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Max D. Sanford \u2013 83 \u2013 of 7563 Airport Road, Hornell, died early Saturday morning (September 7, 2019) at Hornell Gardens, following a brief illness.<\/p>\nMax D. Sanford \u2013 83 \u2013 of 7563 Airport Road, Hornell, died early Saturday morning (September 7, 2019) at Hornell Gardens, following a brief illness.<\/p>\n
Born in Hornell on October 18, 1935, he was the son of Bert & Fannie (Connor) Sanford.<\/p>\n
Max grew up in Adrian, NY and attended Canisteo Central School.\u00a0 He was a veteran of the US Army, serving his country during the Korean Conflict.<\/p>\n
He resided in Florida for about 10 years, returning to the Adrian area nearly 40 years ago.\u00a0 He lived in Canisteo for about 4 years before moving to Hornell eight months ago.<\/p>\n
For most of his life, Max was employed as a carpenter, working for the local Carpenter\u2019s Union. \u00a0He was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed deer hunting and trout fishing,\u00a0 He also enjoyed collecting & working on antique tractors and, throughout the years, owned several tractors.<\/p>\n
In addition to his parents, Max was preceded in death by his son, Timothy Sanford along with several brothers & sisters.<\/p>\n
Surviving are 2 sons, Mickey Sanford of Florida and David (Nickie Woodard) Sanford of Hornell; his daughter, Gail Peters of Rochester; several grandchildren, brothers & sisters.<\/p>\n
At Max\u2019s request there will be no calling hours.\u00a0 Private services will be held at the convenience of the family with final interment at the Bath National Cemetery, Bath, NY.<\/p>\n
Funeral arrangements are in care of the Dagon Funeral Home, 38 Church St., Hornell, NY.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Max\u2019s family request that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in his name be made to the Bath VA Medical Center Activities Fund, 76 Veterans Ave., Bath, NY 14810.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Max D. Sanford \u2013 83 \u2013 of 7563 Airport Road, Hornell, died early Saturday morning (September 7, 2019) at Hornell Gardens, following a brief illness. Born in Hornell on October 18, 1935, he was the son of Bert & Fannie (Connor) Sanford. Max grew up in Adrian, NY and attended Canisteo Central School.\u00a0 He was […]<\/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-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","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=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3933,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions\/3933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}