{"id":4762,"date":"2021-01-12T01:18:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T01:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=4762"},"modified":"2021-01-14T00:52:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T00:52:50","slug":"jacob-c-jake-whiteman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=4762","title":{"rendered":"Jacob C. “Jake” Whiteman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jacob C. \u201cJake\u201d Whiteman, AKA \u201cUncle Money\u201d \u2013 28 \u2013 of Hornell died unexpectedly Sunday morning (January 10, 2021) in Hornell.<\/p>\n

A native & life resident of the Hornell area, he was born on February 6, 1992.\u00a0 He attended Hornell High School and later received his General Education Diploma (GED).<\/p>\n

Throughout the years, Jake had been employed at Hornell Furniture Outlet (HFO) as a delivery person; as a cook at Applebee\u2019s\u2019 Restaurant and in the kitchen of Elderwood at Hornell Nursing Facility.\u00a0 He had a deep appreciation of the outdoors and enjoyed camping & fishing.\u00a0 He also loved playing video games.<\/p>\n

Jake was affectionately known as the \u201cFamily Jokester\u201d and the \u201cLife of the Party.\u201d\u00a0 He was always ready with a smile and his goal was to make you laugh.\u00a0 Jake was looking forward to serving as \u201cBest Man\u201d for his lifelong pal, Joey Livengood and organizing his bachelor\u2019s party which was to be held in Las Vegas, NV in the near future.\u00a0 Joey is engaged to Jake\u2019s sister, Haley.<\/p>\n

He was preceded in death by his maternal grandfather, Archie Knight; his paternal grandparents, Tom & Nancy Whiteman.<\/p>\n

Jake was married on November 16, 2015 to the former Kaitlin \u201cKait\u201d Dioguardi who survives.\u00a0 Also surviving are his son & \u201cBest Bud\u201d, Dean Whiteman; his mother, Karen (William) Sutfin of Hornell; his father, David (Lisa) Whiteman of Hornell; his siblings, Joseph (Jean) Whiteman of Hornell, Heather (Curtis) Stanford of Hornell, Haley (Joseph Livengood) Whiteman of Hornell, PVT Robert Bush, SC, Roben (Eric James) Brown of Hornell, Natasha Judkins of Hornell, Jessica Davis of Bath, Taylor Davis of Hornell, Andrew (Megan) Sutfin of Rochester, Naomi (Martin) Nelson of Dahlgren, VA and Angela (Nick) Speegle of DuPont, WA; maternal grandmother, Gertrude Knight of Canisteo, his lifelong friend & \u201cbrother\u201d, Jeremiah Wilder; his biological father, Thomas Jackson Jr; many cousins, nieces & nephews.<\/p>\n

There will be no prior calling hours.\u00a0 Private services will be held at the convenience of the family.<\/p>\n

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

Jake\u2019s family request that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in his name be made to the Suicide Prevention Center of New York, 44 Holland Ave., Albany, NY 12229.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jacob C. \u201cJake\u201d Whiteman, AKA \u201cUncle Money\u201d \u2013 28 \u2013 of Hornell died unexpectedly Sunday morning (January 10, 2021) in Hornell. A native & life resident of the Hornell area, he was born on February 6, 1992.\u00a0 He attended Hornell High School and later received his General Education Diploma (GED). Throughout the years, Jake had […]<\/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-4762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762","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=4762"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4771,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions\/4771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}