{"id":3098,"date":"2024-06-10T08:52:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T12:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=3098"},"modified":"2024-06-10T08:52:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T12:52:04","slug":"obituary-notice-joseph-j-colling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=3098","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Notice &#8211; Joseph J. Colling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORESTVILLE:&nbsp; Joseph J. Colling, 87, of Dennison Road, Forestville, formerly of formerly of Delevan, NY, passed away Thursday, June 6th, 2024 at Gowanda Rehabilitation and Nursing Center.&nbsp; He was born in St. Mary&#8217;s, PA on August 16, 1936, the son of the late Perry and Hazel Farmer) Colling.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Joseph was a graduate of Springville Griffith Institute and served in the Air Force &amp; Army Reserves.&nbsp; He also served in the NY Air National Guard from Oct. 1954 &#8211; Oct. 1967 as a TSGT (13 yrs), NY Army National Guard from Jan. 1974 &#8211; Jan. 1982 as a SSG (8 yrs) with Co. C 1\/127 Armor, Olean, NY for a total of 21 years.&nbsp; Joseph was nominated for Soldier of the Year in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; He worked as a Supply Manager at Koike Aronson, Inc. Arcade, NY, for 30 years and was a member of St. Aloysius RC Church, Springville, where he was a member of the Knights of Columbus.&nbsp; Joseph was a past Post Commander of the West Valley American Legion Post #1576, was a member of the NRA, Franklinville Rod &amp; Gun Club, Life member &amp; Past Chief of Delevan Fire Department, was a Tank Commander in Olean, enjoyed trapshooting and motorcycles, was a member of the former Zoar Valley Riders Motorcycle Club and was a volunteer for Cattaraugus Meals on Wheels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Survivors include a sister-in-law Barbara Snyder of East Randolph, nephews- Richard Snyder of Forestville, Ross (Clovis) Snyder of Jamestown, James (Marilyn) Snyder of St. George, UT, Jeffery Snyder of Napoli, NY, niece Gretchen Snyder of Jamestown and several great nieces &amp; nephews.&nbsp; Besides his parents he was predeceased by his wife Elmyra (Scheffler) Colling, whom he married on September 28, 1957 in Delevan, NY and who died September 9, 2020 and a brother-in-law Danna Snyder, who died in October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; A Catholic Burial Service will be conducted on <strong>Saturday, June 15th at 1 o&#8217;clock<\/strong> from Riles &amp; Woolley Funeral Home, 39 Main Street, Forestville, with Rev. Daniel Fiebelkorn, of Faith Community Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, officiating.&nbsp; Private Interment will be in Mt. View Cemetery, Olean, NY.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The family suggests memorials may be made to Delevan Fire Department, 85 South Main Street, Delevan, NY 14042.&nbsp; To post condolences or memories go to www.rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Usflag.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1218\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Usflag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"76\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Air-Force.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-977\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Air-Force.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"89\" height=\"89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Air-Force.jpg 275w, https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Air-Force-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 89px) 100vw, 89px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/National-Guard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1042\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/National-Guard-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"89\" height=\"89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/National-Guard.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/National-Guard-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 89px) 100vw, 89px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORESTVILLE:&nbsp; Joseph J. Colling, 87, of Dennison Road, Forestville, formerly of formerly of Delevan, NY, passed away Thursday, June 6th, 2024 at Gowanda Rehabilitation and Nursing Center.&nbsp; He was born&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-3098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098","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=3098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3099,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions\/3099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}