{"id":979,"date":"2015-12-05T11:50:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T16:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=979"},"modified":"2015-12-05T11:50:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T16:50:06","slug":"obituary-notice-kenneth-r-owen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Notice &#8211; Kenneth R. Owen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/OwenK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-980\" alt=\"OwenK\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/OwenK-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>FREDONIA:\u00a0 Kenneth R. Owen, 70, of Brigham Road, Fredonia, died Friday, December 4th, 2015 at his residence, following a lengthy illness.\u00a0 He was born in Buffalo, on April 26, 1945, and is the son of the late LeGrand and Jane (nee Murszewski) Owen.\u00a0 Mr. Owen was a graduate of Bishop Turner High School and served in the Army National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Owen worked for the former Arcata Graphics\/Quebecor in Depew for 40 years and was a past president of the Graphic Communications International Union (GCIU) Local 17-B.\u00a0 He was a member of the Silver Creek Fireman&#8217;s Club, the West Seneca American Legion Post #735 and was a lifetime member of Gowanda American Legion Post #409.\u00a0 He was an avid gardener, woodworker, especially building bird houses, loved animals and his dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include a son, Todd (Claudia) Owen, a daughter, Robin (Ron) McNeill, both of Washington, DC, his loving companion Donna Ostrye of Fredonia and four grandchildren.\u00a0 Besides his parents, Mr. Owen was predeceased by two brothers Thomas &amp; Clifford Owen.<\/p>\n<p>No visitation will be observed.\u00a0 Memorial Services will be held at a later date.\u00a0 Arrangements are by Riles &amp; Woolley Funeral Home, Forestville.\u00a0 To post condolences go to www.rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FREDONIA:\u00a0 Kenneth R. Owen, 70, of Brigham Road, Fredonia, died Friday, December 4th, 2015 at his residence, following a lengthy illness.\u00a0 He was born in Buffalo, on April 26, 1945,&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-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","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=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}