{"id":3610,"date":"2026-02-24T10:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:39:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:39:01","slug":"obituary-notice-rita-m-terry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=3610","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Notice &#8211; Rita M. Terry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/TerryR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3612\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/TerryR-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"177\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jamestown: Rita M. Terry, 84, of Charles Street, Jamestown, died Friday, February 20, 2026 at UPMC Chautauqua Hospital, Jamestown, following a brief illness. She was born in Cleveland, OH on March 3, 1941, the daughter of the late Lester and Ruth (Miller) VanNatter. Rita was a graduate of Jamestown High School, Class of 1959.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; She worked as an Operator for the former Ethan Allen in Frewsburg for 12 years. Rita enjoyed camping and square dancing. Her &#8220;best job&#8221; was raising her children.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Survivors include four daughters; Barbara Butt of Jamestown, Debra Chapman of Virginia Beach, VA, Sheila Allen of Ashtabula, OH, Mary Reynolds of Ludington, MI and a son Steven Terry of Jamestown. Also surviving are twelve grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren. Besides her parents she was predeceased by her husband Theodore &#8220;Ted&#8221; Terry, whom she married on July 3, 1959 in Falconer Baptist Church and who died on September 18, 2023, an infant son William David Terry, two brothers; Arden &amp; Kenneth VanNatter and a grandson Nicholas Matthew Raper.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;No funeral services will be observed.&nbsp; Private Interment will be at the convenience of the family in Forestville Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; The family suggests memorials may be made to American Cancer Society, PO Box 6704, Hagerstown, MD 21741. 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>Jamestown: Rita M. Terry, 84, of Charles Street, Jamestown, died Friday, February 20, 2026 at UPMC Chautauqua Hospital, Jamestown, following a brief illness. She was born in Cleveland, OH on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3610","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\/3610","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=3610"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3616,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions\/3616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}