{"id":3850,"date":"2026-10-28T06:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=3850"},"modified":"2026-10-28T06:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:57:27","slug":"obituary-notice-edwin-newcomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=3850","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Notice &#8211; Edwin L. Newcomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/NewcombE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3851\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/NewcombE-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"171\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forestville: Edwin L. Newcomb, 81, of Creek Road, Forestville, died Tuesday, October 27, 2026 at his residence following a battle with Dementia and with his family by his side. He was born in Silver Creek on January 8, 1945, the son of the late Lester and Wilma (Priest) Newcomb.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Ed was a graduate of Pine Valley Central School, Class of 1962 and retired from the former Monofrax, LLC in Falconer after 15 years. Previously he worked for the former Carnation Milk Plant in South Dayton.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Ed was an avid hunter, fisherman and outdoorsman. He loved gardening, fixing things and helping other people. Ed was a man of many talents and would purchase items at auctions, fix them &amp; resell them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Survivors include his wife of 52 years Susan (Crowell) Newcomb, of Forestville, whom he married on August 8, 1974 in Hamlet, NY, two daughters; Karen (Tom) Kaminski-Ciancio, of Forestville, Kathleen (Andy) Heckman, of Clarence, and a brother Gene Newcomb, of South Dayton. Also surviving are four grandchildren; Allison &amp; Gavin Kaminski and Drew &amp; Madeline Heckman along with several nieces &amp; nephews. Besides his parents he was predeceased by an infant daughter and a nephew Christopher Newcomb.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Friends are welcome to call at Riles &amp; Woolley Funeral Home, 39 Main Street, Forestville on Saturday from 1 &#8211; 4 PM only. There will be no funeral services observed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made either to Chautauqua Hospice &amp; Palliative Care, 20 W. Fairmount Avenue, Lakewood, NY 14750, or to the Forestville Fire Department, Inc., PO Box 299, Forestville, NY 14062.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; To post condolences or memories go to https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forestville: Edwin L. Newcomb, 81, of Creek Road, Forestville, died Tuesday, October 27, 2026 at his residence following a battle with Dementia and with his family by his side. He&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3850","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\/3850","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=3850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3853,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions\/3853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}