{"id":1634,"date":"2014-04-04T21:25:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T21:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2014-04-04T21:27:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T21:27:45","slug":"william-g-stone-sr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=1634","title":{"rendered":"William G. Stone, Sr."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>William\u00a0 G.\u00a0 “Bill” Stone Sr., a resident of the Veterans’ Administration Facility in Bath, NY, went home to be with the Lord on April 3, 2014.\u00a0 Mr. Stone was born on March 7, 1920, in Elmira, NY, to Sydney Stone and Louise Stone Sechrist.\u00a0 He was twice married, first to Dorothy Dodge Stone and secondly to Carmella (Betty) Ladonne Stone.<\/p>\n

Bill graduated from Elmira Southside High School with the class of 1939.\u00a0 William was selected to be a member of the Chemung County Sports Hall of Fame for his participation and excellence in the sports of wrestling and boxing.<\/p>\n

\u00a0He enlisted in the U.S. Army prior to World War II.\u00a0 He was deployed with the 9th Infantry Division during World War II, where he served as a staff sergeant, and saw action in the European, African, and Middle Eastern Campaigns.\u00a0\u00a0 He received medals including medals for Good Conduct and a Bronze Star for heroic and meritorious achievement.<\/p>\n

William worked at the former Remington Rand, and he retired from the United States Postal Service, where he worked as Assistant Superintendent of Mails, overseeing the Elmira Postal Sectional Center.<\/p>\n

Following retirement from the USPS, Bill volunteered with the American Red Cross of Steuben County and was a Patient Advocate Representative at Corning Hospital.\u00a0 He belonged to the American Legion, Veterans’ of Foreign Wars, and the Lions Club.<\/p>\n

Left to cherish Mr. Stone’s memory are sons: William, Jr. (Brenda) Stone of Montgomery, TX;\u00a0 Gregory (Sue) Stone of Summerfield, FL; Randall Stone of Auburndale, FL, Lawrence Stone of Strasburg, VA., and step-son, Jerry Bower of Reno, NV; daughters: Danielle (Doug) Woodward of Horseheads,\u00a0 and Tamara (Jerry) Lipscomb of Montrose, WV., and daughters-in-law Carol Stone of Odessa, NY and Eura Kang Stone of Albany; grandchildren:\u00a0 Stephanie Woodward, William Stone 3rd (Audrey) , Chad Woodward (Jessica), Ryan (Sarah) Woodward, Grant Woodward, Lauren Stone, Joshua Lipscomb, Elijah Lipscomb, Preston Lipscomb, Kristen (Dave) Heichel, Katie (Kyle) Holtz , Kelly Stone, Mary Stone, and seventeen great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n

Preceding him in death were his parents, Sydney and Louise; his step-father Ronald Sechrist, wives Dorothy and Carmella, Carol June Bodine, Ronald (Duke) Sechrist, Darrell Sechrist, Ronda Hall, and granddaughter Aleena Lipscomb.<\/p>\n

A Memorial Service is planned to be held Monday, April 7, 2014, at the Pennsylvania Avenue Methodist Church at 3 p.m. in Pine City, NY.\u00a0 The Reverend Bill Vallet officiating the service and military honors will be conveyed.
\nFuneral arrangements are in care of the Dagon Funeral Home, 38 Church St., Hornell, NY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William\u00a0 G.\u00a0 “Bill” Stone Sr., a resident of the Veterans’ Administration Facility in Bath, NY, went home to be with the Lord on April 3, 2014.\u00a0 Mr. Stone was born on March 7, 1920, in Elmira, NY, to Sydney Stone and Louise Stone Sechrist.\u00a0 He was twice married, first to Dorothy Dodge Stone and secondly […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}