{"id":3665,"date":"2026-04-04T09:29:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=3665"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:29:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:29:45","slug":"obituary-notice-peggy-j-wilcox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=3665","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Notice &#8211; Peggy J. Wilcox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WilcoxP-e1775309289620.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3666\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WilcoxP-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"180\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FORESTVILLE: Peggy J. Wilcox, 87, of Main Street, Forestville, died Thursday, April 2, 2026 at Autumn View Health Care Facility, LLC., Hamburg, following a short illness. She was born in South Dayton on May 27, 1938, the daughter of the late Francis and Margaret (Seilmen) Howard.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Peggy was a graduate of the former South Dayton High School, Class of 1955. and worked as a Senior Social Welfare Examiner for Department of Social Services in Dunkirk. She also worked for Comstock Foods, in the grapes, and as a Cafeteria Manager for Forestville Central School.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Peggy was a member of the Brocton American Legion and was Union Treasurer for CSEA Local #807 for 20 years. She enjoyed watching her grandchildren play sports, doing puzzles and crosswords.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Survivors include a daughter Sue Wilcox, three sons; Ward Wilcox, Chuck (Paula Pichon) Wilcox, and Dennis (Jackie Kulpa) Wilcox, two sisters Frances Waterman, Anna Colvin, and a sister-in-law Carol Howard. Also surviving are three grandchildren; Jacob (Samantha), Jessie &amp; Jamie Wilcox, one grandchild Eleanor Wilcox and several nieces &amp; nephews. Besides her parents she was predeceased by her three brothers; Douglas, Richard &#8220;Dick&#8221; &amp; Donald &#8220;Sonny&#8221; Howard and four sisters; Nancy Lee Howard, Jean Nobles, Betty Lou Richter &amp; Mary Ann Wutz.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Friends are welcome to call at Riles &amp; Woolley Funeral Home, 39 Main Street, Forestville on Monday from 2-4 &amp; 7-9 PM. Private graveside services will be in Villenova Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; The family suggests memorials may be made to Forestville Fire Department, Inc., PO Box 299, Forestville, NY 14062. To post condolences or memories go to https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORESTVILLE: Peggy J. Wilcox, 87, of Main Street, Forestville, died Thursday, April 2, 2026 at Autumn View Health Care Facility, LLC., Hamburg, following a short illness. She was born in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3665","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\/3665","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=3665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3667,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions\/3667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}