{"id":1804,"date":"2019-09-17T06:51:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T10:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2019-09-17T06:51:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T10:51:23","slug":"obituary-notice-helen-m-nowak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=1804","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Notice &#8211; Helen M. Nowak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/NowakH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1792\" alt=\"NowakH\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/NowakH-186x300.jpg\" width=\"54\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/NowakH-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/NowakH.jpg 491w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 54px) 100vw, 54px\" \/><\/a>ROCHESTER:\u00a0 Helen M. Nowak, 91, of Rochester, formerly of Brocton, died Friday, June 14th, 2019 at Highland Hospital, in Rochester.\u00a0 She was born in Buffalo, on April 10, 1928, the daughter of the late Peter and Helen Sypniewski.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Nowak was a homemaker and devoted her life to raising her four children.\u00a0 She loved cooking and baking for holidays and special events, and was an excellent seamstress.\u00a0 Mrs. Nowak was blessed with a beautiful voice and throughout her life, enjoyed singing and playing the organ.\u00a0 She especially loved playing cards with family and friends.\u00a0 Mrs. Nowak was also a lifelong contributor to the Veteran&#8217;s Administration and local charities.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include a son, John (Jan) Nowak, of Lyndonville; and a daughter, Lynette (Greg) Arnold, of Ontario, NY.\u00a0 Also surviving are six grandchildren, eight great grandchildren and several nieces &amp; nephews.\u00a0 Besides her parents she was predeceased by two sons, Thomas Nowak, and James Nowak, one sister Eleanor Widzinski and one brother Peter Sypniewski, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>A Private Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel RC Church, Silver Creek and interment was in Mt. Carmel Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Arrangements were by Riles &amp; Woolley Funeral Home, Forestville.\u00a0 To post condolences go to www.rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROCHESTER:\u00a0 Helen M. Nowak, 91, of Rochester, formerly of Brocton, died Friday, June 14th, 2019 at Highland Hospital, in Rochester.\u00a0 She was born in Buffalo, on April 10, 1928, the&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-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","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=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}