{"id":3357,"date":"2025-05-17T11:08:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T15:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2025-06-07T06:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T10:06:16","slug":"obituary-notice-christopher-j-kulpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=3357","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Notice &#8211; Christopher J. Kulpa (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KulpaC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3364\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KulpaC-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"146\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cassadaga: Christopher J. Kulpa, 59, of Cassadaga, died Thursday, May 15, 2025 at Brooks Memorial Hospital, Dunkirk, following a brief illness. He was born in Dunkirk on November 18, 1965, the son of Jean (Rak) Kulpa of Dunkirk and the late Richard &#8220;Dick&#8221; Kulpa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; He was a graduate of Dunkirk High School, Class of 1983 and attended JCC. Chris worked as a Mechanic for most of his life and worked for Farrell Chrysler in Fredonia for approximately 10 years. He was an avid hunter and fisherman and enjoyed trains.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Surviving besides his mother are his wife Stacey (Richter) Kulpa of Cassadaga, whom he married on August 24, 1996 at the J. Carter Knapp American Legion Post in Forestville, a brother Colin (Kathleen) Kulpa, of Dunkirk, three sisters Jacqueline (Dennis Wilcox) Kulpa, of Silver Creek, Cynthia Lawrie, of Dunkirk, and Brenda (Jeffrey) Leone, of Fredonia.&nbsp; Also surviving are several nieces &amp; nephews. Besides his father he was predeceased by a brother Michael Kulpa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <strong>A Celebration of Life will be held Sunday, June 15th from 1-5pm at the J. Carter Knapp American Legion Post, 6 Cedar Street, Forestville<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>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. To post condolences or memories go to https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cassadaga: Christopher J. Kulpa, 59, of Cassadaga, died Thursday, May 15, 2025 at Brooks Memorial Hospital, Dunkirk, following a brief illness. He was born in Dunkirk on November 18, 1965,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3357","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\/3357","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=3357"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3391,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions\/3391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}