{"id":3544,"date":"2026-01-01T14:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2026-01-02T09:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T14:05:22","slug":"obituary-notice-elliott-r-masman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=3544","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Notice &#8211; Elliott R. Masman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MasmanE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3545\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MasmanE-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"144\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Elliott R. Masman, 85, of Sheridan, passed away December 27, 2025. He was born on December 26, 1940.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp; He was preceded in death by his parents, The Rev. Henry J. Masman and The Rev. Eloise A. Masman; his son, Timothy Todd Masman, his second wife, Mary &#8220;Jane&#8221; Masman, and his beloved dogs, Cookie, Raina, and Shay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;He graduated from Brockway High School in Brockway, PA, and West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, WV. He retired from Combined Life insurance and was a resolute life member of the Sheridan Volunteer Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;He is survived by his sister, Patricia M. Zabel, his children and his nephews and nieces. &#8220;Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: For you are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me&#8221;- Psalm 23:4 Even in the end he remembered Psalm 23.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;Private Interment will be a later date.&nbsp; Memorial donations may be made to the Sheridan Volunteer Fire Department. PO Box 122, Sheridan, NY 14135.<\/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>Elliott R. Masman, 85, of Sheridan, passed away December 27, 2025. He was born on December 26, 1940. &nbsp; He was preceded in death by his parents, The Rev. Henry&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3544","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\/3544","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=3544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3548,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions\/3548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}