{"id":3392,"date":"2025-06-09T05:22:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=3392"},"modified":"2025-06-09T05:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:22:04","slug":"obituary-notice-joseph-j-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=3392","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Notice &#8211; Joseph J. Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/JoyJo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3393\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/JoyJo-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"197\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dunkirk: Joseph J. Joy, 76, a resident of Chautauqua Nursing &amp; Rehab of Dunkirk, formerly of Fredonia, died Thursday, June 5, 2025 at his residence, following a lengthy battle with Parkinson&#8217;s. He was born in Versace, Italy on December 11, 1948, and adopted at the age of 3 by the late Carl and Nancy (Pizzalanti) Joy, through the assistance of Catholic Charities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;He was a graduate of Fredonia High School and worked as a Lead Inspector for the former Ethan Allen in Mayville, for 30 years. Joe then worked for Wal-Mart in Fredonia as Head of Maintenance for over 10 years. He was a member of the Westfield Moose Lodge #118 and Holy Trinity Church, Dunkirk. Joe was an avid golfer, Bills &amp; Sabres fan and enjoyed making wine, doing carpentry &amp; farming.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;Survivors include two sons; Richard Joy, of Fredonia and Joseph Joy, of Forestville. Also surviving are two grandchildren; Brandi &amp; Rachel Pryll and two great grandchildren Nevaeh Joy and Jameson Franklin. Besides his parents he was predeceased by a daughter Jeniffer Joy, who died May 24, 2023 and a grandson TJ Joy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;A Celebration of Life will be held in St. Anthony&#8217;s Cemetery, Fredonia, at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;The family suggests memorials may be made to American Parkinson Disease Association, Inc., PO Box 61420, Staten Island, NY 10306.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&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>Dunkirk: Joseph J. Joy, 76, a resident of Chautauqua Nursing &amp; Rehab of Dunkirk, formerly of Fredonia, died Thursday, June 5, 2025 at his residence, following a lengthy battle with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3392","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\/3392","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=3392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3394,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions\/3394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}