{"id":1983,"date":"2020-08-22T06:20:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T10:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2020-08-24T09:48:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T13:48:49","slug":"obituary-notice-walter-michael-panek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=1983","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Notice &#8211; Walter Michael Panek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/PanekW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1984\" alt=\"PanekW\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/PanekW-262x300.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/PanekW-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/PanekW.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/><\/a>CHERRY CREEK:\u00a0 Walter Michael Panek, 76, of South Road, Rt. 83, Cherry Creek, died Friday, August 21st, 2020 at UPMC Hamot, following a short illness.\u00a0 He was born in Silver Creek, on February 19, 1944, the son of the late Michael and Lillian (Gawronski) Panek.<\/p>\n<p>Walt worked as an Equipment Operator for H. Olsen &amp; Sons Contractors, Inc. Forestville, for 55 years.\u00a0 He was a member of the NRA, was generous and kind hearted, enjoyed helping people and loved animals.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include two daughters, Kimberley A. (Kenneth) Cowen, of Littleton, NC; Kelley (Daniel) Ivett, of South Dayton; three sisters, Rose Hafner, Nancy (Stan Jopek) Panek, Rita Lathrop and a brother, Donald Panek.\u00a0 Also surviving are his Fiance- Mary Ellis Kline of Forestville, four grandchildren Kristopher (Monica) Cowen, Kyle (Emma Kunkle) Cowen, Garrett (Sarah) Ivett, Grant (Allison Verstraete) Ivett, four great grandchildren and several nieces &amp; nephews.\u00a0 Besides his parents he was predeceased by a sister Theresa Schmidt and a brother Richard Panek.<\/p>\n<p>Friends are welcome to call at Riles &amp; Woolley Funeral Home, 39 Main Street, Forestville on Monday from 4-7 PM from where Funeral Services will be held Tuesday morning at 11 o&#8217;clock, with Rev. Brad Ringer, officiating.\u00a0 Interment will follow in Forestville Cemetery.\u00a0 Due to COVID restrictions, masks are required and we are limited to 33% capacity (approximately 53 people in the funeral home at a time)<\/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 To post condolences or memories go to www.rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHERRY CREEK:\u00a0 Walter Michael Panek, 76, of South Road, Rt. 83, Cherry Creek, died Friday, August 21st, 2020 at UPMC Hamot, following a short illness.\u00a0 He was born in Silver&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-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983","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=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}