{"id":2349,"date":"2021-11-28T12:19:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T17:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2021-11-28T12:19:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T17:19:05","slug":"obituary-notice-richard-mahlon-petersen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=2349","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Notice &#8211; Richard Mahlon Petersen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PetersenR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2350\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PetersenR-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"82\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PetersenR-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PetersenR.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 82px) 100vw, 82px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DUNKIRK:&nbsp; Richard Mahlon Petersen, 66, of Deer Street, Dunkirk, passed away Wednesday, November 24th, 2021, at his home.&nbsp; He was born on December 3, 1954, the son of the late Theodore and Agnes Ruth (Hasbrouck) Petersen, Sr.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Richard was a graduate of Forestville Central School, Class of 1973 and worked as a Forklift Operator\/Foreman for the former Dunkirk Ice Cream, Dunkirk, for approximately 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; He was born &amp; raised in Forestville and had a clever sense of humor, that his friends &amp; family enjoyed.&nbsp; Richard was a talented man who enjoyed woodworking and playing guitar.&nbsp; Affectionately known as &#8220;Woog&#8221; to his family &amp; friends, he was kind and dearly loved and will be deeply missed by his family &amp; friends.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Survivors include a daughter, Catherine Anne Petersen, of Dunkirk; three brothers, Carl Petersen, of Ohio; Chris Petersen and Mark Petersen, both of Forestville; and a sister, Marcia Petersen, of Forestville.&nbsp; Also surviving are several nieces and a nephew Teddy.&nbsp; Besides his parents he was predeceased by a brother Theodore Petersen, Jr. and two nieces Hannah Petersen &amp; Theodora Rae Petersen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; A Memorial Service will be held at a later date.&nbsp; Time and place to be announced. Arrangements are by Riles &amp; Woolley Funeral Home Forestville.&nbsp; To post condolences or memories go to www.rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUNKIRK:&nbsp; Richard Mahlon Petersen, 66, of Deer Street, Dunkirk, passed away Wednesday, November 24th, 2021, at his home.&nbsp; He was born on December 3, 1954, the son of the late&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-2349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349","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=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions\/2351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}