{"id":3251,"date":"2024-12-23T05:55:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T10:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2024-12-23T05:55:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T10:55:49","slug":"obituary-notice-lawrence-larry-r-croft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=3251","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Notice &#8211; Lawrence &#8220;Larry&#8221; R. Croft, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/CroftL-Web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3252\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/CroftL-Web-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"127\" height=\"191\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FORESTVILLE:&nbsp; Lawrence &#8220;Larry&#8221; R. Croft, Jr., 75, of Bradigan Road, Forestville, passed away Wednesday, December 18th, 2024, at Brooks Memorial Hospital, Dunkirk.&nbsp; He was born in Buffalo on January 6, 1949, the son of the late Lawrence R. and Lois J. (Kreiderman) Croft, Sr.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Larry was a graduate of Eden Central School, Class of 1969 and worked as a Truck Driver for many different local companies, including D. Blakely Construction Co. of Silver Creek. He loved dogs, fishing and working on 4 wheel drive trucks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Survivors include his wife Judith A. (Schreiner) Croft of Forestville, whom he married on January 17, 1987, in Hamburg, three daughters, Cynthia Croft, of Arizona;<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer (Jess) Erickson Tyler, of Forestville; Melissa (Mike Maines) Erickson, of Forestville; two sons Lawrence &#8220;Larry&#8221; R. Croft, III, of Fredonia; Robert (Jeannette) Croft, of Forestville; two sisters, Betsy (Tom) Polisoto, Evie (Robert) Herr, four brothers, David (Lorraine) Labatar, Kevin (Cheryl) Labatar,Brian (Dawn) Croft and Sean (Norma) Croft.&nbsp; Also surviving are six grandchildren; Tyler Tyler, Nathan Maines, Zachary Tyler, Lawson Croft, Addison Croft &amp; Sawyer Croft; a great grandson River Maines and several nieces &amp; nephews.&nbsp; Besides his parents he was predeceased by a brother, Michael Labatar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; The family suggests memorials may be made to Forestville Fire Department, Inc., PO Box 299, Forestville, NY 14062.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Arrangements are by Riles &amp; Woolley Funeral Home, Forestville.&nbsp; To post condolences or memories go to https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORESTVILLE:&nbsp; Lawrence &#8220;Larry&#8221; R. Croft, Jr., 75, of Bradigan Road, Forestville, passed away Wednesday, December 18th, 2024, at Brooks Memorial Hospital, Dunkirk.&nbsp; He was born in Buffalo on January 6,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3251","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\/3251","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=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3254,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions\/3254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}