{"id":2498,"date":"2022-08-01T05:34:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T09:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2022-08-01T05:34:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T09:34:20","slug":"obituary-notice-henry-j-smith-sr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=2498","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Notice &#8211; Henry J. Smith, Sr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WESTFIELD:&nbsp; Henry J. Smith, Sr., 69, of Prospect Station Road, Westfield, died Sunday, July 31st, 2022 at his residence, following a courageous battle with ALS.&nbsp; He was born in Silver Creek on March 17, 1953, the son of the late Edward and Marie (Swackhammer) Smith.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Henry worked as an Assistant Manager for the former Nixon&#8217;s Grape Farm, Westfield, for 28 years.&nbsp; He enjoyed fishing, hunting, camping, traveling and attending auctions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Survivors include his wife Janet M. (Hardy) Smith of Westfield, whom he married on July 3, 1976, in the Forestville Baptist Church, a son, Henry Smith, Jr., of Westfield; a daughter, Jennifer Sipp, of Dunkirk;&nbsp; two sisters, Cathy (Dennis) Gould, of Forestville; Rose (Jerry) Miller, of Forestville; three brothers, Robert (April) Smith, of Silver Creek; Richard (Claudia) Smith, of Forestville; John (Marion) Smith, of Silver Creek. He is also survived by two grandchildren Aurora Britton and Sophia Smith and several nieces &amp; nephews.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Friends are welcome to call at Riles &amp; Woolley Funeral Home, 39 Main Street, Forestville on Wednesday from 11 AM-1 PM from where Funeral Services will follow at 1 o&#8217;clock, with Rev. Michael Pollock, pastor of Gage Chapel Community Church, Smith Mills, officiating.&nbsp; Interment will follow in Evergreen Lawn Cemetery Town of Hanover.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; The family suggests memorials may be made to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, 2361 Hylan Boulevard, Staten Island, NY 10306 (<a href=\"https:\/\/t2t.org\/donate\">https:\/\/t2t.org\/donate<\/a>).&nbsp; To post condolences or memories go to www.rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WESTFIELD:&nbsp; Henry J. Smith, Sr., 69, of Prospect Station Road, Westfield, died Sunday, July 31st, 2022 at his residence, following a courageous battle with ALS.&nbsp; 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-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","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=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}