{"id":2102,"date":"2015-07-13T11:44:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T11:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2015-07-13T11:44:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T11:44:44","slug":"james-w-kurtz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=2102","title":{"rendered":"James W. Kurtz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?attachment_id=2103\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2103\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2103\" title=\"James Kurtz Photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/James-Kurtz-Photo-200x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/James-Kurtz-Photo-200x229.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/James-Kurtz-Photo-250x286.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/James-Kurtz-Photo.jpg 583w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>James W. Kurtz \u2013 92 \u2013 a resident of Taylor Nursing Facility, formerly of Alderman Rd, Hammondsport, died Friday evening (July 10, 2015) at Ira Davenport Hospital in Bath, were he had been a patient for the past 2 days.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Lowellville, OH on April 13, 1923, he was the son of Harry &amp; Grace Kurtz.<\/p>\n<p>Jim spent most of his younger years in Berlin Center, OH where attended Berlin Center High School.\u00a0 He had been employed for over 25 years at Rockwell Standard in Newton Falls, OH.<\/p>\n<p>A resent of the Bath-Hammondsport area for over 30 years, Jim had been employed at the former Phillips Lighting for several years and also engaged in general farming on his son\u2019s farm in Hammondsport.<\/p>\n<p>He was a member of the Bethel Assembly of God Church where he and his wife were active in the pre-school program.\u00a0 He was an avid fisherman and was also a \u201cdie-hard\u201d Cleveland Browns Football Fan.<\/p>\n<p>Jim was preceded in death by his son, Ron Kurtz who died in 2005; his brother, Robert Kurtz; 2 sisters, Jean Zarlingo and Esther Marino.<\/p>\n<p>He was married for 70 years to the former Ruth Walters who survives.\u00a0 Also surviving are 2 sons, Danny (Mary) Kurtz of Lake Havasu City, AZ and David (Karen) Kurtz of Medford, OR; many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces &amp; nephews.<\/p>\n<p>The family of James W. Kurtz will receive friends on Thursday from 1:00 PM \u2013 2:00 PM at the Bethel Assembly of God Church in Bath where funeral services will be held at the conclusion of calling hours at 2:00 PM with Rev. Craig Buckley officiating.\u00a0 Burial will be in McDowell Cemetery, Wayne, NY.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral arrangements are in care of the Dagon Funeral Home, 38 Church St., Hornell, NY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James W. Kurtz \u2013 92 \u2013 a resident of Taylor Nursing Facility, formerly of Alderman Rd, Hammondsport, died Friday evening (July 10, 2015) at Ira Davenport Hospital in Bath, were he had been a patient for the past 2 days. Born in Lowellville, OH on April 13, 1923, he was the son of Harry &amp; [&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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","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=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2104,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions\/2104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}