{"id":3681,"date":"2026-04-18T06:43:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=3681"},"modified":"2026-04-18T06:43:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:43:48","slug":"obituary-notice-ronald-c-lyman-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=3681","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Notice &#8211; Ronald C. Lyman (updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fredonia: Ronald C. Lyman, 87, of Berry Road, Fredonia, died Wednesday, December 10, 2025 at Heritage Park Health Care Center, Jamestown, following a short illness. He was born in Olean on November 6, 1938, the son of the late Gordon and Edna (Lyman) Augie.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Ronald was a graduate of Ten Broeck Academy in Franklinville and served in the US Navy during the Vietnam War. He worked as a Laborer for the former Dunkirk Ice Cream and for many years, Ronald worked for the former Ontario Knife Company in Franklinville.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; He participated with the Chautauqua Adult Day Care Center in Dunkirk for 13 years and was a member of the John W. Dill American Legion Post #434 in Brocton. Ronald enjoyed watching football and bowling. He was on many leagues in Franklinville.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Survivors include close friends Delores Langford, John Tatlow, Tara Hicks, Diane Hicks and June Whipple. Besides his parents he was predeceased by a brother; Gary Augie.<\/p>\n<p><strong> A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday April 25<sup>th<\/sup> at 1 o\u2019clock from John W. Dill American Legion Post #434, 110 W Main St, Brocton, NY 14716.<\/strong>&nbsp;Private Interment will be in Villenova Cemetery. The family suggests memorials may be made to John W. Dill American Legion Post #434, 110 W Main St, Brocton, NY 14716.<\/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<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Usflag.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-97\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Usflag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"76\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Navy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-100\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Navy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"97\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fredonia: Ronald C. Lyman, 87, of Berry Road, Fredonia, died Wednesday, December 10, 2025 at Heritage Park Health Care Center, Jamestown, following a short illness. He was born in Olean&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681","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=3681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3682,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions\/3682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}