{"id":2465,"date":"2022-04-20T07:01:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T11:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2022-04-20T07:01:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T11:01:51","slug":"obituary-notice-joseph-l-richir-sr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=2465","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Notice &#8211; Joseph L. Richir, Sr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/RichirJ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2466\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/RichirJ-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/RichirJ-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/RichirJ.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 81px) 100vw, 81px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DUNKIRK:&nbsp; Joseph L. Richir, Sr, 87, of Newell Road, Dunkirk, passed away Monday, April 18th, 2022 at his residence, surrounded by his family.&nbsp; He was born in Dunkirk on May 19, 1934, the son of the late Thomas and Lena (Wollaston) Richir.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Mr. Richir was a graduate of Buffalo State College with a teaching degree in Auto Body. He worked for several car dealerships in the Dunkirk-Fredonia area as a body man and then worked for Fredonia BOCES as an auto body teacher for 24 years, retiring in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Mr. Richir was a member of the Fredonia American Legion Post #59, Fredonia Beaver Club, Dunkirk Moose Lodge and a Life member of Sheridan Fire Dept.&nbsp; He also enjoyed collecting &amp; working on classic cars.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Surviving are his four children Joseph L. (Rosanne) Richir, Jr of Cape Coral, FL, Diane (Thomas) Neal, of Silver Creek; Scott K. (Gina) Richir of Fredonia, Lu Ann Ellis, of Fredonia; and a brother, Jules Richir, of Dunkirk.&nbsp; Also surviving are thirteen grandchildren, fifteen great grandchildren and several nieces &amp; nephews.&nbsp; Besides his parents he was predeceased by his wife Viola &#8220;Chickie&#8221; (Stevens) Richir, whom he married on July 31, 1954 in St. Joseph RC Church, Fredonia and who died May 7, 2015 and by brothers Earl &amp; Thomas G. Richir.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Friends are welcome to call at Riles &amp; Woolley Funeral Home, 39 Main Street, Forestville on Thursday evening from 6-9 PM from where Funeral Services will be held Friday afternoon at 1 pm, with Rev. David Watson, pastor of Sheridan United Methodist Church, officiating.&nbsp; Interment will follow in St. Joseph&#8217;s Cemetery, Town of Sheridan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; The family suggests memorials may be made to Sheridan Fire Dept., PO Box 122, Sheridan, NY 14135.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; To post condolences or memories go to www.rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUNKIRK:&nbsp; Joseph L. Richir, Sr, 87, of Newell Road, Dunkirk, passed away Monday, April 18th, 2022 at his residence, surrounded by his family.&nbsp; He was born in Dunkirk on May&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-2465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465","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=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions\/2467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}