{"id":1682,"date":"2019-03-21T08:54:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2019-03-21T08:54:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:54:34","slug":"obituary-notice-richard-j-griffith-sr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=1682","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Notice &#8211; Richard J. Griffith, Sr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GriffithR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1683\" alt=\"GriffithR\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GriffithR-209x300.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GriffithR-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GriffithR-715x1024.jpg 715w, https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GriffithR.jpg 1330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/><\/a>DUNKIRK:\u00a0 Richard J. Griffith, Sr., 78, of Ruggles Street, Dunkirk, formerly of Forestville, passed away Tuesday, March 19th, 2019, following a short illness, at UPMC Hamot, Erie, PA.\u00a0 He was born in Silver Creek, on November 28, 1940, the son of the late Edward and Mary (Christopher) Griffith, Sr.<\/p>\n<p>He worked as an Inside Salesman for the former Al-Tech Specialty Steel, Dunkirk, for 30 years.\u00a0 Mr. Griffith was a member of the First Ward Falcons Club, Dunkirk Moose Lodge #89, Kosciuszko Club, Moniuszko Club and the Dom Polski Club, all of Dunkirk.\u00a0 He was an avid Bills Fan.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include two daughters, Rhonda (Craig) LaCorata, of Ft. Mill, SC; Monica (John) Rehm, of Lake Wylie, SC; and a son, Richard J. (Elizabeth) Griffith, Jr., of Fredonia.\u00a0 Also surviving are seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren.\u00a0 Besides his parents he was predeceased by his stepfather Joseph Suski, his wife Frances S. (Waligora) Griffith and brother Edward Griffith, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Services will be private and at the convenience of family.<\/p>\n<p>The family suggests memorials may be made to Forestville Fire Dept. Emergency &amp; Rescue Squad, PO Box 299, Forestville, NY 14062.\u00a0 Arrangements are by Riles &amp; Woolley Funeral Home, Forestville.\u00a0 To post condolences go to www.rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUNKIRK:\u00a0 Richard J. Griffith, Sr., 78, of Ruggles Street, Dunkirk, formerly of Forestville, passed away Tuesday, March 19th, 2019, following a short illness, at UPMC Hamot, Erie, PA.\u00a0 He was&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-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","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=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}