{"id":1813,"date":"2014-09-09T17:37:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T17:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2014-09-11T12:54:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T12:54:49","slug":"edward-w-oheron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=1813","title":{"rendered":"Edward W. O’Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Edward W. \u201cEd\u201d O\u2019Heron \u2013 80 \u2013 of 63 John St., Hornell, died Monday afternoon (September 8, 2014) at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, following a brief illness.<\/p>\n

Born in Hornell on May 24, 1934, he was the eldest son of Murray & Opal (Schane) O\u2019Heron. The O\u2019Heron family lived in Hornell near the O\u2019Heron and Schane grandparents until 1939 when they moved to Elmira, NY.\u00a0 They moved to Corning before the beginning of WWII.\u00a0 The children, Edward, Carole, James & Sharon attended St. Patrick\u2019s School and Church on Dennison Parkway until March of 1948.<\/p>\n

Ed graduated from St. Ann\u2019s School of Hornell in June of 1948 and from Hornell High School in June of 1952.<\/p>\n

He worked for the NYS Department of Transportation from 1952 until retiring in 1990 as a Civil
\nEngineer, working on more than 70 bridges in the region.\u00a0 He also was a licensed Land Surveyor, with his own land survey business, and after his retirement from New York State, worked for several companies in the area as a consulting engineer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ed was an active member of Hornell Knights of Columbus (Fourth Degree Knight); he was also a member of the Arkport American Legion, Hornell Elks Lodge, the Hornell Association, Retired P.E.F., A.A.R.P., Ancient Order of Hibernians of Elmira, and held many professional association memberships.<\/p>\n

He served as Director of Public Works for the city of Hornell from 1969-1975 and 1979-1982.\u00a0 He volunteered for Wegman\u2019s Rochester LPGA tournament, and for the Corning Class LPGA as a Gallery Control Marshall for 20 years He also contributed time and energy to the Salvation Army, and the Faith in Action program.<\/p>\n

In addition to his parents, Ed was preceded in death by his son, Edward W. O\u2019Heron II who died shortly after birth in 1964; his first love and wife of 20 years, Sherry Carter O\u2019Heron who died in 1975; his son-in-law, Darcy L. Henry who died in 1992.<\/p>\n

Edward is survived by his ever loving and spiritually beautiful wife and companion since April 21, 1978, Sandra \u201cSandy\u201d McManus O\u2019Heron; his children, Kim O\u2019Heron of Hume, VA, Lori (Tony) Rizzo of Silver Spring, MD and Kelly (Jack) Grillo of South Dansville; his treasures of his later life, grandchildren Eric & Patric Rizzo, Emily & Darcy S. Henry and Skye O\u2019Heron; his step daughter, Mary Joy Valentine and her children Jeremy, Marla Jo & Donny Valentine; his step-grandson, Matt Grillo; his siblings, Carole (Alexander) Kessler of N. Syracuse, NY, James (Joanne) O\u2019Heron of Canisteo, Sharon (Robert) Allen of Endicott, NY, Linda (Francis) Crowe of Corning, Patricia (Terry) Cordes of Corning and Michelle (Shannon) Proctor of Corning; his \u201cspecial friend-brother-son\u201d Dan Roop; many nieces & nephews.<\/p>\n

The family of Edward W. O\u2019Heron will receive friends on Thursday from 3:00 PM until 7:00 PM at the Dagon Funeral Home, 38 Church St., Hornell, NY.\u00a0 A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Friday at 10:00 AM at St. Ann\u2019s Church with burial in St. Mary\u2019s Cemetery.<\/p>\n

Ed\u2019s family request that memorial contributions in his name be made to St. Ann\u2019s Church, Our Lady of the Valley Parish, 27 Erie Ave., Hornell, NY 14843.\u00a0 Memorial forms will be available at the Dagon Funeral Home or click here<\/a> to print a form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Edward W. \u201cEd\u201d O\u2019Heron \u2013 80 \u2013 of 63 John St., Hornell, died Monday afternoon (September 8, 2014) at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, following a brief illness. Born in Hornell on May 24, 1934, he was the eldest son of Murray & Opal (Schane) O\u2019Heron. The O\u2019Heron family lived in Hornell near the O\u2019Heron […]<\/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-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","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=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}