{"id":3101,"date":"2018-03-16T14:01:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T14:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=3101"},"modified":"2018-03-17T16:54:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T16:54:33","slug":"michael-p-bantel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=3101","title":{"rendered":"Michael P. Bantel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Michael P. \u201cMike\u201d Bantel \u2013 (51) \u2013 of 130 East Main St., Hornell, formerly of 13 West VanScoter St., died Thursday evening (March 15, 2018) at Arnot Ogden Hospital in Elmira, following a brief illness.<\/p>\n

Born in Amityville, NY on December 16, 1966, he was the son of William & Margaret \u201cMarge\u201d Bantel.<\/p>\n

Mike grew up in Massapequa, Long Island and graduated from Rosemary Kennedy School (Nassau County ARC).\u00a0 While living on Long Island, he was a member of Maria Regina Parish in Seaford, NY.<\/p>\n

Along with his family, Mike moved to Hornell in 1989.\u00a0 Since living in Hornell he has been a member of the Steuben ARC Program.\u00a0 He was a member of Our Lady of the Valley Parish and a communicant of both St. Ann\u2019s Church of Hornell and St. Mary\u2019s Church of Rexville, NY.<\/p>\n

Mike enjoyed playing with his alphabet blocks and carried them with him in his knapsack at all times.\u00a0 He loved bowling with his friends and was a member of the Steuben ARC Bowling League.\u00a0 He also loved shopping with the Steuben ARC staff and also enjoyed \u201cringing the bell\u201d for the Salvation Army in front of Wal-Mart at Christmastime.<\/p>\n

Surviving are 3 brothers, Bill Bantel of Hornell, Jim Bantel of Massapequa, Long Island and Charles Bantel of West Palm Beach, FL; 1 sister, Janice Ruh of Gilbert, AZ; several nieces & nephews.<\/p>\n

The family of Michael P. Bantel will receive friends on Thursday from 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM at St. Ann\u2019s Church where a Memorial Mass will be celebrated at the conclusion of calling hours at 10:00 AM.\u00a0 Final interment will be in St. Mary\u2019s Cemetery alongside his parents.<\/p>\n

Funeral arrangements are in care of the Dagon Funeral Home, 38 Church St., Hornell, NY.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike\u2019s family request that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in his name be made to ARC of Steuben, 1 ARC Way, Bath, NY 14810.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael P. \u201cMike\u201d Bantel \u2013 (51) \u2013 of 130 East Main St., Hornell, formerly of 13 West VanScoter St., died Thursday evening (March 15, 2018) at Arnot Ogden Hospital in Elmira, following a brief illness. Born in Amityville, NY on December 16, 1966, he was the son of William & Margaret \u201cMarge\u201d Bantel. Mike grew […]<\/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-3101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101","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=3101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3110,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions\/3110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}