born in Gowanda&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-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","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=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}