{"id":8076,"date":"2026-03-19T08:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=8076"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:37:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:37:34","slug":"pacer-a-schoonover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=8076","title":{"rendered":"Pacer A. Schoonover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8077\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Pacer-Schoonover-Photo-250x364.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Pacer-Schoonover-Photo-250x364.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Pacer-Schoonover-Photo-200x291.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Pacer-Schoonover-Photo.jpg 588w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Canisteo, New York<\/p>\n<p>Pacer A. Schoonover \u2013 49 \u2013 of 44 Russell St., Canisteo, NY, died Friday morning (March 14, 2026) at St. James Hospital, following a long illness.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Corning, NY on August 5, 1976, he was the son of Joy \u201cCindy\u201d (VanGorden) Schoonover and Kevin Harris.<\/p>\n<p>Pacer grew up in the Corning area where he attended high school.\u00a0 He later received his General Educational Development (GED) Degree.\u00a0 He had resided in the Hornell-Canisteo area for the past 4 years and had been employed in the kitchen at Billy Schu\u2019s Restaurant and most recently Racalto\u2019s Restaurant in Hornell.<\/p>\n<p>He enjoyed the outdoors and especially loved camping.<\/p>\n<p>Surviving are his fianc\u00e9, Kristina Stevenson; 3 sons, Paige Schoonover of Michigan, Kade Schoonover of South Plymouth, NY and Lucas Schoonover of Tennessee; his sister, Candy; his brothers, Harold and Brett.<\/p>\n<p>At Pacer\u2019s request there will be no calling hours.\u00a0 Private services will be held at the convenience of the family.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral arrangements are in care of the Dagon Funeral Home, 38 Church St., Hornell, NY.<\/p>\n<p>Pacer\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<p>To leave an online condolence or share a memory, visit www.dagonfuneralhome.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canisteo, New York Pacer A. Schoonover \u2013 49 \u2013 of 44 Russell St., Canisteo, NY, died Friday morning (March 14, 2026) at St. James Hospital, following a long illness. Born in Corning, NY on August 5, 1976, he was the son of Joy \u201cCindy\u201d (VanGorden) Schoonover and Kevin Harris. Pacer grew up in the Corning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076","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=8076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8078,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions\/8078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}