{"id":3290,"date":"2018-07-22T13:17:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T13:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=3290"},"modified":"2018-07-28T14:37:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T14:37:02","slug":"david-r-ferland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=3290","title":{"rendered":"David R. Ferland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"David R. Ferland \u2013 (79) \u2013 formerly of 19 Bostwick Pl., Hornell, died early Sunday morning (July 22, 2018) at the Bath VA Medical Center, following a long illness.<\/p>\n

Born April 9, 1939 in Mexico, ME, he was the son of Albert & Alice (Drouin) Ferland.<\/p>\n

Dave grew up in Maine and attended Leavitt Institute in Turner Center, ME.\u00a0 He was a veteran of the US Navy (1956-1960), a veteran of the US Air Force (1960-1964) and a veteran of the US Coast Guard (1964-1977), retiring as 1st<\/sup> Class Gunner\u2019s Mate.<\/p>\n

For many years, Dave was employed at an apple packing plant in Maine where he worked as a \u201cJack of All Trades\u201d.\u00a0 His job included making boxes, packing apples, loading apples, shipping apples, receiving apples and making apple cider.<\/p>\n

Dave moved to Hornell in 1982 where he resided until moving to Bath, NY in 2016.\u00a0 He was an avid reader, loved to take daily walks and had been a member of the American Legion.<\/p>\n

He was married to the former Sharon Robbins who died August 25, 2012.<\/p>\n

Surviving are his daughter, Edith Ferland of Hornell; his sister, Anita Richard of Maine.<\/p>\n

At David\u2019s request there will be no calling hours or services.\u00a0 Final interment will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, NY.<\/p>\n

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

Dave\u2019s family request that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in his name be made to a charity of the donor\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n

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David R. Ferland \u2013 (79) \u2013 formerly of 19 Bostwick Pl., Hornell, died early Sunday morning (July 22, 2018) at the Bath VA Medical Center, following a long illness. Born April 9, 1939 in Mexico, ME, he was the son of Albert & Alice (Drouin) Ferland. Dave grew up in Maine and attended Leavitt Institute […]<\/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-3290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290","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=3290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3313,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions\/3313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}