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Richard Hunt Fessenden

Richard Hunt Fessenden was born on November 30th—Winston Churchill’s birthday—in 1946, and passed away on Thursday September 26, 2024 at the age of 77. Richard was born in Lakewood to Lawrence Fessenden and Georgiana Hunt Fessenden and was a 1964 graduate of Southwestern Central ...

Kenneth H. Weaver Jr.

Kenneth H. Weaver Jr., 78, of Bridgeville, Delaware and Bradford, PA, formerly of Jamestown, passed away Sunday (September 29, 2024) at his winter home in Delaware after battling COPD for nearly 30 years. The funeral will be 11 a.m. Monday in the Falconer Funeral Home. Friends will be received by the family from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday in the funeral home and one hour prior to the funeral service Monday in the funeral home. A complete obituary will be published in Friday’s Post Journal.

Billie Jeanne (Cookie) Smith Taylor, 80, formerly of Lakewood, NY and Sherman, NY, passed away Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024 at Heritage Park Rehab & Skilled Nursing. An area resident most of her life, she was a daughter of the late Eugene and Louise Brawdy Smith, born June 2, 1944 at the Fort ...

Thaddeus Bilicki

Thaddeus Bilicki of Jamestown NY passed away on September 30, 2024, at the age of 91. He was born on March 17, 1933 in Arnold PA, to Stanley and Pelagia Bilicki. He graduated from Arnold High School in 1950. He earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Alliance College in 1954 followed by ...

Linda M. Drake

Linda M. Drake, 72, of Jamestown, NY passed away on October 1, 2024. She was born on February 24, 1952 in Jamestown to Walter and Carol Snyder. A full obituary will be published at a later date. Arrangements entrusted to Riccardi’s Hubert Funeral Home.

Carol Anne Chiavetta Schillace

Carol Anne Chiavetta Schillace, of Lakewood, NY, passed away peacefully on Sunday, September 29, 2024, with her son David by her side. She was born February 20, 1942, in Buffalo, NY to Josephin L. Antonucci and Nunzio F. Chiavetta and grew up in Brant, NY. She is survived by her son, David, ...