{"id":2872,"date":"2023-12-08T05:52:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T10:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2023-12-08T05:52:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T10:52:27","slug":"obituary-notice-jerry-w-towne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=2872","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Notice &#8211; Jerry W. Towne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/TowneJ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2873\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/TowneJ-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"117\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FORESTVILLE:&nbsp; Jerry W. Towne, 81, of Hopper Road, Forestville, passed away Tuesday, December 5th, 2023 at Brooks Memorial Hospital, Dunkirk, following a short illness.&nbsp; He was born in Jamestown on December 23, 1941, the son of the late Howard E. and Ruby (Perkins) Towne, Sr.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Jerry worked as a Motor Equipment Operator for the Town of Hanover Highway Department, Silver Creek for 27 years, retiring in 2000. He owned &amp; operated a beef farm on Hopper Road in Forestville and worked with his father doing excavating and many other jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Jerry was a member of the John Deere 2 Cylinder Tractor Club and former CB Radio Club. He enjoyed pulling and building tractors, hunting and attending his granddaughter\u2019s events.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Survivors include his wife Ruth (McIntyre) Towne of Forestville, whom he married on November 4th, 1961, in Gowanda, two daughters, Kamie (Paul Gadra) Fields, of Dunkirk; Becky (Mark) Ostrye, of Forestville; and a sister, Sylvia Towne, of Fredonia. Also surviving are two grandchildren Lacey (A.J.) Mihalko, Brooke (Nick Zielinski) Ostrye and 1 niece.&nbsp; Besides his parents he was predeceased by a brother Howard Towne, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Funeral Services are private and interment will be in Villenova Cemetery, Town of Villenova.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; The family suggests memorials may be made either to Forestville Fire Department, Inc. PO Box 299, Forestville, NY 14062 or Sheridan Fire Dept, PO Box 122, Sheridan, NY 14135.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Arrangements are by Riles &amp; Woolley Funeral Home, Forestville.&nbsp; To post condolences or memories go to www.rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORESTVILLE:&nbsp; Jerry W. Towne, 81, of Hopper Road, Forestville, passed away Tuesday, December 5th, 2023 at Brooks Memorial Hospital, Dunkirk, following a short illness.&nbsp; He was born in Jamestown on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872","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=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2874,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions\/2874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}